Praying to be led in righteousness – Help me stay on the path of Your commands,for I take pleasure in it.Turn my heart to Your decreesand not to material gain.Turn my eyesfrom looking at what is worthless;give me life in Your ways.Confirm what You said to Your servant,for it produces reverence for You.Turn away the disgrace I dread;indeed, Your judgments […]
Good works won’t keep a person from the lake of fire. Obedience won’t keep a person from the lake of fire. Nothing but being born of Yahweh’s Spirit will keep me from paying for my sin (Revelation 20:15). The narrow entrance Jesus taught about in Matthew 7 is not an entrance to Heaven when I die. It is the entrance […]
Nehemiah: 4:10 In Judah, it was said: “The strength of the laborer fails, since there is so much rubble.We will never be able to rebuild the wall.” 6:15-16 The wall was completed in 52 days, on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul. When all our enemies heard this, all the surrounding nations were intimidated and lost their confidence, for […]
Lord, who can dwell in Your tent?Who can live on Your holy mountain? The one who lives honestly, practices righteousness,and acknowledges the truth in his heart—who does not slander with his tongue,who does not harm his friendor discredit his neighbor,who despises the one rejected by the Lord,but honors those who fear the Lord,who keeps his word whatever the cost,who does […]
If you desire to be useful in the Kingdom of Heaven, and want the knowledge you have of the Lord to empower you to fruit and not just be information, Peter has advice for you: For His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory […]
I don’t always know whether I am doing what the Spirit tries to lead me to. On days, I have done the right thing perfectly, yet I have been convinced it was wrong, or wondered altogether what was right. I ask Him to lead, and take the step that seems to be the right one. Then I wait for the […]
All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.(Romans 8:14 HCSB ©®) If you discern that someone is being led by His Spirit, it should be deducible that person is His son or daughter. That declaration is not reversable. All of the sons and daughters of Yahweh are not led by His Spirit. Using “the” evidence of speaking in tongues […]
“I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”(John 13:34-35 HCSB ©®) In these three sentences, Jesus used the Greek word “agape” four times. It was translated into English as […]
If I stand long enough in the rain, my skin will wrinkle, my body temperature will get lower, and if I was 20 again, my hair would get annoyingly curly. If I stand long enough in the sun, my body temperature will increase, my skin will get sweaty, turn red as it burns, and after enough radiation, may become cancerous. […]
Many things that Jesus has said previously and things He says today bounce off our hearts and minds without any effect, because our hearts are hard. In the discourse below, the religious people thought they understood what Jesus was saying to them. It is easy for us to see how confused and misled they were by their satisfaction with their […]