From the Heart by B.Demaere

(1 Samuel 25:2-44) The whole story is in the Bible Excerpt : “As she was riding her donkey into the mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming toward her.   David had just been saying, ‘A lot of good it did to help this fellow.   We protected his flocks in the wilderness, and nothing he owned was lost or stolen.   But he has repaid me evil with good.   May God strike me and kill me if even one man of his household is still alive tomorrow.              (1 Samuel 25:20-22)   The Joy of her Father...This is what the Name “Abigail” means.   As we will now discover it she was a sensible and beautiful woman of faith and she was also very wise.   Unfortunately, she was married to Nabal who as his name suggest was a fool.   A fool who could not appreciate his blessing in the fact he had a good wife.   Well, you ask me, how do you know he was a fool.   I can tell, in 1 Samuel 25:25 his very wife describes him as such.   If you have a God-fearing wife and you are a fool, look out beca

  Healing of a Paralyzed Man (John 5:3-18)   Jesus understands any disease and health issue.   He will not ignore anyone and the reason someone may not get their healing on time is just because of that.   The timing of God is different than our timing.   Like the prophet Isaiah said:   His thoughts are not our thoughts, and his ways are not his ways (Isaiah 55:8,9).   We must trust him even though it might be challenging at times. This man was physically paralysed, he could not move into the pool on time when the angel stirred it.   He had been sick for 38 years (v.5).   Nobody had helped him since all wanted to get into the pool first.   The first one would be healed. He had certainly lost all hope for healing until then. But then Jesus came on the scene.   When Jesus comes into a situation there is always hope and life.   You have to reach out and quit giving him excuses why you cannot…. Everything is possible with Jesus.   We can put the impossibilities on ourselves just by ou