“When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him” (Prov. 16:7 NKJ). This verse is a great help to those who work alongside others who are hostile, perverse, sarcastic, antagonistic, or demonized. It is an...
1 John 2:5 (NLT) But those who obey God’s word really do love him. That is the way to know whether or not we live in him. If you want to be a witness at work, live your life as Jesus did—in obedience. Jesus obeyed His Father simply because He loved Him. When we...
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field…’ (Matt. 13:31). Knowing about the kingdom of heaven is important to born-again believers because...
“I tell you, although he will not get up and supply him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence and insistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs” (Luke 11:8 AMP). If, as God tells us in 1 Timothy 2:4,...
God is committed to bring His increase to us and destroy all that Satan has done to pervert His plans for people. We can rise up, cut the root of the enemy’s power, and receive all that God has destined for our lives. To understand how God’s people are going to...
For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good...
1 John 3:21-22 (NLT) Dear friends, if our conscience is clear, we can come to God with bold confidence. And we will receive whatever we request because we obey him and do the things that please him. When we obey God by doing what He says in His Word and do the...
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1). It’s important to know God’s will regarding the healing you need, because faith only operates on God’s known will. For example, if I told...
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding” (Prov. 3:5). Your own understanding is simply your own mental processes — your own human thinking. In other words, we could read this verse, “Trust in the Lord...
“The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God” (1 Peter 4:17). I believe we’ve come to the time the Apostle Peter was referring to when he wrote these words. We haven’t heard a lot about that judgment in recent years. But...
“For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, ‘AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,’ although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.” (Heb. 4:3 NASB) This refers to the Old Testament...
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