Satan so vehemently despises what Christ has done for mortals that one of his chief objectives is to make the clean feel unclean. Oh, how he desires to stain the beautiful bride of Christ. Satan can't...
Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy. And Joshua did so. Joshua 5:15
Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.
Only love compels to the death. Dear one, life is hard. Opposition is huge. Circumstances will inevitably happen in all our lives that will defy all discipline, determination, and conviction. Love kee...
Oh, God, give us a longing—not for the sin of this world to be judged—but for the sinners of this world to be forgiven.
Notice that Christ didn’t generalize His illustration with any mountain. He specifically said this mountain. To what mountain did He refer? If you’ll check the context, Jesus and three of His disciple...
Not everyone in a stronghold of sin is having a good time. Many people who by the grace of God have never been had by the devil wrongly assume that all departures from godliness are nothing but defian...
My lips will glorify You because Your faithful love is better than life. Psalm 63:3
More than any other faith challenge I face, believing that I am who God says I am necessitates choosing what God says over what I feel.
Let God have your failures. Surrender to Him your most dreadful moments of captivity, your most humiliating defeats. God and God alone can use them to make you twice the warrior you ever dreamed you'd...
Lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. Luke 6:35
LORD, Your name endures forever, Your reputation, LORD, through all generations. Psalm 135:13
It is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord. Psalm 27:4
In our day and age, the Samaritan woman might have been someone we would condemn. Maybe we would point out the error of her ways rather than reach out to her in love. But what did Jesus do? He loved h...
If your expectation of God’s Word in your life has been small, I ask you to consider giving it far more credit. Second Timothy 3:16 (NIV) says, All Scripture is God-breathed, so don’t just read it lik...
If you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. Matthew 6:14
I don’t think the biggest threat to our theology is humanism or the host of world religions. Our biggest threat is cut-and-paste Christianity. If man places his faith in a god he has recreated in his...
I believe practically every little girl has at least four dreams, which are the topics of the next four chapters: (1) to be a bride, (2) to be beautiful, (3) to be fruitful (which we usually define as...
How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. (2 Sam. 7:22)
Hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Romans 5:5