God told me years ago that the more I heard and received the Word of God, the more I would be used. He told me the more I went to church, the more I would be promoted. He told me to put Jesus Christ and His Kingdom first and to...

By the power of God’s ability in us, the Word goes into our frame of reference and becomes a part of our vocabulary. It becomes the basis for the norms and standards of our thinking, for our confession, and for our decisions. Then, the Word becomes a part of our...

Familiarity toward God, His Word, and His Body is the major temptation people face today. Don’t be haphazard with decisions that affect your eternal destiny. To enjoy eternity, you need to have an eternal purpose through an eternal provision: eternal life with grace and love. Every moment, we must make...

Lovingly, kindly, and graciously, the Lord pleads with us to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God-and the Word was God. Seek Him first, and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33). This...

The eternal purpose of the Lord Jesus for our existence is that we will experience the mystery of Christ as a particular member of the Body of Christ. The mystery of Jesus Christ, “which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, is now revealed unto...

Everything is determined by the conscience. We have a compromised conscience when we are only partially living by God’s truth, and we deceive ourselves because we talk ourselves into the wrong information. We can believe something that isn’t true and have a defiled conscience conditioned by our own interpretations. God...

Motivation-it is what moves our hearts, our minds, our souls, our wills, and our bodies. What motivates a Christian to continue walking with God by faith, when neither sight nor feelings encourage him? John 1:1 does not say “In the beginning was love,” although certainly love was there in the...

It would be difficult to be in deep waters and have to row the boat all the time. We would get so tired. How much better it is to have a boat with a motor! We have Jesus Christ as our power source; He moves the boat. And all we...

We have a wall built by God that surrounds us. We can walk into the arena of conflict with a smile and frustrate the devil. To have a wall of fire around us is to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. God’s ministry to us causes us to be surrounded...

I present my body to Jesus Christ as a living sacrifice through the resurrection power of God. That is how I present it—through Him. I don’t present my body as if I am trying to die. I present it as one who has already died. As I present my body...