"In your patience possess ye your souls" (Luke 21:19 KJV). Your soul is your mind, will, and emotions. Patience will protect the soulish part of man. The man who is constant on the word of God will keep his mind in check. When you are standing in faith, the...

"But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing" (Jas 1:4 KJV). The word perfect means "mature." So, the trying of your faith worketh patience that you may be mature, entire, wanting or lacking not a thing. Wouldn't you...

"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience" (Jas. 1:2-3 KJV). The Word says that the trying of your faith worketh patience. It does not say that the trying of your faith worketh...

"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you" (Jn. 15:16). It is time to produce the fruit that...

"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations" (Jas. 1:2 KJV). The first time I read, "Brethren count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations," my head had a difficult time accepting it. Temptations, which literally mean "tests and...

"And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me" (Acts 22:18). God will even show you how to avoid danger. In Acts 22:17, we see that God gives Paul some instructions. God is...

And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.(Mk. 10:50 KJV) Blind Bartimaeus had faith to receive his sight. It is time to put forth faith in the word of God the way Blind Bartimaeus did. When he heard that Jesus was passing by, "he began to cry out,...

"But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood" (Gal. 1:15-16 KJV). Paul gave no attention to what...

"And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea for they were fishers. And he said unto them, Follow me. And I will make you fishers of men" (Matt. 4:18). Jesus saw these two...

"And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him" (Mark 1:10 KJV). Jesus obeyed the Spirit of God immediately, or suddenly. Immediately the Spirit drove him into the wilderness. He obeyed the...

And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost."...

"He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy" (Prov. 29:1). The Lord is merciful. He is reaching out His hand for all to receive Jesus today, not tomorrow. Don't think simply because you are young that means...