There is a true story of a young man in a railroad station who was watching an elderly gentleman read the signs up on the wall that were in very small print. The young man was thinking, "How can that man, being as old as he is, read that small print?" Then he...
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Rom. 1:16)The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and...
"The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matt. 26:41). There is a real study in contrasts in the words willing and weak. One describes a forwardness, the other a backwardness. One denotes eagerness, the other reticence. One is forthright and...
"And if I have prophetic powers (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God's...
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after...
"Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises" (Heb. 6:12). You've been walking by faith. You've been believing God to meet your need. But, what do you do when the results seem slow in coming and you are tempted to give...
"Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." (Zech. 4:6) I remember the first time I went with the Oral Roberts crusade team to a healing meeting. I was a student and a member of his aircraft crew. I had been a believer a little over...
"And Jesus answered and said unto the fig tree, 'No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.' And his disciples heard it...And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots" (Mark 11:14,20). You can't wipe out a weed simply by...
"Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you" (Prov. 4:23-24). The issues of life spring out of your heart. But they get out of your heart through your lips,...
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. (Matt. 8:17)I said to the couple, "Now we can pray." I reached my hand out and laid it on top of the wife's head. I said, "Dear Lord...
"The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly..." (Rom. 16:20 NKJ). Two keys phrases here are crush and under your feet. In the original Greek, the word translated crush is suntribo (soon-tree'-bo), meaning "to shatter, annihilate, torpedo,...
"Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil" (1 Cor. 13:5 KJV). The essence of love is to be completely unselfishness. To be unselfish means that you always have others in mind...to do them good. Love seeks only...
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