SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 6 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life. [Proverbs 6:23] How does a person figure out the right or best way to live? To some extent, it is trial and error. We learn by experience. But at times the consequences…
Author: Norm
ensnared or free?
SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 5 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast. [Proverbs 5:22] Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. [John 8:34] If you’ve ever seen someone caught in a destructive behaviour, one that they cannot or do not let…
through the storm
SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake…
the narrow path to life
SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. [Matthew 7:13-14] According to Jesus, there are two paths that…
seek wisdom, and you will find it
SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 2 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8] God wants to give us knowledge, wisdom, insight, protection, guidance,…
wisdom points to Jesus
SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 1 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous–to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. [Luke 1:17] These words describe the mission of John the Baptist,…
the King of kings
SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 22 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Ahab, king of Israel wants to fight with Ben Hadad, to get a city back. Asking Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, for help, he wants to seek direction from the Lord through the prophets. Ahab has prophets he likes, the ones who only tell him what he wants to hear. But Jehoshaphat insists…
the father of lies
SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 21 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death. [1 Kings 21:10] As a follower of Jesus, I am committed to the truth, to telling the truth and to living according to the truth. This…
God steps in
SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 20 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: He said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have set free a man I had determined should die. Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people.’ ” [1 Kings 20:42] Ahab is a wicked king, Israel is falling apart. This chapter highlights God’s ongoing concern…
a gentle whisper
SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind…