James 3:2, 5 (NLT) We all make many mistakes, but those who control their tongues can also control themselves in every other way… So also, the tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it can do. We all have a tongue, and we all use it a lot. Unfortunately,...
“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa. 55:8-9). If you want to accurately...
“By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.” (1 John 3:10 NASB) This verse reveals that God sees only two families of people...
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24) While pastoring a Full Gospel church in north central Texas, I visited a dear woman and her...
“The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach” (Acts 1:1). In Acts 10:38, Peter preached about the earthly ministry of Jesus to Cornelius’ household: “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the...
“Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, ‘Let no fruit grow on you ever again.’ And immediately the fig tree withered...
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” (Eph. 6:18). Throughout Scripture, we read that Jesus prayed all the time. But why? Didn’t He have the...
“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth….” (John 16:13). For the three days prior to my vision of the Lord, I had been trying to write a letter to a pastor, confirming a date I was to hold for him. I’d get...
“I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again…” (1 Thess. 4:13). Many of us, even though we’re...
We are to cry out not only for what we have sown but also for what others have sown before us. Notice John 4:38: “I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors” (NKJV). In the covenant of...
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24). Some people ask, “Is it scriptural to believe you receive before you see or feel anything?”...
For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all...
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