(Colossians 3:1), “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.” We must ask ourselves…Am I truly saved…Am I a new creature in Christ. The answer lies in what occupies your heart and mind. What is your heart and mind focused […]
As sinners, our call is to salvation. As saints, our call is to suffering. There is the Cross for Crist. And there is also the cross for the believer.–L. E. Maxwell
(Romans 10:14), “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” As the priesthood of the believers, we all have a responsibility to share the Gospel with unbelievers. If we […]
Love’s Courage (Psalm 31:23-24), “O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.” When my courage seems so small and slips away, when sin seeks to pull […]
Endurance…(2 Timothy 1:12), “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” No one knows the future but God…I’m not worried about what might […]
(Genesis 12:3), “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Christians today probably do not do enough blessing. Yes, we say a blessing at meals or on special church occasions. But we often seem to be lax in offering […]
(Ps.116:2), “Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live” Love is the child of gratitude. Love grows as gratitude is felt and then breaks out into praise and thanksgiving to God. I love the Lord because He “hath heard the voice of my weeping […]
(2Peter 1:4), “by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” Our human minds can not imagine the exceedingly great and precious things that God has in store for the […]
Heaven (Matthew 7:21), “Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord!” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the person who does what my Father in heaven wants.” This is a sobering concept to those who choose to follow their own paths, and to ignore the paths that God has given for us to […]
(James 4:7), “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Successful resistance to Satan can only come when we submit completely to God. As long as self plays a part in the life, resistance to the devil will be a sheer folly. Only as we are first Christ’s captives, can […]
