A Christian’s life is not built upon things which lag behind. The frailty of many is that they live off past success. The ruin of many more is living in past failure. As we begin a new year, or as we begin a new day, a new hour, a new...

Exhortation is not mercilessly pouncing upon a person in order that he might turn from that which you personally dislike. A person has no power to repent, and yet so many people command that he do so. As the command comes, man tries to meet the demand only to end...

We are given unto edification. That, in itself, is an art of the Holy Spirit. We design and outlay a plan that others may be built in Him. There is no work of destruction before we are constructed in grace. As soon as we step momentarily in faith, the middle...

You have God’s righteousness in position before you experience it in life. God gives you substance without evidence before you become a promise to Him in substance. God has clothed you with salvation garments. You are covered by, involved with, and enveloped in Redemption. You never can take off your...

How do we drive out the enemy? It is by receiving his spies in peace. We do not have to have physical contact with the enemy if we have spiritual communion with God first. So many people discuss their trials instead of talking to God and testifying about His life...

Instead of allowing God to clothe them, people try to costume themselves according to what they think they should wear in a situation. A person needs love, so he acts in love. A trial comes and he wants peace so he acts peaceful. When patience is needed he acts “the...

Christianity is not difficult to perform. It is a flow which expresses. One either acts in terms of knowledge or lives in terms of God. Your confession will betray your experience if you are living in terms of knowledge. Others will hear a confession of knowledge but will not see...

If you lost all you had that was precious, would you be motivated before anything was restored? If you take certain things away from certain people, you find that they hold only conditional qualities of peace and joy. You should not have to have one single thing to make you...

Often a wrong concept of the Word of God prevents the glory of the Church from being seen. Christ Jesus proposes to present to Himself a spotless Church. He will accomplish this by the washing with the water of the Word. How do you conceive of the Word of God...

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people.” What other group freely admits that their lives, their philosophy, all that they are or ever hope to be are built upon a foundation, the cornerstone of which cannot be seen? The peculiarity is not...