Jeremiah used several colorful water figures of speech in Chapter 2 of Jerimiah. My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, [...]

diving deeper into ideas related to last Sunday’s teaching

Ask yourself if your prayers align with the character of Jesus.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends and we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us

Jesus spoke fluently through the love he showed as well as the words he spoke.

I have to ask myself as I study if I have grown “blind” to what God would have me see in each scripture? Have I gotten “deaf” to His voice reminding me to be patient when things don’t happen the way I want or as quickly as I think they should?

When I went to visit them, Granny and I would sit in her bedroom and listen to various books and usually at least one of the Bible chapters she was currently in. The sewing machine was in her room, and I could sew while we listened.

How do we know if it is the voice of God we are hearing? God’s voice will always sound like Jesus: because Jesus is God, His voice will align with His own teaching.

As you tune into thin and beautiful sounds in our noisy world, ask God to help you be sensitive to the gentle leading of the Holy Spirit.

Scripture describes itself as ‘God-breathed’