🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus?”  And they gave him thirty pieces of silver.   From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus.  —Matthew 26:15-16 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 In…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 The chief of staff renamed them with these Babylonian names:   Daniel was called Belteshazzar.  Hananiah was called Shadrach,  Mischael was called Meshach.  Azariah was called Abednego.  —Daniel 1:7 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 After Daniel and his friends were exiled to Babylon, their captors changed their names to Babylonian ones. For secular reasons.…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 As evening approached, Joseph of Arimethea took a risk and went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.  (Joseph was an honored member of the high council, and he was waiting for the Kingdom of God to come.)  —Mark 15:43-44 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 When Jesus is alive, Joseph of Arimethea doesn’t want…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Later, as Jesus left the town, He saw a tax collector named Levi sitting in his tax collector’s booth.  “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him.  So Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.  — Luke 5:27 🌿BELIEVE TRUTH🌿 Appearances versus reality.  Often, we think we have do enough, appear…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 “One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat.   When a certain immoral woman from that city heard He was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume.”  —Luke 7:36-37 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 Our…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.  —Philippians 2:2 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 The Christian life is a co-mingling of histories.  We have a co-mingling of horizontal history and vertical history.  The two intersect in the person of Jesus…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 “The Lord will be our mighty One.  He will be like a wide river of protection that no enemy can cross, that no enemy ship can sail upon.”  —Isaiah 33:21 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 The Red Sea is an extension of the Indian Ocean and forms a narrow seawater inlet between two continents.…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 “We can make plans, but God determines our steps.”  —Proverbs 16:9 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 On the road to Damascus, Paul the persecutor is overwhelmed by a blinding light of Jesus Christ that transforms his spiritual blindness and propels him to become the most prolific and enduring church planter in the New Testament history.…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 “I know Lord that our lives are not our own.  We are not able to plan our own course.”  —Jeremiah 10:23-24 Can you shout to the clouds and make rain appear?      —Job 38:34 Is it your wisdom that makes the hawks soar and spread its wings toward the south?  —Job 39:26 🌿BELIEVE…

🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.”  —Romans 6:4 🌿Believe Truth🌿 When a plant blooms a new flower, it doesn’t think to itself, I wish I still had the old flower, even if it has shriveled up,…