But I have stilled and quieted myself, just as a small child is quiet with its mother. Yes, like a small child is my soul within me. Psalm 131:2 NLT Why is spending time alone with God so important? Because when you shut out the natural noise of life that normally...
Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. Mark 1:35 You’re not going to learn the details of your divine purpose just sitting in church services. You’re not going to get the...
And Jesus increased in wisdom (in broad and full understanding) and in stature and years, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:52 Amp With all this talk about divine purpose, I can almost hear you thinking, Okay, Lynne, I can’t stand the suspense anymore. Tell me...
Give to the Lord, O kindreds of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! 1 Chron. 16:28–29 There is just something about...
… faith … worketh by love. Galatians 5:6 KJV Do you want the strength to keep praying in faith for seemingly impossible situations day after day? Do you want the spiritual energy to keep praying in faith for your family or your nation or your lost neighbor even...
… which is the great commandment in the law?… You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. Matthew 22:36 – 38 There is always much work to be done in prayer. Especially in...
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. 2 Timothy 2:3 – 4 One time a pastor’s wife from California shared...
Therefore I desire that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting; in like manner also … the women …. 1 Timothy 2:8 – 9 In this day and hour, every member of the body of Christ (not just the “intercessors”) must take up his or her...
Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier …. Philippians 2:25 As soldiers in the army of God, each one of us is responsible for our own particular jurisdictions. We are accountable, for example, to pray...
And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. Exodus 17:11 Unlike Moses, the New Testament Church doesn’t use a literal rod to exert her authority today. You and I don’t have to climb to a...
Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven. Again I tell you, if two...
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus...
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