Word and Worship

There are things that should have finished you: moments where everything aligned against you, your mistakes, people’s decisions, timing, and even your own ignorance. If justice had spoken in those moments, your story would have ended there. But it didn’t. Something interrupted the outcome. Mercy stepped in.

Scripture: Genesis 21:1 Song: Too faithful by Moses Bliss “And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.” (Genesis 21:1) There is a point where a promise stops looking delayed and starts looking impossible. That was Sarah’s situation. God had spoken; it was clear and…

There are verses in Scripture that do not just comfort you; they confront you, and this is one of them. Hath He said, and shall He not do it? This is not the language of uncertainty but that of divine certainty. It is God forcing the heart to face a truth it often avoids when…

There are things in life that do not yield to worry, struggle, or human effort. You can think about them endlessly, pray about them repeatedly, and still find that they will not move by your strength. Hence, the focus of this verse. Today’s verse does not tell you to carry your way alone; it tells…

There is a way people try to live without saying it out loud. It is the quiet belief that if they can just think well enough, plan carefully enough, and avoid enough mistakes, life will turn out fine. So, they carry everything in their mind; they analyze, calculate, worry, adjust, and try to stay ahead…

Scripture: Proverbs 6:11 “So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.” Some things do not suddenly appear in a life; they approach quietly. They draw near while everything still seems normal. They build gradually until one day, what was far off is standing at the door. The…

“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep…” This passage describes someone who keeps giving in to “a little.” A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands. It may…

When scripture says, “Go to the ant… consider her ways, and be wise,” it immediately feels humbling. God points a human being to something so small, so common, and so easy to ignore. Why would God do that? Because the ant carries such wisdom that is easy to overlook.

When God created man, He did not leave his place in creation uncertain. He instructed him to fill the earth, subdue it, and have dominion over every living thing in it. That means man was not created to live at the mercy of the earth or under the control of everything around him. He was…

When God created man, He did not release him into the earth under emptiness. He did not form man in His image and then surround his life with dryness. In creation, after God made man, the Bible says, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply.” That means the first…