There are many stories about foot races in which one contender is many minutes behind the winner of the race. In one, even though the race has been won, she does not stop her run and surrender. She continues to run, and despite the fact that the winner is being congratulated by coach and family, and the crowd is no […]
Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days.” (John 2:19 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©) When humans informed Jesus that they did not want Emmanuel, that they did not want Yahweh to dwell among them, He responded with a declaration that they could not drive His love out of the earth. They could kill […]
“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” “For if you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. But if you don’t forgive people, […]
A congregation recently handed what was left of their resources (including their buildings) to another congregation that is growing. The older congregation had been growing smaller and smaller because they had not grasped this truth: As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me!” So […]
The whole crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming out from Him and healing them all. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves. “I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will […]
If any of our children ask for something good, we would not give them something evil instead. How much more will our Father Yahweh give His Holy Spirit to any of us who ask Him? When Simon the warlock saw Philip doing miraculous works as he evangelized the Samaritan town where Simon lived, he was impressed enough to believe Jesus […]
For although we are walking in the flesh, we do not wage war in a fleshly way, since the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments and every high-minded thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to the obedience of […]
Therefore, do not let your good be slandered, for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever serves the Messiah in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then, we must pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another. (Romans 14:16-20 Holman Christian […]
It is clear from things that Jesus said that faith gives us access to benefits we cannot otherwise enjoy. Like the rest of the fruit of the Spirit, the only Source we have to the kind of faith we need if we want to change things that are not into the things that we need is the Holy Spirit. Ask […]
The strength of “ask, seek, knock” is relationship. It is not argument. I will not gain more by being better skilled in rhetoric. I cannot even improve my relationship. All I can improve on in the situation is deciding to stand in the place He has opened for me: Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have […]