The secret of Joshua’s victories was not his skill with the sword but his submission to the Word of God (Josh. 1:8) and to the God of the Word (5:13–15).
Effective prayer is linked to a dedicated and obedient life.
You feel like quitting, like giving up. You can’t understand why the road doesn’t get easier, why God doesn’t remove the stones and straighten the path. If God did that, you might never get to the top...
Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree, says the Talmud, but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight. Trying to clutch the past to our hearts is as futile as trying to embrace...
Why? is an easy question to ask but a very difficult one to answer. Suppose God had told Job the reasons behind his troubles. Would that have solved his problems? After all, God’s people live on prom...
Why does God permit difficulties to come to our lives? Sometimes He has to break us before He can make us. Sometimes He has to reveal to us what we’re really like before He can make us into what He wa...
When you are meek, you seek nothing for yourself, and when you seek nothing for yourself, God gives you all things.
When we trust the Son of God, there is no need for intermediary beings between us and heaven!
When we are in times of difficulty and distress, the important thing is not that we get out of it but what we get out of it. Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testin...
What was Paul’s secret of victory when he was experiencing pressures and trials? His secret was God. When you find yourself discouraged and ready to quit, get your attention off of yourself and focus...
What does it mean to walk by faith? It means to obey God's Word in spite of the feelings within us, the circumstances around us, and the consequences before us.
We can’t nourish and support ourselves; we need to be rooted in Christ and drawing upon His spiritual power. To meditate on the Word (v. 2) is one source of spiritual energy, as are prayer and fellows...
Until a person knows he is a sinner, he cannot appreciate the gracious salvation God offers in Jesus Christ.
Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks. Phillips Brooks
True salvation is free of works and totally dependent upon God’s grace.
Too many Christians mark their Bibles, but their Bibles never mark them! If you think you are spiritual because you hear the Word, then you are only kidding yourself.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small (Longfellow, Retribution).
There’s no substitute for daily fellowship with the Lord in his Word and in prayer, and then walking with him in obedience.
The fear of the Lord is that attitude of reverence and awe that His people show to Him because they love Him and respect His power and His greatness.
The world was never conquered by intrigue; it was conquered by faith.