6aSeek the LORD while He may be found;† bCall upon Him while He is near. 7aLet the wicked forsake his way† And the unrighteous man his bthoughts; And let him creturn to the LORD, And He will have dcom...
23The poor man uses entreaties, But the rich answers roughly.
16that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, bein...
12When ahe was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and bhumbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
11And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, That you have lied And not remembered Me, Nor taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have held My peace from of old That you do not fear Me? 12I wil...
Thus, we can see that obeying the command to be filled with the Spirit does not involve emotional hype or mystical encounters. It comes from reading, meditating on, and submitting to the Word of Chris...
The fastest way to lose credibility as a leader is to make a foolish decision that leads people down a blind alley or off the end of a pier.
The essence of prayer is simply talking to God as you would to a beloved friend—without
Obedience is the basic definition of worship. Like obedience, worship is to be a way of life rather than just an exercise on Sunday.
Meanwhile, modern feminists heap scorn on women who want family and household to be their first priorities--disparaging the role of motherhood, the one calling that is most uniquely and exclusively fe...
Like the old knights, always in warfare, not always on their steeds dashing forward with their lances in rest to unhorse an adversary, but always wearing their weapons where they could readily reach t...
La ortodoxia bíblica abarca la ortopraxia. Tanto la doctrina recta como la vida recta son absolutamente esenciales y totalmente inseparables para el verdadero hijo de Dios. Esa es la enseñanza consecu...
Indeed, there is a counterfeit of love that often appears amongst those that are led by a spirit of delusion. There is commonly in the wildest enthusiasts a kind of union and affection that appears in...
In other words, God does not first make us perfect, then accept us on that basis. He first legally justifies us by imputing to us an alien righteousness, then perfects us by conforming us to the image...
In 1 Corinthians 14:13–17, Paul mentioned that the gift of tongues was used in public prayer for the purpose of edification. Charismatics, however, have tried to redefine the gift of tongues as a spec...
Although every true believer knows it is a serious sin to be ashamed of his Savior and Lord, he also knows the difficulty of avoiding that sin. When we have opportunity to speak for Christ, we often d...
Alone with God—such an opportunity should be the Christian’s one great desire.
A pesar de que nuestra esperanza es futura, se garantiza ahora. Para nosotros, la gloria futura es una realidad presente. Es por eso que perseveraremos mientras aguardamos nuestra glorificación. No im...
32Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
17Though the afig tree should not blossom† And there be no 1fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the bolive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the cflock should be cut off from the...