Somebody once said, “If you have someone who would love you under all circumstances, who would never betray you, who would come to you privately and cover your sins and never repeat them, who would weep because of what you’re going through, that is love.” This love is available to...

In John 6:35, Jesus said to the disciples, “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” Christ is revealed to us through His Word, and therein we find all of the fulfillment and satisfaction we...

We are told by God Almighty how to be mentally stable for the unknown of God’s plan. With souls all over the world going to hell, why would anyone want to join the crowd, to participate in just any activity, unless the whole motive was to win the lost, to...

Picture Jesus on the mount of temptation, and Satan is tempting Him. He has been baptized, and the Father has said He is pleased with His Son (Mat thew 3:17), but Satan contests the Father’s declaration. Satan tempted the Lord when He hadn’t had food for forty days and nights....

Some of us find it very difficult to let God love us. Perhaps we feel unworthy or undeserving of such affection. What we need is to recognize that God is the only source of love. It was He who initiated love toward us. 1 John 4:19 explains, “We love him,...

Picture Jesus Christ the Nazarene as He comes upon the mountain overlooking Jerusalem. Luke 19:41 says, “And when as He approached He saw the city, He wept over it.” What would it be like to hear Jesus Christ, who was God in human form, audibly weep? John 11:35 says, “Jesus...

God brings in tests. He gives us love. He gives us grace. He gives us mercy. He gives more love, more grace, and more mercy. Then He says, “I’m going to test how you use what I give you.” Because He gives the grace, the love, and the mercy, and...

God uses the Bible to build up His people. It is the Word of grace, objectively building us up. Having this as our premise, think of your soul as a basic structure and the Word of God as the substance that the Holy Spirit uses to build upon it. The...

Jude 21a says, “Keep yourselves in the love of God.” The love of God is produced and shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). Still, the Word of God exhorts us to keep ourselves in that love. What does it mean to “keep yourselves”? The word...

When you listen to the Word of God, you must listen without any presuppositions. Never allow people, personalities, or circumstances to interfere with hearing. Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2:13, “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard...