"Greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears…. I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you…. For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Tim. 1:4, 6-7 NKJV). There are times when you know what...

"Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity" (1 Tim. 4:12). One thing the world needs to see is good examples. They need to see believers walk in love and purity and faith in their homes, in their...

"He who is faithful in a very little (thing), is faithful also in much" (Luke 16:10 AMP). Have you ever wanted to take on some really big project in the kingdom of God, but the Lord just wouldn't seem to let you? If so, there's probably a good reason why. You can...

"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you" (Eph. 4:31-32). Years ago I was...

"Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples" (John 15:8). There's an old Full Gospel tradition that says God gets glory from the wonderful way His children bear pain and agony and that the world is impressed by that. What a...

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness" (Lam. 3:21-23). God is faithful. He's full of compassion. His mercies...

"For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat" (Heb. 5:12). Do you want to know why the Body of Christ has...

"And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight" (Mark 10:51). All of us know what it's like to go round in circles. To pray our way through one financial disaster...

"Therefore be imitators of God - copy Him and follow His example - as well-beloved children (imitate their father)" (Eph 5:1 AMP). Creating new things, changing old things. Because you and I are made in the image of God that's something we're always trying to do....

"But thou, O man of God...fight the good fight of faith" (1 Tim. 6:11-12). When you're up against the wall, don't start begging God to break through it for you. That's not the way He works. He'll give you the plan. He'll give you the power. And He'll guarantee the...

"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity" (1 Cor 13:13). What do you do when you're facing a particularly stubborn problem? A problem that resists your every effort to solve it? Put the power of love to work on it!...

"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name" (Mal. 3:16). Have you ever noticed that those who have...