Some good advice from your brother Paul of Tarsus: Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good. Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer. Share with […]
Failure should provoke us to learn something and move on. Guilt should uncover issues that we need to change and move on from. If the weight of guilt lingers after we repent, and if we feel condemned, some influence other than the Holy Spirit is the source of the weight. Our score on a “good and evil” report is “righteous.” […]
Pause and ask the Spirit of Jesus to answer my quote of Paul as a prayer over you and your day: Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.(Romans 15:13 HCSB ©®) Be filled! Be awesome.
Here in the earth it is possible to be imprisoned in foolishness. It is difficult to be imprisoned in ignorance unless you want to stay ignorant, but foolishness can be such a trap that it resembles a dog returning to its vomit. When we want to become free from a habit or misbelief, grace becomes available for the deliverance. If […]
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia. When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So, bypassing Mysia, they came down to Troas. During the night a vision appeared to […]
But if, while seeking to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are also found to be sinners, is Christ then a promoter of sin? Absolutely not! If I rebuild those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker. For through the law I have died to the law, that I might live to God. I have […]
I have not found the phrase “go to heaven” in the Bible. In almost every popular hymn written in the last century and a half, the phrase is there, though. Most believers seem to be focused on getting off work and hitting the couch in spiritual terms. The King of Heaven seems to be focused on having His people draw […]
Many times in Acts, Luke recorded people calling the movement of followers of Jesus “The Way.” Saul was searching for followers of The Way when he went to Damascus and met The Way Himself. This is advice he wrote to the congregations in Colossae about how to walk in The Way: Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, put on […]
If I told you that I had a prophetic dream that you were to go down to the nearest fast-flowing, deep river, and walk across it, even though it is 22 feet deep at the middle, and Yahweh would answer 4 of your hardest prayed prayers, how would you decide what to do? What would you be willing to do […]
The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children, and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed […]