Responsibility and Dependence

I Chronicles 21:13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man. Recently here on the Ranch we had more than eighty young people join as summer...

Do the Right Thing

I Chronicles 12:18 Then David received them and made them captains of the band. Have you ever been extremely lonely? I don’t know if you have, but David knew that depths of loneliness. He was lonely because he couldn’t afford Saul’s company. Saul and his host had...

You Have Prayer; God Has Power

I Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and englarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he...

Sudden Changes

I Chronicles 11:9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him. Sometimes we look around at other people and see the sudden changes they accomplish in their world. We wonder, “Why doesn’t everything change where I am? Why doesn’t anything...

Who Gets the Credit?

I Chronicles 10:10 And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon. When I was just a kid, my best friend was a dead-ringer for his dad. He had a lot of characteristics like his dad and he looked a lot like his dad....