May they be made completely one, so the world may know You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me. John 17:23
Man can refuse to cooperate, but he cannot keep God from executing the critical events on His schedule.
Love motivates self-less jealousy. God is jealous on our behalf. He is jealous for us to know the One True God. He is jealous for us to be in a posture of blessing. He is jealous for us to be kept fro...
Lord God, if I feel hated by the world, You have told me to keep in mind that it hated You first. You said that if I belonged to the world, it would love me as its own. As it is, I do not belong to th...
Let's consider a series of lessons that lay the groundwork for our discussion of breaking free. I will list them as nine lessons about captivity and freedom. LESSON 1 The people of God can be oppresse...
Let them present their witnesses to vindicate themselves, so that people may hear and say, It is true. Isaiah 43:9
Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us … did not become Yes and no.… For every one of God’s promises is Yes in Him. 2 Corinthians 1:19–20
If you'll follow Christ's commands, you'll follow Christ straight to your calling and you'll have developed the strength, grit, and stability along the way to handle it.
I believe heaven will be far more creative than most believers seem to picture it. Surely a God who created this world with all its magnificence, diversity, and experience does not have an eternal hom...
Have you ever seen a building demolished? In the Word of God, the term fortress is the closest equivalent to a literal, ancient stronghold. Both were fortified buildings. The most common way a modern...
God reserves the right to say what gets to enter the gates and what does not. Revelation 21 concludes with these words: Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or...
God promised us an abiding place of great victory over our enemy. From the moment God first issued the promise of land to Abram, He described its occupants as quickly as its perimeters: To your descen...
God knows each of you and cares for you just as He cared about Mary. He knows your name; you belong to Him (Isaiah 43:1). No matter who you are or what kind of baggage you carry with you, no matter wh...
God has so much for you, Dear One. And, yes, seasons will come when He requires so much from you that you feel like you can’t bear it. You do have a choice. You don’t have to do it His way. You can ch...
God chose David. On the surface, the choice made no sense. But God doesn’t work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.
For the Lord has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit. Isaiah 54:6
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37
Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.
Don't think your testimony is meaningless if you didn't have a dramatic conversion. Every conversion cost the same amount of Christ's blood shed on the cross. Yours is just as meaningful as the most d...
Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk...