Mark’s Memos

"For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." (Romans 14:17) The kingdom of God is (in addition to righteousness and peace) joy in the Holy Spirit! In the Lord's prayer, Jesus taught us to pray, "Your...

"And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." (Acts 2:4) "And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit." (Acts 13:52) If they were all (all 120, not just some!) filled with...

The dictionary defines joy as a very glad feeling; happiness; great pleasure; delight. There are two aspects of joy - the inward experiencing of joy AND the outward expression of that inward experience. An angel told Zacharias that he and his wife Elizabeth were going...

The dictionary defines joy as a very glad feeling; happiness; great pleasure; delight. Notice the dictionary's definition doesn't tell us the source of joy or how to get joy! Galatians 5:22 says "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, ..." 1 Thessalonians 1:6 says...

"These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full." (John 15:11) Jesus wants your joy to be full (Jn. 15:11)! If you had a joy gauge something like a gas gauge, what would your joy gauge read? The dictionary defines joy...

The people of God left Elim and continued their journey through the wilderness to the Promised Land. In spite of their unbelief and complaining, God did rain bread ["manna"] down from heaven to provide for them. (Exodus 16) God told them to gather only enough for each...

The people of God left Elim and continued their journey through the wilderness to the Promised Land. When they became hungry, they did what they usually did - they complained in unbelief! (Exodus 16) Complaining is an expression of faith in the negative (unbelief in...

After supernaturally crossing the Red Sea and experiencing victory over the Egyptian army, the people of God continued travelling through the wilderness for the next three days. They came to a place where there was water, but they couldn't drink it because it was...

The people of God supernaturally crossed the Red Sea as God divided the waters (Exodus 14). When the Egyptian armies followed, God caused the waters to drown them and not one Egyptian soldier survived! God wants to supernaturally get His people out of Egypt and to the...

"And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people. " (Ex....