I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever! But You raised my life from the Pit. Jonah 2:6
How encouraging to remember that the Spirit of God is more powerful than the spirit of wickedness! As 1 John 4:4 reminds us, You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one wh...
He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4
God is who He says He is. God can do what He says He can do. I am who God says I am. I can do all things through Christ. God’s Word is alive and active in me.
God can prevail and bear wonderful fruit from an unequally yoked couple as we will see, even though their lives are often more complicated than they had to be.
Do you not know that if you offer yourself to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey? Romans 6:16
Affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. Romans 5:3–4
What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.
You and I have a friend who sticks closer than a brother (Prov. 18:24) for greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). No matter what happens, no matter...
Whenever you feel alone, rejected, or misunderstood, stand your situation up next to David’s. The boy had as pure a heart as humanly possible, and his own family blasted him. Ouch. I don’t want to min...
We’ve reversed the standard, walking by sight and not by faith. We want to be the best of what we see, but frankly what we see is far removed from God’s best.
Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God. Hebrews 3:12
Unless you physically cannot, I urge you to make a practice of literally getting on the floor, facedown and prostrate before God on a regular basis. Every time you have a smug sense of self-righteousn...
To pick up the Sword of the Spirit without the Shield of Faith is to shrivel and dry up in the desert of legalism. To pick up the Shield of Faith without the Sword of the Spirit is to try walking by f...
To love God more is never to love people less. It’s to love people best. It’s to relieve them of the responsibility of being your false Christ. It’s to keep their sins against you from being unforgiva...
Then they believed His promises and sang His praise. They soon forgot His works and would not wait for His counsel. Psalm 106:12–13
The message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may follow it. Deuteronomy 30:14
The enemy's hope for Christians is that we will either be so ineffective we have no testimony, or we’ll ruin the one we have.
The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. (1 Sam. 10:6)
The LORD your God is bringing you into a good land … where you will eat food with-out shortage, where you will lack nothing.Deuteronomy 8:7, 9