When I was young, I was easily angered and difficult to influence for good. Selfish, deceitful, vengeful, undesirable. When I became a believer at 22, I was still quite the same person I had been at 8. About two years later, I studied Paul’s letter to the congregations in what we now call Turkey: Galatia. When I got to chapter […]
If you ever struggle to add a new discipline to your life, such as reading more, or resting more, or eating better or watching better videos, the strength to make the change and make it last is in surrendering to the Spirit as you request His help in the matter. He is already working in you, or you would not […]
May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. For His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them […]
I have been asking the Spirit why so many people I know who have been declaring their faith in His power to heal for decades are currently sick. I believe that part of His answer was that the body of Jesus has been willing to settle for people praying for each other as needs arise, rather than praying for every […]
Your spirit has been born of Yahweh. It really is a good influence on your life when you have learned to discern that it is speaking to your flesh and your soul and begin to be influenced by it. It is under the influence of the Spirit of Jesus. I pray that from the treasures of his glory he will […]
Some disciples of Karl Marx have been busy pulling down statues in the United States. Without regard for the various “news” celebrities’ explanations of the reasons, the instructions from Marx, which were executed in other nations as Marxists destroyed their economies, cultures and governments, was to erase the past from the minds of the young so they could be educated […]
The beginning of our story is that we were chosen in Christ before the creation of the worlds: 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 […]
The congregations in Antioch of Syria were a manifestation of what Jesus described as Matthew recorded (Matthew 13:52): students of Scripture who have learned about the Kingdom, bringing forth what is new and what is old: teachers for the old, and prophets for the new. Under this team of leaders, the first believers were sent out on purpose with the […]
Be en-couraged, not dis-couraged, by the likelihood that the hardest battles in your life have not yet been fought. If it is true – that the worst is yet to come – then it is true that the best is also yet to come. The greatest challenges are shoved out front to scare us or distract us from or prepare […]
Several schools of modern psychology attempt to improve our lives by helping us know ourselves better. We attempt to know ourselves by uncovering our pasts. We are instructed to know our current selves by uncovering our feelings. We can only know true measurements by using some guide that exists beyond our selves, though. We need a device that can expose […]