Daily Devotional:
Psalm 102:15 says, “The nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Thy glory.
The Disciples’ Prayer exemplifies the importance that God should place on our prayers. Jesus began by extolling the Father, saying…
to Persecution?” First, We Must FIGHT…
Christianity is a war against lying, unrighteousness, self-love, hypocrisy, etc. First, we must fight against these things in ourselves, and then against the same things in our beloved brothers who themselves want to be…
“The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.” (Proverbs 12:19)
Truth wears well. Time tests it, but it right well endures the trial. If, then, I have spoken the truth and have for the present to suffer for it, I must be…
and Then God Has Done Some Great Thing Through Them…
Isaiah 40:29-31 (NIV) 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31but those who hope in the LORD will renew…
Who Anger and Frustrate Us…
“And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they…
LOVING YOUR ENEMIES
It is always easier to submit to Christ when he tells us to love our spouse, family, and friends. But when Jesus commands us to love even our enemies, how can we be counter-cultural and obey his teachings? The truth is all of us are sinners, while we…
Daniel 9:2-3, 19 (NIV) 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. 3So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him…
NINE YEARS AFTER HE WAS STONED AT LYSTRA AND LEFT FOR DEAD PAUL WROTE…We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord…
James says, “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also” (James 2:26). Faith without works is a dead faith because the lack of works reveals an unchanged life or a spiritually dead heart. There are many verses that say that true…