I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, appointing me to the ministry—one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. Since it was out of ignorance that I had acted in unbelief, I received mercy, and the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and […]
Unbelief. Hardness of heart. To people Jesus was rebuking for displaying these qualities, He gave charge of the invasion of the earth with dissemination of good news. He told them to preach that good news to every creature. Later, He appeared to the Eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table. He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, […]
They started laughing at Him, but He put them all outside. He took the child’s father, mother, and those who were with Him, and entered the place where the child was. Then He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). Immediately the girl got […]
You, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.(2 Timothy 2:1 HCSB ©®) For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more […]
One day Amy Carmichael was told that the seeds of a nearby tree were poisonous. Intrigued, she exclaimed to her little brothers, “Let’s count how many we can eat before we die!” When her stomach began to suffer much pain, she was given a strong laxative. Fierce Irish girl. She died in India many years later. There, she saved the […]
Your circumstances, in home or work or neighborhood or nation, may be that you are completely surrounded by death and destruction and hopelessness. Ask the Spirit to give you authority to change what He has allowed or caused you to be troubled by. The dead don’t even need to be able to hear what you prophesy over them as you […]
I had some delicious dirt at lunch yesterday. It was converted dirt. Though it was once just dirt, and on good days wet dirt, a kernel of corn was dropped in it. The kernel of corn converted the dirt into a root on one end and a plant on the other end. The root took dirt and made it into […]
But Paul was greatly aggravated, and turning to the spirit, said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out right away.When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. And bringing them before the […]
Ephesus in the first century was a port city on the west of what is now Turkey. In a letter that Paul wrote to the believers in the congregations in Ephesus, he indicated to all of them that each of them was called by Messiah to serve Him, and that each one of them had been given a gift by […]
I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—by no means referring to this world’s immoral people, or to the greedy and swindlers, or to idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world. But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother who is sexually immoral […]