This morning we were enjoying the reach meaning of a simple and sweet word, Lily. In Hosea 14:5 the Lord said, He will bud like the lily… Israel will bud like a lily, one who lives a life fully trusting in God. If we look throughout the Bible for the mentioning of this word, LILY, […]
enjoying the dew and the manna from the Lord to be revived every morning
The Lord promises in Hosea 14:5, “I will be like the dew to Israel“. If you read the context of this chapter in Hosea you will see that the people of Israel have left God, going after idols, and they committed adultery. Yet God will still be to them like the dew, refreshing in the […]
the Lord Jesus is the Bridegroom courting us to be His bride to marry Him!
The Lord Jesus did not come to earth only as a Savior and Redeemer. As we see in John 3, the Lord came as the Bridegroom, and Him being the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world was for redeeming His bride! We were regenerated to be part of the bride […]
women in the Old Testament typifying the church as Christ’s counterpart
In our love relationship with the Lord we are the wife, the female, and He is the Husband, the male. In the Old Testament there are several women that can be considered as a type of the church due to their marriage to certain men who were types of Christ. Paul himself expounded on people […]
being romantic Christians by loving the Lord personally and affectionately
The Bible is a book of romance, and both the Old Testament and the New Testament are written as espousal covenants. God loves man and courts man, and He desires to have man espoused to Him to be His counterpart. We can see this in every book of the Bible, especially in the prophets and […]
the Bible is a romance: God really loves us and He is continually courting us
The entire Bible is a divine romance, showing us that throughout the centuries God loved man and had a romance with man. From Genesis to Revelation we see a love story of how God courts His chosen people and eventually marries them! In the Old Testament the people of Israel were not only the people […]
Christ needs to become the centrality and universality of our life and work
Christ is the centrality (the center) and the universality (the circumference) in God’s economy. We may understand this, like this, and even say this, but has this become a vision to us that affects our being to the extent that to us, in our experience, Christ is our center and our everything? We need to […]