The equation for faith means you have to do some work. “Faith comes by hearing the Word of God” (Romans 10:17). If you need faith, hear, hear, and hear some more. This means reading your Bible until you hear God speak to you through His Word. It also means hearing the Word at church, and on YouTube, and in the music that you listen to, and in the friends that you hang out with. If you think that you won’t…..
What delights your soul? A baby’s smile, a soaring hawk, the voice of a loved one? These are heavenly hugs. Father God knows what will catch your attention and grab your heart, and He will surprise you when you are least expecting it. Like gifts from Heaven, they will open up before you, and bring praise and worship to your lips. They will bring a comfort and knowledge that He has not forgotten you in your busy day, but wants…..
Let’s get real. We are putting up with a whole lot of evil. We are tolerating devils in our own lives and others around us. We tolerate sickness and disease, poverty, misbehaviors, and dissolving families. We get sucked into the emotion of the things that hurt our spirits, and spiral down into powerlessness because of self-pity and grief. Break out! Jesus came to give us power over the enemy. In Luke 9:49-50, we see that a man was using the…..
Let the LORD be dominate in your life. Let Him be first, and let everything else you do and think be immersed in what He wants you to be and do. Things can look pretty good on the other side of the fence, but if you go there, knowing that it is against His will, it can be a disaster. Ask me, I know! The hill might be harder to climb where you are, and the grass not so green…..
How we distance ourselves from God, when He so desires for us to come and “cozy up.” Just come to Papa, crawl up on His lap, and wait in His Presence. Jesus could have saved himself (Luke 23) but he chose to take up the cross, so that we could draw near to Father God. It’s all finished, it’s all done, all the sacrifice that could ever be needed, so that we can go straight to Papa’s throne, and go…..
Think about it… You can get 12 degrees and be a professional in every one of them, but be totally without wisdom. You can have your doctorate, and yet your life can be in shambles, and your children messed up, and you can be homeless and on the streets. How can this be? You lack wisdom. “Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7, KJV). Wisdom only comes from the wise,…..
Deuteronomy 4:20 tells us that the LORD makes His people, “a people of inheritance” (KJV). In verse 21, we are told that Moses would not be allowed to go into that “good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an interitance:” The LORD had promised the land to them, just as the LORD will promise things to you. He shows us “good or rich lands” that He wants us to conquer and to have, to possess. We must…..
Think for a minute on the resurrection. This is our hope and our joy! We are absolutely, completely assured that when we pass away, (and almost all humans will, until the rapture), we will be taken to Heaven and be with the LORD for eternity. This is a powerful tool we can use to convince others to seek the LORD Jesus. Only through Him can we be clean enough and holy enough to enjoy the eternal bliss of Heaven. The…..
“Turn you at my reproof: behold I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you,” states Wisdom in Proverbs 1:23. This statement is far more powerful than we can grasp easily. To obey means that you have to turn away from the way you are headed, be sorry that you are headstrong, and agree that God is always right, even when it seems impossible or ridiculous! In fact, I believe He uses ridiculous…..
In the day in which we live as believers in the LORD Jesus, we cannot be led by, or follow our own thoughts. We can’t be led by our heads. We MUST be led by the Spirit of God. There is a built-in switch between the two. You can consciously determine to change where you are focusing, from your head and the thoughts that come and go in it, and your innermost being (your spirit). Your thoughts are focused on…..