Author Archives: betransformed78

I waited patiently for the LORD to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new songContinue reading “Why Here?”

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it.       Ephesians 1:13-14 In four places (2 Cor 1:22; 5:5; Eph 1:13-14; 4:30) the Apostle PaulContinue reading “The Seal”

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. Matthew 27:50 ESV When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.                                                                                                               John 19:30 ESV It had happened again; Bobby Lee had defeated the Union ArmyContinue reading “It is Finished”

You have said, “Seekmy face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.” Psalm 27:8 ESV God clearly wants to be known in a personal on-going relationship, and that is what we, his creatures, desperately need. So God invites us to “seek his face.” That is how his divine presence is expressedContinue reading “The Presence of God”

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ– their Lord and ours: He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless onContinue reading “Holy?”

Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have givenContinue reading “Slaves to Sin”

For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.                                                                                     Romans 3:20 NLT Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we haveContinue reading “The Law”

In that day you will sing: “I will praise you, O LORD! You were angry with me, but your anger keeps turning away, and instead you encourage me. Isaiah 12:1 (author’s translation) As an Old Testament teacher, I am asked over and over again, it seems, about the wrath of God in the Old Testament.Continue reading “The Anger of God”

The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, theirContinue reading “They Would Not Repent”

It was in the year King Uzziah diedthat I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple.                                                                                                    Isaiah 6:1 NLT Many things could have gotten Isaiah’s attention. He had watched the original “evil empire,” Assyria, fix its borders six miles north ofContinue reading “Seeing God”