"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you" (James 4:7). If you've been crying and asking God to run the devil out of your life, stop! The Bible says you're the one who's supposed to overcome the devil. How? By resisting him....

"Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7). Do you know what it's like to face a problem so big it seems downright irresponsible not to worry about it? There may not be a thing you can do about it, but you feel like you need to at least be...

"Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance" (Ps. 32:7). In this day and time, trouble seems to surround us on every side. If it's not a failing economy, it's a failing business, a failing...

"And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore cry thou unto me? Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea" (Ex. 14:15-16). If you hang around God very...

"And now I exhort you to be of good cheer" (Acts 27:22). What do you do when you're in a really perilous situation? If you're like I used to be, you cry out to God in desperation. One afternoon when I was squalling to God about something, He interrupted me and...

Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money in…. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites…. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them…this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have...

"He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him" (1 John 2:10). Whenever you find yourself stumbling into failure or sin, check your love life. Sit down with the Lord and ask Him to show you if you're in strife with...

"Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 18:19). As believers, you and I are part of a conquering army, constantly claiming new ground...

"But who so keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked" (1 John 2:5-6). There is nothing—absolutely nothing—that is more important...

"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" (Heb. 11:3). God uses words to create. He used His Word to "frame" the worlds. Just look in the first chapter of...

"Love is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it - pays no attention to a suffered wrong" (1 Cor. 13:5). Have you ever tried to forgive someone...and found you simply couldn't do it? You've cried about it and prayed about it...

"I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence" (Ps....