JC Stanaland

John 15:1  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.” The “true vine” is contrasted with all the want-a-be vines that look nice, but they bear no […]

Numbers 6:23  “Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,” The “LORD” Commanded Moses (Numbers 6:22) to

In this context, a “fool” is a senseless person; that is, a person who does not have the sense to make godly judgments.  There are a lot of fools who

Exodus 16:3  “And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat

Philippians 4:7  “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” This “peace” that “shall keep” our “hearts and minds” is

Psalm 123:3  “Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.  4  Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those

Psalm 123:1  “Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our

Psalm 123:1  “Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.” Children of God have two sets of eyes and ears!  We have natural eyes

James 1:27  “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

Psalms 109:2  “For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.” In every generation