Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom, because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. Brothers, consider your calling: not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. Instead, God has chosen the world’s foolish […]
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven.(Matthew 16:19 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. As soon as He got […]
The only time the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence is when Jesus instructs you to go there. The Lord is my shepherd;there is nothing I lack.He lets me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters.He renews my life;He leads me along the right pathsfor His name’s sake.(Psalm 23:1-3 Holman Christian Standard […]
Be encouraged that Jesus your King will never stop increasing the power and reach and influence of His government. He will continually gain more and more influence over your mind and will and circumstance and purpose. Yahweh Sabaoth is zealous to see to it. Of the increase of His government and peaceThere will be no end,Upon the throne of David […]
Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.(Hebrews 5:13-14 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) What preparation have you had, and what are your qualifications that enable you to know the difference […]
Paul, encouraging the saints in Corinth to be generous, included this in his advice to them regarding their generosity: Now the One who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness, as you are enriched in every way for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God […]
On days, we don’t see any relationship between the idea He had when He threw the leaders out of His Father’s house because of their mismanagement of His property and us perhaps mismanaging lives that, at some point along the way, we declared were His. Our lives are His. Our relationships with Him are not just built on the fact […]
Someone who is not under the influence of the Spirit of God while reading the Scriptures is like a person who walks up to the home of Jesus and His Father, and looks in the huge, low windows to see the furnishings and friends and family inside, but is still outside, not knowing where the Door is. Someone who is […]
Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in My name, I […]
When our Awesome God tries to instruct us regarding doing impossible things, we usually respond with something that sounds like (hick accent) “Ha! You ain’t from around here, are ya?” His very gracious response is then usually, “No, I am not from around here. And where I come from, I can do anything. Would you like to join Me? I […]