Jesus spoke to Mary and John while He was on the cross paying for their sin. If you could be standing on the ground in front of Him as He was being shamed, insulted & tortured, imagine as you pause a few minutes what He would say to you. If you aren’t sensing something being spoken to you, ask Him to speak to you regarding what His time on the […]
Category Archives: Discipleship
The Best Reward
Will a preacher have a better inheritance than a luggage handler at a bus station or airport? Someone who is doing what the King leads them to do will have a greater inheritance than someone who isn’t. For God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you showed for His name when you served the saints—and you continue to serve them. Now we want each […]
Going Away?
Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?” Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I […]
Leaving Early
If you have ever been to a football game (or Sunday service), you have seen people leave before the end because they are bored and want to get somewhere else in a hurry. Or they want to at least get there before the Baptists down the street. Those people are not there because they are dedicated or excited. Get excited about what our Father is up to in the earth. […]
Avoiding Fire
It is pitiful that some people only want enough of Jesus to keep them out of the lake of fire. It is maybe more pitiful that there are religious people who for centuries have been offering that level of a relationship with clear conscience. I am hoping to gain enough of Jesus to always have a holy fire burning in me and consuming who I was before I died with […]
Being Filled
What benefit does our Father gain by filling us with His Spirit? What benefit would you gain by submitting to Him and being filled with His Spirit? What would it cost you to be filled with His Spirit, with regard to how it would affect your life, your relationships, your work and your rest? What costs are you willing to yield to in order to be submitted to His desire […]
Your New Mind
Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.(Romans 12:1-2 HCSB ©®) At some point, the renewing of my mind […]
Sealed and Prepaid
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, in Christ; for He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, to the praise of His glorious grace […]
Doing Good Work
My sister and I now own our parents’ home. Yesterday, in the third hour of cutting grass there, I was thinking of the many hours I did a ratty job of cutting the grass in that yard as a child. Now, my parents gain no benefit from watching me do a very good job of it. Then, they were annoyed by my laziness in every category of life. It brought […]
Having Overcome the World
If you get worried about current events, be certain to include in your array of thoughts that the First-born of our family was raised from the dead. Are You not from everlasting,O LORD, my God, my Holy One?We will not die.O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment;O Rock, You have established them for correction.Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.So why do […]