“THE PEN IS  MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD, AND CONSIDERABLY EASIER TO WRTE WITH.” – MARTY FELDMAN

How does a mother read the letter she receives from her daughter, who lives in a foreign country? Does she read a sentence here and a sentence there? No, she reads every word of the precious document from the beginning to the end. And when she has finished reading it, she is probably starting all over again.

These days you don’t find many churches , where pastors preach verse by verse through letters or books of the BIBLE. Usually you hear topical sermons. A little bit from here and a little bit from there, and you don’t know if what you hear is true to the context.

But there is help. I don’t know exactly how I got on to it. But one of our teachers at the Bible College I went to told me, where to find good Bible Teaching.

If you also want to know what the Bible says verse by verse go to the internet:

Type “Believers Chapel” into google, click enter and go to “BELIEVERS CHAPEL – ONLINE TEACHING” – and you are there! You find on this site good exegetical and doctrinal teaching.

If you have trouble finding the site, please let me know.

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I could give you the answer now. It is only one word.

But let me tell you what I read and from what I cannot get away.

They got married on the day they met for the first time. – It was a stunt.

At the present time the couple is already happily married for ten years with three children together.

The marriage is going strong and the wife can’t understand, why people are surprised. Her own words are, “WE said this was what we were going to do.” And both, husband and wife, say,” COMMITMENT is the secret to a good marriage.”

The answer is only one word: COMMITMENT!

I went to the Post Office today to buy some Christmas stamps and took the shortcut through FARMERS (store). FARMERS sells SLEEPY HEAD beds. On the mattress it also said “Nourish your body with sleep”.

It is not very likely, that we are forgetting to nourish our bodies with sleep. (However, some people go to sleep at the steering wheel) But most people are forgetting to nourish their souls. Even today I met up with people who declared quite happily, “We are atheists!”

How do we nourish our souls? We nourish our souls with the Word of the Living God. We find the Words of the Living God in the Bible.

The Lord Jesus Christ says in Matthew 4:4 “MAN DOES NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.”

Look at this timber yard. What a firm place to stand! Would you have expected a timber yard to have a floor (foundation) like that? I would not. That’s actually why I took the picture! What a joy for people to buy timber at that yard – even on a rainy day. No problem.

For some time we used to live in a house in Thailand built on stilts over water and the area in front of the house was not safe to walk on – almost!

When we bought the present dwelling the floor of the garden shed had to be replaced. It was rotting away.

ARE WE NOT ALL LOOKING FOR A FIRM PLACE TO STAND?

The psalmist (David) in the Bible says that the Lord gave him a firm place to stand. But he says more than that. Please read the beginning of Psalm 40 in the Old Testament. (Psalm 40:1-3) In verse two of of that psalm he is also talking about mud and mire. But read it for yourself!

Foundations are of uttermost importance for all of us. That’s why I love the following Bible verse so much. I have also committed the verse to memory. First Corinthians 3:11 “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

The Lord Jesus Christ is the only foundation! Is HE your foundation?

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