In teaching us to be generous, God is actually protecting us from unseen corruptive influences.
Read MoreBeloved, it may be that many of your prayers will be answered after your death. Keep pouring them out fervently to our gracious Lord with complete confidence in His divine purposes. He is keeping them for the proper time.
Read MoreIn our sinful state, there is no natural enmity toward the instigator of sin. Apart from the LORD’s intervention, we had no possibility of learning of our choice to realign our lives with Him.
Read MoreJesus made it abundantly clear that our dependence upon the power of God is essential. This is the interlocking piece to accompany the fact that we cannot do it in our own strength
Read MoreIt can be very intimidating to witness, especially among the people you know best. But be encouraged, beloved, that among them are those who are ready to make sure they are on the true trajectory toward heaven. They will humbly listen, allowing themselves to be tested for needed corrections.
Read MoreThe outcome of the ten-day test secured for the young boys a healthy diet without further confrontation for the duration of their supervised training period.
Read MoreImagine what it will be to lock eyes with someone you know who says, “You knew this was coming and you didn’t tell me?”
Read MoreThe thousand-year span of time in the Heavenly Jerusalem will be the crown set atop the six thousand years of woe and death upon the earth.
Read MoreThe end of the thousand years will mark the total and complete end of sin and those who clung to it. At long last, the redeemed of the Lord receive the promised Kingdom.
Read MoreAt the close of the thousand years, the city (with its redeemed inhabitants) settles upon the earth.
Read MoreWith the heightened awareness of new, perfectly healthy bodies and minds, each of the redeemed will undoubtedly have questions regarding specific cases. Every question can and must be answered to the complete satisfaction of the one asking.
Read MoreThis earth, the abode of Satan, becomes a prison for him. With no one alive to deceive, he has a thousand years to observe the results of his lies and deceptive style of government, a government that stands in rebellion against the God of love.
Read MoreJeremiah was given a vision of the condition of the earth just after the return of Jesus, the launching of the millennium.
Read MoreWe have been given a perfect set of instructions, a perfect example for living them out, and a perfect substitutionary blood sacrifice to cover our shortcomings and failures. In addition, we are given . . . .
Read MoreHistory is replete with details of individuals who chose to love and obey the Lord, whose obedience elevated them to positions of leadership that have ushered blessings into the lives of countless people since
Read MoreOur intercessory prayers, words and actions may seem inconsequential, yet we are to act in loving obedience and trust Him for the end result. Never give up! In God’s economy and provision, every good seed has a marvelous potential.
Read MoreThe conflict enters when my will—my own moral standard—is stubbornly kept in place instead of allowing His truth to realign my thoughts and actions.
Read MoreThe Lord is engaged in the operation of our rescue, and the direction of each life is either toward Him or away from Him. That direction manifests itself in influence upon others: for or against.
Read MoreYour undivided loyalty to Him alone allows Him to radiate His drawing power—for the eternal sake of others—toward Himself.
Read MoreJesus knows exactly what it is to stand before a holy and righteous Judge as a sinner without an intercessor. Yet, even as He suffered for our sin, He interceded for us.
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