Do not despise the LORD’S instruction … for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, just as a father, the son he delights in. Proverbs 3:11–12
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God. 1 John 4:1
By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in a...
You to believe Me. The words believe me arose out of Isaiah 43:10 like a dead man leaping to his feet. You are my witnesses,
Stronghold is anything that exalts itself in our minds, pretending to be bigger or more powerful than our God. It steals much of our focus and causes us to feel overpowered. Controlled. Mastered. Whet...
Faith unchallenged ordinarily remains unchanged.
When we’re most exhausted, we’re expending more energy fighting the enemy than we are seeking God's presence. More than you seek to win, seek Christ! More than you seek to defeat the enemy, seek his f...
Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30
The giant stop in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our life.
The Word of God says that He is holy, most righteous, most perfect, full of splendor—He is a God who has set His affections on you. Keep
Remember, faith is never the denial of reality. It is belief in a greater reality.
Remember, any day not surrendered to the Spirit of God will likely be lived in the flesh (Gal. 5:16–17).
Psalm 63 A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. 1 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no...
Psalm 18 [David] sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: 1 I love you, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD...
No matter who you are or what kind of baggage you carry with you, no matter what you look like or feel like, no matter what you do or don’t do, God loves you just as you are right now. You don’t have...
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back. 2 Peter 2:21
Fresh Prints We're inundated with the news That all is at unrest. We've not a clue What this world's coming to, Just thank the Lord we're blessed. Beloved, this very day You thought you'd never live t...
Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.
Psalm 63 offers insight into the satisfied soul. Look at David's descriptions of satisfaction: My soul thirsts for you, / my body longs for you, / in a dry and weary land (v. 1). Because your love is...
I may walk with a spiritual limp, but thanks be to God, who holds me up and urges me to lean on Him, at least I can walk. So can you. Walk away from that pit before it’s the death of you.