Patrick Day

Category: Observations


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Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

What God does not allow to happen. For a long time, I saw God’s will fitting into one of two categories. I now realize there is a third category. 3. What He does not allow to happen. In my own life, God did not allow me to die at birth, though I should have and […]

Wednesday, December 27th, 2023

The test of faith is to look at all the dangers ahead and cast ourselves totally on God’s promises, to commit ourselves to a lifetime of trust and confidence in His Word.

Monday, December 11th, 2023

… if we are untethered from Christ, if Jesus is an afterthought, an ally standing far off to help us in trouble.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023

The apostles were with Jesus for three year, following Him wherever He went

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

SOMEBODY, NOT SOMETHING “You try to keep Me in your mind, but there’s too much of you and the world in there. I am Somebody in you, not something in your mind. There is Me, you, and the world within you – all real entities. I must become greater. You and the world must become […]

Thursday, January 12th, 2023

The safest place on earth is not an abstraction or a concept, not a thought in my mind or a sudden revelation, not even being in the Bible or in prayer or in Christian service. To put it clearly, it is not a something but a Someone. The safest place on earth is leaning back […]

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him. John 14:21 I can read all about Jesus, study His nature and historical background, but I will never get to […]

Wednesday, November 9th, 2022

Love the only One who could save you and the only One who can translate you from this life to heaven. On your own, you have nothing of any value for your trip to eternity.

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022

We saw last week that one definition of love is “doing what’s best for the other person.” That’s a thought, and thoughts are not particularly beneficial until they become things. Jesus loves us is a thought. The cross is a thing. The cross became Jesus’ doing what’s best for us. I love Jesus is a […]