"I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life" (Deut. 30:19). "Oh, God, please…give me more faith…make me a better Christian…take these cigarettes away from me! Oh, God, help me walk in love!" How many times have you heard (or...
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever" (1 Peter 1:23). You won't really get excited about the Word of God until you realize that it's more than just a collection of divinely inspired...
"This then is the message, which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth." (1 John 1:5-6) Often times people...
"For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil" (Heb.13:14). You're...
"For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7). Too often we ask God to fix the problems around us when what He really wants to do is solve the problem within us. I did that myself for...
"Wherefore remember, that...at that time ye were without Christ...having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ" (Eph. 2:11-13). Have you ever really thought about what it...
"Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.... There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.... For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith" (1 Cor....
"He is not ashamed to call them brethren" (Heb. 2:11). All of us struggle with habits at some time or another. We work at them and work at them to change. There may be some things in your life today that are a little slow in coming around. You will have to resist...
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers" (3 John 1:2). Once you begin to believe it's God's will to prosper you, you can't help but wonder how He's going to do it. Is He going to put a check in the...
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son" (John 3:16). For God so loved the world that He gave...and He gave...and He gave. That is the message the Bible brings us from beginning to end. It sounds simple enough. Yet few of us really...
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Heb. 9:14). Born-again people make mistakes. I mean, we sometimes flat-out miss God. That...
"In a multitude of words transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent" (Prov. 10:19). We believers need to start watching our language! We need to quit throwing words around like they weren't important and start using them like our lives...
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