Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. (Luke 6:21) A lot of us haven’t experienced hunger. Some of those considered poor in this country are overweight. However, the homeless are hungry. With the coronavirus outbreak, more of us are homeless […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 162 – Commentary Luke 6:20 – Do we treat the poor as blessed?
Looking at his disciples, He said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. (Luke 6:20) In Anthony Robbins book, Awaken the Giant Within, he tells the defining moment of Mother Teresa’s life after a few years as a nun teaching well-to-do children. On a walk in Calcutta, she […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 160 – Commentary Luke 6:17-19 – How powerful is God?
He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sodon, who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 159 – Commentary Luke 6:12-16 – Do you have a favorite place to pray?
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 157 – Commentary Luke 6:6-9 – Should we save a life or destroy it?
On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. But Jesus knew what […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 156 – Commentary Luke 6:3-5 – Should we reject those who don’t follow the codes of our church?
Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful for only priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.” Then Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 155 – Commentary Luke 6:1-2 – Are we praying for and helping people affected by corona virus?
One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? Luke 6:1-2 Marianna, Florida, is a poor town with no soup kitchen, […]
Bible Study Devotional -Day 154 – Commentary Luke 5:36-39 – Are you ready to follow Jesus?
He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the […]