Meditation on Luke 4:18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” – Luke 4:18-19 It matters what a person says first. The first words that are spoken in a presentation or a speech are important because they let the audience know where the speaker [...]

Meditation on Numbers 20:10-13 and Matthew 28:19-20 “And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.’” – Numbers 20:12 The disobedience of Moses and Aaron at Kadesh-barnea came at a great cost. The Lord had used these two men, these two brothers, to rescue his people out of slavery in Egypt, to take his people to [...]