Paul made many statements which revealed what grace could do with a man. Notice, Paul had no ill motives in having a large following but rather he said, “I beseech you”-meaning “on bended knee I beg you not to live in the pride of your life in the independence of...

The heart of Paul is a remarkable thing. God has given us a perfect picture of a man of God through the life of Paul as well as through his statements. Imagine and consider some of the startling statements Paul made about himself. Also consider that Paul sent Timothy to...

In the midst of a spiritual defeat, the children of Israel all went to their own tents (1 Samuel 4:10). Notice that they were defeated and retreated. Also notice, in Deuteronomy 1:27, that the children of Israel murmured in their own tents. To have your own tent is in no...

God will only accept transcendent life that lives beyond principalities and powers outside of time in eternity. In this way, we experience, practically speaking on earth, a supernatural action in life to cover the natural circumstances of time. The only way we can meet the future demands is to live...

There are hidden riches in dark places. Imagine how our sin brings us into a dark place. And yet, there in that dark place comes the hidden riches of a capacity to respond to forgiveness and, thus, love ourselves and others according to that response from God. In darkness, we...

The devil always gets the worst defeat. What he does against God only ends up to be his own revelation of his own weakness and inability to cope with God’s power. Someone sins seven times, but God forgives and forgets. All that this reveals is God and not the devil....

How many people sing and praise God for their location in Christ, and yet they dislike their Ephesus? They can never be faithful in their experience with Christ if they go against the will of God in their Ephesus. The will of God is that we be at our Ephesus....

Christ’s nourishment was the opportunity to exercise faith in the plan of the Father. His meat was not first of all to meet the need of others. Though redemption reveals our love for others and that love constrains us to consider their needs, the Redeemer is the priority to be...

Christ is overcome with the beauty of His Bride as He views her in the holiness of a Finished Work. No longer separated by the veil of the flesh, He is faced with her as she stands without spot. She is not found in any other place but in the...

It is one thing to be saved by the Word. It is quite another to be kept by that Word that you might enter into a Finished Work deliverance. Many people are inconsistent in their obedience to the Scriptures and do not live by every Word (Matthew 4:4). We need...