"Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7 NKJ). This verse contains a play on words: your care becomes God's care. Reading in the original language helps add a dimension not always evident in the English version. The words "care" and...

"God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit…" (Heb. 2:4 NKJ). Just when you feel your witnessing is ineffective, your testimony discredited, your words falling on deaf ears, the Lord comes to add His...

"The peace of God - will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:7 NKJ). This verse calls to mind an armed sentinel standing by to prevent intrusion. Soldiers guard fortresses; sentries watch over premises. But here is peace which stands guard....

"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5 NKJ). The key word in this sentence is mind. In the original Greek, it is phroneo (fron-eh'-o) and covers a wide range of meanings. Each definition of phroneo can speak volumes to us. In The...

"So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed" (Acts 19:20 NKJ). The book of Acts makes three progressive statements about the Word of the Lord: PHASE ONE is found in Acts 6:7 in which we read that in the infancy of the Church, the Word of God increased....

"We will give ourselves continually to prayer..." (Acts 6:4 NKJ). The key phrase here is give ourselves continually. It is a statement indicating great intensity and exertion. This is not a casual, ho-hum, business-as-usual type activity, but one involving...

"Bear fruit - bear more fruit...bear much fruit...." (John 15:1-8 NKJ). We are living in an age that wants instant results. Ours is a push-button society that is turned off by delays, slowdowns, or obstructions. We want our photos, our printing, our cleaning and...

"But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty" (Matt. 13:8 NKJ). The context of this verse seems to indicate three types of Christians with varying percentage of return on the seed of the Word of God planted in...

"For every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it on the day of judgment" (Matt. 12:36 NKJ). Put your words to work for you! Speak words that produce action, results or wages. This word idle is quite interesting. In the original New Testament...

"You have cast all my sins behind Your back" (Isa. 38:17 NKJ). This verse has universal appeal to everyone who has experienced genuine sorrow for sins committed. When we confess our sins to God, not only is He faithful and just to forgive us our sins (1 John 1:9),...

"Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established" (Prov. 16:3 NKJ). To "commit your works to the Lord" is to "roll" onto Him all your plans and schemes. It means to come to the place where you are willing to trust yourself and your future...

"Knowledge is easy to him who understands" (Prov. 14:6 NKJ). The Lord is omniscient; He knows all things. In His Word He has promised to make available to His children all the treasures of His wisdom and knowledge. Our tendency is to complicate matters and make it...