"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...

"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" (2 Tim. 2:3). There are no "ifs" about it. Hard times are going to come in the life of every believer. There will be times when circumstances will seem dark, times when you face seemingly...

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...

"Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and...

"He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me" (Heb. 13:5-6). Without courage, you'll never be able to stand on the Word of God for anything. You won't be...

"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John 14:12). If you want to receive the gifts of the Spirit, it won't happen until you start ministering. As much as you might...

"And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children" (Isa. 54:13). The devil has done everything he could in this generation to steal our children, but, thank God, his day with our children is over. We have a generation...

"Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward" (Gen. 15:1). God promised Abraham many things. Genesis 12 records God's first promise to him: "I will make of thee a great nation…I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a...

"And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing" (Isa. 10:27). Ever since the Fall of Man, the devil has been using people as...

"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered" (John 15:6). Jesus said if we want to bear fruit we must abide in Him. The word abide has a sense of permanency about it. It doesn't mean to come in and go out. It refers to the place where...

"Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?" (Isa. 58:6). The "fast" God is talking about here has very little to do with simply going without...