We cannot comprehend it, but we are joined to a Lord of power who has set upon us the blessing of His inheritance. He obtained it, and we experience it by allowing grace to purchase our lives. We can meet Christ in terms of His promises, we can act through...

It is one thing to know that we are victorious and another thing to know that the enemy is dead. Our enemies will always try to usurp our power so that we might be subject to a direction that is oriented toward death. They come to power on a false...

Know what you have heard and follow the voice of God. Saul of Tarsus became the chief apostle born out of time simply because he heard God's voice. Peter heard the voice of God when he was backslidden and going astray. He had cursed the Lord and said, "I know...

In this chapter in Samuel, we see that David and his men returned home to find that the city had been overrun and their women and children taken captive. His men reacted, wanting to stone David. David became distressed, not over the content of their thoughts, but over the fact...

Corporate growth never takes away from an individual experience of growth among the members of one Body. As we grow up into Him, through the revelation of truth as it is spoken in love, our hearts are enlarged as love constrains us to allow Christ to shed abroad the revealed...

Jesus Christ was never spared any special favors from His Father. We have been taught so many times to be spared. People do not want to identify. They want to be spared the consequences. They do not want to go through a rugged cross, but they want to be spared...

Upon entering into a living organism, a corporate membership, one senses an atmosphere distinctly different. No longer is there an air of pressure forcing individuals to retreat and to submit to something other than God's choice of expression. There is the presence of faith within which individuals express just who...

God wants us to be able to know what He went through and what others have gone through. His desire is that we be a people who identify with those who suffer with the comforting heart of Christ. God wants a people who have gained experience by learning obedience by...

If we are consumed by Christ and taken over by the Word, and if by His grace we determine to move in the Spirit, then we will consider that God has set before us everything that comes our way. If we set the Lord before our face and we are...

Abram, who had failed God and was in the process of failing, received a word from God. God visited Abram, calling him to walk before the One Who is Almighty. Walking before God is the most beautiful thing. It is not walking before men to please them or walking before...