Posts by Pastor Roger Emmons (Page 87)

1 Corinthians 15:12-22  Now, if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how is it that some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is pointless, and your faith is pointless too. Then we are even guilty of giving false testimony about God because we testified about God that…

Matthew 12:40 [Jesus said] For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Dear Lord Jesus, That first Holy Week must have been dismal, your followers thinking all was lost, you were in the grave. They watched your lifeless body, wrapped in its grave-clothes, lay to rest. That mournful Sabaoth as you lay…

John 19:30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished!” Then, bowing his head, he gave up his spirit. Dear Lord Jesus, That moment on the cross seemed like your end when you gave up your spirit, but it was only a beginning. You cried out it was finished; all the Old Testament promises pointing to a Savior were completed, and you fulfilled all the Old Testament laws completely. You suffered the punishment for all our…

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after the meal, he also took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new testament in my blood. Do this, as often as you…

Matthew 21:18-22 As he returned to the city early in the morning, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “May there never be fruit from you again!” Immediately the fig tree withered away. When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?” Jesus answered them, “Amen I tell you: If you have faith,…

Matthew 21:12-17 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers!” The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief…

2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, because my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will be glad to boast all the more in my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may shelter me. Dear Heavenly Father, Paul asked you to remove his thorn in the flesh given to him by Satan. He asked three times, and this was your answer, “My grace is sufficient for you.” We have no idea…

Galatians 2:20  I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I am now living in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Dear Lord Jesus, What you have given to us so that we would be able to call heaven our home was no small or insignificant thing; it was your life. Please forgive me when my sin…

Hebrews 4:16  So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for sending us your Son to take away our sins and restore us to you. Jesus came so we can come to you with all that we need; he suffered and died on the cross removing all the sins that keep us from you. He is our great…

Hebrews 13:14  For we do not have a permanent city here, but we are looking for the city that is coming. Dear Heavenly Father, This life is temporary, not our permanent life. You have given us this time of grace to come to know you, and we have all sorts of problems, hurdles, challenges, and sins to deal with in this life. This home is not our final resting place; our permanent home is yet to come. How do we…