Without regard for what your flesh would like to torment you into believing, you are not alone. Although there are reasons to be sad on days, there is no excuse for staying sad. What happens to you is never as important as your response. People who bump through life in defeat and despair are not likely responding to their past […]
The fruit of the Spirit Paul called “self-control” is not “will power.” The fruit of the Spirit called “peace” doesn’t make me able to find some source of peace. It is the power to be at peace. “Self-control” is the power to surrender your will and your desires and fears and angers and bitternesses to His control. Then, by His […]
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly […]
Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different ministries, but the same Lord. And there are different activities, but the same God is active in everyone and everything. A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what is beneficial: to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit,to another, a […]
Recently, Venus has been the brightest thing in the sky after the sun and the moon. The sun is so much brighter though, that when it rises, Venus becomes invisible. The brightness of the sun causes other lights to be like shadows. Loving Jesus will eclipse other objects of my love. The contrast is as if my love for other […]
Refrain from anger and give up your rage; do not be agitated—it can only bring harm.For evildoers will be destroyed, but those who put their hope in the Lord will inherit the land.A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for him, he will not be there.But the humble will inherit the land and will […]
The Scriptures we call the Old Testament are valuable and powerful. The people who became the followers of Jesus only had those Scriptures and a few scattered letters and a few written testimonies that not all of them had access to for hundreds of years. Centuries. Twice as many centuries as the United States have seen. Pharisees had memorized the […]
The steps in Moses’ life were to move from being a persecuted slave’s son to being prince, then from prince to sheep herder in Midian, then from shepherd to prophet, then from prophet to national leadership. Each step after the first was long and slow. It is easy to believe that time has stolen things from us. Nothing can snatch […]
There has never in world history been a more dangerous time to live outside of the Kingdom of Heaven. The World War that the earth is currently under the weaponry of is a bigger threat to freedom and prosperity to every human than any war yet. This is a financial war. All of the flimsy, valueless currencies of the world […]
It is a dangerous place to be out in the earth with no real guide to righteousness but being able to grasp what the Holy Spirit is saying. It is a safe but frequently ineffective place to stay where my strength is the training wheels I started my journey with Jesus by using – the rules and the religion. I […]