Everyday a battle rages between two forces-the wicked and the righteous: natural viewpoint and God’s viewpoint; works and grace; and light and darkness. They come against each other with amazing force through thoughts, projections, confessions, works and doctrine. Through these battles, God builds in our lives something that will last...

“A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent” (Proverbs 28:20). Many times Christians base decisions on their immediate needs. Rather than go to God to seek out His will, they settle for the easy way out, forfeiting the perfect...

Listen to the Lord’s words in Mark 7 concerning the desperate condition of the human heart. There is nothing in man capable of making a just evaluation of anything on earth. Jeremiah 17:9 is God’s verdict on the human heart; “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;...

These verses are relevant to each one of our lives. The Lord Jesus Christ is the “Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Revelation 22:13). He is the author and finisher of our faith (2).In Exodus 3:14, God told Moses to say that “I...

The subject of this verse is Jesus Christ, Who would be on the throne as the Son of David. It deals with certain things that speak of the depth of His fullness. “The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him” (verse 2a). This does not mean an occasional rest,...

When the principle of likemindedness is applied to the Body of Christ, the virtues functioning in each individual are shared from one member to another, and the promise of fruitfulness is made to the local assembly. Participation in the assembly of believers is handled with ease, poise, and oneness, without...

It has been said, “Defeat is only defeat if you live in it.” How a person handles defeat will determine his greatness in the Kingdom of God. Joshua exemplifies this in the defeat that the children of Israel suffered at Ai. It caused the hearts of the people to “melt,...

The outward man shall definitely perish, but our inward man is renewed day by day (2). We tend to get involved with outward things, but God always looks on the heart. When Samuel was looking for Saul’s replacement, the Lord told him not to look at the outward appearance because...

Our happiness must depend upon the Word of God and we must not become attached to things that will take us away from it. Too many times we place our happiness in temporal things. Then, when they are taken away, our joy soon fades too. Just knowing about wisdom is...

A healthy soul is the key to spiritual advancement for the believer. Satan addresses his attack to the soul but cannot be effective unless he is given a place through the believer’s volition. The volition functions as a guardian over the other parts of his soul. Satan wants the believer...