A Narrow Door – to Where?

He went through one town and village after another, teaching and making His way to Jerusalem. “Lord,” someone asked Him, “are there few being saved?” He said to them, “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. […]

Asking Jesus to Explain

The next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met Him. Just then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, because he’s my only child. Often a spirit seizes him; suddenly he shrieks, and it throws him into convulsions until he foams at the mouth; wounding him, […]

Job Said:

But where can wisdom be found,and where is understanding located?No man can know its value,since it cannot be found in the land of the living.The ocean depths say, “It’s not in me,”while the sea declares, “I don’t have it.”Gold cannot be exchanged for it,and silver cannot be weighed out for its price.Wisdom cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,in […]

More Revealed

It is only by the Holy Spirit working in us to draw us that we can receive the revealed truth that Jesus died so that we could be born of His Father. That revelation may be presented through someone sharing that truth by testimony of their acceptance of it, or an evangelist gifted to speak it, or a dream or […]

Prepared Ahead of Time

Jesus has been at work in your family and your city and nation and in your life since a time before you were born. He has been at work in the future that you are to influence with your life since before you were born. Nothing in your life is more important, and few things are more difficult, than discovering […]

Slaves and Freed People

Then He said to them all, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it. What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or […]

Comforted and Comforting

Sympathy is being able to see that someone is in pain for some reason and be concerned about it.Empathy is being able to know or feel the pain. If we have experienced a pain and been healed of it by the Lord, we are able to bring some of that healing to others who are experiencing the same problem. As […]

Knowing and Being Known

So Jesus said again, “I assure you: I am the door of the sheep. All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.” “I am the good shepherd. I know […]

We Persuade People

Therefore, though we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by sight—yet we are confident and satisfied to be out of the body and at home with the Lord. Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim […]

We Do Not Give Up

So death works in us, but life in you. And since we have the same spirit of faith in accordance with what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, and therefore speak, knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and present us with you. For all this is because […]