Summoning the crowd again, He told them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand: Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him. If anyone has ears to hear, he should listen!” When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable. And He said to them, […]
Category Archives: Ministry
Foolishness or Foolishness
The more we give Jesus control of our lives, the more some of our friends and family members will accuse us of something between fanaticism and insanity. But the natural man does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to know it since it is evaluated spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated […]
Cease, Love, Confront
Many people argue fiercely about their theological debate points. Many people fiercely accuse others of breaking the religious laws they have adopted. Many people have greater love for their rules and doctrines than they have for Jesus, and far more than they have for each other. “I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. By this all […]
Prayer and Praise From the Book
Yahweh, You are the God of Your people from eternity to eternity!Be praised forever by all voices! Greatness and power and glory and splendor and majesty are Yours,because everything in heaven and in earth is Yours. The Kingdom is Yours, and You are exalted as Ruler and Head over all things. Riches and honor can be given by You to whomever You choose,because You are the absolute Ruler, over all […]
Every Day Newness
It would not be a waste of time if every day you made certain to ask the Spirit to renew your mind. Finding a discipline of memorizing certain Scriptures, praying certain Scriptures, and offering your body and life as a living sacrifice can put you in a position and/or condition in which the Holy Spirit can make your mind new each day. Your ability to discern the will of God […]
Walking Like Enoch
Father, please lead me to walk with You like Enoch did. By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not experience death, and he was not to be found because God took him away. For prior to his transformation he was approved, having pleased God. Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and […]
Wise Instruction
Be alert, stand firm in the faith, be brave and strong.Your every action must be done with love.(1 Corinthians 16:13-14 HCSB ©®) Empower me to real-ize this wise instruction in my life, Holy Spirit of Jesus.Thank You!
Carrying Jesus – Part 2
Mary carried Jesus into the earth. We do, too. We have His life imparted to us by His Father, He becomes in us the hope of glory, and we present Him to those we encounter. The manifestation will be small and immature when we first share His presence in our lives. The Spirit will bring people to us who seem strange or impossible to influence on days. We need to […]
Carrying Jesus – Part 1
Mary carried Jesus into the earth. We do, too. We have His life imparted to us by His Father, He becomes in us the hope of glory, and we present Him to those we encounter. The manifestation will be small and immature when we first share His presence in our lives. The Spirit will bring people to us who seem strange or impossible to influence on days. We need to […]
Acts of the Apostles
The Pharisees had the Scriptures memorized. As Jesus said, however, they neither knew God nor His power. As Stanley Jones would say, just having the Bible without the Spirit to bring it to life is just the Word made words. Jesus is the Word made flesh.If a seeker of truth, reading the Scriptures in order to know God and His power, were to read Luke’s record of acts of the […]