God Intervenes!

For Saturday, March 21, 2026:

1 Samuel 16:1 NLT: Now the Lord said to Samuel, “You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king.”

God no longer favored Saul as Israel’s king (a problem of Saul’s own making.) It was time for a change of regime. God wanted to anoint a new king, and he had someone specific in mind. He sent Samuel, a Holy man and Prophet, to do the anointing.

Samuel hesitates. “If Saul finds out, he’ll kill me!”

As you might expect, God has a plan to keep everyone safe. “Bring a heifer, and tell everyone you’ve come to sacrifice to the Lord. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and go home with him. One of his sons is to be the next king! I’ll show you which son to anoint.” God’s not against deception and a little white lie if it keeps everyone safe and furthers his cause!

Our God, omniscient and omnipresent, always knows what’s going on. He knew all of Saul’s deceptions and schemes. He knew when it was time to set things right.

God still has those same perceptive powers nowadays. He knows what Russia is doing to Ukraine. He knows what China is doing to Taiwan. He knows what Iran is doing to its neighbors, a false god retaliating against our Creator God. I pray that God would step up and settle these matters, but only He knows the best time.

We’d be better off having God anoint leaders for our world!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

The Father’s House

Jesus In the City Fellowship

Truth & Freedom Church

Creation, Condensed Version!

For Friday, March 20, 2026:

Genesis 1:31 NLT: “Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!”

God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – created the planet Earth, made light and darkness, separated land and water, grew vegetation, put the stars, moon and sun in the sky, gave us fish and birds, next land animals, and finally male and female human beings. That all took six days, and God rested on the seventh, designating it as Holy. After each day, God declared his creation “good,” but in its entirety, following the sixth day, God declared everything to be “VERY good!”

We have been given the privilege of living in that well-designed world. At one time, it was all very good. Unfortunately, mankind has done a lot to make that not so. Sin, lust and corruption have tarnished God’s creation. Satan and his demons have done all they can to derail the project. Right now, the world we live in is a big mess!

The Good News is that God promised to fix everything! He sent his Son, our Savior Jesus to take away the sins of the world. He’ll restore the earth to be the New Earth, just the way it was originally designed. He’ll splash total forgiveness on loyal believers so they can join him in the hereafter. God’s desire is for all to repent and return. You and I can sign up for that program!

Let’s all join God’s eternal heavenly Kingdom, where there’s no sin, no sickness or disease, where people love God and love their neighbors. What God wants turns out to be a very good way for us to live! Hallelujah!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

The Father’s House

Jesus In the City Fellowship

Truth & Freedom Church

Gender Confusion!

For Thursday, March 19, 2026:

Genesis 1:27b NLT: “Male and female He created them.”

Mankind was never androgynous. God created both men and women. They are distinctly different, separate. Male and female didn’t evolve from some non-sexual being. Think about it – how could they have reproduced? Besides, that philosophy would contradict the Bible. “Male and female He created them.”

Gender confusion – there’s a lot of it in today’s society. We never used to see it, but today, it’s prevalent. In our effort to love the sinner but hate the sin, gender confusion has made its way into the mainstream. As I was growing up, we never heard about same sex relationships. Nowadays, many gays and lesbians are “out,” accepted by many as an alternate lifestyle. A few years ago, I heard a news story about people transitioning from one sex to the other. Now there are thousands! Surgeons can alter the body, but not the DNA. So even fully transitioned individuals will continue to test as their sex at birth. This is a worst-case scenario of our culture’s depravity, the amount and the degree of gender confusion today.

In God’s creative mind, the differences between men and women are not accidents. The differences are good and meaningful; different functions, different job descriptions. Ever wonder which is superior, the man or the woman? According to God, a man is absolutely superior at being a man. A woman is absolutely superior at being a woman. But when a man tries to be a woman or a woman tries to be a man, you have something inferior.

God commanded, “Be fruitful and multiply.” Every living thing that He created obeyed. Blades of grass, plants and trees dropped seeds to multiply. Animals, both cold and warm-blooded, multiplied. Mankind was told to multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, and have dominion. Believers go with God’s plan. Non-believers muck it up.

Pastor Norton Lawellin

The Father’s House

Jesus In the City Fellowship

Truth & Freedom Church