We would be poor stewards if we ignored the special abilities the Holy Spirit has given to us. We must use our abilities to glorify Christ, not to glorify ourselves, or some other person, or even to glorify the gift itself.
Read more..Did God save you so you would fret? Would he teach you to walk just to watch you fall? Would he be nailed to the cross for your sins and then disregard your prayers? Come on.
Read more..When Jesus says, “do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body what you will wear…Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” It doesn’t mean we should be lazy and not provide for our families.
Read more..No one knows you more thoroughly: O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up: (vs. 1) No one understands you more completely: You understand my thought afar off. (vs.2) No one cares about you more deeply: You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are
Read more..Scripture tells us that love is the very essence of who God is (1 John 4:7). So if you don't believe that He loves you unconditionally, you'll never really know Him or have genuine peace about your relationship with Him.
Read more..When we know who we are and what we have been called to, we are less prone to let the opinions of men deter us from that path. At the end of the day, God is looking for fruit from us in the Body of Christ. If there is concern that a brother or sister in the Lord maybe disobeying God or misrepresenting the Kingdom, let their fruit speak for them.
Read more..Remember God’s grace is His loving-kindness and mercy given to a person without him or her deserving it. His grace is more than this though. 1 Corinthians 1:4-8 is where Paul unpacked it for the Corinthian believers.
Read more..I was planning to read Psalm 18 before falling asleep last night. A busy day,
Read more..For what are you hungering and thirsting? The way we clutch our possessions and our pennies, you’d think we couldn’t live without them.
Read more..During the drought of 2011 I kept checking on the creek. I dreaded the day I would reach the bridge, peer over and find the flow of water had stopped, but it kept flowing all year.
Read more..“So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit
Read more..Question: How do you plan and expect to grow in grace? Grow in grace. Increase in love to Jesus, and you will appreciate even more His love to you. .
Read more..You are my Shelter…For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. Psalm 27:5 You are my Strength…The LORD is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one. Psalm 28:8
Read more..Walking with the Lord is a walk that takes place in the heart—a heart to follow Him. My journey with the Lord is a walk to seek Him. This is a walk of the heart I choose to take each brand new day.
Read more..I love lighthouses. I’ve threatened to drag my family on trips to see every lighthouse
Read more..God’s people often forget their God, but God never forgets them. When Joseph was dropped
Read more..Prayer: Great and Mighty God, bless me with greater trust that you are nearby and long to help. Dear Father, bless and empower me to be the person you want me to be.
Read more..It opened in theaters recently and my wife and I attended the second night. The movie is October Baby, a story about a college girl who learns she was the product of a failed abortion and goes in search of her birth-mother and her life.
Read more..“May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
Read more..My friend, what can destroy you if Omnipotence is your helper? If the armour of the Almighty covers you, what sword can smite you? Rest secure.
Read more..The book of Job is my favorite, not because it is about suffering, but because it is about knowing God in a deeper way to the point that I can trust Him and say with Job,“For I know that my Redeemer lives, ...
Read more..I pray that you will bring deliverance from this time of persecution. I pray that their sufferings will be the source of powerful witness so others will come to see the great value of Jesus and our allegiance to him. This I pray in his precious and holy name. Amen.
Read more..Question: How can God use you, even in your own weakness, for His glory? Focus on his strength, not yours. Occupy yourself with the nature of God,
Read more..We need inner peace, and we also need outer peace with others. God addresses both. He tells us what to do to find both.
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