"[The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love" (Col. 1:13 AMP) We've been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the...
Procrastination is a killer. When you choose to kill time, you begin to kill those gifts and callings, which God has placed within your life. The Living Bible paraphrase of Ecclesiastes 11:4 reads: "If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything...
"But as to the suitable times and the precise seasons and dates, brethren, you have no necessity for anything being written to you. For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night" (1...
"And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick." (Matt. 14:14) Religious folks say that Jesus healed the sick when He was here on earth to prove that He was the Son of God. Then because He has...
"Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses who have borne testimony to the truth, let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance" (Heb. 12:1 AMP). What is an encumbrance? It is an unnecessary weight. If you are going to walk on...
I [Jesus] can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. (John 5:30)Christ is the expression of God's will. People sometimes say, "I don't know...
"I awoke, for the Lord sustained me" (Ps. 3:5 NKJ). There are many things that can keep a person from sleeping soundly. Guilt, fear, a troubled conscience, improper eating habits, even anxiety about the economy can make sleep impossible. Spiritual burdens and calls...
Proverbs 10:21 (NLT) The godly give good advice, but fools are destroyed by their lack of common sense. Proverbs 12:15 (NLT) Fools think they need no advice, but the wise listen to others. Through the course of our lives, people will come to us for advice in...
"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger" (Prov. 15:1 KJV). Yesterday I was interviewed by some students for a government class at Cass Tech High School. They asked some seriously intelligent questions. They were some very intelligent...
Confidence in any relationship grows when people are able to trust each other and realize that each one has the other’s best interests at heart. In the same way, confident Christians must learn to trust that God loves them. One of the most self-defeating beliefs...
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