Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV Some believers get the mistaken idea that because God’s grace and not our own willpower is what changes us, they can just...
"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving" (Col. 2:6-7). We are well equipped to walk in the blessings of God....
"Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." (Zech. 4:6) I remember the first time I went with the Oral Roberts crusade team to a healing meeting. I was a student and a member of his aircraft crew. I had been a believer a little over...
"And Jesus answered and said unto the fig tree, 'No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.' And his disciples heard it...And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots" (Mark 11:14,20). You can't wipe out a weed simply by...
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:14 KJV) Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law so even the Gentiles, non-Jews, could experience the blessing God...
"Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you" (Prov. 4:23-24). The issues of life spring out of your heart. But they get out of your heart through your lips,...
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. (Matt. 8:17)I said to the couple, "Now we can pray." I reached my hand out and laid it on top of the wife's head. I said, "Dear Lord...
"The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly..." (Rom. 16:20 NKJ). Two keys phrases here are crush and under your feet. In the original Greek, the word translated crush is suntribo (soon-tree'-bo), meaning "to shatter, annihilate, torpedo,...
Psalm 5:12 (NLT) For you bless the godly, O Lord, surrounding them with your shield of love. All Christians have one thing in common that we must try to accomplish. That is to become more and more like Jesus, to be godly people. It is a daily fight with the flesh...
"Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil" (1 Cor. 13:5 KJV). The essence of love is to be completely unselfishness. To be unselfish means that you always have others in mind...to do them good. Love seeks only...
"Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel" (Ps. 78:41). Can you limit God? The Bible says Israel did. And we have limited Him. We have limited God with our prayer life. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, said, "It seems God is...
"Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month" (Joel 2:23). There's a spiritual flood...
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