Charles Spurgeon's words: You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.
Can any of you add a cubit to his height by worrying? If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest? Luke 12:25–26
Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie—unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, woul...
A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.
With her through an angel that someone nearby could relate. The two women had one important predicament in common—questionable pregnancies, sure to stir up some talk. Elizabeth hadn’t been out of the...
If we change the way we think, before long our thoughts change the way we feel.
If peace is the fruit of righteousness (Isa. 32:17), then joy is the wine from the fruit! Joy will ultimately flow from obedience, and few things display God's splendor any more appealingly than joy!
You and I want to be people to whom God can entrust a spiritually powerful voice. Let’s allow the Holy Spirit to alert us to some misuses of the tongue that can greatly diffuse its spiritual effective...
Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Isaiah 55:2
When a scribe asked Jesus in Mark 12:28 which of all God’s commandments was paramount, He reached into the warm, beating heart of the law and raised these words above the rest: This is the most import...
We were created to be full. When we're not filled with the good things Christ came to bring us, we will grasp at anything as a substitute. An unsatisfied soul is an accident waiting to happen.
We need not hang our heads and beg. All we need to do is lift up our faces and ask. May Jesus touch our lips again with coals from the altar and set our tongues aflame with His holy fire.
We glorify God to the degree that we externalize the internal existence of the living Christ. A life that glorifies God is not something we suddenly attain. As we spend time in the presence of God, Hi...
We can be saved, the Holy Spirit can dwell in us, and yet we can continually live in defeat because the enemy can outwit us if we do not depend on the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.
Through the infused power of His own Spirit, forgive like Christ forgave when He said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. Translation: They don’t have a clue.
The tongues of God’s people are meant to be set ablaze by the holy fire of heaven, achieving that which glorifies God. But a sanctified mouth is too unnatural to ever be coincidental. If we want it, w...
The goal of life is not the absence of pain. It's the presence of glory. God's glory. And sometimes that comes most vividly with pain. Not only have I learned that pain doesn't kill; I have learned th...
The earth is Yours, O Lord, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it. (Ps. 24:1) For You, my Lord, are a great God, the great King above all gods. In Your hand are the depths of the eart...
Psalm 31:19 reads, How great is Your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, . . . those who take refuge in you. . . . That is what God does for those who fear him. He sets aside an...
If God said it, I want to believe it. If God gives it, I want to receive it. If God shows it, I want to perceive it. If Satan stole it, I want to retrieve it.