When getting up early in the morning to pray and spend time with the Lord is sacrificing snuggling up to the warm blankets and can often be a great mental battle. Spending time with God before all the notifications, distractions, and issues of the world overflows your mind, will change your mind’s capacity for the …
Alabaster Box
In the time of Jesus’ life on earth, it was a tradition that when a girl was ready to get married, her family bought a box made of alabaster, filled with very expensive ointments, which smelled very good. The size of the box and the value of the ointment showed the family’s wealth. The girl would …
Breaking The Alabaster Box
In Mark 14:3-6 we read of the woman who broke an alabaster box at the feet of Jesus. In those times it was a tradition that when a girl was ready to get married, her family bought an alabaster box, filled with very expensive good smelling ointments and fragrances. The size of the box and …
Alabaster Box
While He was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on His head. Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of …
A sacrifice of praise
Hebrews 13:15 (NKJV) Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. The ultimate price was paid, in full, the day Jesus was sacrificed on that cross. Let us bring now the only way we know, a sacrifice of …