# GGWO Church Baltimore


## Posts

- [The Felony of Un-Intention](https://ggwo.org/the-felony-of-un-intention/): The Word of God is vital to the normal twisted thinking of all of us who, in the felony of un-intention, go misunderstanding the ultimate purpose of God.
- [Existence without a Life](https://ggwo.org/existence-without-a-life/): How many conversations result because of a lack of submission to God?
- [Living far from God](https://ggwo.org/living-far-from-god/): When a person cannot follow the leading of the Spirit and obey God, it reveals more than just ignorance of the love of God.
- [Rejecting Christ's Authority](https://ggwo.org/rejecting-christs-authority/): What were the beginnings of Absalom's conspiracy against his father, David? It began with considerations concerning the ministry of his father.
- [Hung on a Tree](https://ggwo.org/hung-on-a-tree/): A false covering will always put a man on a tree, hung in the condemnation of his own guilt.
- [A Breath Against God](https://ggwo.org/a-breath-against-god/): Men and women who are not Spirit-filled live in Absalom's place. They have usurped authority outside of the position God has given them.
- [A Leopard Changing Spots?](https://ggwo.org/a-leopard-changing-spots/): Enoch had a son born to him (Genesis 5:21), and this son, Methuselah, lived to be the oldest man.
- [And He Was Not](https://ggwo.org/and-he-was-not/): There are two things that are imperative for us to know: a) that it is impossible for us to change in Adam; and b) that it is impossible for God to lie about what He has done to Adam.
- [Our Last Rites](https://ggwo.org/our-last-rites/): Many people think they have rights, but the rights that they hold onto prohibit them from walking in agreement with God.
- [Going beyond in Love](https://ggwo.org/going-beyond-in-love/): Paul took pleasure in finding out what all-sufficient grace does. He besought the Lord three times to remove his thorn in the flesh.
- [Enough in Every Situation](https://ggwo.org/enough-in-every-situation/): Man does nothing but fail God. God says nothing but "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Corinthians 12:9).
- [His Grace is Sufficient](https://ggwo.org/his-grace-is-sufficient/): Why did God leave Adam? He crucified and buried him, yet why did God leave Adam still available to his own will?
- [A Wild Man Born](https://ggwo.org/a-wild-man-born/): God gave Abraham the promise of a son.
- [Reaction or God's Method?](https://ggwo.org/reaction-or-gods-method/): Are we involved in reaction toward grace? We do not like others to go on in the manner they have been going.
- [The Demand of Reformation](https://ggwo.org/the-demand-of-reformation/): When one has his own desires in grace, he may be taking a right that would liberate him from the plan of God.
- [Reigning in Self-Sufficiency](https://ggwo.org/reigning-in-self-sufficiency/): Are we satisfied with the sufficiency of grace or would we rather be granted an absence from the situation to take the road of self-satisfaction?
- [Let the Truth Hold You](https://ggwo.org/let-the-truth-hold-you/): Every person has moral light and knowledge light. Not everyone has faith light. Faith replaces knowledge.
- [The Measurement of Faith](https://ggwo.org/the-measurement-of-faith/): Truth does not depend upon my moments of weakness to evaluate its reality. Truth depends upon Jesus Christ.
- [Love Beyond a Law](https://ggwo.org/love-beyond-a-law/): The Sabbath is not lord over Jesus. Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. The commandments are not lord over Him.
- [An Order to Live](https://ggwo.org/an-order-to-live/): Once we receive God's love we are in His order; and because we accept the order of first going to Calvary in co-crucifixion, then we end up being everything that God has ever ordered us to be.
- [A Lamb Before the Foundation](https://ggwo.org/a-lamb-before-the-foundation/): "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us" (1 John 4:10). God does it all, and we allow Him.
- [Deceiving the Great Deceiver](https://ggwo.org/deceiving-the-great-deceiver/): How do we turn previous defeat into victory? How do we recover lost ground? We spend more energy living in defeat than we do believing in the pure Word of God.
- [Appointed unto Praise](https://ggwo.org/appointed-unto-praise/): If we wait for time to provide us with a provision to praise God, then we will not be able to praise God at all times.
- [Eternal Components](https://ggwo.org/eternal-components/): The only faith worth having is Holy Faith. Natural faith relates to natural phenomena.
- [Then Did I Eat It](https://ggwo.org/then-did-i-eat-it/): Many listen to the Word of God, but their problems are not alleviated because they do not eat what they hear.
- [Keep Your Eye on the Fullness](https://ggwo.org/keep-your-eye-on-the-fullness/): David's heart was fixed (Psalms 57:7, 108:1) not upon what appeared to be good, but on that which is truly perfect, righteous, and holy.
- [Gone Away Backward](https://ggwo.org/gone-away-backward/): When God brings a trial, Satan counterattacks with a lie to bring us into occupation with the trial instead of with the purpose of God.
- [Stronger than the Devil at Your Weakest Point](https://ggwo.org/stronger-than-the-devil-at-your-weakest-point/): When we are tempted in a situation, do we live by the dictates of the air or by the Spirit-quickened Word that proceeds from the mouth of God?
- [Silencing the Rooster](https://ggwo.org/silencing-the-rooster/): The rooster that crows reveals the security we've obtained without Jesus Christ as our life.
- [Passivity](https://ggwo.org/passivity/): "Passivity," according to Webster's Dictionary, is the state or quality of being the object of action or of being acted upon from without.
- [A Love that Draws Near](https://ggwo.org/a-love-that-draws-near/): Peter cursed himself when the rooster crowed. When we live in the curse of Adam, the rooster crows.
- [A Purpose Beyond](https://ggwo.org/a-purpose-beyond/): Jesus is our example. We should follow in His steps. What did it take for Jesus Christ to love us personally?
- [Could this Be the Son of God?](https://ggwo.org/could-this-be-the-son-of-god/): There He is-the Son of God. Oh, but He is lying in a manger. The scene does not seem appropriate for a King. How can it be so?
- [The Present "Now"](https://ggwo.org/the-present-now/): It is not possible to go on in success in Christ if you are self-appointed. Moses learned this lesson.
- [The Mercy of the Father](https://ggwo.org/the-mercy-of-the-father/): The Father is always giving us the best and the most. He doesn't hold back because we are unworthy. He will give to us when we are in our worst state.
- [The Exchange of Personal Life](https://ggwo.org/the-exchange-of-personal-life/): Thousands of people are living in an impersonal world. They live in shadows and theories.
- [Where Will Humility Bring Us?](https://ggwo.org/where-will-humility-bring-us/): Christ was willing to be nothing so that the Father could be all.
- [He Brought Humility](https://ggwo.org/he-brought-humility/): Consider the mind of God in Philippians 2. Jesus Christ took a position as a human creature. Though limited in humanity, He never once reacted.
- [Horizontal Exchanges](https://ggwo.org/horizontal-exchanges/): God calls for people to awake from their sleep.
- [Have You Heard?](https://ggwo.org/have-you-heard/): The measure of which you listen will be the measure of which you receive.
- [Reaping What One Has Sown](https://ggwo.org/reaping-what-one-has-sown/): Does a person commit sin because he has the freedom to execute his own rights? Sin is the result of bondage to the flesh.
- [A Captive of My Own Soul](https://ggwo.org/a-captive-of-my-own-soul/): People- in captivity to themselves, a kingdom, and Satan.
- [Living in Egypt while Owning an Inheritance in Canaan](https://ggwo.org/living-in-egypt-while-owning-an-inheritance-in-canaan/): What does it mean to live in a life of bondage?
- [A Specialist in the Truth](https://ggwo.org/a-specialist-in-the-truth/): Do not live in false humility toward the call of God, shrinking from His voice because you believe you are worthless.
- [Forsaking Brings a Blessing](https://ggwo.org/forsaking-brings-a-blessing/): Will we pay the price of discipleship? Or do we want to serve Christ independently of a Cross and separated from the covering of the government?
- [Respond to God's Initiation](https://ggwo.org/respond-to-gods-initiation/): As the Bride of Christ grows in maturity, God continually provides her with a new depth and sphere of fellowship with Him.
- [Conversion in the Light](https://ggwo.org/conversion-in-the-light/): Conviction by the Word of God is for conversion into the character of Christ. Light always will reveal areas where we are not walking in truth.
- [No Permanent Station](https://ggwo.org/no-permanent-station/): A Body that has a vision has a Cross that comes before the sight results of faith.
- [Keeping Pace with God](https://ggwo.org/keeping-pace-with-god/): Can you imagine functioning in the letter while the Spirit has moved forward in the plan of God?
- [Gaining in Grace](https://ggwo.org/gaining-in-grace/): Many believers do not grow in the grace of knowledge, and therefore never grow in the grace of God's mind.
- [Face to Face](https://ggwo.org/face-to-face/): Longsuffering is not suffering long periods without the activity of faith so as to identify with those outside of God experientially or at present in eternal standing.
- [Fulfilled by His Ability](https://ggwo.org/fulfilled-by-his-ability/): Christianity is concentrated work. The infilling of life comes by faith in a promise, but the outpouring of substance requires a work of investment.
- [Conditional Compliments Anyone?](https://ggwo.org/conditional-compliments-anyone/): Many people try to legislate faith instead of receiving it through God's delegation of life.
- [Response in Faith](https://ggwo.org/response-in-faith/): The fourth hearer became the first because he received the Word as though it were personally addressed to him.
- [The Breath of the Spirit](https://ggwo.org/the-breath-of-the-spirit/): Continuing the parable in Luke 8, we come to the third hearer. This one heard the Word and went forth, yet never brought forth fruit.
- [Knowing without Growing](https://ggwo.org/knowing-without-growing/): Our mind may receive truth, the conditions we are in may be relieved by truth, but unless we hear truth mixed with faith it is of no eternal avail.
- [Truth or the Spirit in Truth](https://ggwo.org/truth-or-the-spirit-in-truth/): Our capacity for power is in direct proportion to the faith that the Word of God produces in our lives.
- [Faithfulness of God's Mercy](https://ggwo.org/faithfulness-of-gods-mercy/): Mercy must be given before the glory of the Lord can be revealed.
- [Confessing Truth](https://ggwo.org/confessing-truth/): Truth is not in confessing present situational conditions. Truth is set apart from situations.
- [Distillation of Love](https://ggwo.org/distillation-of-love/): Of the nine fruits of the Spirit presented in Galatians 5:22- 23, love is first, the first cause, and the remaining eight fruits are the effects of Love.
- [Plan or Provision?](https://ggwo.org/plan-or-provision/): What are you occupied with—God's plan or His provisions? Not once did God command, require, request, or even suggest that we be concerned with His Plan.
- [The Order of Life](https://ggwo.org/the-order-of-life/): Order is the key to the Father's administration of life. Anything that violates order is not in the Father's plan. Order is not structure.
- [Take My Yoke](https://ggwo.org/take-my-yoke/): There is a yoke which all who wish to be known by the Lord as His disciples must bear. It is the yoke of humility that Christ Himself bore.
- [Strangers in the Land](https://ggwo.org/strangers-in-the-land/): God calls us to be strangers in the land of His promises. We are continually called to go out into a land not knowing whither we are going.
- [In Defiance of Defense](https://ggwo.org/in-defiance-of-defense/): Stephen, the deacon of the Book of Acts and the first Christian to die a martyr's death, gave a stunning example of defenselessness.
- [A New Name](https://ggwo.org/a-new-name-2/): "And you shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name."
- [Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord](https://ggwo.org/prepare-ye-the-way-of-the-lord/): "Repentance" is a subject some Christians try to avoid. We need not fear repentance when it is viewed in its proper perspective.
- [An Invisible Cornerstone](https://ggwo.org/an-invisible-cornerstone/): "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people."
- [Dost Thou Wash My Feet?](https://ggwo.org/dost-thou-wash-my-feet/): Often a wrong concept of the Word of God prevents the glory of the Church from being seen. Christ Jesus proposes to present to Himself a spotless Church.
- [Unconditional Life with No Conditional Changes](https://ggwo.org/unconditional-life-with-no-conditional-changes/): If you lost all you had that was precious, would you be motivated before anything was restored?
- [Performance or Expression?](https://ggwo.org/performance-or-expression/): Christianity is not difficult to perform. It is a flow which expresses. One either acts in terms of knowledge or lives in terms of God.
- [Act in Knowledge or Be Stimulated by Life](https://ggwo.org/act-in-knowledge-or-be-stimulated-by-life/): Instead of allowing God to clothe them, people try to costume themselves according to what they think they should wear in a situation.
- [God Is Driving](https://ggwo.org/god-is-driving/): How do we drive out the enemy? It is by receiving his spies in peace.
- [A Robe to Express a Person](https://ggwo.org/a-robe-to-express-a-person/): You have God's righteousness in position before you experience it in life.
- [Construction Site of Grace](https://ggwo.org/construction-site-of-grace/): We are given unto edification. That, in itself, is an art of the Holy Spirit. We design and outlay a plan that others may be built in Him.
- [God Is without Demand](https://ggwo.org/god-is-without-demand/): Exhortation is not mercilessly pouncing upon a person in order that he might turn from that which you personally dislike.
- [Things which Are Behind](https://ggwo.org/things-which-are-behind/): A Christian's life is not built upon things which lag behind. The frailty of many is that they live off past success.
- [Jesus Raises the Dead in Nepal](https://ggwo.org/jesus-raises-the-dead-in-nepal/): Nepal is a Hindu country.
- [The Heart that Spoke](https://ggwo.org/the-heart-that-spoke/): A Lamb went to the Cross, prayed in the garden, met Judas, was kissed by the betrayer, and was presented to Pilate.
- [Love from the Foundation](https://ggwo.org/love-from-the-foundation/): Before Jeremiah came forth from the womb, he had been ordained by God to be a prophet. God was living in the plan of foreknowledge as He spoke to Jeremiah.
- [Know No Man](https://ggwo.org/know-no-man/): Unto many, the preaching of the Cross is foolishness, because it comes to destroy all good human wisdom.
- [The Sovereign Side](https://ggwo.org/the-sovereign-side/): One of the most difficult things is to have old foundations destroyed and to let God establish His foundation. People have been reared up in their foundation.
- [Delegated Reception](https://ggwo.org/delegated-reception/): "Whom do you say that I am?"
- [A Life of Reward](https://ggwo.org/a-life-of-reward/): Obedience to a prophet brings a prophet's reward upon my life. I can receive for my life the same grace that the prophet has received from God.
- [The Greater the Trial, The Greater the Gift](https://ggwo.org/the-greater-the-trial-the-greater-the-gift/): Reverse your situation through reconciliation. When we have necessity, we take pleasure.
- [Through His Poverty](https://ggwo.org/through-his-poverty/): God's grace reaps where we do not sow. Grace violates all normal laws of reaping.
- [Following Him No More](https://ggwo.org/following-him-no-more/): We are to bring our body under subjection to the government of God's Body.
- [King-Priest Avenue](https://ggwo.org/king-priest-avenue/): Allow Jesus Christ to take you into the King-Priest avenues of His Glory. As a Glorified Priest, He is seated above.
- [Streamlined Discipleship](https://ggwo.org/streamlined-discipleship/): Instead of listening for the words, "Forsake all you have or you cannot be My disciple," many people want discipleship language streamlined where they can accept it on the basis of common sense.
- [Love That Suffers](https://ggwo.org/love-that-suffers/): The average Christian has never had to face the suffering that comes upon every effective ministry in the Word of God.
- [Beside Himself in Faith](https://ggwo.org/beside-himself-in-faith/): When we take a step of discipleship, how fast does it reveal our heart attitude toward God? Are we trusting in natural security, or in God by faith?
- [How Many Barns Built?](https://ggwo.org/how-many-barns-built/): How many thoughts do we exercise in reason to reveal that we do not trust God? How many barns do we build to hold provision for our future?
- [Are You at Home at Golgotha?](https://ggwo.org/are-you-at-home-at-golgotha/): Jesus was at home anywhere the Father sent Him.
- [Christ Isn't in the Next Town](https://ggwo.org/christ-isnt-in-the-next-town/): Without addition there is no revelation. We will in the staleness of our own knowledge without any outworking of that which has been worked in by God.
- [God Will Multiply If I Add](https://ggwo.org/god-will-multiply-if-i-add/): Many people want their own way in Adam while they confess grace to do it.
- [Unconditional Winner](https://ggwo.org/unconditional-winner/): What happens to so many believers who come to know Christ and know He has paid it all?
- [Mark the Dividers](https://ggwo.org/mark-the-dividers/): Be in Jesus Christ. Stop being in a ministry, and be in Jesus Christ as He ministers through the Body.
- [Apostolic Doctrine or Adamic Double-Mindedness](https://ggwo.org/apostolic-doctrine-or-adamic-double-mindedness/): Do not test and evaluate according to your own understanding. When Eve thought about the fruit by sight, she fell into sin.
- [Having Biblical Credentials](https://ggwo.org/having-biblical-credentials/): We do not evaluate on the basis of preference. We do not evaluate on the basis of opinion.
- [That I Might Self Not](https://ggwo.org/that-i-might-self-not/): The Holy Spirit brings to remembrance the hidden Word to reveal a Glorified Christ.
- [Who Is Renting Your Life?](https://ggwo.org/who-is-renting-your-life/): Many people are not stable in the conviction of God because they do not allow themselves continual conversion through the mind of Christ.
- [Don't Be Naughty with God](https://ggwo.org/dont-be-naughty-with-god/): There is a most serious problem that a believer has.
- [Misplacing the Heart of God](https://ggwo.org/misplacing-the-heart-of-god/): Do not misplace yourself. God has no need for acts of self-will to prove the integrity of your faith.
- [Do Not Invade this Place](https://ggwo.org/do-not-invade-this-place/): How many sins are written about in Hebrews 11? How many times does God refer to the sins of the men under the Old Covenant? He does not refer to them, and why?
- [What Is the Secret?](https://ggwo.org/what-is-the-secret/): God has a secret place which is the most unusual place a man can live.
- [Faithful Unto Death](https://ggwo.org/faithful-unto-death/): Be thou faithful until the day you die. Do not forsake the ministry God has given you.
- [Does Love Take a Change?](https://ggwo.org/does-love-take-a-change/): If we have anything less than unconditional love toward the saints (love that is expressed toward living believers), then we hate them.
- [Walk with God and Be Not](https://ggwo.org/walk-with-god-and-be-not/): It is so easy to go through a valley and not walk through it, but sit down in it and be overcome with what the circumstance does.
- [A Potential to be Ceaseless](https://ggwo.org/a-potential-to-be-ceaseless/): Satan was living by sight, and he did not have to have faith. When he fell, it was into a works system, under the law of holiness.
- [Root, Substance, Fruit](https://ggwo.org/root-substance-fruit/): I am as grounded as Heaven is. I am as rooted as grace can make me stand. I am filled as full as God can fill a man. Love can say, bring it on.
- [Love Can Take It](https://ggwo.org/love-can-take-it/): If you are filled with the Spirit, there is not a single thing you cannot take with joy.
- [What Do You Bear in the Valley?](https://ggwo.org/what-do-you-bear-in-the-valley/): The Bride has become just like her God, her Savior, because of what He has done and is doing. God thinks she is holy and perfect.
- [Terrible, Yet Beautiful](https://ggwo.org/terrible-yet-beautiful/): We have been called into a life of love, to live in the Holy of Holies where all is sacred.
- [In All Thy Ways](https://ggwo.org/in-all-thy-ways/): When I am tempted, I can either subdue self and confess theology, or I can believe in God and acknowledge Him with all my heart and experience His life through faith.
- [Do You Hear the Calling?](https://ggwo.org/do-you-hear-the-calling/): The Song of Solomon portrays the progressive walk of the Bride as her life is consumed by the Bridegroom, the Lord.
- [In Honor Prefer](https://ggwo.org/in-honor-prefer/): No matter how intimate the friendship, and despite the fact that he was one soul with David, Jonathan was always to honor David as the anointed king.
- [The Lord Forbid](https://ggwo.org/the-lord-forbid/): How easy it is to be familiar with Christ and take away from the sacredness of His presence.
- [If Came the Choice...](https://ggwo.org/if-came-the-choice/): In the days ahead will come the intensity of the devil's attack.
- [Discomforted by the Claims](https://ggwo.org/discomforted-by-the-claims/): What I learned in the presence of God yesterday is not relevant today.
- [Hopeless and Headless](https://ggwo.org/hopeless-and-headless/): The enemy wants to leave you headless.
- [Suffering of Fallen Design](https://ggwo.org/suffering-of-fallen-design/): Some people suffer because of their situation. Others may suffer because of temptation and the negative onslaught of the enemy.
- [Not Greater than the Least](https://ggwo.org/not-greater-than-the-least/): John the Baptist, according to Jesus, was the greatest born of a woman (Matthew 11:11).
- [Adam Lost His Option](https://ggwo.org/adam-lost-his-option/): Adam gives me the option to live. God has made the decision that he die. People do not want the commitment to a personal cross.
- [Taking on an Image](https://ggwo.org/taking-on-an-image-2/): Many local churches take on the one personality of their doctrine, never utilizing their own God-given portion. Why?
- [Forsake Not the Assembling](https://ggwo.org/forsake-not-the-assembling/): When we gather ourselves together to hear the preacher preach, it is more than just listening to God's man speak.
- [Nothing Can Separate Us from Who God Is](https://ggwo.org/nothing-can-separate-us-from-who-god-is/): God is love (1 John 4:8,16). Love creates in man a capacity for God. Charity never faileth (1 Corinthians 13:8). I might fail love, but love never will fail me.
- [The Issue is Ended](https://ggwo.org/the-issue-is-ended/): Compare what Jesus has done and how He views things with what Christians say and how they relate.
- [Added Unto You is Love](https://ggwo.org/added-unto-you-is-love/): "But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6:33).
- [Friendship: Serving Us in Love](https://ggwo.org/friendship-serving-us-in-love/): How great is a man's darkness when he believes the darkness that is in him is light.
- [Stolen from the Purpose](https://ggwo.org/stolen-from-the-purpose/): God has given us many beautiful things.
- [Are Your Glasses Tinted?](https://ggwo.org/are-your-glasses-tinted/): A backslider is one who has experientially removed himself from the grace of God.
- [Eternal Starvation](https://ggwo.org/eternal-starvation/): What is God's attitude? It is an attitude of Love that invites everyone to come to the supper.
- [They Made Light of It](https://ggwo.org/they-made-light-of-it/): The Father has made a marriage for the Son because of the presentation that the Son has made to the Father.
- [Set as a Seal](https://ggwo.org/set-as-a-seal/): Jesus Christ wants a spiritual people, a people who do not cling to earthly concepts of love but have left the wilderness of human love and entered into an ascended love through ascended life by ascended power.
- [Accusation or Conviction](https://ggwo.org/accusation-or-conviction/): There is a great deal of difference between accusation and conviction. When one accuses another, it is to reveal fault for destructive purposes.
- [Divine Action through Revelation](https://ggwo.org/divine-action-through-revelation/): Thoughts stimulate movement. We abide in Jesus Christ to have His mind as the source of all our actions.
- [Staggering in an Old Economy](https://ggwo.org/staggering-in-an-old-economy/): What is the conscience? And what causes people to stagger in dead works rather than to serve the Living God with life and in Life?
- [One Willed to Others](https://ggwo.org/one-willed-to-others/): God wants us to experience the inheritance given to us by a will broken at Calvary through the Blood.
- [Baptized in the Calling](https://ggwo.org/baptized-in-the-calling/): The human spirit functions in God-consciousness, the Father. The human soul functions in the power of the Spirit, the Son.
- [Sanctified in the Word](https://ggwo.org/sanctified-in-the-word/): The Word will release me or place me in bondage. It will set me free or bring contention into my moral conscience, as it is exhilarated with pressure.
- [The Evidence Withheld](https://ggwo.org/the-evidence-withheld/): Realize the ones whom God has sent. Come under a total government in the power of strength. Rid yourself of all independence.
- [Respond to God's Ordination](https://ggwo.org/respond-to-gods-ordination/): Jesus Christ sends people in the government of the Spirit. Whatsoever they decide, God backs them.
- [The Government of God Releases Life](https://ggwo.org/the-government-of-god-releases-life/): The Holy Spirit has a government. In that government, all of God is revealed and released.
- [Strong As the Reigning Thought](https://ggwo.org/strong-as-the-reigning-thought/): Never consider quitting God's business even if you are going through the worst trial. Abide in your calling.
- [Put on Christ](https://ggwo.org/put-on-christ/): We must have Christ on all the time. No one who has ever put on Christ has had the devil get through.
- [No Vacancies for the Devil](https://ggwo.org/no-vacancies-for-the-devil/): The most difficult job for the Spirit is to make people walk in what they receive. God wants a Body-quickening.
- [Reveal Eternity in Your Corner](https://ggwo.org/reveal-eternity-in-your-corner/): God cannot win a lost world with a sick church. He can only do it with those who will receive His energy through His Word.
- [Nothing Beyond Its Sickness](https://ggwo.org/nothing-beyond-its-sickness/): Christianity can be insanity without Christ manifesting His divine mind upon every human being who has ever responded to redemption.
- [Taking on an Image](https://ggwo.org/taking-on-an-image/): Every day I live I want to be as sweet as God will let me be, but as hard against the devil as necessary.
- [The Design of God's Choice](https://ggwo.org/the-design-of-gods-choice/): Never evaluate those whom God has chosen. If you reject whom God sends, you are rejecting Christ Himself (Luke 10:16).
- [Forsaking the Voice](https://ggwo.org/forsaking-the-voice/): The Spirit of God speaks only that which He hears and yet people continually speak without hearing from God.
- [Hearing Brings the Revelation](https://ggwo.org/hearing-brings-the-revelation/): Be careful how you hear. No one can hear unless he is crucified. Hearing the voice of a Person will produce eternal effect.
- [Falling Short of Victory](https://ggwo.org/falling-short-of-victory/): Christ gives the Word. Does a person identify with that Word or fall short of identification through self ?
- [Decisions Apart from God](https://ggwo.org/decisions-apart-from-god/): How many counselors give their evaluation by sight and reason and never wait upon God to renew them with the strength of His perfect will?
- [In an Ordered Step](https://ggwo.org/in-an-ordered-step/): Do I ever see persecution as a means for God to work suffering in my life, to affect me with His authority during that suffering so that the authority in my life may be effectively God's?
- [Sovereign Suffering](https://ggwo.org/sovereign-suffering/): Do we blame others for what, to God, is simply the absolute sovereignty of His plan?
- [Delivered Before Deliverance](https://ggwo.org/delivered-before-deliverance/): People want to experience God's deliverance without experiencing God's nature.
- [See the Difference](https://ggwo.org/see-the-difference/): Moses was a man from a cursed tribe (Genesis 49:5-7), and yet he was used by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.
- [The Love of Substitution](https://ggwo.org/the-love-of-substitution/): Many people who have chosen the course of their lives do not want to be left responsible for its consequences.
- [Waiting in or Waiting For?](https://ggwo.org/waiting-in-or-waiting-for/): Some people wait upon God to experience the continual arrival of God in the midst of life's situations.
- [Imaginations Against Faith](https://ggwo.org/imaginations-against-faith/): Do not let thoughts exalt themselves above what God says in His Word. Satan always wants to attack the possibilities you have in your God-given potential.
- [Thoughts That Gather Straw](https://ggwo.org/thoughts-that-gather-straw/): There is no such thing as an emotional problem. That is the staggering truth according to the mind of God through His Word.
- [Three Days from Egypt](https://ggwo.org/three-days-from-egypt/): God has a plan, and Satan has a challenge. God has a purpose, and Satan has a proposal to keep you from that purpose.
- [Thought Transferred to Action](https://ggwo.org/thought-transferred-to-action/): As the mind of Christ overtakes us, we, the beloved of Christ ,rest in thoughts of Him alone. Thoughts find their real value in the actions of our life.
- [Always Possible with God](https://ggwo.org/always-possible-with-god/): With God all things are possible. If I stay with God when I am failing, the life that makes all things possible will take over.
- [Grow in Cooperation](https://ggwo.org/grow-in-cooperation/): When we cooperate first with God in our mind, then all our outward expressions and actions can be reconciled to His heart.
- [Evidently, It is Faith](https://ggwo.org/evidently-it-is-faith/): The Word comes first into the conscious mind as objective knowledge. When given the place, Satan will come in subsequently to produce mental blocks.
- [Divine Orientation](https://ggwo.org/divine-orientation/): We submit to God in a situation through the life of Christ in our subjective mind.
- [Man: Where Evil is Present](https://ggwo.org/man-where-evil-is-present/): Man is born into a world filled with stimuli and projection. What effect does man's environment have upon him as he grows and progresses in age?
- [Wall-to-Wall Power](https://ggwo.org/wall-to-wall-power/): This verse describes the inner chamber of Solomon's Temple. Cherubim were set there. Their number was two, and they filled the room.
- [Storehouse of Truth](https://ggwo.org/storehouse-of-truth/): The devil can defeat us with the knowledge of truth.
- [Claims of the Cross](https://ggwo.org/claims-of-the-cross/): The man in this portion in Mark came to Jesus, calling Him "Good Master."
- [All in All for All](https://ggwo.org/all-in-all-for-all/): Allow the Cross to be your life without rationalization because of a revelation of Christ to your mind.
- [Who Receives the Benefits?](https://ggwo.org/who-receives-the-benefits/): Do not fuel a desire that is outside of God's will. Let go of earthly desires.
- [God's Placement](https://ggwo.org/gods-placement/): People who worship a desire get perplexed when the will of God was not what they desired.
- [Desires Beyond God](https://ggwo.org/desires-beyond-god/): Idols are very often the No. 1 problem in a Christian's life. An idol is not necessarily a material article set before people to be worshipped.
- [Yielded or Yoked?](https://ggwo.org/yielded-or-yoked/): How do our members become instruments that further the Kingdom of God? It is not by reining them into Adamic goodness.
- [The Once-For-All Act](https://ggwo.org/the-once-for-all-act/): In Colossians 3:5, Paul begins a description in the Greek of an act that is final, an act that is once and for all and at once.
- [Minding](https://ggwo.org/minding/): How many people are so occupied with their flesh or the things that pertain therewith that they completely hinder the flow of the life of Christ?
- [Attack to Stop the Flow](https://ggwo.org/attack-to-stop-the-flow/): The devil was constantly seeking out, through his evil devices, to attack the life of the Son of God.
- [God has Passed by What You See](https://ggwo.org/god-has-passed-by-what-you-see/): Christ will not cure you from the incurable. Jesus gives you the right to live experiencing your wounds if you choose to do so.
- [Do We Hold the Truth?](https://ggwo.org/do-we-hold-the-truth/): Righteousness is revealed from faith to faith. The just, those who live in Christ's justification, shall live by faith.
- [Vainglory or Christ?](https://ggwo.org/vainglory-or-christ/): If we provoke and envy, then we communicate the system of vainglory in which we are inhabiting.
- [I Am Because of the I Am](https://ggwo.org/i-am-because-of-the-i-am/): Paul was a Pharisee and quite successful.
- [Not by Striving, But by a Visitation](https://ggwo.org/not-by-striving-but-by-a-visitation/): When we pray for healing in a Church service, or assemble together to break bread so that we might discern the Lord, there is one thing that we must always remember.
- [Identification with Truth](https://ggwo.org/identification-with-truth/): The Bible is clear cut. You either live in the wages of self or you live in a gift of eternal life.
- [Covered to be a Covering](https://ggwo.org/covered-to-be-a-covering/): The blood is our eternal life covering. The Mercy Seat is our place for faith rest.
- [Mercy Rejoices over Judgment](https://ggwo.org/mercy-rejoices-over-judgment/): All the bright lights, all the popularity, all the sins of your youth, all the ambitions of your nature, and all the carnal drives of Adam, if you attained all in the goal you were after, it could never touch what it means to have God and His Son cover you with a robe and make you God's own son or daughter.
- [Hid By a Covering](https://ggwo.org/hid-by-a-covering/): The cherubim, God's angels of covering, kept the way to the Tree of Life with flaming swords.
- [The Beaten Mercy Seat](https://ggwo.org/the-beaten-mercy-seat/): The key to a Christian's prosperity, to a pastor's effectiveness, to a believer's life with God, has to do with covering.
- [Holding Forth What You Hear](https://ggwo.org/holding-forth-what-you-hear/): You must seek not to be who you think yourself to be, but who the Word of God knows you are.
- [Christ is Found in a Fellowship](https://ggwo.org/christ-is-found-in-a-fellowship/): Live in faith for your present life. The important thing is not what you know about God, but Who God is now in the operation of faith.
- [I Possess Nothing](https://ggwo.org/i-possess-nothing/): Satan tries to possess people to keep them from being possessed by God.
- [Heartbreaking](https://ggwo.org/heartbreaking/): Imagine what it would be like if you had lived in Heaven and looked down on the universe to see the universe enveloped in darkness.
- [His Eyes are on You](https://ggwo.org/his-eyes-are-on-you-2/): Peter fastened his eyes upon the lame man laying at the gate called Beautiful.
- [Blessed on the Basis of Another](https://ggwo.org/blessed-on-the-basis-of-another-2/): 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.
- [The Table He has Set](https://ggwo.org/the-table-he-has-set/): 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.
- [Learning Obedience](https://ggwo.org/learning-obedience/): God wants us to be able to know what He went through and what others have gone through.
- [A Life That Speaks](https://ggwo.org/a-life-that-speaks/): Upon entering into a living organism, a corporate membership, one senses an atmosphere distinctly different.
- [Do You Want to be Spared?](https://ggwo.org/do-you-want-to-be-spared/): 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.
- [Expanding and Enlarging as You Grow Up into Him](https://ggwo.org/expanding-and-enlarging-as-you-grow-up-into-him/): Corporate growth never takes away from an individual experience of growth among the members of one Body.
- [Encouraged in Corporate Truth](https://ggwo.org/encouraged-in-corporate-truth/): 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.
- [Hearing: Our Edification](https://ggwo.org/hearing-our-edification/): 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.
- [A Commanded Deliverance](https://ggwo.org/a-commanded-deliverance/): It is one thing to know that we are victorious and another thing to know that the enemy is dead.
- [Joined to an Inheritance](https://ggwo.org/joined-to-an-inheritance/): We cannot comprehend it, but we are joined to a Lord of power who has set upon us the blessing of His inheritance.
- [No Place to Lay His Head](https://ggwo.org/no-place-to-lay-his-head/): Many people are never left remaining in rest because they did not begin with something that was finished.
- [Losing a Life to be Kept by a Word](https://ggwo.org/losing-a-life-to-be-kept-by-a-word/): There may be a certain amount of security and safety to those who only live in the Word.
- [With God All has Meaning](https://ggwo.org/with-god-all-has-meaning/): Listen to the voice of Christ saying, "When I knew all you would do in sin, I paid the debt for your sins to save you from the penalty of sin: Hell.
- [Profitless in Terms of Eternal Substance](https://ggwo.org/profitless-in-terms-of-eternal-substance/): Many people preach the truth and yet never become an outward message of the Word in their lives.
- [Words Without the Power of Life](https://ggwo.org/words-without-the-power-of-life/): It is one thing to know the Word; it is quite another to experience its power.
- [Be a Responder](https://ggwo.org/be-a-responder/): Every person who is filled with a capacity for life desires a response. This response is part of the constitution of initiation.
- [The Pleasing Sacrifice](https://ggwo.org/the-pleasing-sacrifice/): Many people spend a good part of their lives challenging God's plan with emotional reactions or rationalistic attitudes or arguments.
- [Looking Unto Jesus](https://ggwo.org/looking-unto-jesus/): The devil programs people to be something less than discerning, Holy Spirit controlled people.
- [Can't Rise to the Promises?](https://ggwo.org/cant-rise-to-the-promises/): There will be times in the life of every believer when he will not be able to hold onto faith or to rise to the promises.
- [Two Characteristics](https://ggwo.org/two-characteristics/): There are two characteristics in the essence box of God. The perfect law of liberty is my rights to gaze into the mirror of who God says I am through Christ.
- [No More Accusations](https://ggwo.org/no-more-accusations/): "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee" ( Jude 9).
- [Who Will Believe the Report?](https://ggwo.org/who-will-believe-the-report/): "Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?"
- [Equality in Christ](https://ggwo.org/equality-in-christ/): God doesn't want you to live in the changeless mood of inequality, but rather to live in the moods of His love. Without love there is inequality.
- [The Lord's Anointed](https://ggwo.org/the-lords-anointed/): David, the anointed of God, so well has set down an amazing example for every Christian to follow.
- [The Spirit Giveth Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/the-spirit-giveth-wisdom/): The Lord's anointed is not a respecter of persons. Love does not respect the flesh of people but honors the opportunities of life to express Christ.
- [God Puts a Difference](https://ggwo.org/god-puts-a-difference/): A verse that rang loud in the ears of the Israelites, and today in the ears of God's people, is that God puts a difference between us and the world.
- [Christ or Bewitched?](https://ggwo.org/christ-or-bewitched/): When a person runs himself down, that is witchcraft. When a person accepts tension, this also is witchcraft.
- [This Is The Work](https://ggwo.org/this-is-the-work/): Deny yourself and take up your cross daily means only to accept the perfect law of liberty. Denying self is just accepting what God has done to your self-life.
- [Delivered From Want to Need](https://ggwo.org/delivered-from-want-to-need/): Many times our eternal needs are very different from what our emotions dictate we need.
- [Preparing For the Battle](https://ggwo.org/preparing-for-the-battle/): God's delays are more important than our haste. The Lord never procrastinates; He always relates to the truth of the need in the application of the Plan.
- [You Have Been Chosen](https://ggwo.org/you-have-been-chosen/): When our flesh, which is as grass (Isaiah 40:6), understands that it could not choose itself and accepts what God has done to it on the merits of His love for it and the revelation of what He can do through it and despite it, then we can understand what it means to be chosen by God.
- [A Hearing Investment](https://ggwo.org/a-hearing-investment/): Learn how to listen.
- [One Resident in Mind](https://ggwo.org/one-resident-in-mind/): Do not have your thoughts vs. God's thoughts, but have God's thoughts with yours excluded.
- [The Height of Thought](https://ggwo.org/the-height-of-thought/): God's thoughts are higher than ours, and in order to receive the height of those thoughts we must be seated together with Him according the Finished Work.
- [Mine Are Not Yours](https://ggwo.org/mine-are-not-yours/): What do man's thoughts do for man? They place a person on a comparative chart of humanism. They place him in the legalistic structure of striving.
- [In Terms of the End](https://ggwo.org/in-terms-of-the-end/): Because of love not a single thing in the universe could ever stop the mercy of God from gathering His people in the midst of their reaction and their refusal to be His.
- [A Habitation for God](https://ggwo.org/a-habitation-for-god/): We face two great alternatives today: we can choose to inhabit our weaknesses, our problems, or our personalities; or we can allow our bodies to become a habitation for Almighty God.
- [Not a Fair-Weather Christian](https://ggwo.org/not-a-fair-weather-christian/): The eye of our understanding is to be opened so that we do not see the heat in what it represents.
- [Departure](https://ggwo.org/departure/): Imagine serving the enemy of sin when God does not charge you with sin. Imagine serving the devil when God has defeated him.
- [Service to the Enemy](https://ggwo.org/service-to-the-enemy/): Probably the most discouraging thing for God's people throughout the history of God dealing with men and women through redemption is when Christ had to allow His people to serve their enemies.
- [No Air Between](https://ggwo.org/no-air-between/): The Cross will never agree with my will. The whole principle for the Cross is that we do not get our own way.
- [Not My Will](https://ggwo.org/not-my-will/): A believer must have his will ruled out even if he is doing good. So many times people use circumstances to exclude faith and they end up in their will.
- [God Remembers](https://ggwo.org/god-remembers/): Lot was a man who always chose the easiest way, the way that looked most appealing to the eye.
- [Determined Not to Know](https://ggwo.org/determined-not-to-know/): What is the ground for my salvation? It is that I know nothing but the Cross between me and God.
- [Grounds to Function](https://ggwo.org/grounds-to-function/): All prayers are not alike. All messages are not the same. Some have the fervency of the Spirit and the vibration and ring of God.
- [Localize Into Experience](https://ggwo.org/localize-into-experience/): In order for our eyes to function, they must have the grounds of the physical body.
- [Getting Married?](https://ggwo.org/getting-married/): Two people who fall in love do not even feel the love because they know the love in their minds. God gives love first to the mind.
- [Whom Do We Hear?](https://ggwo.org/whom-do-we-hear/): Imagine obeying Judas Iscariot simply because he was a man. Our response is not regulated by the gender of the individual.
- [The Initiator](https://ggwo.org/the-initiator/): God's life initiates and that comes through a man (1 Timothy 2:5). Man was given, through the amazing plan of Genesis 3, the power to initiate.
- [The Responder](https://ggwo.org/the-responder/): Just as man was designed as the initiator, the woman has been designed to be the responder. She has the most amazing possibility to receive.
- [Governmentally Arranged](https://ggwo.org/governmentally-arranged/): God's man is not after something you have, but he wants to give you something you can possess.
- [Reaction is Not the Issue](https://ggwo.org/reaction-is-not-the-issue/): Man reacts to the Truth. He makes reaction the issue, when Truth is always the issue.
- [Preying On Your Weakness](https://ggwo.org/preying-on-your-weakness/): Having been spiritually illustrated so well in God's dealings and instructions to the nation of Israel, God has a specific attitude toward Amalek.
- [A Showcase](https://ggwo.org/a-showcase/): If one does not take up his Cross, then he cannot be a disciple.
- [Faith Upholds You](https://ggwo.org/faith-upholds-you/): We are upheld by God's thoughts. Whenever we fall or get weak, the Word upholds us. If we sin we must confess and name the sin.
- [The Words of the Author](https://ggwo.org/the-words-of-the-author/): Mix faith when you hear the Word. The Word transcends over all and you are quickened into the height of Heaven.
- [Curtailed By Self-Interpretation](https://ggwo.org/curtailed-by-self-interpretation/): A person has no corporate respect when he can either take the Body or leave it.
- [In Lowliness](https://ggwo.org/in-lowliness/): A mental attitude that esteems others better in the humility of the mind of Christ is the attitude that brings the beginning of authority for that person.
- [Misunderstood Authority](https://ggwo.org/misunderstood-authority/): The Body of Christ is misunderstood in self-appointments.
- [Baptized Unto the Word](https://ggwo.org/baptized-unto-the-word/): Many people respond to God by impulse instead of by faith.
- [A Display of Truth](https://ggwo.org/a-display-of-truth/): 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.
- [Overcome with an Overcomer](https://ggwo.org/overcome-with-an-overcomer/): Christ is overcome with the beauty of His Bride as He views her in the holiness of a Finished Work.
- [God's Personal Priority](https://ggwo.org/gods-personal-priority/): 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.
- [Thank God for Ephesus](https://ggwo.org/thank-god-for-ephesus/): How many people sing and praise God for their location in Christ, and yet they dislike their Ephesus?
- [Inability to Cope with God](https://ggwo.org/inability-to-cope-with-god/): The devil always gets the worst defeat.
- [Faith Sees Light in the Dark](https://ggwo.org/faith-sees-light-in-the-dark/): There are hidden riches in dark places. Imagine how our sin brings us into a dark place.
- [God Has A Hiding Place](https://ggwo.org/god-has-a-hiding-place/): God will only accept transcendent life that lives beyond principalities and powers outside of time in eternity.
- [Tent Dwellers](https://ggwo.org/tent-dwellers/): 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.
- [Mark My Heart](https://ggwo.org/mark-my-heart/): 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.
- [Is He Boasting?](https://ggwo.org/is-he-boasting/): Paul made many statements which revealed what grace could do with a man.
- [A Purely Singular Response](https://ggwo.org/a-purely-singular-response/): Keep yourselves pure. That's God's message to His people.
- [Bearing the Ark](https://ggwo.org/bearing-the-ark/): You may have the laver and have your hands cleansed, but no Ark. You may have the shewbread and eat doctrine, but no Ark.
- [The Bread of Adversity](https://ggwo.org/the-bread-of-adversity/): People live in adversity, but they will not eat the adversity. The adversity is not bread for them to eat.
- [Whom Do You Know in the Situation?](https://ggwo.org/whom-do-you-know-in-the-situation/): Enjoy Christ as the Supreme Giver and know Him better than you know the devil in the situation.
- [Take God Into It](https://ggwo.org/take-god-into-it/): If you seek, you still will die. You are living in the provision of what you went after.
- [The Point of the Provision](https://ggwo.org/the-point-of-the-provision/): Jesus did not say, "I give you bread," or, "I ask you to seek for bread;" but He said, "I am the Bread." If you seek for bread, you may not find Him.
- [Faithfully Settling](https://ggwo.org/faithfully-settling/): When the average Christian thinks of resting, he thinks of resting in faith.
- [Does Natural Need Necessitate the Call?](https://ggwo.org/does-natural-need-necessitate-the-call/): Are we satisfied and no longer hungering after God when our natural need is met? Natural need did not satisfy Christ.
- [God's Interest](https://ggwo.org/gods-interest/): How many things go ahead of our First Love until we lose its constraining presence in our lives?
- [Faith Not to be Delivered](https://ggwo.org/faith-not-to-be-delivered/): Why do you want to be successful? What if God used a thing to have you get to know Him and then He let it fail?
- [They That Wait](https://ggwo.org/they-that-wait/): An evil heart cannot wait upon God, but if you wait you will renew your strength. To wait speaks of upward strength. To be renewed speaks of inward strength.
- [The Work Is on You](https://ggwo.org/the-work-is-on-you/): It may not seem to be gracious and yet it is true. If people do not believe, they cannot enter into rest.
- [Humility Gives a Habitation](https://ggwo.org/humility-gives-a-habitation/): The last Corporate Revival will be a Word of God Revival. A Word Revival cannot cease because of Matthew 24:35.
- [The Unseen Audience](https://ggwo.org/the-unseen-audience/): There are many things that take place in the invisible realm of which we are unaware.
- [Language of the Lost](https://ggwo.org/language-of-the-lost/): Everything in God's creation has a language behind it. Because man is a part of creation, He too has a language.
- [Personified Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/personified-wisdom/): Jesus Christ is the supreme example of manifested wisdom. He took on a human body and became a house of wisdom (2).
- [Obedience](https://ggwo.org/obedience/): "Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1).
- [Let Your Words Be Few](https://ggwo.org/let-your-words-be-few/): We must let our words on earth, about every subject, be very, very few! Let us carefully examine the biblical view of how to properly evaluate situations.
- [Sinai or Zion?](https://ggwo.org/sinai-or-zion/): There are two unique approaches to the Lord Jesus Christ. There is the concept of coming to the Lord on Mount Sinai.
- [Learning to Love](https://ggwo.org/learning-to-love/): Many times people get involved with loving someone and then become hurt because of rejection.
- [Counseling from an Eternal Viewpoint](https://ggwo.org/counseling-from-an-eternal-viewpoint/): Isaiah 50:4 imparts God's viewpoint on counseling. It is better not to use constructive criticism whenever it may hinder the individual's spiritual growth.
- [The Oil of Blessing](https://ggwo.org/the-oil-of-blessing/): In Psalm 133, the word "descend" is used three times in order to emphasize the vital point. This particular passage refers to Mount Hermon.
- [Putting God First](https://ggwo.org/putting-god-first/): Let us consider why God did not use nearly all of the 32,000 Israelites in the battle against the Midianites: 31,700 men failed the "water test" in Judges 7.
- [Respond to God's Initiation](https://ggwo.org/respond-to-gods-initiation-2/): As the Bride of Christ grows in maturity, God continually provides her with a new depth and sphere of fellowship with Him.
- [Divine Conviction](https://ggwo.org/divine-conviction/): If we lack the purity and the sincerity of the Holy Spirit's convicting power, we will find it very easy to become comfortable in our Christianity.
- [Strength in Weakness](https://ggwo.org/strength-in-weakness/): In the midst of an experience of weakness, many of us pray for God to take the weakness away.
- [First Cause Love](https://ggwo.org/first-cause-love/): All behavior is caused. Every cause has an effect and every effect is motivated by a cause.
- [Patience Through Faith](https://ggwo.org/patience-through-faith/): How can we give glory to God? By offering up to Him the very life that He has so freely given.
- [Behold the Glory of God](https://ggwo.org/behold-the-glory-of-god/): There is one thing within the believer that can prevent him from experiencing Christ's life and that is the veil of his own human nature.
- [All Things Work Together for Good](https://ggwo.org/all-things-work-together-for-good/): God's purpose is love. Those called according to His purpose are those people who desire to follow after love.
- [Owe No Man Nothing but Love](https://ggwo.org/owe-no-man-nothing-but-love/): When the Champion of Love made His entrance upon earth's stage of human performance, He taught us the true debt of life.
- [Frankness Before God](https://ggwo.org/frankness-before-god/): Times of need are divinely designed into our lives to bring us to the Throne of Grace.
- [God's Sacrifice Releases Mercy](https://ggwo.org/gods-sacrifice-releases-mercy/): Many people offer sacrifice to God in order to receive His mercy. There was a time when God did demand a sacrifice for sin to satisfy His Holiness.
- [The Way, the Truth, the Life](https://ggwo.org/the-way-the-truth-the-life/): Not understanding God's way causes many to wander about in unbelief never finding true rest.
- [The Release of Faith](https://ggwo.org/the-release-of-faith/): Have you ever been perplexed by people who listen to God's Word and who appear to receive it, yet never manifest the fruit of God's blessing in their lives?
- [Regain Lost Territory](https://ggwo.org/regain-lost-territory/): Territory that has been lost is territory that was once conquered by Christ. Isaiah 55 tells us exactly what this means.
- [Enough has been Said](https://ggwo.org/enough-has-been-said/): After a most amazing display of truth through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Romans 5:7-21, we read in Romans 6:1, "What shall we say then?"
- [Favor vs. Life](https://ggwo.org/favor-vs-life/): I may give my body, but that is different from my life. Favor is deceitful, a woman's beauty is vain; but a woman who trusts in the Lord shall be praised.
- [System vs. Attitude](https://ggwo.org/system-vs-attitude-2/): Jesus Christ is not glorified in a system of perception, but in an attitude of faith that derives its substance from the Gospel.
- [Love: It Is or Isn't](https://ggwo.org/love-it-is-or-isnt/): Charity never fails, and anything outside of it never really succeeds. The charity of God's message is always quite clear.
- [Wounded Love](https://ggwo.org/wounded-love/): God's love can be wounded. In Psalm 41:9, there is a prophecy about Judas being a familiar friend.
- [Addressed Personally](https://ggwo.org/addressed-personally/): The more perfect Love is, the more it risks being wounded. Love isn't an abstract commodity. Love is not an impersonal attitude or physical act.
- [Substance that Produces Action](https://ggwo.org/substance-that-produces-action/): Jesus called Peter in Galilee. Peter walked with Jesus from that time forward. Peter saw the small portions of bread and fish feed the hungry multitudes.
- [Let's Make a Deal](https://ggwo.org/lets-make-a-deal/): The flesh takes us on trips and then leaves us hitchhiking. Our flesh presumes to be our best friend and then denies us. The flesh never keeps its bargains.
- [Afar Off?](https://ggwo.org/afar-off/): "Why standest thou afar off O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?" This is a description of a certain class of people.
- [Eating Jesus Christ](https://ggwo.org/eating-jesus-christ/): Jesus Christ wants people always to acknowledge reality and truth in their lives.
- [Permissiveness is Not Accepted](https://ggwo.org/permissiveness-is-not-accepted/): We walk in the integrity of Redemption. God has never given us permission to sin. There are certain kinds of love that God does not permit.
- [Privileges of the King](https://ggwo.org/privileges-of-the-king/): "The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord." We are now kings in Christ's Kingdom.
- [Blessing the Blessed One](https://ggwo.org/blessing-the-blessed-one/): The subject of God-ordained leadership is extremely crucial. Adam does not like to obey it.
- [The Servants of God](https://ggwo.org/the-servants-of-god/): Some people are so insecure about following a man, they follow their Adam nature and call that God.
- [The Pudding-Tested](https://ggwo.org/the-pudding-tested/): When a man of God is called and speaks truth in God's place through the sovereign hand of God, then that individual carries with him power to bless.
- [Response Without Reason](https://ggwo.org/response-without-reason/): Abraham would fail. It was inevitable and proved to be true. In case after case, he was unfaithful. What affect did it have upon his covenant with God?
- [In Nothing Am I Ashamed](https://ggwo.org/in-nothing-am-i-ashamed/): God said that He has made us righteous. God will make us to become what He has already made us to be. When sin abounds, does judgment abound much more?
- [Revival Now](https://ggwo.org/revival-now/): We read that every believer has received two extremely valuable things. First, he has received the abundance of grace; and second, the gift of righteousness.
- [Without the Camp](https://ggwo.org/without-the-camp/): "And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation."
- [Guide Our Feet](https://ggwo.org/guide-our-feet/): Ruth lay down at the feet of Boaz (Ruth 3:7). Mary anointed Jesus' feet ( John 12:3). The Disciples grasped hold of His feet and worshipped Him (Matthew 28:9).
- [But For Glory](https://ggwo.org/but-for-glory/): Do we look unto a veil so that we are not able to see the glory of God in a situation?
- [Mercy Endures Forever](https://ggwo.org/mercy-endures-forever/): Our judgment must reign through death unto Eternal Life.
- [God's Hour of Miracle](https://ggwo.org/gods-hour-of-miracle/): Do we enter into a natural resurrection of Adam, or do we wait for the hour of Christ to come?
- [A King Comes to Reign](https://ggwo.org/a-king-comes-to-reign/): It is imperative for people to be taught through the mercies of God. For it was through David's seed that the Savior came.
- [The Law Bears No Seed](https://ggwo.org/the-law-bears-no-seed/): The call of the Kinsman-Redeemer was to "tarry this night." During the darkness, our mind is to stay in the place where our eye has fallen.
- [You are Not Up for Stock](https://ggwo.org/you-are-not-up-for-stock/): God is always interested in possessing you in totality. He never is in the market to share you with elements beside Himself.
- [Dishonesty Called Transparency](https://ggwo.org/dishonesty-called-transparency/): In Satan's counterattack, the restlessness of sight and reason is pitted against peace. Satan tries to get us to leave faith and walk by sight and reason.
- [Faith that Waits in Promise](https://ggwo.org/faith-that-waits-in-promise/): Satan's mastermind vs. the mind of who God is -Satan's second counterattack is against the result of love: joy.
- [Tribulation Without Cause](https://ggwo.org/tribulation-without-cause/): Satan has nine categorical temptations that go against the fruit of the Holy Spirit. His first attack is with fear to cast out love.
- [Stay Upon God](https://ggwo.org/stay-upon-god/): In a trial, you may be deliberately left without light. There, you become a negative to be developed into a picture of light for that situation.
- [Scheduled by Love](https://ggwo.org/scheduled-by-love/): Does your schedule regulate your expression of love? Are you too hurried to stop and care for the needs of others?
- [The Pleasure of His Will](https://ggwo.org/the-pleasure-of-his-will/): God the Father finds pleasure in the purpose of His plan to take an alien stranger and, through the redeeming Blood of His Son, make him an adopted child.
- [Provision of Green Pastures](https://ggwo.org/provision-of-green-pastures/): The very most the devil can ever do in a valley experience is to cast a shadow of death, but a shadow is only a form and it has absolutely no substance to it.
- [Comfort in the Waste Places](https://ggwo.org/comfort-in-the-waste-places/): Have you ever been troubled by sins that you committed in the past? Have you read the Bible but found it didn't mean anything to you?
- [The Battle is Won](https://ggwo.org/the-battle-is-won/): Throughout our lives we will meet up with giants, seemingly immovable obstacles. What will you do when faced with a Goliath?
- [God Gives the Increase](https://ggwo.org/god-gives-the-increase/): Jesus Christ is our source and what we receive from Him is exactly what He wants us to have. We cannot have beyond what He grants us.
- [The Man Outside the Camp](https://ggwo.org/the-man-outside-the-camp/): Much of Christianity is weak and powerless because it has not received a revelation from God of the Corporate Body.
- [The Power of God](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-god/): What is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe? It is a question well worth considering.
- [The Flesh Profiteth Nothing](https://ggwo.org/the-flesh-profiteth-nothing/): Consider the importance of the Word of God today. It is for us the very bread of life; the sustenance of our spirit and the health of our soul.
- [Speaking the Truth in Love](https://ggwo.org/speaking-the-truth-in-love/): We may say many things that sound true but in reality are not.
- [Unendorsed Thoughts](https://ggwo.org/unendorsed-thoughts/): Many people are saved and love God, but they do not know how to have an open ear for God. It is the secret of how to live and it determines how you think.
- [A Giver is a Winner](https://ggwo.org/a-giver-is-a-winner/): Marriage reveals God's heart in giving.
- [Be Fit into Grace](https://ggwo.org/be-fit-into-grace/): Our ways are not God's ways. We see a friend in trouble. Yet, God's way sees a need for that trouble to do something in them in the situation.
- [Be in God's Thoughts](https://ggwo.org/be-in-gods-thoughts/): Think about the hours people spend with thoughts that are not God's.
- [Love Without Conditions](https://ggwo.org/love-without-conditions/): If we have unconditional love, we can bear others' burdens. Unconditional love does not charge another person.
- [System vs. Attitude](https://ggwo.org/system-vs-attitude/): God uses the spotlight of conviction through the Word to reveal truth about us. God wants us to come out of our systems to live in an attitude.
- [Creative Receptivity](https://ggwo.org/creative-receptivity/): Meditation makes me strong.
- [Corporate Meditation](https://ggwo.org/corporate-meditation/): God wants us more and more to come together in belief.
- [Don't Even Listen!](https://ggwo.org/dont-even-listen/): "Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and AVOID THEM" (Romans 16:17).
- [Binding and Releasing](https://ggwo.org/binding-and-releasing/): The enemy has been released to the earth. His attack continually is through releasing.
- [Bound in the Bundle of Life](https://ggwo.org/bound-in-the-bundle-of-life/): The human mind is capable of receiving many impressions that can last a long time.
- [The New Cause has Arrived](https://ggwo.org/the-new-cause-has-arrived/): Adam is the effect of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This tree is the first cause to produce the effect of what it is.
- [Knowledge Beyond Knowledge](https://ggwo.org/knowledge-beyond-knowledge/): It is truly amazing that people can stand so steadfast in what they know.
- [Love Does Not Sleep](https://ggwo.org/love-does-not-sleep/): God does not slumber. "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved." In the Hebrew language, the word "slumber" means passivity.
- [Creation Says Something](https://ggwo.org/creation-says-something/): God has designed man with inner eyes. Psalm 121:1 tells the story of a man lifting up the inner eyes of his heart to the hills.
- [Reaping Who We Are](https://ggwo.org/reaping-who-we-are/): As the Bible reveals, God shows Himself merciful to him who is merciful and shows Himself upright to him who is upright, we see an amazing revelation.
- [Husbands, Love Like This](https://ggwo.org/husbands-love-like-this/): "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church." Was Christ possessed and manipulated by the Church? God's love cannot be possessed.
- [Love is Perfect](https://ggwo.org/love-is-perfect/): The natural, animalistic love man is capable of living in demands that it be satisfied. It is always thinking of a need.
- [Three Kinds of Love](https://ggwo.org/three-kinds-of-love/): Let's talk about three kinds of love: God's love, the devil's "love," and our own love. The first is completely unique.
- [Oneness is Only One God](https://ggwo.org/oneness-is-only-one-god/): What would happen if two Christians who were not getting along came together and agreed about the necessity for unity and attempted to unite on the basis of their soul.
- [The Yesterday of Calvary](https://ggwo.org/the-yesterday-of-calvary/): When the believer realizes Jesus has taken away all Adam is, then Adam never will try to do anything more because of his state of death and burial.
- [So Are We](https://ggwo.org/so-are-we/): If we realize Christ's love in us, then we come to understand the amazing perfection of God in our experience as love flows through us.
- [In You is God](https://ggwo.org/in-you-is-god/): It is one thing for the believer to dwell in God, but it is another thing for God to dwell in the believer.
- [What is the True Light?](https://ggwo.org/what-is-the-true-light/): Darkness privately interprets the light. When darkness privately interprets the light then it makes that light darkness.
- [Meet for the Master's Use](https://ggwo.org/meet-for-the-masters-use/): What God wants in the Corporate Body are vessels of honor and not vessels of dishonor.
- [Take Off Thy Shoes](https://ggwo.org/take-off-thy-shoes/): Many times people are burdened with great responsibilities. Joshua was placed into a tremendous position of great responsibility in succeeding Moses.
- [Let Me Out!](https://ggwo.org/let-me-out/): How many people give thought to getting out of the furnace?
- [Pipes Called Grace and Faith](https://ggwo.org/pipes-called-grace-and-faith/): We must follow Jesus in the human spirit. The mountain that becomes a plain, in Zechariah 4:7, does so because of grace being brought to that mountain.
- [The Blueness of a Wound](https://ggwo.org/the-blueness-of-a-wound/): "The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil.
- [The Spirit of Man](https://ggwo.org/the-spirit-of-man/): The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. It is so vital for man to truly understand his constitution.
- [Water Every Moment](https://ggwo.org/water-every-moment/): No one has ever had a bad moment without first living in the effects of a bad one. No one ever murmured without first giving place to a negative spirit.
- [A Potential Blessing](https://ggwo.org/a-potential-blessing/): The devil is constantly working to fulfill a plan while the Lord rests in the completion of a finished plan without thought of strife.
- [Heavenly Contentment](https://ggwo.org/heavenly-contentment/): The only contentment that is gain to us is the contentment that comes through godliness.
- [Abandonment](https://ggwo.org/abandonment/): Where does it all leave people? Where does this true Biblical Christianity leave people?
- [No Obvious Evidence Available](https://ggwo.org/no-obvious-evidence-available/): Satan has a plan to frustrate the Christian and to cause him to be dissatisfied with the plan of God.
- [Sorrowfully Crucifying Love](https://ggwo.org/sorrowfully-crucifying-love/): Are not we a strange people in some manner?
- [Abandoned unto Sovereignty](https://ggwo.org/abandoned-unto-sovereignty/): Do not allow anything to cause you to fall short of the presence of a loving and living Lord.
- [Much Richer](https://ggwo.org/much-richer/): One of Satan's strategies is to keep believers looking for their portion in this life instead of from God (2).
- [He is All](https://ggwo.org/he-is-all/): Remember that God is sovereign. His plan is perfect. Since He is righteous (2), He will deal with us in perfect justice.
- [His Word -- Our Life](https://ggwo.org/his-word-our-life/): As a child of God, all of God's promises belong to us.
- [True Rest](https://ggwo.org/true-rest/): When a person is restless, he has not come to Jesus to find rest. He looks to himself and others to find joy and peace, but it is a futile attempt.
- [Regardless I Will Have Peace](https://ggwo.org/regardless-i-will-have-peace/): The Apostle Paul learned the secret of contentment, which means that he was satisfied to the point where his soul could not be disturbed or disquieted regardless of external situations in his life.
- [The Guardian](https://ggwo.org/the-guardian/): Contentment is derived only from the Lord. In this verse, He promises to be our sustenance, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with our earthly lot in life.
- [Progressive Selflessness](https://ggwo.org/progressive-selflessness/): At first, many of us respond to our Lord as the bride responded in Song of Solomon 2:16 where she said, "My beloved is mine and I am his.
- [Your Frame of Reference](https://ggwo.org/your-frame-of-reference/): A person's frame of reference is that supporting structure upon which he bases all evaluation.
- [Learn of Him](https://ggwo.org/learn-of-him/): The Apostle Paul knew he was nothing in himself, but by the grace of God he knew he had something great to offer people.
- [The Oath](https://ggwo.org/the-oath/): It is very comforting to know that, although we are in a worthless condition, God's love blots out our sin.
- [Rest for God's People](https://ggwo.org/rest-for-gods-people/): Many Christians live a fast-paced life, but they never learn to set apart a time to rest. They continue in endless activity, hurrying from place to place.
- [All Things to All Men](https://ggwo.org/all-things-to-all-men/): In I Corinthians 9:19, the Apostle Paul states, "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more."
- [Life Line](https://ggwo.org/life-line/): What would you think if someone said to you, "Breathe without ceasing?" You would not take offense at it.
- [Touch Him](https://ggwo.org/touch-him/): Many times when we have a problem or sickness, we feel as though no one wants to bother with us. The same was true when people were still under the law.
- [Foundation of Grace](https://ggwo.org/foundation-of-grace/): The Kingdom of God is always on the move. The Word of God imparts to each careful hearer a vision to go forward and build by the grace of God.
- [Shut the Door](https://ggwo.org/shut-the-door/): Matthew 6:6 states, "But thou, when thou prayest, enter int thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
- [Walking in His Will](https://ggwo.org/walking-in-his-will/): It is essential for the child of God to understand and actively enter into the will of God for his life.
- [Robe of Righteousness](https://ggwo.org/robe-of-righteousness/): Our eternal salvation is based upon the character and veracity of the nature of God. God has finished the work at Calvary; you simply believed.
- [Measure the Cost](https://ggwo.org/measure-the-cost/): "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed" (Proverbs 13:20). What characterizes an objective wise man?
- [Total Surrender](https://ggwo.org/total-surrender/): Total surrender to Christ is depicted in these verses as the Bride kisses Him in submission to His perfect will.
- [Love Guided by the Word](https://ggwo.org/love-guided-by-the-word/): Ask a number of persons on the street today the meaning of "love." What will they say? Probably every person would have a different answer.
- [Get Understanding](https://ggwo.org/get-understanding/): God has prepared so much for us. "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine" (Ephesians 3:20, NIV).
- [Silent Words](https://ggwo.org/silent-words/): "A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance" (Proverbs 15:13a). It "doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones" (Proverbs 17:22).
- [From Nothing to Everything](https://ggwo.org/from-nothing-to-everything/): In a moment, the truth about Jesus can warm our hearts in the midst of our daily activities.
- [Walls of Doctrine](https://ggwo.org/walls-of-doctrine/): The simplest and yet most profound principle in the Bible is the doctrine of free volition.
- [Cling to the Word](https://ggwo.org/cling-to-the-word/): The Word of God is everything to a Christian. It is spirit and life (2), it cleanses (3), heals (4), and causes us to be settled with Christ (5).
- [Encourage Your Faith](https://ggwo.org/encourage-your-faith/): "But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (Hebrews 11:6).
- [The Creative Approach](https://ggwo.org/the-creative-approach/): Divine creativity is born out of unconditional love and grace and is communicated in practical action.
- [Quickening](https://ggwo.org/quickening/): Many times the believer finds himself becoming physically drained halfway through a day because of an especially strenuous task or because of a lack of sleep.
- [Our Object of Faith](https://ggwo.org/our-object-of-faith/): It is so easy for the world to entice us to live by sight, or to have some program that we can grab onto right now.
- [Who is in Control?](https://ggwo.org/who-is-in-control/): Our scripture reading today takes us to the story of the rich ruler.
- [The Disciplined Child](https://ggwo.org/the-disciplined-child/): Many people do not respond positively to constructive criticism because of a poor self-image. Criticism may wound an individual rather than correct him.
- [Details Can Swell](https://ggwo.org/details-can-swell/): The details of life always occupy our minds when we do not have our priorities straight.
- [Revealing Speech](https://ggwo.org/revealing-speech/): The unsaved man is unable to reflect the treasure of Christ in his speech until he receives Christ as his Savior.
- [Controlled Communication](https://ggwo.org/controlled-communication/): Man has been given the gift of free volition; thus, he chooses which kingdom will rule his heart, and become the source of his treasure.
- [Justice Supersedes Love](https://ggwo.org/justice-supersedes-love/): God poured His love out in abundance to men in the Incarnation of His Son, Jesus Christ. However, God's love never supersedes God's justice.
- [Walk Ye in Him](https://ggwo.org/walk-ye-in-him/): Every person must comprehend the seriousness of choosing to receive Jesus Christ as Savior; the rejection of Christ is the most tragic decision any man can make.
- [Recompense of Waiting](https://ggwo.org/recompense-of-waiting/): Great recompense means that God gives grace in return for waiting on Him.
- [Take the Shield of Faith](https://ggwo.org/take-the-shield-of-faith/): The Christian who is not experiencing the law of faith is living in the law of fear described in Job 3:25-26.
- [Valid Faith](https://ggwo.org/valid-faith/): Our faith must be rooted and grounded in who God is.
- [The Emotions: the Great Indicator](https://ggwo.org/the-emotions-the-great-indicator/): Having no actual word for "emotions" in the Old Testament Hebrew, metonyms were used to express this concept as we know it today.
- [Beautiful for Situations](https://ggwo.org/beautiful-for-situations/): Situations are necessary to show us that Jesus Christ is beautiful and to reveal our personal experience with Him through truth.
- [God's Provision for His People](https://ggwo.org/gods-provision-for-his-people/): In Numbers 9:8, Moses said to the Israelites, "Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you."
- [The Experiential Believer](https://ggwo.org/the-experiential-believer/): Not many believers make the decision to take up their cross daily.
- [Stewards of Grace](https://ggwo.org/stewards-of-grace/): God's grace is not dependent upon us; grace depends upon the Giver, never upon the receiver!
- [Having Truth in the Heart](https://ggwo.org/having-truth-in-the-heart/): We are living in a time where there is such a need for truth - to have God's truth established in the inner man.
- [Serving Has No Bounds](https://ggwo.org/serving-has-no-bounds/): A true servant is only concerned with pleasing the one he serves. The real men of God in the Bible were not in the habit of living in self-determination.
- [Agapao](https://ggwo.org/agapao/): When one occupies himself with the cross, all of God's agapao (love) becomes applicable and is known.
- [The Influence of a Servant](https://ggwo.org/the-influence-of-a-servant/): We have been given the privilege of influencing this world, by revealing God to the lost.
- [Spend Yourself](https://ggwo.org/spend-yourself/): Being a true servant of God means that you have no claims on your life. You have made Jesus Christ Lord and He has control over you.
- [That We May Be One](https://ggwo.org/that-we-may-be-one/): The disciples were described as having turned the world upside down because of their tremendous influence in evangelizing the nations.
- [Creative Speech](https://ggwo.org/creative-speech/): Whenever you are spending time with someone, ask the Holy Spirit to bring to mind his positive qualities.
- [The Value of a Soul](https://ggwo.org/the-value-of-a-soul/): Too often Christians settle down into a convenient lifestyle, one that is not worldwide in its vision, one that is less than stepping out in faith.
- [Contentment - Not Natural](https://ggwo.org/contentment-not-natural/): A man, even in his best moral state, is totally incapable of producing a contentment that goes beyond the degree to which his environment fulfills his desires.
- [Emotional Stability](https://ggwo.org/emotional-stability/): Carefully consider the cry of Job in Job 16:12-13. Obviously, after losing everything he possessed, Job was temporarily emotionally unbalanced.
- [How Will They See?](https://ggwo.org/how-will-they-see/): When we become Christians, many things happen to us. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
- [The Quiet Voice of the Father](https://ggwo.org/the-quiet-voice-of-the-father/): "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth" (Psalm 46:10).
- [Grace that Flows Freely](https://ggwo.org/grace-that-flows-freely/): The Bible states, "Live.
- [Hope for the Hopeless](https://ggwo.org/hope-for-the-hopeless/): In Psalm 58:3, we are told that we go astray as soon as we are born, speaking lies.
- [Choose Life!](https://ggwo.org/choose-life/): One of the first gifts God gave to man was that of free choice.
- [In the Foundation](https://ggwo.org/in-the-foundation/): In today's society, it is very common for men and women to try to establish a business, a career, or a lifestyle that will remain throughout their lifetime.
- [More Precious than Gold](https://ggwo.org/more-precious-than-gold/): Do you realize that the very Bible you have contains the words of the Almighty God?
- [The Path Marked for Us](https://ggwo.org/the-path-marked-for-us/): People like to have a leader, someone's footsteps that they can follow. Teenagers generally have someone to look up to.
- [Pride, the Great Deceiver](https://ggwo.org/pride-the-great-deceiver/): Satan fell from his position as the messianic cherub. Ezekiel 28:17 reveals that his "heart was lifted up" because of his beauty.
- [Losing Our Lives  for the Sake of Christ](https://ggwo.org/losing-our-lives-for-the-sake-of-christ/): The secret to experiencing Christ's life is selflessness and complete surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- [His Compassion Toward Us](https://ggwo.org/his-compassion-toward-us/): Jesus Christ is both High Priest and Savior to those who believe upon Him. He "seeks to save that which is lost," and His compassion toward us is unfailing.
- [He Will Keep You](https://ggwo.org/he-will-keep-you/): Everything that happens to us as believers is for our sakes.
- [A Rewarder of those who Diligently Seek Him](https://ggwo.org/a-rewarder-of-those-who-diligently-seek-him/): Christ operating through the believer is the highest expression of human life.
- [The Life of Peter](https://ggwo.org/the-life-of-peter/): The topic of natural disposition is not complete without including the life of Peter.
- [Live in Divine Temperament](https://ggwo.org/live-in-divine-temperament/): Consider the change that took place in the life of Moses.
- [Transformed by the Word](https://ggwo.org/transformed-by-the-word/): Examples of people who were transformed by the indwelling Christ are seen throughout the Word of God.
- [Transformed by Grace](https://ggwo.org/transformed-by-grace/): There is no more prolific example of the conflict between the natural and divine dispositions than illustrated in the life of Jacob.
- [Mounting Up as Eagles](https://ggwo.org/mounting-up-as-eagles/): The eagle described in Isaiah 40:31 is a very important illustration. The eagle makes its nest in inaccessible places. It dwells in the cliffs (2).
- [Waiting is Training](https://ggwo.org/waiting-is-training/): "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6).
- [Waiting is Expecting](https://ggwo.org/waiting-is-expecting/): Waiting upon the Lord is characterized by several things. To wait means to expect God's help. It never implies inactivity.
- [Believe on the Word](https://ggwo.org/believe-on-the-word/): Faith must never be in faith itself; it always depends upon the object, which is the Word of God.
- [Conformed to His Image](https://ggwo.org/conformed-to-his-image/): The transformed believer enjoys tremendous freedom. II Corinthians 3:17b says, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
- [Righteous Only Through Him](https://ggwo.org/righteous-only-through-him/): The depravity of the human heart must be reckoned with: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
- [Theantric Action](https://ggwo.org/theantric-action/): Since the inception of the church, Christians have struggled with the dilemma of representing the infinite God to mankind.
- [Making a Difference](https://ggwo.org/making-a-difference/): There are thousands of church services throughout the world that honor Jesus Christ, glorify God, and preach the truth.
- [His Vessel of Tears](https://ggwo.org/his-vessel-of-tears/): In John 11:33b, it is recorded that Jesus "groaned in the spirit, and was troubled."
- [The Prepared Path](https://ggwo.org/the-prepared-path/): "Order my steps in thy Word: Let not iniquity have dominion over me" (Psalm 119:133). It is so important to start the day by praying about our schedules.
- [His Heart in You](https://ggwo.org/his-heart-in-you/): True men and women of God will recognize genuine compassion. A Christian has the capacity to love a stranger because Jesus Christ's love constrains him (2).
- [The Bema Seat](https://ggwo.org/the-bema-seat/): Many believers allow their hearts to become cold because they serve God through duty.
- [God's Divine Mix](https://ggwo.org/gods-divine-mix/): An elderly man once prayed "God, I do not like salt. Dear Jesus, I hate baking soda. I hate shortening, Lord. And dear God, I cannot stand the taste of flour.
- [Built Up in Christ](https://ggwo.org/built-up-in-christ/): Take a look at Paul's words in Acts 20:32.
- [The Divine Creativity of the Master](https://ggwo.org/the-divine-creativity-of-the-master/): Unfortunately, most people do not understand why they cannot properly evaluate anything from their own human resources.
- [Treasures in Darkness](https://ggwo.org/treasures-in-darkness/): "I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by name, am the God of Israel" (Isaiah 45:3).
- [His Eternal Plan](https://ggwo.org/his-eternal-plan/): God has a purpose for our lives. It is designed only to bless. He wants to promote us in His Kingdom as we get to know Him through situations.
- [True Friendship](https://ggwo.org/true-friendship/): Friendship is a blessing and a provision, but it must never be permitted to replace the priority of Christ's Lordship.
- [Think Now](https://ggwo.org/think-now/): Christians often lose their motivation for winning the lost to Christ. Let us take a moment to look at what eternity has in store for the unsaved.
- [Idle Words](https://ggwo.org/idle-words/): God is in heaven listening every time we speak. Our speech is often vain and empty, demonstrating our inability to evaluate.
- [Guarding Against Disunity](https://ggwo.org/guarding-against-disunity/): Constantly, Satan does everything in his power to divide the unity of the members of the body of Christ. First, he tries to divide the believer's heart (2).
- [Natural Preference Prevents Unity](https://ggwo.org/natural-preference-prevents-unity/): Another factor which prevents unity in the body of Christ is natural preference which includes every desire that originates outside of the Word of God (1).
- [God's Prescription for Unity](https://ggwo.org/gods-prescription-for-unity/): The anointing with oil is a divine prescription for unity in the body of Christ.
- [God's Adequacy](https://ggwo.org/gods-adequacy/): Gideon is an example of a person who was not prepared for the call of God.
- [Knowledge in Action](https://ggwo.org/knowledge-in-action/): We are commanded in the Word to buy wisdom. "Buy the truth, and sell it not, also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding" (Proverbs 23:23).
- [Fruitful Year](https://ggwo.org/fruitful-year/): The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord (2). To fear the Lord means to go to Him first about anything.
- [The Four Strengths](https://ggwo.org/the-four-strengths/): There are four specific kinds of strength a believer receives as he waits upon God, according to Isaiah 40:31.
- [Open the Storehouse](https://ggwo.org/open-the-storehouse/): "But if I say, I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name, His word is in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones.
- [Serve](https://ggwo.org/serve/): This is the second day of a three-part series. To serve without the breath of life in worship will lead to faint-heartedness and weariness.
- [Worship](https://ggwo.org/worship/): This devotional will begin a three-part series.
- [The Thief, Pride](https://ggwo.org/the-thief-pride/): Pride is a thief that tries to totally destroy a believer. It is because of this that Satan was thrown out of heaven (2). Iniquity was found in his heart.
- [Wait for Guidance](https://ggwo.org/wait-for-guidance/): All Christians have gifts and talents of some kind. We have special areas where we excel.
- [Sure Mercies](https://ggwo.org/sure-mercies/): In Numbers 23:21, it is recorded that God never beheld the iniquity of Jacob.
- [Walking in His Light](https://ggwo.org/walking-in-his-light/): "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light" (Psalm 36:9). Be watchful of the process of neglect.
- [The Manifestation of Christian Virtues](https://ggwo.org/the-manifestation-of-christian-virtues-2/): The manifestation of God's divine nature in the virtues of comfort, love, fellowship and compassion is directly related to the measure and degree in which the church participates in this nature.
- [The Call for Training](https://ggwo.org/the-call-for-training/): Today, there is a desperate need for trained Christian laborers.
- [The Principle of Redemption](https://ggwo.org/the-principle-of-redemption/): Redemption is a principle that a believer must have alive in his heart and apply to every situation he faces in this life.
- [Walk Through Open Doors](https://ggwo.org/walk-through-open-doors/): There are many doors open to each one of us today.
- [Know Your Conviction](https://ggwo.org/know-your-conviction/): All throughout the Bible, there are countless examples of Christians who have accepted Jesus as their personal savior, but do not have specific convictions about what they believe and how they are to interact in their daily lives.
- [True Fellowship](https://ggwo.org/true-fellowship/): "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision" (Galatians 2:9).
- [Do Not Be Hasty](https://ggwo.org/do-not-be-hasty/): "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent" (Proverbs 28:20).
- [The Father of Faith](https://ggwo.org/the-father-of-faith/): God cannot deny Himself, but remains faithful "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself" (II Timothy 2:13).
- [His Strength in Your Weakness](https://ggwo.org/his-strength-in-your-weakness/): The Apostle Paul deals with an important aspect of grace for suffering in II Corinthians 12.
- [Boasting in God's Grace](https://ggwo.org/boasting-in-gods-grace/): David failed miserably. He committed sins that would cause many who walk by sight to doubt that he was God's man.
- [The Roaring Lion](https://ggwo.org/the-roaring-lion/): In II Samuel 23:20, Benaiah slew a lion in the midst of a pit "in time of snow."
- [Heart Service](https://ggwo.org/heart-service/): Today, many believers draw near and honor God with their lips, but their hearts are far from Him (2).
- [He Will Love Thee](https://ggwo.org/he-will-love-thee/): Fear so often becomes the means of obstructing the communication of truth (2).
- [Precious Promises](https://ggwo.org/precious-promises/): The "exceeding great and precious promises" of God to his children include every provision necessary for the believer to partake of the divine nature of Jesus Christ.
- [Receive Not in Vain](https://ggwo.org/receive-not-in-vain/): The Apostle Paul is a perfect example of a man who derived his self image from the grace of God.
- [Counteraction](https://ggwo.org/counteraction/): The content of the believer's mind will determine the contentment of his soul.
- [Into His Likeness](https://ggwo.org/into-his-likeness/): There is a progression of spiritual principles that must be understood in order for the believer to be transformed into having a mind that is controlled by the word of God instead of his old sin nature.
- [Provisional Reality](https://ggwo.org/provisional-reality/): Although we possess human personality and the depraved, fallen, human nature, we are to follow Christ's example; God is to be our source of life, not the "self."
- [Disobedience to Simple Mandates](https://ggwo.org/disobedience-to-simple-mandates/): The exhortation to every believer is to maintain continuous availability to the Word of God.
- [Secure Your Anchor](https://ggwo.org/secure-your-anchor/): Hope becomes an anchor for the soul in the storms of life (2).
- [The Right Diet](https://ggwo.org/the-right-diet/): More important than physical food is spiritual food. "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work" (John 4:34).
- [Divine Creativity](https://ggwo.org/divine-creativity/): Divine creativity is not sentimental; it does not restrain communication when necessary.
- [Decreasing More and More](https://ggwo.org/decreasing-more-and-more/): 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.
- [Hope Produces Stability](https://ggwo.org/hope-produces-stability-2/): "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers" (Ephesians 4:29).
- [In the Cleft of the Rock](https://ggwo.org/in-the-cleft-of-the-rock/): In Song of Solomon 2:13, the figs represent the first-fruits of the Spirit in the believer's new life in Christ.
- [Marry Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/marry-wisdom/): The believer's relationship to the promises of God determines the degree in which he will become a partaker of the divine nature.
- [Our Sufficiency is of God](https://ggwo.org/our-sufficiency-is-of-god/): The cross neutralizes the power of self, and sets us free to walk in newness of life.
- [Hope Produces Stability](https://ggwo.org/hope-produces-stability/): Hope is derived from the Scriptures (2), which contain the many promises of God that are guaranteed because of His immutability (3); (4), His justice (5), and fulfilled by omnipotence (6).
- [Beholding Him](https://ggwo.org/beholding-him/): Second Corinthians 3:2b teaches that we as Christians are written epistles, "Known and read of all men."
- [Knowing Him](https://ggwo.org/knowing-him/): One of the greatest needs that we have is to get to know the Heavenly Father's heart. Many serve, but they do not really know the one that they serve.
- [The Manifestation of Christian Virtues](https://ggwo.org/the-manifestation-of-christian-virtues/): The manifestation of God's divine nature in the virtues of comfort, love, fellowship and compassion is directly related to the measure and degree in which the church participates in this nature.
- [Godly Edification](https://ggwo.org/godly-edification/): We do not have any sufficiency within ourselves to evaluate anything from our human resources.
- [All Things Work For Good](https://ggwo.org/all-things-work-for-good/): God knows everything that will take place in a believer's life, and His plan is so perfect that He provides a solution for every detail.
- [Peaceful, Not Passive](https://ggwo.org/peaceful-not-passive/): God will never leave a believer to face a difficulty without comfort, instruction and a promise.
- [One With Christ](https://ggwo.org/one-with-christ/): Believers should thank God for the precious gift of unity, which is a result of the specific prayer Christ prayed in John 17.
- [Productivity Through Rest](https://ggwo.org/productivity-through-rest/): For many Christians, "following on to know the Lord" is both unattractive and painstaking.
- [A House or Home?](https://ggwo.org/a-house-or-home/): Many Christians live in houses instead of homes.
- [The Heathen for Your Inheritance](https://ggwo.org/the-heathen-for-your-inheritance/): Jesus states in Luke 15:7, "I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance," Paul had this in mind in I Thessalonians 2:20, when he wrote, "Ye are our glory and joy."
- [The Caring Hand of God](https://ggwo.org/the-caring-hand-of-god/): The person who does not know of God's hand in his life will worry and strive over life's situations. He will worry about how situations will work out.
- [Attitude of Selflessness](https://ggwo.org/attitude-of-selflessness/): The Bible says, "Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others" (I Corinthians 10:24, NIV). This type of love in our society has been lost.
- [Clinging to the Eternal](https://ggwo.org/clinging-to-the-eternal/): So often "sure things" in life cannot be counted on, and "lasting things" fade away. It is only the eternal things of God that can be counted on to last.
- [The "Faith-World" of Jesus Christ](https://ggwo.org/the-faith-world-of-jesus-christ/): "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous" (I John 5:3).
- [Within the Veil](https://ggwo.org/within-the-veil/): In I John 2:1, we find that Jesus Christ is our advocate before the Father.
- [Appropriating His Forgiveness](https://ggwo.org/appropriating-his-forgiveness/): The recovery principle of I John 1:9 applies to every sin and failure.
- ["Watch Ye. . ."](https://ggwo.org/watch-ye/): "Set up the standard... make the watch strong, set up the watchmen..." Christians must learn the meaning of watching with Christ in prayer.
- [Seeing Others in Christ](https://ggwo.org/seeing-others-in-christ/): In John 21, Peter is asked by Jesus, "Do you love me more than all the things of the world?" Peter replied with emotional affection.
- [Thanksgiving](https://ggwo.org/thanksgiving/): Joy - "Chara" - is a gratitude and thanksgiving produced by the Spirit, something that is produced in man by God.
- [Grace for Grace](https://ggwo.org/grace-for-grace/): What is grace? First, it depends upon who God is and what He has done. Second, it is something that we never merit.
- [God's Purpose](https://ggwo.org/gods-purpose/): There certainly will be times in our lives when we will be surrounded by darkness.
- [Incense to the Throne](https://ggwo.org/incense-to-the-throne/): God loves the one who trusts Him in prayer in the midst of reactionary attitudes and double-mindedness.
- [Diligence in All You Do](https://ggwo.org/diligence-in-all-you-do/): "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him" (Colossians 3:17).
- [Roll Your Cares on Him](https://ggwo.org/roll-your-cares-on-him/): "Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life" (Matthew 6:25a, Amplified).
- [Lay Aside Every Weight](https://ggwo.org/lay-aside-every-weight/): Did you ever begin an exercise program only to find that your physical condition is not quite what you had expected?
- [Keep Sowing](https://ggwo.org/keep-sowing/): Throughout the Old Testament, we notice that one always reaps what he sows (2). "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters" (Isaiah 32:20a).
- [A Better Way](https://ggwo.org/a-better-way/): The Bible is against criticism whenever it conflicts with eternal viewpoint. You may say, "But it is constructive, and everyone needs to be criticized."
- [Love - Attitude to Action](https://ggwo.org/love-attitude-to-action/): True wisdom carries out what it believes. It starts as an attitude, and then is shown in action just as love is. Wisdom introduces Calvary's love.
- [Faith that Never Fails](https://ggwo.org/faith-that-never-fails/): The basis for our faith is in the faithfulness of the character and nature of God. He is the object of our faith.
- [Be of Good Cheer](https://ggwo.org/be-of-good-cheer/): "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33b).
- [To Be Like Him](https://ggwo.org/to-be-like-him/): Our only purpose in life is to become like Him. No matter the route He has chosen for us, it is His business to make that happen. He is God.
- [I Shall Not Want](https://ggwo.org/i-shall-not-want/): So many people live in the frustration of unfulfilled worldly passions.
- [Hear it Again](https://ggwo.org/hear-it-again/): Repetition is the mother of learning.
- [Right Before Their Eyes](https://ggwo.org/right-before-their-eyes/): "For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God" (II Corinthians 4:15).
- [Watch Always and Pray](https://ggwo.org/watch-always-and-pray/): Many times, we as believers in Jesus Christ do not realize that we have an enemy who has a planned strategy against the children of God.
- [A True Leader](https://ggwo.org/a-true-leader/): A vital characteristic of a leader is that he must first be a servant. People respect a leader who practices the principles he teaches.
- [Christ-Regulated Service](https://ggwo.org/christ-regulated-service/): Many times Jesus asked his disciples questions like this: "Are you offended by me?"
- [That the Veil Might be Lifted](https://ggwo.org/that-the-veil-might-be-lifted/): "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience" (Ephesians 2:2).
- [Unseen War](https://ggwo.org/unseen-war/): In the first several chapters of Numbers, the tribes of Israel were strategically set up around the tabernacle.
- [Purpose to Retain](https://ggwo.org/purpose-to-retain/): "Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death."
- [Break Through to Maturity](https://ggwo.org/break-through-to-maturity/): Immaturity is a great hindrance to growing in Christ. When a believer allows it to dominate him.
- [Next Stop, Glorification](https://ggwo.org/next-stop-glorification-2/): God's eternal ambition is to turn curses into blessings. In Numbers 13, Moses is told by God to send spies to spy out the promised land.
- [Characterized by Hope](https://ggwo.org/characterized-by-hope/): Paul writes in Romans 8:24a, "For we are saved by hope," meaning we have been saved into a realm of absolute confidence of a certain glorious destiny (2).
- [Next Stop, Glorification](https://ggwo.org/next-stop-glorification/): Every born again believer has a chance to go through progressive sanctification.
- [The Ability Which God Giveth](https://ggwo.org/the-ability-which-god-giveth/): The believer who functions outside of God's divine resources is destined for a day of frustration and despair.
- [Faint Not](https://ggwo.org/faint-not/): God has made so many provisions for strength.
- [Be Aware of the Enemy](https://ggwo.org/be-aware-of-the-enemy/): Our enemy, Satan, is quite a mastermind.
- [Seeking the Lost](https://ggwo.org/seeking-the-lost/): "The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10). This particular passage expresses the divine mission of Jesus Christ.
- [Hear Wisdom's Cry](https://ggwo.org/hear-wisdoms-cry/): Many times we sacrifice the wisdom of the Word because of pride, lust or selfish desires.
- [The Word Must Prevail](https://ggwo.org/the-word-must-prevail/): Many times, a believer will continually confess his problems to others. He talks about what he is trying to do, but his solutions never seem to work.
- [God's Covenant of Love and Grace](https://ggwo.org/gods-covenant-of-love-and-grace/): A tremendous principle is revealed in the Book of Hebrews, starting at Chapter 6, verse 13, in relation to the New Testament or covenant that God has made with man.
- [Walk in Your Position](https://ggwo.org/walk-in-your-position/): The devil desperately tries to attack our position in Christ each day. He despises believers, for he knows they are seated far above his domain.
- [Look unto Jesus](https://ggwo.org/look-unto-jesus/): During the Israelites journey in the wilderness, they murmured against God.
- [Yield Not to Sin](https://ggwo.org/yield-not-to-sin/): Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose."
- [Invest in Doctrine](https://ggwo.org/invest-in-doctrine/): It is possible to shine as one of God's stars against the atmosphere of Satan's kingdom.
- [Hope Foundation for Stability](https://ggwo.org/hope-foundation-for-stability/): It is by patient endurance that one gains mastery over his own soul (2).
- [Seeing the Risen Savior](https://ggwo.org/seeing-the-risen-savior/): The foundational truth of the Christian faith is that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world (2).
- [The Lost Art of Worship](https://ggwo.org/the-lost-art-of-worship/): Worship has several different meanings. The first one to consider is that of concentration.
- [Think With Me](https://ggwo.org/think-with-me/): "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord" (Isaiah 55:8).
- [Without Christ, Without Hope](https://ggwo.org/without-christ-without-hope/): What is the grace that is to be brought to us when Jesus appears?
- [Linked to Him](https://ggwo.org/linked-to-him/): The prospect of hope for the future has a foundation in the past, which is the historical resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead on our behalf (2); (3).
- [His Desire, Our Joy](https://ggwo.org/his-desire-our-joy/): God wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (2). God's deepest desire is for all men to be saved (2).
- [Our Goal](https://ggwo.org/our-goal/): Philippians 3:10 is often quoted but seldom understood.
- [Take Up thy Cross and Follow Me](https://ggwo.org/take-up-thy-cross-and-follow-me/): Every believer must determine with his own free volition to take up his cross on a daily basis.
- [The Sustenance of Life](https://ggwo.org/the-sustenance-of-life/): Andrew Murray in his book entitled Holy in Christ states "The link between Redemption and Holiness is Obedience.
- [Pure Conviction](https://ggwo.org/pure-conviction/): Pure convictions are derived from the standard of God's Word. We must not allow our natural design or desires to affect or change our convictions.
- [Wisdom Produces Happiness](https://ggwo.org/wisdom-produces-happiness/): Our happiness must depend upon the Word of God and we must not become attached to things that will take us away from it.
- [The Call to Freedom](https://ggwo.org/the-call-to-freedom/): The great historian, Will Durant, expressed it well when he said, "The first condition of freedom is its limitations."
- [The Extension of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-extension-of-grace/): God's grace is inexhaustible. It comes to believers from God the Father, then Jesus Christ, the Son.
- [Learn of Him](https://ggwo.org/learn-of-him-2/): He wants you to learn of Him. He has many things to teach you and to do for you, and He has a tremendous plan for your life.
- [Visible to a Lost and Dying World](https://ggwo.org/visible-to-a-lost-and-dying-world/): What are we to do, now that we are Christians?
- [Winning Battles](https://ggwo.org/winning-battles/): A problem commonly faced by believers is subjectivity.
- [God's Thoughts Concerning You](https://ggwo.org/gods-thoughts-concerning-you/): "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end" (Jeremiah 29:11).
- [Perfectly Joined Together](https://ggwo.org/perfectly-joined-together/): The mind of Christ revealed in the Word of God is the basis for unity in the church.
- [Theme Song Of Eternity](https://ggwo.org/theme-song-of-eternity/): "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things...
- [The Effects Of The Blood](https://ggwo.org/the-effects-of-the-blood/): "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14).
- [Freedom In Trusting God](https://ggwo.org/freedom-in-trusting-god/): There are so many products and services on the market that have special labels on them that promise a refund if you are not satisfied.
- [The Word and Right Decisions](https://ggwo.org/the-word-and-right-decisions/): There is such a value in studying the Word of God.
- [We Need Each Other](https://ggwo.org/we-need-each-other/): The world system is set up in a way that tries to draw us away from one another. It speaks of maturity as being independent of one another.
- [A Friend at All Times](https://ggwo.org/a-friend-at-all-times/): Deep in the heart of every individual is a cry to be loved and to have a true friendship.
- [Grounds For Communion With God](https://ggwo.org/grounds-for-communion-with-god/): Thinking like God and with God is what doctrine is all about.
- [The True Vine](https://ggwo.org/the-true-vine/): "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman... every branch in me that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit" (John 15:1,2).
- [Humility and the Heart](https://ggwo.org/humility-and-the-heart/): The outward man shall definitely perish, but our inward man is renewed day by day (2).
- [Security](https://ggwo.org/security/): So many people reach out for security in anything they can find. But is it really possible for us to find true security?
- [Jesus Is All](https://ggwo.org/jesus-is-all/): Have you ever tried to face a problem without God? It is a mistake that is made daily. We try to attack our situations in our own strength.
- [Medicine of a Merry Heart](https://ggwo.org/medicine-of-a-merry-heart/): Everyone wants to have a capacity for a cheerful disposition and general happiness. The psalmist said in Psalm 119:70b, "I delight in thy law."
- [The House of the Soul](https://ggwo.org/the-house-of-the-soul/): The human soul is a storehouse for the Word of God.
- [Riches On The Right Road](https://ggwo.org/riches-on-the-right-road/): "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- [The Privilege Of Intercession](https://ggwo.org/the-privilege-of-intercession/): The key to effective prayer is praying in the Holy Spirit. This means allowing the Spirit of God to show us what to pray for.
- [If Only They Knew](https://ggwo.org/if-only-they-knew/): Picture Jesus Christ the Nazarene as He comes upon the mountain of Jerusalem.
- [Communion With God Causes Action](https://ggwo.org/communion-with-god-causes-action/): Every relationship turns sour when the absence of communion is assuaged with personality structure, ceremony, or just plain responsibility.
- [It Leadeth Unto Life](https://ggwo.org/it-leadeth-unto-life/): Before we become overwhelmed by the challenging and sometimes difficult demands of leading a Christian life, let us not forget this important truth: God's road "leadeth unto life."
- [The Honor of His Leading](https://ggwo.org/the-honor-of-his-leading/): Christ said to Peter, "When thou was young, thou girdedst thyself, and walketh whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee and carry thee, whither thou wouldest not...
- [He That Hath An Ear](https://ggwo.org/he-that-hath-an-ear/): Listening seems to be a lost art among many Christians.
- [Knowing His Voice](https://ggwo.org/knowing-his-voice/): Do you ever wander around with a feeling that nobody cares? ...that there is no one to guide you to the right path?
- [Draw Near](https://ggwo.org/draw-near/): The Pharisees, in Matthew 23:23-24 (2), were so occupied with insignificant details that they missed the chief things of life.
- [The Burden-Bearers](https://ggwo.org/the-burden-bearers/): "The strength of the burden-bearers is weakening, and there is much rubbish; we are not able to work on the wall" (Nehemiah 4:10, Amplified).
- [Finished Work Power](https://ggwo.org/finished-work-power/): Sometimes believers find themselves with a lack of overcoming power in their lives.
- [The Next Phase](https://ggwo.org/the-next-phase/): 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.
- [Indebted to Grace](https://ggwo.org/indebted-to-grace/): In the beginning of Psalm 51:17, David, out of a deep consciousness of guilt, gives strong evidence that his heart was broken.
- [Protection in His Promises](https://ggwo.org/protection-in-his-promises/): Many believers never take steps of faith because they are plagued with a fear of failing.
- [His Love Has Not Changed](https://ggwo.org/his-love-has-not-changed/): "And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick" (Matthew 14:14).
- [Ever Loving You](https://ggwo.org/ever-loving-you/): This is a time that God is present to heal (2). He wants to give believers new beginnings - emotionally and physically.
- [Intensifying Hunger](https://ggwo.org/intensifying-hunger/): "And it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord teach us to pray" (Luke 11:1).
- [Mercies of Compassion](https://ggwo.org/mercies-of-compassion/): The mercies of compassion are a beautiful expression of Christ's disposition. Grace bestows forgiveness of sin, and mercy takes care of the consequences of sin.
- [Faith Thoughts](https://ggwo.org/faith-thoughts/): In Luke 8, the disciples were on a boat, while a terrible storm raged. Jesus slept as water began to fill up the boat.
- [Orientation Toward God's Provision](https://ggwo.org/orientation-toward-gods-provision/): Orientation toward God's provisions of the Cross is an important understanding to have in your frame of reference.
- [The Cross - Place of Transformation](https://ggwo.org/the-cross-place-of-transformation/): "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God."
- [The Principle of Diligence](https://ggwo.org/the-principle-of-diligence/): Consider a nation whose production is idle. The people only do what they can just to "get by." They never do more than they have to do.
- [The Light That Exposes](https://ggwo.org/the-light-that-exposes/): "All things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light" (Ephesians 5:13).
- [Guarding Against Familiarity](https://ggwo.org/guarding-against-familiarity/): "The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it" (Hebrews 4:2).
- [To See Clearly](https://ggwo.org/to-see-clearly/): The Lord Jesus Christ said in Revelation 3:18 to "anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. "Eyesalve" in the original Greek is "kollourion."
- [The Accusers Must Flee](https://ggwo.org/the-accusers-must-flee/): Many believers feel they have damaged their memories through past experiences with drugs, alcohol, prescribed medication, immoral living, or wrong decisions.
- [Fellowship With the Father](https://ggwo.org/fellowship-with-the-father/): All of us, as Christians, want to know our Lord better: "God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord" (I Corinthians 1:9).
- [Be Ye Likeminded](https://ggwo.org/be-ye-likeminded/): 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.
- [Opened Ears](https://ggwo.org/opened-ears/): "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened" (Psalm 40:6).
- [Do You Have a Cause?](https://ggwo.org/do-you-have-a-cause/): John 12:27 says, "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour."
- [The Highest Calling](https://ggwo.org/the-highest-calling-2/): The Scriptures define the Word of God as a fire, a hammer (1) and a rock (1). Its fire warms the heart of man and provides him with light.
- [Pray With Persistence](https://ggwo.org/pray-with-persistence/): "Be unceasing in prayer - praying perseveringly" (I Thessalonians 5:17, Amplified).
- [A Servant For Our Sakes](https://ggwo.org/a-servant-for-our-sakes/): The Creator of the universe humbled Himself to take on the form of a human body.
- [Walking On Water](https://ggwo.org/walking-on-water/): The disciples were on a boat at night, when they saw a figure approaching. They were fearful, thinking it was a spirit.
- [Divine Focus](https://ggwo.org/divine-focus/): In a great orchestra, every member must look at the conductor.
- [He Is Ever There](https://ggwo.org/he-is-ever-there/): "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or wither shall I flee from thy presence?
- [Count It All Joy](https://ggwo.org/count-it-all-joy/): It is easy to label experiences as either pleasant or unpleasant.
- [His Desire To Heal](https://ggwo.org/his-desire-to-heal/): "He sent his Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction" (Psalm 107:20).
- [Let God Be True](https://ggwo.org/let-god-be-true/): Many believers have tremendous difficulties receiving the word of God. They have mental blocks that prevent them from mixing faith with what they hear (2).
- [The Spiritual House](https://ggwo.org/the-spiritual-house/): The great need of the hour is for the believer to be internally built up and fortified.
- [Let Your Ear be Encouraged](https://ggwo.org/let-your-ear-be-encouraged/): Think of all the "earthly" things that will not exist in heaven.
- [An Open Door](https://ggwo.org/an-open-door/): There is something threatening about closed doors. We all face them. Sometimes a door is closed because we are intimidated by what it seems to be.
- [The Right Viewpoint](https://ggwo.org/the-right-viewpoint/): Our viewpoint is reflected by how we react in situations we are placed in.There are two points of view - natural, and supernatural.
- [Jesus Christ - Our Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/jesus-christ-our-wisdom/): 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 Language of Calvary](https://ggwo.org/the-language-of-calvary/): Ever since the Tower of Babel (2), language has been a barrier that keeps us from communicating with the world.
- [Putting Jesus First](https://ggwo.org/putting-jesus-first/): Jesus lived truth, and then He taught what He lived (2). He said, "If any man will do his [the Father's] will, he shall know of the doctrine" (John 7:17a ).
- [Daily Transformation](https://ggwo.org/daily-transformation/): When we refuse to let God change our natural dispositions, we are receiving the grace of God in vain.
- [A Prisoner of Jesus Christ](https://ggwo.org/a-prisoner-of-jesus-christ/): No one can have a spiritual awakening unless they first experience a spiritual imprisonment.
- [Direct Thy Prayers in the Morning](https://ggwo.org/direct-thy-prayers-in-the-morning/): Often, believers become so preoccupied with their plans for the day that they neglect taking time to commune with our Heavenly Father.
- [Thought to Word to Action](https://ggwo.org/thought-to-word-to-action/): The greatest need for God's people today is to be disciplined in their minds and to plan what they are going to think.
- [Words of Grace](https://ggwo.org/words-of-grace/): The Lord spoke words of grace to the woman at the well in John 4:7-29.
- [More Than Yesterday](https://ggwo.org/more-than-yesterday/): An error of many believers is that they try to live off of past successes. The Christian life is not built upon the things of yesterday.
- [Forgiven and Forgotten](https://ggwo.org/forgiven-and-forgotten/): A great problem faced by the church today is a lack of forgiveness. Sometimes this lack is toward another person; yet, often a believer cannot forgive himself.
- [Stand in the Gap](https://ggwo.org/stand-in-the-gap/): "And I sought for a man among them.
- [Staying Away from Neglect](https://ggwo.org/staying-away-from-neglect/): Just as sand slips so easily through your hands if you are not holding tight, so we sometimes lose truth.
- [Jesus' Blood - the Only Way](https://ggwo.org/jesus-blood-the-only-way/): Cain's lifestyle stands out in the Word of God as an example to the Church.
- [Heavyweight Fighter for God](https://ggwo.org/heavyweight-fighter-for-god/): There is no foundation and nothing that can be relied on in man in his natural state.
- [Seek the Lord](https://ggwo.org/seek-the-lord/): One of the great temptations for Christians in the twentieth century is to become familiar with the Word of God. Why?
- [Manifold Grace of God](https://ggwo.org/manifold-grace-of-god/): The "manifold" grace of God refers to the many diverse operations and provisions of God's grace, united and working together on our behalf under one combined heading.
- [A New Beginning](https://ggwo.org/a-new-beginning/): These verses are relevant to each one of our lives.
- [Be Ready to Receive](https://ggwo.org/be-ready-to-receive/): "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord" (Proverbs 16:1).
- [Peace to Finish](https://ggwo.org/peace-to-finish/): We are living in a day when many Christians are victoriously finishing the course.
- [Defining the Devil's Strategies](https://ggwo.org/defining-the-devils-strategies/): Jesus was always quick to define the tactics of His adversary. He was never surprised by the devil's ploys.
- [Quietness and Confidence](https://ggwo.org/quietness-and-confidence/): In this push-button age, one danger grows more apparent with every passing day.
- [Let Thy Gentleness Be Known](https://ggwo.org/let-thy-gentleness-be-known/): Gentleness is meekness expressed. It is the quality of a person who lets the treasure come forth from within.
- [Jesus Christ's Derived Life](https://ggwo.org/jesus-christs-derived-life/): Contrary to the opinions and logical presumptions of most liberal theologians, Jesus Christ did not have a personality as we do.
- [Joint-Heirs of His Promises](https://ggwo.org/joint-heirs-of-his-promises/): As joint-heirs with Jesus Christ and partakers of the divine nature, every child of God is the heir of every promise of God in His Word.
- [In Times of Weakness](https://ggwo.org/in-times-of-weakness/): The principle of weakness is unique. It means helplessness. God is saying that when you are weak or suffering, His grace is overwhelmingly sufficient for you.
- [Tears In a Bottle](https://ggwo.org/tears-in-a-bottle/): In Luke 19:41, Jesus Christ is approaching Jerusalem in the last days of his earthly ministry.
- [Neither Cold Nor Hot](https://ggwo.org/neither-cold-nor-hot/): Moab set out to do the work of the Lord. However, God said that he did it deceitfully. The Hebrew word for "deceitfully" is remiyah.
- [Obedience Through Experience](https://ggwo.org/obedience-through-experience/): "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you" (I Peter 5:10).
- [Obedience Brings Strength](https://ggwo.org/obedience-brings-strength/): "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations... teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you" (Matthew 28:18, 20).
- [Jesus Christ, the Living Expression of Grace](https://ggwo.org/jesus-christ-the-living-expression-of-grace/): The expression of God's grace in redemption is Jesus Christ.
- [How to Escape Natural Disposition](https://ggwo.org/how-to-escape-natural-disposition/): What can deliver a believer out of his human temperament, his prevailing inclinations or moods, and the tendency to remain unchanged in the passivity of natural disposition?
- [Redemptive Review](https://ggwo.org/redemptive-review/): Christians, at times, need to stop and be encouraged by seeing how God has changed their lives.
- [The Condition of the Human Heart](https://ggwo.org/the-condition-of-the-human-heart/): Listen to the Lord's words in Mark 7 concerning the desperate condition of the human heart.
- [Only the Blood](https://ggwo.org/only-the-blood/): In the light of God's holiness, as revealed by his Word, sin's ugliness is manifested.
- [Pray Continually](https://ggwo.org/pray-continually/): Job made it a practice to get up early and to sanctify his sons every morning (2).
- [Warfare](https://ggwo.org/warfare/): There were 603,550 males that guarded the children of Israel outside of the tabernacle. These warriors protected the Israelites' rights to serve and worship.
- [The Cross Brings Identification](https://ggwo.org/the-cross-brings-identification/): Joseph de Veuster, a Belgian missionary priest, had a brother who was called to be a missionary in Hawaii.
- [Victory at Calvary](https://ggwo.org/victory-at-calvary/): The Cross: It is what Satan hates most, because it represents his ultimate defeat.
- [Safe from the Storm](https://ggwo.org/safe-from-the-storm/): When the storms come, it is vital that we know where we are.
- [Beauty for Ashes](https://ggwo.org/beauty-for-ashes/): Here is the great exchange: Beauty for ashes. Where are the ashes, the residue of the offering made for our sins?
- [Searching the Depths](https://ggwo.org/searching-the-depths/): The reason that many of God's people are not consistent-though they are beautiful Christians in terms of integrity and desire-is this: They become forgetful hearers and lose what they hear in sermons.
- [Christ: Our Provision](https://ggwo.org/christ-our-provision/): 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!
- [Heaven Is for Us](https://ggwo.org/heaven-is-for-us/): In these perilous days, are you more interested in a church picnic than in the prayer meeting?
- [Faith and Faithfulness](https://ggwo.org/faith-and-faithfulness/): God told me years ago that the more I heard and received the Word of God, the more I would be used.
- [Seek for Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/seek-for-wisdom/): There is one thing that I am seeking as I am growing older, and that is wisdom. All of us need it. The one thing that is so crucial in knowing God is wisdom.
- [The Importance of Repentance](https://ggwo.org/the-importance-of-repentance/): Repentance is a commandment, yet few Christians understand what it is. As a result, few ever truly repent.
- [The Law Is Fulfilled](https://ggwo.org/the-law-is-fulfilled/): When thinking of commandments, think of this: Jesus fulfilled the law (Matthew 5:17). He was the end of the law for righteousness (Romans 10:4).
- [Respond to His Name](https://ggwo.org/respond-to-his-name/): I cannot begin to share with you the sacredness, the value, and the preciousness of what it means to be a Christian walking in the Spirit of the Lord's name through faith in His name.
- [Christ's Work in Us](https://ggwo.org/christs-work-in-us/): The new man always lives in quietness and he always experiences peace. Why?
- [A Purpose from Above](https://ggwo.org/a-purpose-from-above/): No one can have a purpose in reality unless his heart is fixed with confidence toward God.
- [The True Light](https://ggwo.org/the-true-light/): Morality is vital to our society. It preserves national entity and protects individual freedom, personal rights, and property.
- [Nevertheless I Live](https://ggwo.org/nevertheless-i-live/): 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.
- [Victory Is Normal](https://ggwo.org/victory-is-normal/): God wants us to be whole, free from the dominion of sin and delivered from the power of sin— living in the power of grace, loving in the power of righteousness, following Christ in the power of the Spirit, listening to the Word of God with concentration, and following Jesus Christ in the application of truth.
- [The Necessity of Meekness](https://ggwo.org/the-necessity-of-meekness/): The Spirit-taught Christian is the Christian who is always comforted.
- [Substance from the Word](https://ggwo.org/substance-from-the-word/): The Bible remains the most precious book in all the world. It's still the best seller after all these years.
- [Lessons in Dark Places](https://ggwo.org/lessons-in-dark-places/): Many people refuse to be taught lessons of faith when they don't understand God's plan beyond what they can see.
- [Fellowship with Love and Mercy](https://ggwo.org/fellowship-with-love-and-mercy/): What a great thing it is to be moved by faith: for a husband to be moved to love his wife because of reverence for God; for a wife to be moved to love her husband with unconditional love.
- [The Order of Faith Obedience](https://ggwo.org/the-order-of-faith-obedience/): Jesus' life is an example that is not beyond us, because He is alive in us. This is the way to live.
- [The Triumph of Resurrection](https://ggwo.org/the-triumph-of-resurrection/): Standing near the grave of Lazarus, Jesus asked that the stone be removed.
- [The Winter Season](https://ggwo.org/the-winter-season/): Think of how trees seem so barren in the wintertime. Nothing on the outside of the tree indicates life, and yet on the inside the tree is very alive.
- [Exposing the Heart](https://ggwo.org/exposing-the-heart/): God shapes our circumstances as a helpful discipline. Circumstances, whatever they may be, can never change what's on the inside of the man.
- [Laying Aside the Weights](https://ggwo.org/laying-aside-the-weights/): The narrow road is rough on the old sin nature. If the old sin nature has any part in controlling the mind, sermons are rough on it.
- [Occupied with Christ](https://ggwo.org/occupied-with-christ/): In Deuteronomy 8, the children of Israel became familiar with the blessings God had given them.
- [Forward to Victory](https://ggwo.org/forward-to-victory/): One of the most important things any of us can learn is the principle of forward motion. For certain, every believer experiences difficult times.
- [Renewing the Mind](https://ggwo.org/renewing-the-mind/): It is very important to understand the necessity of hearing the Word. Thoughts form lines in the memory center.
- [Positioned in the Kingdom](https://ggwo.org/positioned-in-the-kingdom/): Many people do not know how to adjust properly. They go through long periods of mood swings. The next thing that happens is a mental attitude of negativity.
- [Advancing in the Kingdom](https://ggwo.org/advancing-in-the-kingdom/): In Philippians 3:8, we see that Paul counted everything "but dung" if it interfered with the call of God on his life.
- [My Opinions Vs. God's Mind](https://ggwo.org/my-opinions-vs-gods-mind/): We must not think in terms of our opinions. When we do, we will enter into an opinionated process of thinking that is very clever.
- [The Supply of Love](https://ggwo.org/the-supply-of-love/): 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."
- [God's Provision for Us](https://ggwo.org/gods-provision-for-us/): 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."
- [Having the Mind of Christ](https://ggwo.org/having-the-mind-of-christ/): We are told by God Almighty how to be mentally stable for the unknown of God's plan.
- [Not By Bread Alone](https://ggwo.org/not-by-bread-alone/): Picture Jesus on the mount of temptation, and Satan is tempting Him.
- [God's Love Comes First](https://ggwo.org/gods-love-comes-first/): Some of us find it very difficult to let God love us. Perhaps we feel unworthy or undeserving of such affection.
- [Jesus Wept](https://ggwo.org/jesus-wept/): Picture Jesus Christ the Nazarene as He comes upon the mountain overlooking Jerusalem.
- [God Wants Our Hearts](https://ggwo.org/god-wants-our-hearts/): 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.
- [The Holy Spirit's Building Process](https://ggwo.org/the-holy-spirits-building-process/): God uses the Bible to build up His people. It is the Word of grace, objectively building us up.
- [Keep Yourself in the Love of God](https://ggwo.org/keep-yourself-in-the-love-of-god/): 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).
- [His Word Is Truth](https://ggwo.org/his-word-is-truth/): When you listen to the Word of God, you must listen without any presuppositions. Never allow people, personalities, or circumstances to interfere with hearing.
- [Establishing a Vision](https://ggwo.org/establishing-a-vision/): Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Vision, here, speaks of a redemptive gaze, focusing our energy toward the purpose of God.
- [Be Ready to Hear](https://ggwo.org/be-ready-to-hear/): The Word of God has so much to say about hearing. "Take heed to what ye hear" (Mark 4:24a). "Take heed therefore how you hear" (Luke 8:18).
- [Near to His Heart](https://ggwo.org/near-to-his-heart/): Jeremiah was called the weeping prophet because he wept day and night for his people.
- [Tetelestai!](https://ggwo.org/tetelestai/): Let us consider why God did not use nearly all of the 32,000 Israelites in the battle against the Midianites: 31,700 men failed the "water test" in Judges 7.
- [Blessed Memories](https://ggwo.org/blessed-memories/): Memories can be either a blessing or a curse for the believer. The memory of the just is a blessing because it is kept by the Word of God.
- [God's Lifestyle](https://ggwo.org/gods-lifestyle/): The walk of a believer in Jesus Christ is a process in which he begins to mix faith with what he hears from the Word and it begins to profit his life (2).
- [Islands of Hospitality](https://ggwo.org/islands-of-hospitality/): "And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara" (Acts 21:1).
- [An Overcoming Walk](https://ggwo.org/an-overcoming-walk/): As Christians, we are to be very careful to watch for our adversary who is continually seeking to destroy us (2).
- [Our Father's Business](https://ggwo.org/our-fathers-business/): Throughout the day, people are heard to say, "I have to get to work" or "I have to go shopping," etc.
- [What do You See?](https://ggwo.org/what-do-you-see/): What do you see when you look at the Cross? Do you see ugliness, or something that deprives you of your rights? Maybe you see an instrument of death.
- [What Time Is It?](https://ggwo.org/what-time-is-it/): "To everything there is a season." The mature believer can discern just where the plan of God is taking him.
- [Objection Overruled](https://ggwo.org/objection-overruled/): The natural man deems it objectionable that God would justify the ungodly (1) who simply believe in Christ (2).
- [Chosen by God](https://ggwo.org/chosen-by-god/): Did you ever go through periods in life when you felt alone? Maybe you thought God has forgotten you.
- [Separated and Holy](https://ggwo.org/separated-and-holy/): We have the privilege of being separated unto God. "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth" (John 17:17). We are separated unto God completely.
- [Perception vs. Reception](https://ggwo.org/perception-vs-reception/): The average believer has more knowledge then he needs. He could freely diagnose any situation that comes into his life.
- [Christ - Our Total Savior](https://ggwo.org/christ-our-total-savior/): The Christian community is divided into two categories of people - those who seek to establish their own righteousness and those who are resting in Christ's righteousness (2).
- [Victorious Words](https://ggwo.org/victorious-words/): All too often, a believer becomes the product of his negative confessions.
- [Cause and Effect](https://ggwo.org/cause-and-effect/): When we look at the universe through either the telescope or the microscope, we see the beautiful and orderly flow of God's design.
- [Walk Before Me, and be Thou Perfect](https://ggwo.org/walk-before-me-and-be-thou-perfect/): The words, "walk before me, and be thou perfect," are spoken by God to the patriarch Abraham; yet, they are applicable to God's children everywhere and at all times.
- [Seeing With a Heart of Love](https://ggwo.org/seeing-with-a-heart-of-love/): This verse instructs us to "prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
- [More Than Bread](https://ggwo.org/more-than-bread/): Let us picture Jesus. He is on the mountain where Satan is tempting Him.
- [A No Condemnation Gospel](https://ggwo.org/a-no-condemnation-gospel/): Picture the Lord Jesus Christ with the woman who was caught in adultery in John 8:1-11. His words to here were, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more."
- [Human Proposition](https://ggwo.org/human-proposition/): Anytime a child of God lives in human proposition, his resources become very limited.
- [The Works of God](https://ggwo.org/the-works-of-god/): "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification..." (I Thessalonians 4:3a). The Lord may have a work for us to do, but not "works."
- [The Blood Avails for Us](https://ggwo.org/the-blood-avails-for-us/): The actual blood of Christ is essential to man's salvation.
- [Promise for Life](https://ggwo.org/promise-for-life/): Sin is responsible for death. God is responsible for life.
- [Quickening - An Encouraging Provision](https://ggwo.org/quickening-an-encouraging-provision/): There are many Christians who serve God faithfully, but at times they become weary. It is such good news to hear that God has made a provision for this.
- [Eternal Value System](https://ggwo.org/eternal-value-system/): The Word of God richly resident in the believer (2), coupled with the filling and controlling of the Holy Spirit (3), produces an eternal value system of his life.
- [Discerning Satan](https://ggwo.org/discerning-satan/): "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms" (Ephesians 6:12, NIV).
- [Balancing Your Emotions](https://ggwo.org/balancing-your-emotions/): Emotions are a part of every man and woman, and they play a legitimate role in life.
- [Nothing Mundane](https://ggwo.org/nothing-mundane/): It is selfish to overlook what God has given to us. People take many things for granted. They do not realize that when God is in something, it is sacred.
- [I Will Keep Thee](https://ggwo.org/i-will-keep-thee/): Perhaps there is only one power on the earth that can even remotely be compared to the saving power of God, and that is His ability to keep and preserve the believer.
- [Love for All Men](https://ggwo.org/love-for-all-men/): In I Thessalonians 3:12, Paul's prayer for the Thessalonian converts was that the Lord would cause them to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all men.
- [Admonish One Another](https://ggwo.org/admonish-one-another/): Many believers are well acquainted with the principle of biblical edification.
- [Communion of the Holy Spirit](https://ggwo.org/communion-of-the-holy-spirit/): II Corinthians 13:14 describes the blessings from God that are always present.
- [The Great Pearl](https://ggwo.org/the-great-pearl/): It is very interesting how a pearl is formed. It starts as a grain of sand in a foreign place - the oyster.
- [The Pleasure of Serving](https://ggwo.org/the-pleasure-of-serving/): Selfishness is an enemy that robs us from being servants unto God. Many people are servants today, but not unto the Lord.
- [Thinking in Grace](https://ggwo.org/thinking-in-grace/): Forgiveness is so important for the believer in Jesus Christ.
- [Our Personality, His Life](https://ggwo.org/our-personality-his-life/): Repentance is the first fruit of knowing God.
- [Lamb and High Priest](https://ggwo.org/lamb-and-high-priest/): Isaiah 53 is a description of Jesus Christ suffering at the world's hands for others. He never once cried for Himself, nor did He live in self-pity.
- [A Total Salvation](https://ggwo.org/a-total-salvation/): The greatest attack against the Gospel of the grace of God (2) in the first century was the fallacy that for one to possess initial salvation, one must be circumcised (3).
- [Renovating Our Emotions](https://ggwo.org/renovating-our-emotions/): Sometimes people make decisions to think or act in a way that contradicts what God has said. Psalm 38 speaks of the result of wrong decisions in one man's life.
- [The Coming of Light](https://ggwo.org/the-coming-of-light/): A healthy soul is the key to spiritual advancement for the believer.
- [Choose to Obey Him](https://ggwo.org/choose-to-obey-him/): The desire of God's heart is that all men might come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and that none would perish (2).
- [Hold Fast to Life](https://ggwo.org/hold-fast-to-life/): We were created to reflect the image of our Creator, and one attribute that was included in the ability to choose.
- [Our Paths Made Straight](https://ggwo.org/our-paths-made-straight/): Many people despise the word "doctrine." They think of it as lifeless, biblical teaching that chokes out the immediate presence of God.
- [At the End of the Road](https://ggwo.org/at-the-end-of-the-road/): As we continue to grow in our Christian lives, we experience the matchless honor of receiving the impartation of His character.
- [Vessels of Honor](https://ggwo.org/vessels-of-honor/): "But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some of honour, and some to dishonour" (II Timothy 2:20).
- [Enoch Walked with God](https://ggwo.org/enoch-walked-with-god/): Enoch and Elijah are two classic examples of people who walked with God. "To walk with God" means we are going forward, relating to progress.
- [He Is There](https://ggwo.org/he-is-there/): Everyday is another chance for us to know God in watching His character flow through humanity.
- [God Encamps Around Us Forever](https://ggwo.org/god-encamps-around-us-forever/): When we see how God poured His mercy and grace on our lives based on His essence, His plan and the finished work of Christ, we can plan on His grace being the only policy toward us in the future.
- [Just A Seed](https://ggwo.org/just-a-seed/): Do not despise the day of small things (2). Everything begins small.
- [The Glorious Gospel](https://ggwo.org/the-glorious-gospel/): Every individual has the same opportunity to become a brand new person to moment that he receives Christ.
- [Completely New After Saying I Do](https://ggwo.org/completely-new-after-saying-i-do/): The moment a person says "I do" to accepting the fact that he is a sinner and has no way of saving himself, and thus, believes on the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior, he is born anew.
- [Blessing the Lord at All Times](https://ggwo.org/blessing-the-lord-at-all-times/): Psalm 34:1 states, "I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth." Imagine a believer blessing the Lord at all times.
- [Separated, Called and Revealed](https://ggwo.org/separated-called-and-revealed/): There is an interesting principle that the apostle Paul brings out in Galatians. Paul says he was separated from his mother's womb.
- [Seeking with Diligence](https://ggwo.org/seeking-with-diligence/): If we were to ask the Lord, "Why did you come?" He would answer, "I came to seek and to save the lost." And if we asked, "What have you done about it?"
- [Echo Of Mercy](https://ggwo.org/echo-of-mercy/): "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful" (Luke 6:36).
- [Quietness and Confidence](https://ggwo.org/quietness-and-confidence-2/): As Christians, it is guaranteed that we will face many challenges as we walk with Christ. This is a turbulent era for the human race at large.
- [A People of Privilege](https://ggwo.org/a-people-of-privilege/): The Bible teaches that born-again believers are the most privileged people in all the world.
- [He Perfects What Concerns Us](https://ggwo.org/he-perfects-what-concerns-us/): Every believer is in a process, and I believe that what motivates us to continue in the love of God is a personal sense of destiny.
- [Shout Alleluia! The Lord Reigns](https://ggwo.org/shout-alleluia-the-lord-reigns/): The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us (Romans 8:18).
- [Glory in Infirmity](https://ggwo.org/glory-in-infirmity/): We are weak. Our weakness may be human goodness; it may be self-righteousness; or, it may be personal sins, human evil, or unrighteousness.
- [Love That Goes the Distance](https://ggwo.org/love-that-goes-the-distance/): Consider the story of the prophet Hosea. His wife, Gomer, goes out on him in adulterous affairs, keeps going out on him, and eventually becomes a prostitute.
- [Taking Up Our Cross](https://ggwo.org/taking-up-our-cross/): In Leviticus 23:17-18, the loaves of bread that were baked for an offering had leaven in them, yet they were first fruits unto the Lord.
- [Victors, Not Victims](https://ggwo.org/victors-not-victims/): When grace is multiplied toward you, you are not barren. Neither are you a victim. You are a victor, fruitful in the Lord Jesus Christ.
- [Established in Grace](https://ggwo.org/established-in-grace/): Some Christians live lives of what I like to call "religious anxiety."
- [Edifying Communication](https://ggwo.org/edifying-communication/): When I open my mouth, do I edify and minister grace to the hearers? Or do my words manipulate people to give me what I want and to pay attention to my needs?
- [The Teaching of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-teaching-of-grace/): Grace is a teacher. Grace never condemns, but it commends us through love and through our faith.
- [Choose to See Grace](https://ggwo.org/choose-to-see-grace/): Grace is the authority of our victory, the badge of overcoming, and the transforming power to be continually renewed.
- [Consider Your Options](https://ggwo.org/consider-your-options/): If you choose to walk in the Spirit, you can have everything that you desire with God while you live in this world.
- [The Gift of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-gift-of-grace/): The journey of grace begins the moment a person first receives God's free gift of grace for salvation, accepting the sacrifice of Jesus Christ's blood as the atonement for his sin.
- [Counseled by Truth](https://ggwo.org/counseled-by-truth/): I think I'll put up a beautiful golden plaque in my office for people to read before I counsel them. The first line will read, "Did you talk to God first?"
- [Let His Word Burn in You](https://ggwo.org/let-his-word-burn-in-you/): As a sinner saved by grace, I plead with you: Don't be familiar with the Word of God or the work of God.
- [Being Found Faithful](https://ggwo.org/being-found-faithful/): There is one thing I'm praying in these last days, and that is that God would keep me faithful.
- [Willing to be Weak](https://ggwo.org/willing-to-be-weak/): Jesus demonstrated the connection between weakness and power.
- [The Action of Faith](https://ggwo.org/the-action-of-faith/): Jesus simply spoke the Word and there was healing.
- [The Authority of Faith](https://ggwo.org/the-authority-of-faith/): Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. The more I hear the Word, the more authority I will have in my faith.
- [Walking by Faith](https://ggwo.org/walking-by-faith/): Acting in faith should come naturally to every believer. We were made to bring glory to God.
- [The Priority of the Word](https://ggwo.org/the-priority-of-the-word/): There is something that will judge us in the last days: the Word that has been spoken unto us.
- [The Unparalleled Word](https://ggwo.org/the-unparalleled-word/): Allow me to try to convey the extraordinary price that has been paid by ordinary people in order for us to hold the Bible in our hands, to be able to turn its pages, to drink in its precepts, and to savor its truth.
- [Heart Repair](https://ggwo.org/heart-repair/): The Word of God makes it clear that every revelation of grace is experienced in the heart.
- [The Design of Deliverance](https://ggwo.org/the-design-of-deliverance/): Here is the way a person can be delivered.
- [Forever Forgiveness](https://ggwo.org/forever-forgiveness/): God forgives with a forgiveness that we will never understand unless we believe His Word, live by it, and allow ourselves to be sanctified by it.
- [The Great Cover-Up](https://ggwo.org/the-great-cover-up/): The greatest cover-up of all time occurs when God Almighty takes an imperfect man and hides him in Himself.
- ["Winner"](https://ggwo.org/winner/): Grace is a reality. I must understand what it is and where it takes me.
- [Dream Big](https://ggwo.org/dream-big/): Values lead to goals, and goals are checked by performance. Your performance is checked by God's Word and God's grace, which are always there to help you.
- [Meet Threats with Promises](https://ggwo.org/meet-threats-with-promises/): Think of the things that threaten society.
- [Love's Destiny](https://ggwo.org/loves-destiny/): God made you in His image, and He sent His Son to die for you on the Cross. When you were saved, He came to live inside you and He will never forsake you.
- [God's Workmanship](https://ggwo.org/gods-workmanship/): People don't always love you as you are. They reject you when you are bad or when you have done wrong. But God loves you just as you are.
- [Living in the Light](https://ggwo.org/living-in-the-light/): Wherever light can get in, it will come in. Wherever darkness can enter, it will. Light always overcomes darkness, but darkness can also obscure light.
- [Shout to the Mountain](https://ggwo.org/shout-to-the-mountain/): Every mountain, every hill, every crooked place, must bring us to God.
- [Put On Jesus Christ](https://ggwo.org/put-on-jesus-christ/): The Lord Jesus Christ, in all of His uniqueness and beauty, wants us to understand in divine perspective that no Christian is ever to "get in touch with himself."
- [Run with This Message](https://ggwo.org/run-with-this-message/): Run with the truth that all things work together for good. Because you trust God in your love for Him, He will continue to bless you.
- [His Plan Is Greater](https://ggwo.org/his-plan-is-greater/): We love God on two levels: Positionally, "we love him, because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19), and experientially, we love Him by allowing the Word of God to dwell richly in our hearts (Colossians 3:16).
- [Eternal Rest, Eternal Joy](https://ggwo.org/eternal-rest-eternal-joy/): I have everything that eternity has because I have eternity in everything. I'm not going to insult eternity by being occupied with time that limits eternity.
- [Winning Expectations](https://ggwo.org/winning-expectations/): Some Christians seem to think it glorifies God for them to live in discouragement, fears, anxiety, and frustrations.
- [Raised Up by Love](https://ggwo.org/raised-up-by-love/): The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an invalid; she couldn't even sit up in bed.
- ["I Am Life"](https://ggwo.org/i-am-life/): Anyone who enters into the sheepfold must enter in by Jesus Christ. A person who enters in finds pasture.
- [Authority in Godly Humility](https://ggwo.org/authority-in-godly-humility/): I would suggest to you today that, if there is anything I have learned as a pastor, it is that two cannot walk together unless they be agreed.
- [Right Authority](https://ggwo.org/right-authority/): Any relationship that manipulates or controls is the wrong authority. True authority, however, is often misunderstood.
- [Divine Realization](https://ggwo.org/divine-realization/): When God's power is working for me, I thank Him that I am saved.
- [Little by Little](https://ggwo.org/little-by-little/): We may win many victories all at once, and certain problems may be gone almost instantly. Still, sometimes God drives out our enemies "little by little."
- [Put On the New Mind](https://ggwo.org/put-on-the-new-mind/): One problem I have noticed is that too many Christians have become familiar with their fallen personalities and their natural temperaments.
- [In Union with the Conqueror](https://ggwo.org/in-union-with-the-conqueror/): We are in union with the Conqueror, that One who has triumphed over all things, and that's why we are more than conquerors! We are in union with Him.
- [The Resurrection Side of Life](https://ggwo.org/the-resurrection-side-of-life/): To me, the funniest scene in the Bible is in John 21. I'll never figure it out. Peter had already seen the resurrected Jesus twice.
- [Find God's Life](https://ggwo.org/find-gods-life/): Icannot perform God's will through religious effort. I am not going to try to live the Christian life. It is impossible.
- [A Personal Cross](https://ggwo.org/a-personal-cross/): Many Christians are plagued with problems that never seem to go away because they will not take up their cross.
- [Spiritual Momentum](https://ggwo.org/spiritual-momentum/): Spiritual momentum is something that defines your progress, showing you how you are growing in grace and knowledge without obstruction.
- [The Exceeding Greatness of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-exceeding-greatness-of-grace/): Abeliever becomes so secure when the Word of God is allowed to dwell in his soul. The Holy Spirit flows in the richness of grace.
- [Tests of Faith](https://ggwo.org/tests-of-faith/): As a believer begins to grow, God will test his obedience and his insecurities.
- [Thoughts of Heaven](https://ggwo.org/thoughts-of-heaven/): Thinking about heaven should motivate us to stay fervent. In heaven, we will be with all of God's precious saints.
- [Never Forsaken](https://ggwo.org/never-forsaken/): Think of what Christ did for us when we received Him. He saved us from the penalty of sin.
- [Stay Fervent](https://ggwo.org/stay-fervent/): Many people grow weary in the greatness of the way.
- [Following God's Order](https://ggwo.org/following-gods-order/): When God orders our steps, we live in His geographical will, His operational will, His organizational will, and His perfect will.
- [Submit to Calvary](https://ggwo.org/submit-to-calvary/): When you submit to Calvary, you submit to the highest call in life. You submit to the greatest privilege known to man and become a servant of the Most High God.
- [Freedom](https://ggwo.org/freedom/): Perilous times are here. Men are lovers of themselves. People display a form of godliness but in reality deny the power of God.
- [God's Measures](https://ggwo.org/gods-measures/): Our spirituality is based on the measure of our obedience to God. Our faith is measured by believing His Word.
- [Prepared for the Call](https://ggwo.org/prepared-for-the-call/): When a man or woman is prepared, he or she will always get a call that is special. God always goes after prepared people.
- [God's Line from Eternity Past](https://ggwo.org/gods-line-from-eternity-past/): God has a divine measuring line. It is His superabundant grace, His inexhaustible mercy, and His incomprehensible love.
- [The River and the Tree](https://ggwo.org/the-river-and-the-tree/): In the eternal city of God, there is a river. In the midst thereof is a tree-the Tree of Life, the old, rugged cross of Calvary.
- [God Delights](https://ggwo.org/god-delights/): God wants to say to us, "Don't be fearful of what's going on in your life. I am lovingkindness. I am righteousness.
- [The Tabernacle Within Us](https://ggwo.org/the-tabernacle-within-us/): There is a beautiful story in Exodus.
- [Beyond Comprehension](https://ggwo.org/beyond-comprehension/): God, in His Book, tells us some things that our natural minds cannot comprehend-the Holy Spirit must reveal them.
- [Vacation with Jesus](https://ggwo.org/vacation-with-jesus/): There is nothing wrong with taking a vacation. Still, I pity people who are so tired out that they can't wait for their next vacation.
- [Operate in His Vision](https://ggwo.org/operate-in-his-vision/): One of the greatest problems we have is that we fail to appropriate what is truly ours. Why not let God work the truth within?
- [Turn to the Lord](https://ggwo.org/turn-to-the-lord/): When some people read the Word of God, there is a kind of veil that covers their hearts. This veil represents the flesh.
- [The Authority of Truth](https://ggwo.org/the-authority-of-truth/): God has all power, He is everywhere present, and He has all knowledge: That is God's ability.
- [Behold the Lamb](https://ggwo.org/behold-the-lamb/): If I continually behold the Lamb, I will be so overcome that I will be humbled in every area of life.
- [Seek First the Kingdom](https://ggwo.org/seek-first-the-kingdom/): Picture it. Jesus Christ is saying so personally to you, "I have laid down my life for you so that I might live inside you and be everything you need.
- [The Gift of Righteousness](https://ggwo.org/the-gift-of-righteousness/): Jesus Christ has given us His righteousness apart from the law-it doesn't depend on our own works.
- [Bearing Fruit](https://ggwo.org/bearing-fruit/): There is a treasure inside each of us, and God desires that it be revealed on the outside, through our habits, our speech, and our manners.
- [Divine Humility](https://ggwo.org/divine-humility/): Any believer who wants to be serious about his walk with God must focus on Jesus Christ. He must be open and in tune with the Holy Spirit's prompting.
- [My Union with Christ](https://ggwo.org/my-union-with-christ/): When I put sugar in my coffee this morning, I noticed that the sugar couldn't be seen after it dissolved into the coffee.
- [Covered by Love and Friendship](https://ggwo.org/covered-by-love-and-friendship/): Afriend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- [The Cup of Blessing](https://ggwo.org/the-cup-of-blessing/): The Bible speaks of our capacity for communion as sons of God.
- [Communion in the Body](https://ggwo.org/communion-in-the-body/): Every Christian has been bought and paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ; we are not our own.
- [Free Indeed!](https://ggwo.org/free-indeed/): I have a free spirit, and so does every Christian who is confessed up-to-date and filled with the Holy Spirit. We don't wrestle with yesterday's problems.
- [Orientation to Life](https://ggwo.org/orientation-to-life/): God will not measure us by anything but His own gift, His own mercy, and His own grace. He will not deal with anything according to moral light.
- [Renewing the Mind](https://ggwo.org/renewing-the-mind-2/): Present your body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
- [The Manifestation of God's Presence](https://ggwo.org/the-manifestation-of-gods-presence/): God is interested in manifesting His presence. It's not enough to have a grasp of knowledge, a catalog of theology in the mind.
- [Motivations](https://ggwo.org/motivations/): We have a ministry of reconciliation and a word of reconciliation. We are ambassadors representing heaven, the new covenant, and the new creation.
- [Guarding the Heart](https://ggwo.org/guarding-the-heart/): When a believer is living the flesh, the only things that he will be concerned about are the issues pertaining to the flesh.
- [Walking in Integrity](https://ggwo.org/walking-in-integrity/): If I am being mistreated, the only thing that matters is my integrity, not the person who is mistreating me.
- [Seek the Kingdom](https://ggwo.org/seek-the-kingdom/): Lovingly, kindly, and graciously, the Lord pleads with us to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
- [Motivation from the Word](https://ggwo.org/motivation-from-the-word/): Motivation-it is what moves our hearts, our minds, our souls, our wills, and our bodies.
- [Living Clean](https://ggwo.org/living-clean/): Living clean isn't "hard"-I never could understand why someone would say that, especially a Christian. Sinning is hard.
- [The Mystery of Christ](https://ggwo.org/the-mystery-of-christ/): 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.
- [Liberated from the Snares](https://ggwo.org/liberated-from-the-snares/): Asnare is a trap. Most of have us have laid traps for mice or other pests. Satan lays traps designed to get Christians caught up in self-destructive patterns.
- [Turn On the Power](https://ggwo.org/turn-on-the-power/): Look at an electric lamp. If it is on, there is obviously electric power going through the light bulb or it wouldn't give off light.
- [Complete Consciences](https://ggwo.org/complete-consciences/): Everything is determined by the conscience.
- [The Need to be Filled](https://ggwo.org/the-need-to-be-filled/): There is no soundness in us, from the soles of our feet to the top of our head, which includes the mind (Isaiah 1:6). That is a humbling thought.
- [More Than Feelings](https://ggwo.org/more-than-feelings/): When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, blood came through His pores as He agonized alone in prayer.
- [Have Eternity in View](https://ggwo.org/have-eternity-in-view/): 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.
- [Walled In by the Fire](https://ggwo.org/walled-in-by-the-fire/): 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.
- [Empowered by the Word](https://ggwo.org/empowered-by-the-word/): By the power of God's ability in us, the Word goes into our frame of reference and becomes a part of our vocabulary.
- [From Trouble to Triumph](https://ggwo.org/from-trouble-to-triumph/): God's light is inside of every Christian. The question is, who can see it? A lot of people do, because many Christians have let God break them.
- [Light Out of Darkness](https://ggwo.org/light-out-of-darkness/): God commanded light to shine out of darkness.
- [You Are Needed](https://ggwo.org/you-are-needed/): How do you think a cook feels after working diligently, only to find that the guests do not show up?
- [A Place at God's Table](https://ggwo.org/a-place-at-gods-table/): Mephibosheth was a man who could not walk because of a childhood accident that crippled both of his feet.
- [Revealing the Image of Love](https://ggwo.org/revealing-the-image-of-love/): God's nature always reveals redemption and a ministry of reconciliation.
- [Operating as a Disciple](https://ggwo.org/operating-as-a-disciple/): What is being a disciple all about? It is to see something that needs to be done and to do it, not grudgingly but with a spirit of joy and thanksgiving.
- [The Authority of Love](https://ggwo.org/the-authority-of-love/): People who are afraid of authority simply don't know what it is. They equate God's authority with how they have been mistreated by illegitimate authority.
- [The Effect of Confession](https://ggwo.org/the-effect-of-confession/): Psalm 32 says "My moisture is turned into the drought of summer," meaning that vital moisture in his vessel was drying up.
- [Spiritual Priorities](https://ggwo.org/spiritual-priorities/): It is so important to have proper priorities. I know men and women who have good priorities, but they do not have divine priorities.
- [Testing for Maturity](https://ggwo.org/testing-for-maturity/): We read in Job, "He setteth an end to darkness"- but what was the darkness for?
- [Why God Hides](https://ggwo.org/why-god-hides/): Everyone who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).
- [Taking His Cup](https://ggwo.org/taking-his-cup/): What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of LORD.
- [Walking in Victory](https://ggwo.org/walking-in-victory/): Joshua commanded his men to possess the land; God had given them a promise from His Word! Remember: Canaan is not heaven. It is a place of warfare.
- [Brought Out of Bondage](https://ggwo.org/brought-out-of-bondage/): The Lord has brought us out of the bondage of the world so that He might bring us into His victories.
- [Precious Steps of Faith](https://ggwo.org/precious-steps-of-faith/): Our time on earth is very precious to God because it is the only opportunity we have to exercise faith. It is faith that pleases Him.
- [A Love that Sacrifices for Others](https://ggwo.org/a-love-that-sacrifices-for-others/): Throughout the Old Testament, we see the constant sacrificing of animals.
- [Abba, Father](https://ggwo.org/abba-father/): Occasionally, I have told the story about Sammy, a man from Africa who came to America to study the Bible in a Methodist college.
- [Kissed by Unconditional Love](https://ggwo.org/kissed-by-unconditional-love/): When the prodigal son came home, his father had compassion on him. He ran toward his son and kept running until they embraced.
- [Our Debts: Blotted Out](https://ggwo.org/our-debts-blotted-out/): It is so important that we understand the difference between the Greek words exeleiphein and chiazein.
- [Divine Viewpoint](https://ggwo.org/divine-viewpoint/): God says, "My viewpoint is never like yours, and your viewpoint is never like mine."
- [The Chemistry of Stress](https://ggwo.org/the-chemistry-of-stress/): Everyone experiences measures of stress.
- [From Glory to Glory](https://ggwo.org/from-glory-to-glory/): Think of the validity, veracity, value, and virtue of God's Word. The Bible says in Genesis 2:7 that God made man out of the dust of the earth.
- [The Worth of One Soul](https://ggwo.org/the-worth-of-one-soul/): One soul is worth more than all the world. Let each of us allow this truth to motivate us as the love of Christ constrains us.
- [Eternal Realities](https://ggwo.org/eternal-realities/): Hell is a prepared place for unprepared people!
- [Be Filled with the Fullness of God](https://ggwo.org/be-filled-with-the-fullness-of-god/): An empty soul is like a vacuum cleaner that sucks in the dust from the world's system of demons.
- [Purpose to Continue](https://ggwo.org/purpose-to-continue/): Spirituality is very simple. Jesus said in John 8:31, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed." The key word there is "continue."
- [Step by Step, Moment by Moment](https://ggwo.org/step-by-step-moment-by-moment/): Some people follow the motto, "One Day at a Time." But we need to go for one moment at a time, because one day can present too many unforeseen problems.
- [We Have Authority](https://ggwo.org/we-have-authority/): Our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who has dominion and authority from sea to sea, is the King. He gave His servant authority and dominion to be a watchman.
- [Rejoice in Tribulations](https://ggwo.org/rejoice-in-tribulations/): I never knew the anointing of God until I was in the furnace. I never understood the power and victory of deliverance until I was totally delivered unto death.
- [Objects of Eternal Love](https://ggwo.org/objects-of-eternal-love/): Certainly, God deals with us on a personal level of love when He has to discipline us.
- [Walls of Truth](https://ggwo.org/walls-of-truth/): God forbid that I sin, but if I do, it is not I. It is my flesh working out the Adam nature that is in me.
- [What You Know](https://ggwo.org/what-you-know/): Consider these three points regarding our response to Bible teaching.
- [Stand in Grace](https://ggwo.org/stand-in-grace/): One of the most unusual tragedies of our day is to see Christians falling from grace. But when a believer falls from grace, he falls deeper into it.
- [Walking with Christ](https://ggwo.org/walking-with-christ/): I've never seen a dead man get drunk, take drugs, argue, get depressed, or speak out of negativity. A dead man has never threatened to take his life.
- [Joy!](https://ggwo.org/joy/): God didn't create you to be sad or to go around with a frown on your face. You were designed to have the joy of the Lord as your strength (Nehemiah 8:10).
- [Come Boldly](https://ggwo.org/come-boldly/): In Leviticus 16:14, when the high priest went into the Holy of Holies on the Jewish day of atonement, he took the blood of the bullock and sprinkled it with his finger on the mercy seat.
- [Seeking the True Treasure](https://ggwo.org/seeking-the-true-treasure/): Every time you receive categorical doctrine, God makes a deposit in your bank account in heaven.
- [Surprises of Grace](https://ggwo.org/surprises-of-grace/): The Bible is filled with the surprises of God's grace. Matthew 5:6 promises that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness will be filled.
- [Standing Firm in the Call](https://ggwo.org/standing-firm-in-the-call/): I have to abide in my calling-not in what someone wants me to do for my calling. I must abide in my calling. Did God tell me to go to Bible college?
- [Complete Convictions](https://ggwo.org/complete-convictions/): I have made decisions about many things in my life. I have left myself no options.
- [Growing in Convictions](https://ggwo.org/growing-in-convictions/): I make it a practice to write down specific personal convictions that God reveals to me in my communion with Him.
- [Praise the Creator](https://ggwo.org/praise-the-creator/): While preparing for an evening service, I was thinking: "This is another night we have for worship, another night for Him to visit."
- [Praise God in Everything](https://ggwo.org/praise-god-in-everything/): Those who love God and allow Him to lead in the way of righteousness will "inherit substance." We inherit substance when we respond to God's first love.
- [God's Praise, God's Way](https://ggwo.org/gods-praise-gods-way/): King David appointed the Levites to sing praises continually before the ark of God's presence.
- [An Eternal Purpose](https://ggwo.org/an-eternal-purpose/): Every single purpose of God is controlled by His precise thought.
- [The Finger of God](https://ggwo.org/the-finger-of-god/): "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you" (Luke 11:20).
- [His Yoke is Easy](https://ggwo.org/his-yoke-is-easy/): Athorough study of Scripture reveals so much about yokes.
- [Understanding Grace](https://ggwo.org/understanding-grace/): The processes we go through in the journey of grace teach us to be conformed to the image of the Son through the inner working of God's government in theantric action-the Trinity controlling the soul through positive volition toward God's grace provisions.
- [Connected to a Spirit](https://ggwo.org/connected-to-a-spirit/): At any moment, we are operating either in the power of the Holy Spirit or in an unholy spirit.
- [More Grace](https://ggwo.org/more-grace/): "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God.
- [Breath of Life](https://ggwo.org/breath-of-life/): "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD" (Proverbs 20:27). That spirit is the breath of God.
- [Counterattack by Faith](https://ggwo.org/counterattack-by-faith/): I want to show you an effective way to overcome Satan's world system by faith. This is how you do it: Confuse the enemy!
- [Beyond Emotion](https://ggwo.org/beyond-emotion/): Emotions come and go, but you cannot trust your feelings. You cannot take orders from your feelings. You get your orders from the Word and from the Holy Spirit.
- [Child-Like Faith](https://ggwo.org/child-like-faith/): George Müller, a man of God known for his great life of faith and prayer, established many caring, Christ-centered orphanages in Victorian England.
- [Intimacy in Prayer](https://ggwo.org/intimacy-in-prayer/): God wants intimacy in prayer. He doesn't want us praying out of religious duty. That is not prayer.
- [Take God at His Word](https://ggwo.org/take-god-at-his-word/): Imust believe in God's promises more than I believe in what I see, feel, or experience against the promises.
- [Fruit from the Right Source](https://ggwo.org/fruit-from-the-right-source/): First, I must be rightly related to Him in categories (John 15:7-8), "...If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you...."
- [Dare to Fail](https://ggwo.org/dare-to-fail/): Faith dares to fail and go on in the grace of God.
- [True Imaginations](https://ggwo.org/true-imaginations/): The human mind is a marvelous creation of God.
- [Living in Lovingkindness](https://ggwo.org/living-in-lovingkindness/): When we enter glory, we are going to see Jesus Christ in His glorified body with wounds in His side, hands, and feet.
- [What's in a Name?](https://ggwo.org/whats-in-a-name/): Throughout the Old Testament, the names given to people often described a characteristic of their nature (1 Samuel 1:20), a desired attribute (Ruth 4:14-17), or an inevitable predisposition because of circumstances surrounding their conception (Genesis 16:11-12).
- [Total Satisfaction](https://ggwo.org/total-satisfaction/): The Word of God must never be watered down in our listening habits. We sometimes refer to preachers who "water down" the Word.
- [Seeing the Vision](https://ggwo.org/seeing-the-vision/): Visions sometimes come through tragedies, trials, and losses.
- [Listen and Concentrate](https://ggwo.org/listen-and-concentrate/): Have you ever found yourself in a conversation when, at some point, you were startled to realize that you had no idea what was being said?
- [A Heart for the Lost](https://ggwo.org/a-heart-for-the-lost/): An affluent man in New England seemed to have everything. Yet, though he was healthy and had lots of friends, he took his own life.
- [Gain from Pain](https://ggwo.org/gain-from-pain/): When suffering comes, name the pain; make the pain your gain forever, because that is God's measure of how you will reign with Him.
- [Rest in the Mind of Christ](https://ggwo.org/rest-in-the-mind-of-christ/): When trials come up in people's lives, fear often comes in. The countenance begins to look like something that just came out of the pit.
- [The Real Strength of Our Hearts](https://ggwo.org/the-real-strength-of-our-hearts/): Thousands of believers have missed the whole point of the purpose of our life on earth.
- [The Value of a Thought](https://ggwo.org/the-value-of-a-thought/): When Jesus said in Luke 21, "Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate what ye shall answer," He meant that if you meditate extensively on the Word of God then He will give you "a mouth and wisdom" to answer out of what you have been taught.
- [The Right Identity](https://ggwo.org/the-right-identity/): Our death with Christ on the Cross brings us into a place where only God can give us an identity. Adam's identity ended in crucifixion.
- [Be Holy Before Him](https://ggwo.org/be-holy-before-him/): The words "be holy" are found thirty-nine times in the Scriptures. The first occurrence is in Exodus 22:31 when God said, "Ye shall be holy men unto me."
- [Where Can I Get to Know God?](https://ggwo.org/where-can-i-get-to-know-god/): People get so troubled about how much money they're going to make, where they're going to live, and what they're going to do, when these things are not the issue.
- [Warnings and Exhortations](https://ggwo.org/warnings-and-exhortations/): Life has so many sharp curves and steep inclines, so many dangerous precipices and rugged mountains. We must hear the Word of the Lord.
- [Seeking God Himself](https://ggwo.org/seeking-god-himself/): There's such a difference between seeking God through knowledge and simply seeking God Himself.
- [The Healing Effect](https://ggwo.org/the-healing-effect/): There is a long story behind every act of sin. Every effect has a cause.
- [A Precious Stone and a Sure Foundation](https://ggwo.org/a-precious-stone-and-a-sure-foundation/): Jesus Christ is a precious Stone-very costly. Thank God for His holy life.
- [Receive, Then Give](https://ggwo.org/receive-then-give/): The essence of the Christian life is receiving.
- [Seeing God in My Darkness](https://ggwo.org/seeing-god-in-my-darkness/): I have gotten to know God more in darkness than I ever did in the light.
- [Great Deliverance](https://ggwo.org/great-deliverance/): In the prophet Micah, we have a picture of a man in a dreadful situation: a soul badly bruised and beaten, wedged in the bottom of a hole, his garments torn and filthy, his back against the wall, unable to stand.
- [God Is Enough](https://ggwo.org/god-is-enough/): To some Christians, God's life and His Finished Work have become a wilderness. The way they act, you would think God has nothing to offer.
- [No Rejection in Christ](https://ggwo.org/no-rejection-in-christ/): The first thing a Christian should know is that he is never rejected and never can be. He is hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3).
- [Reveal God's Nature](https://ggwo.org/reveal-gods-nature/): The manifestation of God's love destroys every stronghold the devil has. A manifestation simply means to make visible God's nature-to demonstrate it by reality.
- [Inherit a Blessing](https://ggwo.org/inherit-a-blessing/): Are you ready for this? There are Christians who are faithful church-goers, yet they hate people. They would never confess that, but it's true.
- [The Network of Prayer](https://ggwo.org/the-network-of-prayer/): Each one of us has very specific needs, certain areas where we want God to move.
- [The Need to Intercede](https://ggwo.org/the-need-to-intercede/): We need to do much less talking and much more praying.
- [Forbearing in Love](https://ggwo.org/forbearing-in-love/): Forbearing in love is a choice we make in our thinking. We know the love of God, therefore we purpose to share the love of God.
- [Our Heavenly Calling](https://ggwo.org/our-heavenly-calling/): During times of war, nations often reserve the right to summon young men into military service.
- [Our High Vocation](https://ggwo.org/our-high-vocation/): As Christians, we have been called out of the darkness into God's marvelous light.
- [Categorical Thinking](https://ggwo.org/categorical-thinking/): When we begin to fellowship with the promises of God, faith is conceived in the unconscious mind.
- [Overcoming Infections](https://ggwo.org/overcoming-infections/): Many of us have found ourselves wounded, not because of a broken heart of love but because of infections.
- [His Initiations, Our Responses](https://ggwo.org/his-initiations-our-responses/): The key to our relationship with God is to have an intimate, personal communion with Him where He initiates and we respond.
- [Needed: People of Conviction](https://ggwo.org/needed-people-of-conviction/): What we need today are old-fashioned, Bibleloving, gracious, whole-counsel-of-God Christians of conviction. God is not mocked.
- [Truth Shines](https://ggwo.org/truth-shines/): The entrance of God's words bring in light. Step out when God speaks. Walk with the words of God as a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path.
- [The God of All Comfort](https://ggwo.org/the-god-of-all-comfort/): There are many times when we come to what seems to be a point of no return. Our bodies may be worn out, our spirits are low, and our lives seem hopeless.
- [Reverence His Presence](https://ggwo.org/reverence-his-presence/): Let us allow God to perfect us in His holiness. This is not said to project some kind of hyperspirituality.
- [The Voice of God's Nature](https://ggwo.org/the-voice-of-gods-nature/): From the solar system to the nervous system- there is an order to every facet of life in the universe. That order is revealed in terms of relationships.
- [The Way of Reflection](https://ggwo.org/the-way-of-reflection/): We have found a formula for prosperity, success, and happiness in the soul through God's provision of meditation.
- [Meditate on the Word](https://ggwo.org/meditate-on-the-word/): With everything that is going on in the world, there is something that can make us happy.
- [Join the Prayer Army](https://ggwo.org/join-the-prayer-army/): With our focus on God, we become a prayer army. We enter into prayer with supplication and intercession.
- [The Lord Builds the House](https://ggwo.org/the-lord-builds-the-house/): The key to victory in any realm is to have an overflowing life. The Lord must build the house.
- [Children of Precise Light](https://ggwo.org/children-of-precise-light/): God created the soul of man with five parts: mind, emotions, volition (which can be either positive or negative toward God), conscience (the norms and standards for thinking), and self-consciousness (being aware each moment of God, self, people, or circumstances).
- [Stand in Awe](https://ggwo.org/stand-in-awe/): Years ago in Maine, we had just built a new church for our assembly of one thousand people.
- [More Than Conquerors](https://ggwo.org/more-than-conquerors/): A real Christian delights in his victory. God always causes us to triumph and manifest the savor of His knowledge always and in every place.
- [Everything Is Under Our Feet](https://ggwo.org/everything-is-under-our-feet/): Rebellious emotions rob Christians of godly thinking, causing us to enter into cycles of wrong feelings.
- [The Beauty of Wings](https://ggwo.org/the-beauty-of-wings/): The eagle is mentioned more than any other bird in the Bible. It is able to look right into the sun, to soar higher and swifter than any other bird can fly.
- [The Preciousness of Mercy](https://ggwo.org/the-preciousness-of-mercy/): William Shakespeare wrote, "The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
- [A Friend, through Thick and Thin](https://ggwo.org/a-friend-through-thick-and-thin/): Afriend loves at all times. God loves us at all times; that is certain. Is there ever a time that you or I could have stopped God's love?
- [Our True Friend](https://ggwo.org/our-true-friend/): The most sacred relationships are friendships that have gone through the Cross.
- [Abundant Life Is Yours](https://ggwo.org/abundant-life-is-yours/): This Christian life really is the greatest thing on earth. Jesus came that we might have life and have it "more abundantly." We don't have to rely on the flesh.
- [Glorify God](https://ggwo.org/glorify-god/): To be effective Christians, we must be filled with the Spirit continually. We must walk in the Spirit.
- [Reveal a Living Faith](https://ggwo.org/reveal-a-living-faith/): As Christians, the solution to the problems of our nation begins with us.
- [Don't Quit](https://ggwo.org/dont-quit/): When you receive a call from God, but you see no way to fulfill it, determine that you will not be a quitter.
- [The King in His Beauty](https://ggwo.org/the-king-in-his-beauty/): When King Hezekiah became seriously ill, the prophet Isaiah was sent to him with a message: "Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live" (Isaiah 38:1).
- [Delivered in a Moment](https://ggwo.org/delivered-in-a-moment/): During the war in Vietnam, a second lieutenant in the Vietnam army was told to take eight prisoners and execute them.
- [Spoiling Principalities and Powers](https://ggwo.org/spoiling-principalities-and-powers/): I would have liked to have seen the faces of Satan and the demons of hell when the Lord Jesus came out of that grave.
- [The Riches of His Kindness](https://ggwo.org/the-riches-of-his-kindness/): In heaven, God will show us the exceeding riches of His kindness toward us throughout all eternity- all because we met mercy on the road to hell.
- [The New and Living Way](https://ggwo.org/the-new-and-living-way/): The amazing thing about the Holy of Holies is that it is the new home for God's royal family.
- [Monuments of Grace](https://ggwo.org/monuments-of-grace/): Trophies represent victories, and as recipients of God's grace we stand as monuments of all that He has done. There are none righteous, not one.
- [Let the Walls Fall](https://ggwo.org/let-the-walls-fall/): While Jericho represents a place of destruction, it also stands for the place of opportunity.
- [It's All in the Name](https://ggwo.org/its-all-in-the-name/): It's not what you know but who you know. Connections make a difference, and a well-known name always brings a response-whether good or bad.
- [Letting the Living Water Flow](https://ggwo.org/letting-the-living-water-flow/): Genesis 7:11 speaks of the "fountains of the great deep broken up." We have to keep digging in order to find the fountain that is beneath the surface.
- [Broken for the Master's Use](https://ggwo.org/broken-for-the-masters-use/): A great preacher was married to a woman who became extremely jealous of his success.
- [The Bishop of Our Soul](https://ggwo.org/the-bishop-of-our-soul/): When a person is saved, the Holy Spirit dwells within him, and it is possible for Jesus to pastor his soul. The still, small voice we hear is Jesus' voice.
- [Yoked with the Lamb](https://ggwo.org/yoked-with-the-lamb/): There is a God-Man in heaven, and He is glorified. He was always a sinless Lamb.
- [Following the Royal Law](https://ggwo.org/following-the-royal-law/): God ordained civil law, and we should obey it (1 Peter 2:13).
- [The Narrow Way: Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-narrow-way-grace/): The narrow way is the way of grace. God calls it the "narrow" way because it cannot be walked except by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- [God Does the Changing](https://ggwo.org/god-does-the-changing/): Victory is ours through Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57). It is not by works; it doesn't come by trying to change.
- [Love Made Perfect](https://ggwo.org/love-made-perfect/): Consider the words, "Herein is our love made perfect." Multitudes of Christians today lack an understanding of how to make love perfect. It is not intentional.
- [The Power of ‘It Is Written'](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-it-is-written/): The Spirit of God led Jesus Christ to fast in the desert for forty days and forty nights.
- [The Word: Power and Spirit](https://ggwo.org/the-word-power-and-spirit/): Many believers do their best to live according to the letter of the Word of God.
- [Little Is Much ...](https://ggwo.org/little-is-much/): God is always using the little people, and He always uses people doing "little" things, like giving the cup of cold water.
- [Our Privileges](https://ggwo.org/our-privileges/): We have such a privilege now because of the birth of Christ and because of His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.
- [How's Your Memory?](https://ggwo.org/hows-your-memory/): I want you to see what God remembers and what He doesn't remember. In Psalm 79:8, the psalmist asks God not to remember our iniquities.
- [Who Are We to Judge?](https://ggwo.org/who-are-we-to-judge/): When I argue with another Christian, in principle I am taking Christ's name in vain and doing despite to the Spirit of grace.
- [Finished Work Faith](https://ggwo.org/finished-work-faith/): Paul was very serious about the Finished Work. He prayed that those who preached "any other gospel be accursed."
- [Day Star](https://ggwo.org/day-star/): In Second Peter, we have an interesting Greek phrase: "...until the day star arise in your hearts." The key word "arise" is anatello.
- [Full Faith](https://ggwo.org/full-faith/): Through careful study, we know that there were two thousand years from Creation to the Flood, and two thousand years between the Flood and the Cross.
- [What Past?](https://ggwo.org/what-past/): God has no plan for the past. The past is gone. It is over.
- [The Result of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-result-of-grace/): When something is committed to you, it becomes a part of you. It motivates and gives purpose. The glorious Gospel has been committed to every Christian.
- [Your Cross, Your Victory](https://ggwo.org/your-cross-your-victory/): We need to understand that there is no way a man can take up God's Cross. But am I going to leave Jesus Christ alone with that bloody death? No.
- [Fellowship with the Cross](https://ggwo.org/fellowship-with-the-cross/): The Cross is not to be something we "know," nor is it to be something we "believe" in. The Cross is something we take up.
- [Thankfulness](https://ggwo.org/thankfulness/): Agreat release comes to the Christian who is thankful. Even in the midst of difficulties, his heart overflows with the joy of the Lord.
- [Right Vocabulary, Right Thinking](https://ggwo.org/right-vocabulary-right-thinking/): To have an individual sense of destiny with God is one of the greatest things for a believer.
- [Living above Stress](https://ggwo.org/living-above-stress/): Victorious, stress-free living is a way of life many believers have difficulty grasping.
- [Glory!](https://ggwo.org/glory/): Oh, how the world needs to see a glimpse of the glory of God! But that will happen only when Christians learn to let God be God.
- [The Identity Crisis](https://ggwo.org/the-identity-crisis/): Sooner or later, every one of us must face an identity crisis. We must admit that we have accumulated things that have made us who we are.
- [Ransomed!](https://ggwo.org/ransomed/): Just think of where we were and what we have been ransomed from!
- [The Treasure Within Us](https://ggwo.org/the-treasure-within-us/): We have a treasure inside of us. People are looking for that treasure.
- [He Is Our Expectation](https://ggwo.org/he-is-our-expectation/): There is no spot in us.
- [Now Is the Time](https://ggwo.org/now-is-the-time/): "There is therefore now no condemnation" (Romans 8:1a). Do not receive the grace of God in vain. Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation.
- [Be Not Afraid](https://ggwo.org/be-not-afraid/): Many things in our lives bring fear: the fevered brow of a little baby, news that you or a loved one has cancer, word that someone has been in a serious accident.
- [God Goes Where We Go](https://ggwo.org/god-goes-where-we-go/): God will give us a new heart and a new spirit as we begin to walk with Him.
- [Get to Know the Author of Love](https://ggwo.org/get-to-know-the-author-of-love/): I was told this story of a man who had written a book. He later met a woman and asked her out on a date, just as a friend.
- [Jesus Christ Promotes the Humble](https://ggwo.org/jesus-christ-promotes-the-humble/): In studying the humility of Jesus Christ, it is easy to see why He never sinned.
- [Revealing God's Heart](https://ggwo.org/revealing-gods-heart/): God wants to give us new hearts that reveal genuine love for people. Think of Jesus Christ's life and how His heart was always revealed toward the lost.
- [Making God Visible](https://ggwo.org/making-god-visible/): How does an invisible God become visible?
- [Resurrection Victory](https://ggwo.org/resurrection-victory/): There is immeasurable value and virtue in Christ's resurrection.
- [The Tomb Is Empty](https://ggwo.org/the-tomb-is-empty/): There is no one in the tomb where they laid Jesus. It is empty. On that Resurrection Sunday, Jesus Christ came forth, just as He said He would.
- [The Absolutes of Eternity](https://ggwo.org/the-absolutes-of-eternity/): Heaven is an absolute. Thank God, the only death for the believer is physical death (2 Corinthians 5:8). Hell is also absolute.
- [Eternally Secure in Christ](https://ggwo.org/eternally-secure-in-christ/): God declares that there is no spot in us (Song of Solomon 4:7). We belong to the King, and we are "all glorious within" (Psalm 45:13). This is abso lutely true.
- [A Faith Foundation](https://ggwo.org/a-faith-foundation/): To stand fast on God's foundation, we need categories of doctrine-a divine index for precise thinking from divine viewpoint-in our soul.
- [Absolute Faith](https://ggwo.org/absolute-faith/): A believer must never deviate from the foundation of Christ. He must keep building properly on that foundation through the absolutes of the Word of God.
- [The Meek Shall He Teach](https://ggwo.org/the-meek-shall-he-teach/): What a difference meekness makes! Meekness guarantees a Christian's anointing.
- [Little People, Big Results](https://ggwo.org/little-people-big-results/): Gideon was a small man in an insignificant tribe; however, God saw Gideon as a general leading an army.
- [Possibilities and Potential](https://ggwo.org/possibilities-and-potential/): Jesus never sees people in their condition of sin. He sees them in a heavenly love that paid for every sin they committed. He sees their possibilities.
- [Eternal Words](https://ggwo.org/eternal-words/): The words that God speaks are eternal. They were settled in heaven billions of years ago for this very hour.
- [Beating Bitterness](https://ggwo.org/beating-bitterness/): Bitterness is a tremendous problem. Top psychiatrists have examined this subject thoroughly and have identified bitterness as the number one emotional problem.
- [The Word Made Alive](https://ggwo.org/the-word-made-alive/): We seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; then, all things will be added unto us.
- [Honor the Word](https://ggwo.org/honor-the-word/): Jericho was the first city in Canaan, the land God promised to Israel. God said, "Jericho is My city -don't touch a thing in Jericho.
- [God's Firstfruits for Us](https://ggwo.org/gods-firstfruits-for-us/): Jesus Christ is God's tithe for the world. He is the firstfruits of them who came from the grave.
- [Why?](https://ggwo.org/why/): All of us at one time or another have asked, "Why?" The psalmist's first word in Psalm 10 was "why." Often we ask because of our limited human understanding.
- [Glory in the Cross](https://ggwo.org/glory-in-the-cross/): "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross...."
- [Characteristics of Greatness](https://ggwo.org/characteristics-of-greatness/): The greatness of Jesus Christ was that He considered Himself least and became a servant. He said, "The greatest among you shall be the servant of all."
- [Be Made Whole](https://ggwo.org/be-made-whole/): Will you be made whole? That is the question Jesus is asking people today. For that to happen, we need to touch the presence of God.
- [He Is Present to Heal](https://ggwo.org/he-is-present-to-heal/): Throughout the Gospels, Jesus healed people. As believers, we have to make up our minds. Are we part of that crowd who believe that God does not heal today?
- [All Things Are New](https://ggwo.org/all-things-are-new/): There is not a reason in the world for any bornagain believer to be going around without a provision from God.
- [God Is the Greatest Giver](https://ggwo.org/god-is-the-greatest-giver/): We need to understand that God will give the abundance of grace in our need.
- [The Heart of the Giver](https://ggwo.org/the-heart-of-the-giver/): Jesus Christ is not just waiting to be gracious to us. He also wants us to learn how to receive His gifts.
- [Sanctified by Faith](https://ggwo.org/sanctified-by-faith/): One of the great synonyms for "holiness" is "spirituality."
- [Triumphing in Trials](https://ggwo.org/triumphing-in-trials/): There are reasons for suffering that bring glory to God, so we are never to judge anyone who is going through a trial.
- [Walls of Doctrine](https://ggwo.org/walls-of-doctrine-2/): Too often, when trials come, Christians withdraw into emotionalism, sublimation, or human good in the old sin nature.
- [Suffering and Reigning](https://ggwo.org/suffering-and-reigning/): The Church has been called to suffer, yet many people leave godly churches during periods of persecution.
- [Our Shield of Faith](https://ggwo.org/our-shield-of-faith/): Stress contradicts the Christian life. It destroys our capacity to apply divine truth and live in spirituality.
- [Our Necessary Provisions](https://ggwo.org/our-necessary-provisions/): It is absolutely necessary for the believer to be filled with the Spirit and the Word. Complete sincerity and absolute desire are not enough.
- [A Divine Challenge](https://ggwo.org/a-divine-challenge/): The whole purpose of the Scriptures is to teach us how to be governed by the Holy Spirit from within, so that the outward adversities do not cause us stress.
- [God's Darlings](https://ggwo.org/gods-darlings/): We are precious to God. We are His darlings, and He wants us to be tenderhearted, having healthy emotions that manifest His mercy.
- [How Great a Love](https://ggwo.org/how-great-a-love/): God is our light and our salvation; therefore, we have nothing to fear. It is a beautiful thing to have forgiveness and cleansing from God.
- [Warmth Opens Doors](https://ggwo.org/warmth-opens-doors/): I remember a lady who did not like my preaching, so she stopped coming to church. I set out to draw her back and began knocking on her door.
- [Go Forward in Faith](https://ggwo.org/go-forward-in-faith/): Let's take God at His word. Pray and go forward as though things are going to happen. God is glorified as we wait upon Him.
- [God Prospers Our Way](https://ggwo.org/god-prospers-our-way/): "I, even I, have spoken: yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
- [Divine Ability](https://ggwo.org/divine-ability/): God wants His people to be the head! He wants you to be the best businessman, the top salesman, the wisest executive.
- [Waiting Brings Strength](https://ggwo.org/waiting-brings-strength/): Waiting upon God is a very beautiful thing. It is beautiful to know that God does not grow weary, nor does He faint.
- [A Capacity to Choose Life](https://ggwo.org/a-capacity-to-choose-life/): If only we understood that we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us!
- [True Success through Mercy](https://ggwo.org/true-success-through-mercy/): Mother Teresa, a magnificent servant of God, took care of many poor and diseased children and adults.
- [Victory Is Ours](https://ggwo.org/victory-is-ours/): After struggling through years of drug abuse, alcoholism, and immorality, a couple became gloriously saved.
- [Unchanging Truth, Abundant Life](https://ggwo.org/unchanging-truth-abundant-life/): Jesus Christ is the unchanging Truth. Man will change. Man will misinterpret and misappropriate truth. Man will lie about the truth because of his lifestyle.
- [Our Refuge](https://ggwo.org/our-refuge/): Psalm 62, written by King David, is a beautiful story of growth and maturity.
- [Consider the Hour](https://ggwo.org/consider-the-hour/): Recently on my way to work, the traffic was backed up due to a terrible accident. From a distance, I saw the lights of an ambulance.
- [The Garden Party](https://ggwo.org/the-garden-party/): The Garden of Eden was a perfect place: no striving, no strains, no struggles.
- [Surely Goodness](https://ggwo.org/surely-goodness/): What is goodness? It is God's mercy that endures forever. When sin abounds, God's grace does much more abound.
- [Our Sins Cannot Be Found](https://ggwo.org/our-sins-cannot-be-found/): Think of it. When we confess our sin, it is gone.
- [Oneness](https://ggwo.org/oneness/): Oneness is one of the most precious things in all the world. When there is oneness in worship, people begin to have revival in their lives.
- [Thoughtfulness](https://ggwo.org/thoughtfulness/): So, this evil weapon of God's enemy, causing fear and anxiety, itself met it's death; yes, death died
- [Everyday Miracles on the Mission Field](https://ggwo.org/everyday-miracles-on-the-mission-field/): I started January in China with a room filled with Chinese brothers and sisters in Christ, all of us wishing each other a Happy New Year.
- [The Towel and the Way of Service](https://ggwo.org/the-towel-and-the-way-of-service/): It was Passover, a holy time that included a holy supper.
- [Perfect Love](https://ggwo.org/perfect-love/): Perfect love is not positive thinking or an abstract concept of self-love. It is the most real and explosive energy in the universe. It is the life that motivated God to send His Son. It motivated Jesus to go to the Cross. Its power rose our Savior from the dead. God is love.
- [Words in Season: God Seeks, God Speaks](https://ggwo.org/words-in-season-god-seeks-god-speaks/): "And the Lord said to Cain ..."
- [A Friend in Time of Failure](https://ggwo.org/a-friend-in-time-of-failure/): A friend loveth at all times, not just when we are living right. Our hope for the future is not based upon our past. It is based upon the true friend, Jesus Christ, and His promises. He laid down His life and calls us friends. Our future is as good as the promises of God. Our past, on the other hand, is as bad as we remember it. And there is not one verse in the Bible where God can remember a bad thing about any one of us (Psalm 103:10; Hebrews 8:12). That is true, even after we go home to be with Him.
- [Two Things People Don't Know About Being a Missionary](https://ggwo.org/two-things-people-dont-know-about-being-a-missionary/): Well, it was our last Sunday in Malawi. Everyone thoughtfully greeted us and wished us safe travels. We have an amazing church.
- [Do You Have Spiritual Heart Disease?](https://ggwo.org/do-you-have-spiritual-heart-disease/): There is too much spiritual heart disease in the church, too many people believing the economy of mammon is how the kingdom of God works. But praise God for his great love wherewith He has loved us! Let's declare with the bride of Solomon "He brought me to His banqueting table and His banner over me is love. Freely we have received, freely give.
- [Door Openers](https://ggwo.org/door-openers/): Nepal is a wonderful place to be right now in the call of God!
- [Know the Word, Know Jesus, Behold His Glory](https://ggwo.org/know-the-word-know-jesus-behold-his-glory/): Their hopes and dreams crushed, two disciples of Jesus snuck out of Jerusalem. Fear gripped them.
- [A New Name](https://ggwo.org/a-new-name/): God will say to us in heaven, "You don't have an old sin nature any more. So I'm giving you hidden manna - the Word of God stored up in your memory center. But at last, it has become reality because you have been made perfect. Though hidden, it paid off when you were on earth because you received My Word by faith."
- [How to Know God's Will](https://ggwo.org/know-gods-will/): Each believer will be judged according to what he did with what he was given on this earth. With the equipment given through God's Word by His Spirit, a Christian is brought to the place where he can know God's good, acceptable, and perfect will.
- [SOLOMON’S SINE QUA NON COUNSEL FOR LIVING](https://ggwo.org/solomons-sine-qua-non-counsel-for-living/): Samson and Solomon were similar in that both, through their careless hearts, yielded to their base natures. Unlike Samson, who told a riddle and tried to keep its meaning secret, Solomon’s wanted his answers to life's riddles proclaimed to all who would receive them. The first wisdom gem he wants all to know that “Vanity of vanity, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” Even here there shines a floodlight of divine insight and wisdom.
- [Hope Sees the Sweet Even in the Bitter](https://ggwo.org/hope-sees-the-sweet-even-in-the-bitter/): I'm full. It's what we sometimes say at the dinner table when someone offers us another helping of food.
- [A View Toward Forever](https://ggwo.org/a-view-toward-forever/): Why is soul-winning so crucial? Because people are in hell, and they are screaming in torment. There is no way out for them. They rejected Christ and there is no other way for them to enter into any other kind of forever. Their forever is settled -forever.
- [The Secret Remedy for Shame](https://ggwo.org/secret-remedy-shame/): Hope means nothing to us unless contrasted in hopelessness. Our existence and it's shame abide synonymous..
- [How One Man with One Book Changed Haiti Forever](https://ggwo.org/how-one-man-with-one-book-changed-haiti-forever/): At times, Pastor Bill Cannon really caught wind of the aroma of Hell. His home in Haiti sat 200 feet from a community dump in St.
- [What is a Missionary, and am I One?](https://ggwo.org/what-is-a-missionary-and-am-i-one/): As I sat with a few ladies in the home of one the women in our church, laughing and crying and sharing life, I couldn’t help but pause in the midst of it to observe the scene before me.
- [Not I Can't, But God Can and Will](https://ggwo.org/not-i-cant-but-god-can-and-will/): Gideon got a visitation, a compliment, and a mission. And, he really wasn't ready for any of these things.
- [A Faith Based on Absolutes](https://ggwo.org/a-faith-based-on-absolutes/): Our faith must be established on the absolutes of the Word of God. But, before they can be established in us, our hearts and minds need to hear these truths many times. This booklet discusses the importance of hearing and receiving the Word of God so that we can walk in the Holy Spirit in absolute faith.
- [Christmas Voices](https://ggwo.org/christmas-voices/): Christmas has a lot of voices ringing. Fa la la la la, la la la la.
- [What Does God's Voice Sound Like?](https://ggwo.org/what-does-gods-voice-sound-like/): Proverbs 18:21 states that death and life reside in the power of the tongue.
- [Days and Words and Hearts](https://ggwo.org/days-and-words-and-hearts/): But, I play nurse and seek to hear symptoms so that clarity might be given to the essence of their disease. The disease of humanity apart from this one Word. In this nursing, I find that souls are simpler than bodies. Bodies need many different treatments, but the life of a soul is found in One. One Person.
- [Christmas Presence: A Child Born, A Son Given](https://ggwo.org/christmas-presence-a-child-born-a-son-given/): "For unto us a child is born; for unto us a son is given.
- [What's Happening in Mae Sot?](https://ggwo.org/whats-happening-in-mae-sot/): We are moving forward in planting a church and a Bible school in Mae Sot. I am convinced this is the place God wants us. There are several factories, full of Burmese workers, located within walking distance from us. My hope is that, before the next semester begins, God would convict many of these new believers of their need for Jesus Christ and raise up many disciples who are desperate for the God’s Word.
- [Why Ordaining Pastors is a Good Thing](https://ggwo.org/why-ordaining-pastors-is-a-good-thing/): Ordination is not about a title, a position of influence or a place of honor, though it might include all of these. It is about Jesus Christ ministering to His church through Holy Spirit gifted leadership (men after His heart – Jer 3:15) and about protecting the flock from false teachers and tyrannical leaders (Acts 20:28-30). Oh that there would be more ordained pastors!
- [Creative Love](https://ggwo.org/creating-love-heart-creators/): Create? Imagination and what else? C'mon, friends, you want to uglify beauty and call that art? ...true creativity requires some givens, namely love.
- [The Big Fish and the Light in Us](https://ggwo.org/the-big-fish-and-the-light-in-us/): In talking about Himself, Jesus used the story of Jonah to illustrate His place in this world.
- [How God Uses Mere Men](https://ggwo.org/how-god-uses-mere-men/): In our suffering we may face gloom at dawn, and dawn after dawn, on and on, it stays. Grieving pain is longsuffering, expanding, lingering. It keeps on keeping on, reduces curing to schemes of preservation; ignores the total healing potential. Bodily aches require pain relievers, salves, creams, and rest. Pain of loss needs equal kinds of attention.
- [Church is Home](https://ggwo.org/church-is-home/): Worship is not like going to an Italian Restaurant one week and to a French Restaurant the next to experience the different flavors of each.
- [The God of Unexpected Joys](https://ggwo.org/the-god-of-unexpected-joys/): The God of unexpected joys is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb 13:5) and we can think about these three tenses and realize how he was, is, and will be the God of Unexpected Joys in our past, in our present, and in our future.
- [A Coming Few Identified](https://ggwo.org/a-coming-few-identified/): Jesus came small. Too small for some.
- [The Litmus Test for Every Marriage](https://ggwo.org/the-litmus-test-for-every-marriage/): we can now see that many Christian marriages suffer because when a couple overlooks or is ignorant of the ontological aspect of marriage, they are left only with the psychological or physical aspects that are not spiritual. In other words, they bypass the spiritual and live in the lower realms of the soul and body. Or, in still other words, they bypass the being and concentrate on doing and having.
- [How Can A Church Be Missions-Minded?](https://ggwo.org/how-can-a-church-be-missions-minded/): Let’s believe God for disciples and church. Let’s believe God for the spreading of the Gospel though missions. Let’s target, locate, and operate ! Let’s give room to the Word of God in our lives and our churches. Let’s ask God in prayer in our closets and together. Let’s build each other up in the Body of Christ, and let’s go out and purpose to preach the Gospel to a lost and dying world !
- [My Bed of Languishing](https://ggwo.org/my-bed-of-languishing/): My shattering had stamped out any lingering self-effort in me; even the sense of nerves stirring had vanished. Inertia bound me. I became the man under the bed covers on a cold winter morning, paralyzed. I concluded, “The next transpiration of events would take place toward me, but never from me.”
- [Built Together with Quietness and Confidence](https://ggwo.org/built-together-with-quietness-and-confidence/): I can remember the hush that characterized the traditional church in which I was raised.
- [Don't Walk, Run!!](https://ggwo.org/dont-walk-run/): So fellow runners. Let’s take Paul’s sound advice. Don’t walk but Run! from fornication, idolatry, greed and youthful lusts and run after Jesus the author who gives us His righteousness as a gift and the finisher who gives us all the things along the way of the great race we are running.
- [How to Make the Impossible Possible](https://ggwo.org/how-to-make-the-impossible-possible/): Some leaders have monetized faith, exhorting believers to speak material blessings into being, as if The Lord was a genie waiting to grant our every wish.
- [God's Heart for Christian Education](https://ggwo.org/gods-heart-for-christian-education/): In Luke 6:40, Jesus told his disciples that “everyone who is perfectly trained will become like his teacher.” This verse is a good reason for all of us to have godly teachers in our lives and in the lives of those we love and for whom we are responsible.
- [Needed: A Foundation for Faithfulness](https://ggwo.org/needed-a-foundation-for-faithfulness/): By appearances, Samson was a man powerfully touched by God.
- [The Grip of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-grip-of-grace/): We are not holding on to Him, but he has us securely and permanently in His grip. God’s grip is gentle, but firm, He will never let us go.
- [Limassol: One City, The Whole World](https://ggwo.org/limassol-one-city-the-whole-world/): Limassol, One city, the whole world!” By Gods amazing grace Limassol could be that city here in such a strategic place to reach out to the whole of Cyprus and the surrounding nations. Nothing is impossible with God!
- [3 Marriage Transforming Principles](https://ggwo.org/3-marriage-transforming-principles/): The concept of Marriage comes from the Father and is expressed through His Son Jesus Christ. Before human history began He was the bridegroom and His heart for His bride echoed forward through history. The heart of God is the source and definition of marriage.
- [Disenchantment and Downfall](https://ggwo.org/disenchantment-and-downfall/): What made the devil do it? How did a being so wonderfully made come to despise his station and standing in the design of God?
- [A Genesis of A New Praying Creation](https://ggwo.org/a-genesis-of-a-new-praying-creation/): Just as a new born babe cries out for it's mother's breast and her caress, so this new creation hungers and thirsts for God; His Word, His Love and His Communication to the inner most parts of who we are.
- [The Active Work of the Servant](https://ggwo.org/the-active-work-of-the-servant/): A crisis can bring out the best and worst in men, or it can bring out the best men. Philip the deacon represents a case in point.
- [A Disciple has a Yoke](https://ggwo.org/a-disciple-has-a-yoke/): A disciple is a learner or a pupil. A disciple's life is transformed by the nature of his instructor and the method of teaching of the his instructor.
- [Seeking Truth](https://ggwo.org/seeking-truth/): Institut Theologique du Soir – an elegant, almost regal title to the ear when heard in French.
- [How to Reach This Face-to-Screen World](https://ggwo.org/reach-face-screen-world/): Learning their story, and helping them connect to “Christ’s life” is the privilege of our mission
- [The Heart That Sees Above and Beyond](https://ggwo.org/the-heart-that-sees-above-and-beyond/): Paul records something of a prayer in Ephesians 3. He longs for the followers of Christ to understand the greatness of God and to take this reality to heart.
- [4 Profound Things God Teaches Us in Darkness](https://ggwo.org/4-profound-things-god-teaches-us-darkness/): “Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of Grace.
- [How to Become Rich](https://ggwo.org/become-rich/): Poverty can hold us back, cripple our thought process, and make us one-dimensional thinkers. It can be a brick wall surrounding us, limiting our vision and understanding of God’s heart. But for Wyson Sinatra, the walls are coming down, and as they do, God’s love is there to meet him, giving him a new mind for life, a new heart for people, and a greater vision for where God could take him.
- [How to Make Failure a Stepping Stone](https://ggwo.org/make-failure-stepping-stone/): The problem with a religious frame of reference is that we feel we must make ourselves presentable to God before he will accept us. We need first to accept Christ’s payment for all our sin and repent. Then allow Him to change us through the power of His shed blood.
- [Have Not? Look Up and Give Thanks](https://ggwo.org/have-not-look-up-and-give-thanks/): Psalm 2 opens with a pertinent question, especially for our age: "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?"
- [Is Satan Educating Your Child?](https://ggwo.org/satan-educating-child/): There is nothing Satan would like more than to be your child’s covering and teacher..
- [What Happened at the Istanbul Bible Institute?](https://ggwo.org/what-happened-at-the-istanbul-bible-institute/): When a Greater Grace pastor ventures to another country to be the guest speaker at a bible college his perceptions, thoughts and conclusions are always interesting to read.
- [What Does It Mean to be Married?](https://ggwo.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-married/): The key to a healthy Christian marriage is husbands and wives learning who they are in Christ. Then and only then can they understand what to do as the two people united into one married being.
- [See the Greatness of God and Praise Him](https://ggwo.org/see-the-greatness-of-god-and-praise-him/): Throughout the Word of God, we read hundreds of praises and thanksgivings directed to God. They come from kings and prophets and apostles and others.
- [The Secret to Rising Above the Difficulty and Finding Strength from God](https://ggwo.org/how-foreign-missions-will-change-your-way-of-thinking/): I never realized how much my life was centered around convenience. Hop in the car at midnight and go to Walmart for anything I needed. 7 minutes to school.
- [The Charge: Faithful Final Words](https://ggwo.org/the-charge-faithful-final-words/): Last goodbyes are never easy things. There are so many weighty, important things to say.
- [Arrested by Love](https://ggwo.org/arrested-by-love/): Can you imagine the things that King Solomon was a prisoner to? If you read Ecclesiastes chapters 1 and chapter 2, seven times Solomon says something about the great things he had. He had great possessions. He had great authority and power. He had so many great things.
- [Our Birthright and Matters of the Heart](https://ggwo.org/our-birthright-and-matters-of-the-heart/): When we read Bible stories about Esau, there's a lot to recommend about him. He is skillful with the bow and an able hunter.
- [Atmospheric Cycles](https://ggwo.org/atmospheric-cycles/): Bringing mankind into the realm of truth is the most difficult task for God to perform in our midst. Often when God is moving in an amazing way, people become familiar with the supernatural because they have become familiar with the natural
- [The Fields of Death in Cambodia Transformed into Living Fields](https://ggwo.org/the-fields-of-death-in-cambodia-transformed-into-living-fields/): Words of life are taking root in a place long known for death -- the nation of Cambodia.
- [Truth, Reality and Influence](https://ggwo.org/truth-reality-and-influence/): Recently, one of our Academy teachers and Bible College students went to a local university with a sign that said, “Is truth absolute?”
- [The Song of Love and the Glory of Trust](https://ggwo.org/the-song-of-love-and-the-glory-of-trust/): Song of Solomon falls in a particularly important place in our Bibles.
- [Why the End is Better Than the Beginning?](https://ggwo.org/why-the-end-is-better-than-the-beginning/): Plug patience into the divine equation of your life..
- [7 Pillars of Raising Secure Children](https://ggwo.org/7-pillars-raising-secure-children/): Parenting is one of life's fine arts. God's Word reveals that God is our Father and as such He is the model of great fatherhood. Being a parent is complicated but breaking it down into some simple Biblical principles can be a breakthrough to understanding it as a whole.
- [Someone's Waiting Somewhere](https://ggwo.org/someones-waiting-somewhere/): He sends us and we go. That's it, I think. There's no courage to summon, or program to work up. We walk and talk with people and the Spirit opens hearts to His message.
- [The Secret to Having Real Joy](https://ggwo.org/the-secret-to-having-real-joy/): The road to joy has many obstacles. One of them is a religious mindset.
- [The Colors of Missions](https://ggwo.org/the-colors-of-missions/): Matti Sirvio became a Christian at age 14 as a young Finnish man. He is a disciple of Jesus Christ, a pastor, a church planter and a missionary. But besides these he is an artist...a painter whose paintings of the middle east and the gospel in the midst have been exhibited and sold throughout the world. This blog is a glimpse into the thoughts and motivations behind his art.
- [A Mind to Work](https://ggwo.org/a-mind-to-work/): First, God finished the work of creation, then Jesus finished the work of redemption then God finished the work of his plan for mankind, angels and creation. Finally, it will be done. We will enter into a new age, an eternal age, where there is no sin, no death, no devil, no false prophets, no beast, no demons, no lies, and no darkness. God fills the universe, and in the city of God, the New Jerusalem, there is no temple, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb will be the temple and the light thereof (Revelation 21:22-23). That day is coming. Until then, we are working.
- [China Link in Budapest](https://ggwo.org/china-link-in-budapest/): A stone’s throw from the main Greater Grace church in Budapest, Hungary is a mission field that is so white for the harvest that the inhabitants approached Greater Grace leadership and asked them to start a church there.
- [Baltimore: Where Two Seas Meet](https://ggwo.org/baltimore-where-two-seas-meet/): Baltimore, she's a place where two seas meet . Neither North nor South, neither Washington nor New York.
- [Spreading Your Global Wings](https://ggwo.org/spreading-your-global-wings/): In 1975, the author, with a team of ten adults and one child, traveled to Finland with the intention of ..
- [Amen!](https://ggwo.org/amen/): Amen. It is a word that is often used by believers and non-believers alike. We tend to use it as a way of ..
- [The Teenage Abstraction](https://ggwo.org/teenage-abstraction/): If you ask me what I fear most in regard to the Christian teenagers today, I would tell you that sex, drugs, or rock & roll are not on the top of my list.
- [Why Dad's Gentleness Makes Kids Great](https://ggwo.org/dads-gentleness-makes-kids-strong/): Fathers around the world have established the leadership of their home based on their strength and power. This approach is one that results in superficial relationships and children who do not know God's love or character. God has shown us another way. The way of meekness.
- [A Great Future with Jesus](https://ggwo.org/a-great-future-with-jesus/): At a place called Worthly Pond, God gave me a vision of what our ministry would become.
- [Big Ideas ... From God](https://ggwo.org/big-ideas-from-god/): Surely, some of you have heard the story of R.J. LeTourneau, a successful industrialist.
- [Seek the Lost](https://ggwo.org/seek-the-lost/): The Bible says that believers who witness, minister, and preach the Gospel introduce people to the prospect of an eternal destiny with God.
- [Set Apart for Christ](https://ggwo.org/set-apart-for-christ/): "Sanctify" means to set apart, to make holy. When a person, place, or thing is sanctified, it becomes completely dedicated to God, for His purpose alone.
- [Manifest Faith](https://ggwo.org/manifest-faith/): As a born-again believer, you have a brand-new position of faith. You are loved with a love that will never give up on you.
- [God's Goodness Is for You](https://ggwo.org/gods-goodness-is-for-you/): Let's talk to a couple of people in the Bible who had something good happen to them: Abraham, God gave you a promise and you believed.
- [This One Came to Save Us](https://ggwo.org/this-one-came-to-save-us/): Thousands of souls are in hell today who exchanged gifts at Christmas and celebrated the day, but who never recognized that Jesus was born to die for their sins.
- [What Are You Thinking?](https://ggwo.org/what-are-you-thinking/): There are many reasons why some individuals do not have good expectations for the future. Often, a negative outlook is the result of having a wounded spirit.
- [Let the Lord Comfort You](https://ggwo.org/let-the-lord-comfort-you/): Every person has the potential to be comforted by the Spirit, to have his waste places comforted, to have his wildernesses made like Eden.
- [Everlasting Springs](https://ggwo.org/everlasting-springs/): When we come to Jesus and drink from His well, rivers of living water flow from our emotions. We become like fountains with our attitude of praise.
- [Give Thanks in Everything](https://ggwo.org/give-thanks-in-everything/): If Christ's life is flowing out of my emotions with praise and thankfulness, then that should take care of any problems I have.
- [True Repentance](https://ggwo.org/true-repentance/): There is little proper repentance today among believers. Yes, repentance is a gift of grace, but like the gift of salvation, we need to act upon it.
- [Oh, Forgiving Savior!](https://ggwo.org/oh-forgiving-savior/): Grace is unsearchable, unfathomable, and inexhaustible. Man cannot comprehend it, because God's ways are past finding out.
- [The Power of Consistency](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-consistency/): With conviction comes consistency. To be steadfast means that we determine to go forward without change or equivocation.
- [Convictions and Conclusions](https://ggwo.org/convictions-and-conclusions/): Every single matter has a conclusion.
- [Blessings Are on the Way](https://ggwo.org/blessings-are-on-the-way/): Something good is going to happen to you, Happen to you-this very day. Something good is going to happen to you! Jesus of Nazareth is passing your way.
- [Walk the Right Way](https://ggwo.org/walk-the-right-way/): A young boy stole a watch. He didn't have a very good vocabulary, but he was magnificent at manipulating the truth.
- [Real Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/real-wisdom/): It is up to us to know the way of God. But there is no way to know God's way unless we have doctrinal wisdom.
- [God Rests in Us](https://ggwo.org/god-rests-in-us/): God loves to rest. As Christians, we often get overwhelmed with duties-doing what may indeed need to be done.
- [Death Is Defeated](https://ggwo.org/death-is-defeated/): Temptation, when answered properly, can help build spiritual muscles. It enables us to use the Word of God more skillfully.
- [The Planting of the Lord](https://ggwo.org/the-planting-of-the-lord/): When the storms come, it is vital that we know where we are and what we are.
- [Amen and Amen](https://ggwo.org/amen-and-amen/): A fifty-nine-year-old woman, her face wrinkled and pale, was in the fourth stage of cancer. She prayed, "God, I'm not ready to die. I don't want to die now.
- [Making the Most of Our Minds](https://ggwo.org/making-the-most-of-our-minds/): His name is George, and he has no place to lay his head. He “lives” in a park in Dundalk, a community situated just outside the Baltimore City limits.
- [Defining the Warfare Against Relationships](https://ggwo.org/defining-the-warfare-against-relationships/): At times, the warfare against us makes it so hard to believe that we are complete. Think in spiritual revelation, illumination, and...
- [The Unity of the Church and Spiritual Warfare](https://ggwo.org/the-unity-of-the-church-and-spiritual-warfare/): In order to win in warfare, there must be an understanding of unity.
- [Chinese Dumplings & Salvations](https://ggwo.org/chinese-dumplings-salvations/): Yesterday we opened our house to the Chinese church for a BBQ, fellowship, and Bible study.
- [Idols Fade, the Living God is Forever](https://ggwo.org/idols-fade-the-living-god-is-forever/): The city of Athens burdened Paul the apostle. He wandered through its streets and bumped into idol after idol. Those who lived there spent (wasted?)
- [Developing Disciples](https://ggwo.org/developing-disciples/): This is the essence of discipleship: We take what we have learned from God and invest it in others.
- [The Shepherd on the Inside](https://ggwo.org/the-shepherd-on-the-inside/): This past Friday I was able to substitute for Pastor Steve Scibelli, teaching the Life of David Bible college class while he was in Togo Africa.
- [Needed: Lives That Inspire](https://ggwo.org/needed-lives-that-inspire/): Hezekiah came to the throne of Judah after an intense season of idolatry had gripped the nation.
- [Discover the True Meaning of Life](https://ggwo.org/discover-the-true-meaning-of-life/): As members of the Body of Christ, each of us is unique and each one has a purpose.
- [PATIENCE:  The Result of Believing](https://ggwo.org/patience-the-result-of-believing/): "Do not...fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a... great reward. For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance...that you may...fully accomplish the Will of God, and thus receive....what is promised." (Hebrews 10:35,36)
- [The Belly, the Gourd and Our Hearts](https://ggwo.org/the-belly-the-gourd-and-our-hearts/): Jonah is such an important piece of writing for believers – especially in these times.
- [Abide with God in the Secret Place](https://ggwo.org/abide-with-god-in-the-secret-place/): As believers, we have a secret place - a place where God will meet us at any time. It is the throne of grace. We can come boldly before this throne because of the perfect love of God, which demonstrated itself tremendously in Christ's death at the Cross. There, on Calvary's hill, Jesus died for all of our sins and opened the way for us to be hid with Christ in God.
- [The Inner Life](https://ggwo.org/the-inner-life/): Discovering Christ in the sanctuary of our hearts causes us to be reminded of the eternal realm.
- [The Body of Christ: Fashioned for Love](https://ggwo.org/the-body-of-christ-fashioned-for-love/): The Corinthian church was a church of activity, an assembly blessed with gifted people.
- [Weeping Teeth, White Garments, Filled Lamps](https://ggwo.org/weeping-teeth/): How many people are trained by fear to produce moral behavior instead of growing in grace? Fear is a powerful motivator.
- [Come to the Waters, Behold the Lamb](https://ggwo.org/come-to-the-waters-behold-the-lamb/): Who were the friends of Jesus and how did they become His friends? John 1 paints a picture of how the first disciples of Jesus were drawn to Him.
- [Beyond Knowledge, Into Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/beyond-knowledge-into-wisdom/): by Carl H. Stevens Have you ever read the Bible or listened to a message from the pulpit and noticed that it did not seem to touch you?
- [Pity](https://ggwo.org/pity/): “Like as a father pitieth* his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
- [Indu's Story: The Power of Prayer in a Family](https://ggwo.org/indus-story-the-power-of-prayer-in-a-family/): Mark 10:29-31 “Assuredly, I say unto you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time- houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions- and in the age to come, eternal life.
- [A Well, A Woman and Living Water](https://ggwo.org/a-well-a-woman-and-living-water/): Jesus traveled through Samaria. He and His disciples were on the run because they had become marked men.
- [A Life of Faith Action](https://ggwo.org/a-life-of-faith-action/): by Carl H. Stevens Throughout the Gospels, we see Jesus challenging the legalistic rituals of the religion of those days, a religion in which so few found it possible to measure up.
- [M is for Mission](https://ggwo.org/m-is-for-mission/): God loves people more than anything. His love moves us to reach out and gather all to His table of grace. Whosoever will may come!
- [Water and Wine, Life and Love](https://ggwo.org/water-and-wine-life-and-love/): The first recorded miracle of Jesus happened at a wedding, in Cana near Nazareth, where Christ grew up.
- [Commitment Is a Decision](https://ggwo.org/commitment-is-a-decision/): "People get weary and exhausted in what they do because they make commitments without taking up their cross. "
- [In Between](https://ggwo.org/in-between/): Could be my life is non-productive today due to a previous lack of digging the dirt, planting a seed, nurturing a son or daughter, planning for that future day.
- [The Light of Sotkamo](https://ggwo.org/the-light-of-sotkamo/): To those who remember her, Huli Valpasvuo was like a Sotkamo summer day. Her life was full of light.
- [The Betrayer Had Clean Feet](https://ggwo.org/the-betrayer-had-clean-feet/): “[Judas] then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night” (John 13:30).
- [Dealing with a Lying Tongue](https://ggwo.org/dealing-with-a-lying-tongue/): Those who are living a lie can be taken captive in their experience.
- [Just One](https://ggwo.org/just-one/): "One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life." (Oswald Chambers):
- [Intrigue, Missions and Compassion -- Haiti](https://ggwo.org/intrigue-missions-and-compassion-haiti/): There is intrigue, and there is compassion.
- [The Proud Look and Our Concept of God](https://ggwo.org/the-proud-look-and-our-concept-of-god/): “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: “A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, “A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, “A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren” (Proverbs 6:16-20) Here, we read about the things that God consider as abominations.
- [Dealing with the Spirit of Compromise](https://ggwo.org/dealing-with-the-spirit-of-compromise/): When the spirit of compromise suggests ways of getting around an issue, give in to the Spirit of Truth...
- [Educational Emptiness](https://ggwo.org/educational-emptiness/): This may sound strange coming from a professional educator, but sometimes I really hate Education.
- [Hitting the Bull's-Eye](https://ggwo.org/hitting-the-bulls-eye/): Over the past six months, I have had the privilege of traveling to many Greater Grace churches in many places around the world.
- [A World at Odds and Our Place in It](https://ggwo.org/a-world-at-odds-and-our-place-in-it/): “In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
- [Defining the Call of God](https://ggwo.org/defining-the-call-of-god/): Think of it. God, the Creator, the Redeemer, the Savior, the Lord of everything has given each of us a personal call.
- [Faith Response](https://ggwo.org/faith-response/): Faith is not a management style were we have control and understand all things, it is a radical reliance in response to an absolute promise and the person of Jesus.
- [Victory Parade](https://ggwo.org/victory-parade/): Every year on Good Friday, our 17 Greater Grace Churches in Mumbai target one area of our city of 20 million and do a victory march on the street to tell the public the meaning of the holiday.
- [A Thread of Faith to a Garment of Praise](https://ggwo.org/a-thread-of-faith-to-a-garment-of-praise/): I can remember when I first met a group of people who really seemed to enjoy church. The services were full of singing and shouting.
- [Dealing with the Real Issues](https://ggwo.org/dealing-with-the-real-issues/): It is so easy to identify symptoms, and it is even possible to move away from the symptoms. But that is not how healing comes.
- [Real Love](https://ggwo.org/real-love/): The people who God was speaking about in this passage were some of the most unfaithful people as a group that the World has ever known.
- [The Steady, Forward Work of the Gospel](https://ggwo.org/the-steady-forward-work-of-the-gospel/): Summer Greetings from Nicaragua! March and April are the hottest time of the year here which means the work is a little slower, but we are still moving forward.
- [Arise, Call Out to God](https://ggwo.org/arise-call-out-to-god/): Jonah ignored his mission. More than that, this prophet ran as far away from it as he could.
- [Dealing with Stressful Times](https://ggwo.org/dealing-with-stressful-times/): Dealing with Stressful Times Carl H. Stevens Jr.
- [Actions in the Extreme](https://ggwo.org/actions-in-the-extreme/): “A girl came home to discover that her mother wasn’t there. Her mom was already in a column marching toward the Umschlagplatz.
- [Voices of Youth](https://ggwo.org/voices-of-youth/): I am currently sitting in the lobby of another Christian school in Budapest called ICSB (International Christian School of Budapest) chaperoning an event called Honors Choir where Christian students from all over Europe come together and sing at various venues every year.
- [Help the Bitter Get Better](https://ggwo.org/help-the-bitter-get-better/): “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:21). The book of Ruth is viewed as a love story.
- [Are You Married to Your Wounds?](https://ggwo.org/are-you-married-to-your-wounds/): This booklet presents fresh thoughts in an eternal context on the subject of wounds. Where one bad experience or bad decision will cause a bruise, repeated acts will cause a wound. Here, we will show that these wounds can be mollified - but only with the oil of the Holy Spirit.
- [40 Years of Change](https://ggwo.org/40-years-of-change/): Mercy does a long-term work.
- [A Creative Adventure in Faith](https://ggwo.org/a-creative-adventure-in-faith/): Have you ever had someone recognize something in you that you couldn’t see or thought was insignificant about yourself?
- [Hear and Love, the Great Commandments](https://ggwo.org/hear-and-love-the-great-commandments/): A scribe had a question for Jesus: “Which commandment is the most important of all?” (Mark 12:28).
- [Building Walls of Doctrine](https://ggwo.org/building-walls-of-doctrine/): For some people, walls mean confinement, with no way out. In Bible times, however, walls were for preservation of cities against attacks from the outside
- [What A Word](https://ggwo.org/what-a-word/): These past few months have really “Broken Open,” as one brother mentioned in years past. God is doing amazing things using us as vessels.
- [A Faithful Father Makes a Difference](https://ggwo.org/a-faithful-father-makes-a-difference/): The early chapters of 1 Samuel could be titled this: “The Tale of Two Fathers.” There is Elkanah and his leadership, and then there is Eli, the priest and leader of the Tabernacle -- Israel’s worship center that was then based in Shiloh.
- [Damaged Goods Can Still Receive God’s Love](https://ggwo.org/damaged-goods-can-still-receive-gods-love/): Damaged Goods Can Still Receive God’s Love Carl H. Stevens Jr.
- [Staying Personal with God in Warfare](https://ggwo.org/staying-personal-with-god-in-warfare/): "...my Beloved is mine, and I am His!..."
- [We Have Seen](https://ggwo.org/we-have-seen/): But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay (to hold it) (Jeremiah 20:9b).
- [The Blood That Answers For Our Sin](https://ggwo.org/the-blood-that-answers-for-our-sin/): The story of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4 reveals a lot to us about sin and the depths to which it sinks the human heart.
- [A Victorious Self-Image in Virtue Love](https://ggwo.org/a-victorious-self-image-in-virtue-love/): Subjectivity is the cause of so many problems for believers in churches today. It establishes a mindset that is a direct result of Adam's Fall. Beginning with a preoccupation with self, subjective Christians evaluate people, situations, and even the Word of God according to relative righteousness (with self as the standard). Their arrogance masks a poor self-image, and they are often suspicious of people's motives and even paranoid. The good news is that no one has to live that way!
- [Astonished](https://ggwo.org/astonished/): In the picture above, you can see me with some people from our Grace Mission Church after attending the high school graduation ceremony of one of the several young men and women who completed either middle school or high school last December.
- [Take off the Raincoat](https://ggwo.org/take-off-the-raincoat/): The awareness of shame is a reckoning with lost innocence, the realization that one now has the potential to hurt another and be hurt, to honor God and to dishonor Him.
- [Jesus is Alive, Now Follow and Feed](https://ggwo.org/jesus-is-alive-now-follow-and-feed/): “There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
- [Committed to Purity](https://ggwo.org/committed-to-purity/): We don’t have to live in the consequences of immorality, sin and iniquity, or evil, always trying to pay for what we have done.
- [Stop. Look. Listen. Lessons from A Burning Bush](https://ggwo.org/stop-look-listen-lessons-from-a-burning-bush/): He has been leading sheep to good land, but now God wants him to lead His people to the Promised Land.
- [The Barriers to Loving and to Being Loved](https://ggwo.org/the-barriers-to-loving-and-to-being-loved/): The other day I walked into town. It's about a 20-minute walk. I like to walk into town because it's a chance to be quiet.
- [The Resurrected Jesus -- Alive and Personal](https://ggwo.org/the-resurrected-jesus-alive-and-personal/): The empty tomb staggered those who came to it that first Easter morning.
- [April 2016 Prayer Focus](https://ggwo.org/april-2016-prayer-focus/): Matthew 9:36-38, Jesus was moved with compassion in His heart and in His feet. The harvest is truly plenteous but the laborers are few.
- [Cosmic Loneliness](https://ggwo.org/cosmic-loneliness/): There are many believers who know exactly what God says but who act as though there is no God when their emotions take over their soul.
- [Faces](https://ggwo.org/faces/): Love does this, but can only be accessed through His broken body. Yes, marred beyond recognition, blood, water, and peace came forth
- [Mission Multiplication](https://ggwo.org/mission-multiplication/): When I first came as a missionary to live in India in 2006, there were four Greater Grace churches in Mumbai .
- ['That Just Man'  Couldn't Be Kept Alive](https://ggwo.org/that-just-man-couldnt-be-kept-alive/): Pontius Pilate’s wife had a dream. It was, it seems, a graphically powerful night vision about Jesus.
- [Coverings](https://ggwo.org/coverings/): ...the absence of a covering results in coldness. ...when you don’t have God’s covering, your heart gets cold.
- [Strength, Rest, Security](https://ggwo.org/strength-rest-security/): "...You have magnified Your Word..." "I will worship ... and praise Your Name for Your loving kindness and ...
- [What I've Come to Call Home](https://ggwo.org/what-ive-come-to-call-home/): Happy New Year! Can I still say that nearly three months later? This marks my third anniversary living in Hungary.
- [Dark Gethsemane: Pressed in Prayer, Surrendered to Purpose](https://ggwo.org/dark-gethsemane-pressed-in-prayer-surrendered-to-purpose/): Jesus Christ was a man of prayer and He set aside places to pray.
- [Created to Have Dominion](https://ggwo.org/created-to-have-dominion/): Two things that God wants us to understand are these: one, that He has a plan for us, and, two, that He always desires to give us rest in that plan.
- [Cloaked in a Mystery](https://ggwo.org/cloaked-in-a-mystery/): “Hands on, do it yourselfers, and MacGyver determination” seems to be he attitude of the day. Our best efforts are to work something, until it works out.
- [Open Hearts and Open Doors in Japan](https://ggwo.org/open-hearts-and-open-doors-in-japan/): My adventure with Jesus and Japan started in April 2012, when I went to this country for a visa run.
- [Good and Pleasant Unity in Spirit and in Truth](https://ggwo.org/good-and-pleasant-unity-in-spirit-and-in-truth/): Psalm 133 gives us a couple of graphic word pictures to help our understanding. It is a short song of David that he wrote to exalt the character of unity.
- [Consider the Questions God Asks](https://ggwo.org/consider-the-questions-god-asks/): God’s questions cause us to examine our own hearts and focus our attention on Him
- [Rocks in the Garden](https://ggwo.org/rocks-in-the-garden/): Let’s not be buried by our sin, but continue to be over-comers through the power of the Holy Spirit as we walk in the light of His love and forgiveness.
- [Eternally Secure](https://ggwo.org/eternally-secure/): We praise God for the opportunities He is giving us in this year 2016, Hallelujah!!! Today we had one of our best street evangelism times!
- [Be Kind and Hold Marriage in Honor](https://ggwo.org/be-kind-and-hold-marriage-in-honor/): “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4 New American Standard Version) These instructions come to us in the book of Hebrews.
- [A Heart After God](https://ggwo.org/a-heart-after-god/): "And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will" (Acts 13:22).
- [Grace, the Divine Teacher](https://ggwo.org/grace-the-divine-teacher/): Be sure that no matter how much we think we know, we all have much to learn from grace, the divine teacher (Titus 2:11,12)..
- [Adventures in Budapest](https://ggwo.org/adventures-in-budapest/): We thank you for your continued prayers, and are excited to share some of what God has been doing recently in our family’s life.
- [The Faithful God and the Marriage Supper](https://ggwo.org/the-faithful-god-and-the-marriage-supper/): Pay attention as you read the parables of Jesus and you may discern a pattern.
- [Corporate Pentecost](https://ggwo.org/corporate-pentecost/): I want to show you what the Lord is going to do in these last hours of human history
- [Flood of Love](https://ggwo.org/flood-of-love/): Rebellion tries to make reality disappear, but Jesus found Paul and then in a “truth out of love” told him “it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” In other words, “Paul, you can do nothing against truth, but for it only.
- [Looking Back, Moving Forward](https://ggwo.org/looking-back-moving-forward/): Looking Back over the year we are very thankful and grateful to God for the many lessons He has and continues to teach us ...
- [Prayer: Start with 'Our Father'](https://ggwo.org/prayer-start-with-our-father/): “Our Father” – these are the words Jesus gave as the starting point for prayer.
- [Rubber Meets Road](https://ggwo.org/rubber-meets-road/): This individual may even tell about how the Lord is leading him in a particular direction, but his life is a series of false starts and unrealized dreams. He believes his own words, but his religion, as James says, is useless and empty.
- [The Best Year of Our Lives](https://ggwo.org/the-best-year-of-our-lives/): “We’re here because we love people and they respond,” Pastor George Arman said recently through a garbled Skype to cell phone connection.
- [Known and Not Known](https://ggwo.org/known-and-not-known/): The story of Lazarus and the Rich Man stands apart from others told by Jesus. The difference is in the details we read in Luke 16.
- [Complete in the Family of God](https://ggwo.org/complete-in-the-family-of-god/): We are the object of God’s affections and attention. He made us complete in His family, and He has committed all of His promises to us.
- [Prayer Focus](https://ggwo.org/prayer-focus/): Let us come to our God, the God who does the impossible, and believe Him for great things in the days to come.
- [An Easy Yoke](https://ggwo.org/an-easy-yoke/): On a recent Sunday, we shared a message on our freedom in grace based on Jesus saying, "My yoke is easy (gracious, kind) and My burden is light."
- [Love's A Dirty Job... But Someone Has To Do It](https://ggwo.org/loves-a-dirty-job-but-someone-has-to-do-it/): That’s what love is, it’s patient. It’s a dirty job. It means I stay when the feelings are gone, with the hope that they will return, because long ago I chose to love.
- [The Bema Seat: Faced with Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-bema-seat-faced-with-grace/): "As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness.” These words come from David; they come at the conclusion of one of the king’s prayers, Psalm 17.
- [Coming Home](https://ggwo.org/coming-home/): While he was still afar off, the father saw the son coming home. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed his neck again and again (Luke 15:20)
- [JOY: Its Source, Its Surprises, Our Strength](https://ggwo.org/joy-its-source-its-surprises-our-strength/): We are set in His Presence forever and have been given the privilege- indeed the command- to ask and keep on asking; and then He has promised that we will receive, that our joy may be full to overflowing!
- [Our Rock, Our Redeemer](https://ggwo.org/our-rock-our-redeemer/): “O, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer” (Psalm 19:14). From here, from there, from the uttermost parts, we came.
- [The House of the Lord](https://ggwo.org/the-house-of-the-lord/): “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” This represents an invitation, a joyful summons, as we read in Psalm 122, the third psalm in a series known as “Songs of Ascent.” The children of Israel sang this worship set of 15 songs as they marched to Jerusalem for the three great festivals – Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles.
- [Pictures](https://ggwo.org/pictures/): "We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through large puddles, along the one road leading from the camp.
- [Better, Best, Blessed](https://ggwo.org/better-best-blessed/): Melchizedek appeared suddenly. This man of mystery showed himself to Abraham and shared with him bread, wine and a blessing.
- [Flanders Fields](https://ggwo.org/flanders-fields/): In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
- ['Silly' Prayers and the Savior's Grace](https://ggwo.org/silly-prayers-and-the-saviors-grace/): The first miracle of Jesus was a small thing, a surprising thing even, as we read in John 2.
- [The Greatest of These, in Heaven and on Earth](https://ggwo.org/the-greatest-of-these-in-heaven-and-on-earth/): There is no greater motivating force in the world than Love, because God is Love; and without this Love constraining us, the measure of faith given each of us will not work, and the Lord will be robbed of pleasure (Heb.11:6).
- [The Remnant: True to the Truth](https://ggwo.org/the-remnant-true-to-the-truth/): Once, the world was one, and it didn’t turn out so well. Really, it just revealed how quickly people forget; especially how easily they forget the Word of God.
- [Indispensable](https://ggwo.org/indispensable/): Some people are indispensable members of Christ’s body -- they get superabundant honor.
- [The Beauty of Holiness](https://ggwo.org/the-beauty-of-holiness/): Righteousness and holiness are words out of fashion. To some, they are terms that imply exclusion and division.
- [Made for War](https://ggwo.org/made-for-war/): The best defense is a good offense – or so I have heard it said by a number of sports coaches through the years.
- [Buds of Promise](https://ggwo.org/buds-of-promise/): After a cold, grey Budapest winter, seeing the buds on the trees in late March fills my heart with hope.
- [For Those Who Know Not What They Do](https://ggwo.org/forgiveness-for-those-who-know-not-what-they-do/): The first words Jesus said from the Cross were these: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” The sentence startles us because we understand so little about what’s really happening in our midst.
- [Cast Down but Not Forsaken](https://ggwo.org/cast-down-but-not-forsaken/): The awareness of shame is a reckoning with lost innocence, the realization that one now has the potential to hurt another and be hurt, to honor God and to dishonor Him.
- [A Most Honest Prayer](https://ggwo.org/a-most-honest-prayer/): “Help my unbelief.” This petition was presented to Jesus by a man with a demon-afflicted son. He had brought the boy to Christ’s disciples for deliverance.
- [Easter](https://ggwo.org/easter/): It directly affects believers who try to win lost souls because an unsaved person's ground of decision making may be skewed or obscured in the river of moral relativism.
- ["UNI - SON"](https://ggwo.org/uni-son/): The world in its frenzy to establish unity amongst individuals and nations, which at best is woefully fragmented, needs to see the Unity of the Spirit in the One New Man in practical and yet radical ways.
- [Jimmy, Juk, and Jesus](https://ggwo.org/jimmy-juk-and-jesus/): The sun is rising earlier and the days are growing longer as spring approaches here in Korea.
- [The Answer to Hosanna](https://ggwo.org/the-answer-to-hosanna/): Jesus arrived at Jerusalem on the foal of an ass. A young animal, never before ridden, was the vehicle of the King. No trumpets sounded to announce Him.
- [Spiritual Agility](https://ggwo.org/spiritual-agility/): As a boxer trains to strike, he must first train to stand. His agility to block and defend are directly related to his stance.
- [A Tale of Crowns](https://ggwo.org/a-tale-of-crowns/): John 19 stands as one of the most momentous chapters in all of literature. Here, we read of Jesus and Pilate; we read tragic words and triumphant words.
- [It's God's World](https://ggwo.org/its-gods-world/): “The battle is the Lord’s.” It is also His life, His righteousness, His joy which is our strength. We are kept by His power for it is His salvation.
- [How to Do and Teach](https://ggwo.org/how-to-do-and-teach/): There are two problems in Christian education.
- [Small But Mighty with God](https://ggwo.org/small-but-mighty-with-god/): Small people, unknown people, common people – these are ones whom the Lord makes use of – to His glory.
- ["Oh, that My people would listen to Me ..."](https://ggwo.org/oh-that-my-people-would-listen-to-me/): Learning to sit in silence before Him and listen for His Voice not only protects us from getting personally derailed, hijacked and ultimately defeated by obeying "strangers' voices", but it also develops intercession for others.
- [Who Do You Say that He Is?](https://ggwo.org/who-do-you-say-that-he-is/): “Who do you say that I am?” It’s the big question Jesus posed to His disciples as they sat together outside Caesarea Philippi.
- [Don't Be an Abstract Christian](https://ggwo.org/dont-be-an-abstract-christian/): Among Christians, there are those who live by superficial principles or abstractions. That which is abstract or theoretical lacks substance. Abstract leadership lacks strength to stand when the enemy comes in like a flood, as when Saul faced Goliath
- [The Dirt Disciples Are Made Of](https://ggwo.org/the-dirt-disciples-are-made-of/): Disciples are people who choose to give themselves to learning. This is who we are when we come before Word of God.
- [Idealist](https://ggwo.org/idealist/): We live through heart-ache to be forever joined with Christ, intimately.
- [Pictures of Unity](https://ggwo.org/pictures-of-unity/): Psalm 133 presents an interesting picture of family unity for us.
- [Build the Expectation](https://ggwo.org/build-the-expectation/): With EuroCon less than a month away, there's plenty of buzz around home base.
- [A 'Man' After God's Heart](https://ggwo.org/a-man-after-gods-heart/): What's in a name? Take Andrew for example. The word means "man." That's it. There's no larger metaphor attached to it.
- [Hopes and Dreams](https://ggwo.org/hopes-and-dreams/): It’s like the budding of a flower, petals which were shrunken in withdrawal, unraveling and stretching in beaming beatification.
- [ALWAYS ALL GRACE!](https://ggwo.org/always-all-grace/): God can be absolutely relied upon AT ALL TIMES to make ALL Grace abound towards us ALWAYS, in EVERY situation and under EVERY circumstance; and He is glorified in our RECEIVING ABUNDANTLY of this endless, never-deserved GRACE!
- [Strong Joy, Merry Hearts and Mad Mirth](https://ggwo.org/strong-joy-merry-hearts-and-mad-mirth/): “Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness” (Proverbs 14:13) Mockery has become so manic, and the parodies so predictable.
- [Alive for a Purpose](https://ggwo.org/alive-for-a-purpose/): Everyone is alive for a purpose. Getting up every morning with a purpose - with God, in God, and for God - is the key to my personal walk with God.
- [God Blessed from the Beginning](https://ggwo.org/god-blessed-from-the-beginning/): The matter of our identity as people is addressed early in our Bibles. Genesis 1 and 2 define the essence of humanity in clear terms.
- [Small Beginnings, Eternal Outcomes](https://ggwo.org/small-beginnings-eternal-outcomes/): Before he was made a martyr, Stephen served and served well.
- [Freedom](https://ggwo.org/freedom-2/): In Forgiving Jesus was free from any burden, any anger, free from grudges He might hold against those who hurt Him.
- [God with Me](https://ggwo.org/god-with-me/): Immanuel awakens a listening ear.
- [Listen in the Midst of the New Babel](https://ggwo.org/listen-in-the-midst-of-the-new-babel/): All of us came from the boat. At least, that’s the message of the Bible.
- [The Spirit and Family Dynamics](https://ggwo.org/the-spirit-and-family-dynamics/): “A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle” (Proverbs 18:19) This phrase from Proverbs says much about family dynamics.
- [The Two Faces of Legalism](https://ggwo.org/the-two-faces-of-legalism/): The elder brother could not share in his father's deep relief and joy, because although he had done all that was right in his father's eyes, he had not done so with a perfect heart, in response to his father's heart of love.
- [A Bold Heart Who Served](https://ggwo.org/a-bold-heart-who-served/): Martha deserves better.
- [Now That They're Gone](https://ggwo.org/now-that-theyre-gone/): “Cast down, but not destroyed.” Paul’s words to the Corinthian Church ring in our ears, but distress or despair wait to overtake us.
- [An Eternal Destiny](https://ggwo.org/an-eternal-destiny/): Why are there so many casualties among believers, even in Spirit-filled ministries? Why do men who have been called to be pastors become fearful, insecure, or refuse to study to be effective in their call?
- [A Rest for Jugglers Everywhere](https://ggwo.org/a-rest-for-jugglers-everywhere/): I see people of unbelief as jugglers in a circus of life. And, a sad circus it is.
- [Bankrupt Without Love](https://ggwo.org/bankrupt-without-love/): It’s easy for me to replace Jesus for love, but not so easy to replace me, because in practice I am often not patient, I sometimes envy, and I have been known to keep a record of wrongs, and on and on it goes.
- [Santa Claus](https://ggwo.org/santa-claus/): Santa Claus is a legend born in centuries of imagination, but his origins take us back to a 4th century holy man whose fervor and generosity characterized him as a Christian zealot.
- [The Wise Watch, the Wise Follow the Light](https://ggwo.org/the-wise-watch-the-wise-follow-the-light/): The wise men watched the skies. These men of night vision cataloged constellations and planets.
- [Christmas From Berlin](https://ggwo.org/christmas-from-berlin/): Christmas is about getting as much as it is about giving. Apparently though, this is a thing we are all having a hard time doing: Getting.
- [Divine Convictions](https://ggwo.org/divine-convictions/): In an instant, we can reestablish divine convictions in our lives
- [VISION OR VANITIES?](https://ggwo.org/vision-or-vanities/): "The fear of the Lord", key in overcoming lying vanities and living in a redemptive revelation of God, simply means that we esteem Him His Word, His ways, more important and necessary than anything or anyone else in our lives.
- [Mosaic Law; the Good and Bad of it](https://ggwo.org/mosaic-law-the-good-and-bad-of-it/): What is lawlessness but a conscience-seared? -- a moral staple of psychological human-hood denied and burnt to a crisp.
- [Things Worth Knowing](https://ggwo.org/things-worth-knowing/): Ecclesiastes presents itself in our Bibles between Proverbs and Song of Solomon, right in the Wisdom literature neighborhood, set near the Psalms.
- [A Great Door Is Open Unto You](https://ggwo.org/a-great-door-is-open-unto-you/): "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture" (John 10:9). What is a door?
- [Two Men](https://ggwo.org/two-men/): 1 Corinthians 6:7 Even to have such lawsuits with one another is a defeat for you. Why not just accept the injustice and leave it at that?
- [A Witness That Speaks Large](https://ggwo.org/a-witness-that-speaks-large/): Toward the end of the book of Joshua, we read of a conflict that sprung up among the tribes of Israel.
- [Be Still](https://ggwo.org/be-still/): "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen.." (Psalm 46:10).
- [Spiritual "Grown-ups"](https://ggwo.org/spiritual-grown-ups/): The measure in which we are available to and will receive the abundance of His Grace is the measure in which we will grow up in Him in all things - and reign in all things, in Him (Rom.5:17):
- [Extracting the Sweetness](https://ggwo.org/extracting-the-sweetness/): We can't dismiss the need for discipline, focus, enduring in times when things seem to be quite impossible.
- [Fear Factors and Faith that Floats](https://ggwo.org/fear-factors-and-faith-that-floats/): Fear does strange things to us. It has to; because it is something we were not made for.
- [A New You](https://ggwo.org/a-new-you/): Religion for a dead man is like putting lipstick on a corpse. It might look better, but it's still expired.
- [Jesus and His Answers for Our 'Good'](https://ggwo.org/jesus-and-his-answers-for-our-good/): He came to Jesus; he saw Jesus as “good” and he wanted something he thought Jesus had to offer. “What must I do to inherit eternal life,” he asked the Lord.
- [Called to the King's Table](https://ggwo.org/called-to-the-kings-table/): King Jesus is preparing a feast for His bride, which is His Church. All are invited to the feast, yet many are crippled - They need God's servants to draw them
- [Is Christian Education a Waste of Time?](https://ggwo.org/is-christian-education-a-waste-of-time/): Perhaps, like me, you sat through freshman and sophomore “core” courses at your university wishing you could skip past them to begin studying the courses related to your major field of study.
- [Of Use to God](https://ggwo.org/of-use-to-god/): Mud and spittle. Rods and branches. Jawbones, pebbles, and slings. Lamps, pitchers, torches, and trumpets.
- [A Judgment of Grace](https://ggwo.org/a-judgment-of-grace/): The thought of standing before Jesus Christ face to face is awe-inspiring. One day, every believer will be brought before the Bema Seat and the record of his life will be there for evaluation. How does that make you feel? Are you fearful? You shouldn't be, provided you are operating in the power of His grace with His love being shed abroad in your heart.
- [Meekness and the Nation](https://ggwo.org/meekness-and-the-nation/): "The meek will He guide in judgment; the humble will hear and be glad.
- [Feeling Free](https://ggwo.org/feeling-free/): School is in full swing. I have finally gotten in a rhythm as far as my schedule and preparation for classes go.
- [Listen Well Amid the New Babel](https://ggwo.org/listen-well-amid-the-new-babel/): A new Babel is here.
- [Unquestionably Free and Delivered!](https://ggwo.org/unquestionably-free-and-delivered/): Our God has dealt the death blow to three tyrants which try to prevent us from living in the "glorious freedom of the children of God."(Rom.8:21b)
- [Humility and Heart Issues](https://ggwo.org/humility-and-heart-issues/): Uzziah, by sight, had nearly everything a man might crave – a crown, a fierce force of fighting men, a productive and prosperous land, and a long, comfortable, secure season of peace in his days.
- [Brothers and The Book](https://ggwo.org/brothers-and-the-book/): We came together, and we felt burdened for this generation. We recognized afresh our calling as a group chosen for this time.
- [Bill Kraski](https://ggwo.org/bill-kraski/): Bill Kraski loomed a giant among the weak.
- [Angry Swords, Missing Ears and a Beautiful Savior](https://ggwo.org/angry-swords-missing-ears-and-a-beautiful-savior/): “Put up thy sword into the sheath” (John 18:11). Some cannot hear because they have only one ear. And, I am to blame. Allow me to explain.
- [Mercy For Misery](https://ggwo.org/mercy-for-misery/): Misery loves company. This is an idiom of speech.
- [No Fool](https://ggwo.org/no-fool/): I am an American living in Berlin, married to a German pastor.
- [Media Vanity Amid Vanishing Ethics](https://ggwo.org/media-vanity-amid-vanishing-ethics/): Somewhere, some place Soon Jin Kim is gritting his teeth, just as he did standing before my freshman News Writing class at Towson (MD) State University back in 1979.
- [Bringing Purpose to Temptation](https://ggwo.org/bringing-purpose-to-temptation/): The temptations raged all around Christ, but Jesus always responded with "It is written." Satan had to leave because he could not resist Jesus' defense, which was the Word of God. Temptation, when answered properly, can help build spiritual muscles. It enables us to use the Word of God more skillfully.
- [Beyond All Price](https://ggwo.org/beyond-all-price/): We left Baltimore, MD, on Friday, August 12th, and returned Tuesday, August 30th. This trip was one for the books.
- [First Words of Love](https://ggwo.org/first-words-of-love/): God’s first words of love to man come to us in a most unusual setting. I find it in Genesis 3 – the Fall chapter.
- [Discover Your Cross](https://ggwo.org/discover-your-cross/): God allows things to happen in our lives so we can have the privilege of fellowshipping with His resurrection
- [Shining Refugees Percieve Home](https://ggwo.org/shining-refugees-percieve-home/): We moved out here and have accumulated enough substance to stay. This is our separation, our disjointing, our escape, our harbor of strength.
- [Find the Fantastic](https://ggwo.org/find-the-fantastic/): What is more magical: a beanstalk that reaches to the clouds or a stalk that produces beans?
- [Store Truth to Face Famine](https://ggwo.org/store-truth-to-face-famine/): The story of Joseph in Genesis turned on dreams. And, as a result, so did the history of Israel and all of human history for that matter.
- [Communion Within the Church](https://ggwo.org/communion-within-the-church/): we must recognize that every single member of the Body is a particular member, put in place by God, sharing a portion of the whole, for to build up each other.
- ["The Fresh and New Has Come!"](https://ggwo.org/the-fresh-and-new-has-come/): We can, we must leave behind the old and walk forward in the fresh and new, for our sakes and for others.
- [Where God Dwells](https://ggwo.org/where-god-dwells/): How amiable are your tabernacles! O Lord of hosts (Psalm 84:1). The place where God dwells must be a lovely place, right?
- [Beyond the Pain of Rejection](https://ggwo.org/beyond-the-pain-of-rejection/): When you are feeling rejected, there is nothing but sorrow. It is like a cloud that hangs over you....You are accepted in the Beloved, by the Beloved, and for the Beloved.
- [How Shall We Sing?](https://ggwo.org/how-shall-we-sing/): The words of Psalm 137 paint a picture of forsakenness.
- [Demolish the Emotional Walls](https://ggwo.org/demolish-the-emotional-walls/): The emotions, which are part of the soul, were designed to respond to and appreciate the things of God.
- ["A Wee Thought" about Ireland](https://ggwo.org/a-wee-thought-about-ireland/): As I look back on my ten short days in Ireland and Northern Ireland, I can't help but to compare the amount of vast untouched beauty the island holds to the amount of structure and intricacy that the people have brought to the land.
- [Quirks of Men](https://ggwo.org/quirks-of-men/): Was Jesus ever sad? Isaiah 42:4 prophetically shows Him unfailing and un-discouraged, but, in chapter 53, He was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.
- [In Care of Pregnant Sheep](https://ggwo.org/in-care-of-pregnant-sheep/): “My sheep hear My Voice,” so said Jesus in John 10. He made this statement to the Jewish religious leaders who hounded Him.
- [Digging Ditches by Faith](https://ggwo.org/digging-ditches-by-faith/): Our ditches are not something we dig with a spade.......Our faithfulness to do this will always bring the victory.
- [Beyond Feeling and Sight](https://ggwo.org/beyond-feeling-and-sight/): Jesus sent off His disciples to get them away from the crowd. He had just fed 5,000 men and their families from five loaves and two fish.
- [Designed for Victory](https://ggwo.org/designed-for-victory/): Enter into a response with God. Fulfill your design by going on in victory.
- [Jack Phiri](https://ggwo.org/jack-phiri/): His eyes are always filled with compassion (I guess after having ten children in one of the poorest places on earth you might learn a thing or two about compassion).
- [The Wait, the Wind, the Word](https://ggwo.org/the-wait-the-wind-the-word/): The Apostles kept looking up, their eyes on the sky. They stared steadily at the spot where Jesus had escaped their view.
- [Moment by Moment](https://ggwo.org/moment-by-moment/): As we say "yes" to the Lord's invitation to come all the way into the River of Life (Ezekiel 47:3-5), over our heads, the moments are swallowed up in the flow of living waters and for us to live is truly Christ. We are healed, refreshed, souls are saved, and everything lives wherever the River goes (v.9).
- [Seat of the Trousers](https://ggwo.org/seat-of-the-trousers/): I flew the small way this week -- 8 seater. Not bad, a beautiful day, winds were at a minimum. Three seats actually carried travelers -- two others and me.
- [Forgiven, Forgiving and Free](https://ggwo.org/forgiven-forgiving-and-free/): I read something horrible this week. A pastor and ministry leader pleaded guilty to molestation of young girls and was sentenced to nearly 20 years.
- [Jesus and Our Feet](https://ggwo.org/jesus-and-our-feet/): It’s easy for us to imagine Jesus looking down from Heaven upon us.
- [Rockets Red Glare](https://ggwo.org/rockets-red-glare/): "...Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?..."
- [Our God, How Great](https://ggwo.org/our-god-how-great/): Toward the end of the Old Testament, we read of Ezra, a scribe dedicated to the Word of the Lord. He’s a man among the captives in Babylon.
- [Reflexes](https://ggwo.org/reflexes/): The right emotion involves the body’s muscles and nerves…The left emotion, however, is controlled by information from the heart…Dr.
- [Turn Aside and See](https://ggwo.org/turn-aside-and-see/): The Lord is continually waiting to be gracious to us and wanting to reveal Himself to us in deep ways. Let us simply receive Grace to be willing to turn aside from our way and walk in His, the "more excellent way". When God saw Moses doing so, He called to him out of the burning bush. When John the Apostle did, he saw the Son of Man. What will WE see?!
- [The Sense of the Sanctuary](https://ggwo.org/the-sense-of-the-sanctuary/): “Until I went to the sanctuary of God …” This phrase shows up smack in the middle of Psalm 73, a piece of poetry attributed to Asaph.
- [Ambassadors to a World in Death](https://ggwo.org/ambassadors-to-a-world-in-death/): David sent several of his men on a mission of comfort.
- [The God of Last Laughs](https://ggwo.org/the-god-of-last-laughs/): Isaac got found out. He told the Philistines that Rebekah was his sister. He wanted to hide the fact that she was his wife.
- [True Greatness](https://ggwo.org/true-greatness/): Greatness in the Kingdom of God is void of self. As believers, we simply take God at His Word, receive Grace to let Him be and do all that He wants to be and do in us and through us. We both sit at the table of Truth with Him, where He serves us, and then we minister to others with Him, "serving" them what we have received from Him.
- [The Secret of Song](https://ggwo.org/the-secret-of-song/): In the opening part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” we meet Bilbo Baggins.
- [Self Evident Truths](https://ggwo.org/self-evident-truths/): “is that it restates and reaffirms another great expression of the American mind, the Declaration of Independence—the opening “Four score and seven years,” in fact, points directly to the year 1776.
- [Friends Worth Keeping](https://ggwo.org/friends-worth-keeping/): “Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend.” This is from Proverbs 27, a chapter that has lot to say about true friends.
- [Finding the Way to Forgiveness](https://ggwo.org/finding-the-way-to-forgiveness/): Joseph was a man done wrong. His brothers, in a fit of jealousy, threw him into a pit.
- [Jesus: The Eternal, Effective Living Word](https://ggwo.org/jesus-the-eternal-effective-living-word/): For John the Apostle, Jesus had to be viewed from eternity to eternity.
- [Hanging](https://ggwo.org/hanging/): "The world is not interested in us. Today everything is possible, even the crematoria..." His voice broke.
- [The Precious Holy Spirit](https://ggwo.org/the-precious-holy-spirit/): What would it be like if the Father had not sent the Holy Spirit to earth? There would be no dwelling place for God, in believers individually nor in what we know as "the Body of Christ". We would have no Heavenly Comforter or Guide or Strengthener within us to recall to us the promises of God that we had been taught. Indeed, we would not have the Bible at all, because it was the Spirit Who inspired men to write down the thoughts of God in the first place. How grateful we are for the gift of the Precious Holy Spirit!
- [Be Wary of the World's Ways](https://ggwo.org/be-wary-of-the-worlds-ways/): The world's busy -- it has always been this way. I trace its preponderance of activity back to none other than Cain.
- [The Commandment That Cuts to the Heart](https://ggwo.org/the-commandment-that-cuts-to-the-heart/): “Thou shalt not covet.” It’s Commandment No.10, the last in the list in Exodus 20.
- [Sadly Sadness](https://ggwo.org/sadly-sadness/): I'm sad, let me count the ways;: Lets forget that I'm a Christian man and let's talk about the fellowship of mankind.
- [Our Horse, His Reins](https://ggwo.org/our-horse-his-reins/): I’ve never ridden a horse. And I don’t intend to get on one anytime soon. In fact, I often joke about saving my first horseback ride for the return of Christ.
- [Light Up the Rooms](https://ggwo.org/light-up-the-rooms/): But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
- [All on the Altar](https://ggwo.org/all-on-the-altar/): The Lord told Abraham to take Isaac and present him as a burnt offering.
- [Living Sacrifice, Reasonable Service](https://ggwo.org/living-sacrifice-reasonable-service/): "Present your bodies as a living sacrifice.
- [The Greatest Exchange](https://ggwo.org/the-greatest-exchange/): Let's trust the Lord Jesus to reveal to our hearts individually how truly much He has forgiven us - and let it be gone forever from our memory! Then we, as the woman with the alabaster box, will have the capacity to love much (Luke 7:47).
- [Righteousness, Self Control and the Judgment to Come](https://ggwo.org/shaken-by-the-truth/): “Felix trembled.” A powerful man heard the Gospel message, and he did not know what to do with it. We read about this Roman ruler in the book of Acts.
- [When Culture Fails](https://ggwo.org/when-culture-fails/): That in the culture, individualism can be good, as long as I don’t make an idol of me.
- [The Resurrection and Things to Come](https://ggwo.org/the-resurrection-and-things-to-come/): The grave could not hold Jesus. His crucifixion was unlike anything ever seen. The response of the Roman soldiers indicates this as we read the gospel accounts.
- [The Unspeakable Easter Gift](https://ggwo.org/the-unspeakable-easter-gift/): In Paul's "Romans" letter we delight in a plethora of plenty, an Easter basket of colors, a bounty of beautiful treats, a bundle of love.
- [Away with This Man](https://ggwo.org/away-with-this-man/): “Away with this man, and release unto us Barrabas” (Luke 23:18). These were the words spoken to Pontius Pilate, the Roman authority in Jerusalem.
- [Who Am I ... REAL-ly?](https://ggwo.org/who-am-i-real-ly/): The world offers many but inadequate "mirrors" to us, which will reveal to us only who we are in the flesh. Only by drawing near to Him, His Word, His people will we get a clear picture and firm conviction of who HE says we are in Him.
- [The Darkness and the Dawn](https://ggwo.org/the-darkness-and-the-dawn/): Darkness came. For hours, Christ hung upon the Cross at Golgotha. At one point, all became shadow.
- [Meta-Emotions or Grace Thinking](https://ggwo.org/meta-emotions-or-grace-thinking/): John Gottman, marriage psychologist at the University of Washington, opened up to us the concept of “meta-emotions” or essentially “how we feel about how we feel.” Not just how we feel or even what’s our emotional makeup, but how we emotionally deal with the inward phenomena?
- [Tell Yourself the Truth](https://ggwo.org/tell-yourself-the-truth/): The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. The Lord upholds us with His hand. These are statements of faith and trust.
- [Night Song](https://ggwo.org/night-song/): Paul McCartney wrote of a blackbird singing in the dead of night; Paul, the apostle sang with Silas in jail at night and Saul got a song from David in his troubles.
- [The Father and His Two Sons](https://ggwo.org/the-father-and-his-two-sons/): Cold, bitter, unforgiving, lost. This is how I would describe the elder brother in Jesus’ story of a father and his two sons.
- [Never Without Hope](https://ggwo.org/never-without-hope/): A life lived "under the sun" only, without Godly hope in the Son, will be subject a sense of emptiness, futility, vanity and even, eventually, hopelessness. BUT! Through Grace and faith in God's Word we can be filled with joy and peace and be flooded to overflowing with true, Godly hope (Rom.15:13)
- [A Story for Valentine's Day](https://ggwo.org/a-story-for-valentines-day/): She is. I am. We are. Us, but also not us. We, but also I and she. We are one, as God made us to be. Still, there is her and there is me.
- [What of Christ?](https://ggwo.org/what-of-christ/): G.E. Pember lists several trends of the end times seen in the days of Noah.
- [Really Big Questions and How We Answer Them](https://ggwo.org/really-big-questions-and-how-we-answer-them/): “Who do you say that I am?” This is the big question each of us must answer if the Bible is to make sense to us.
- [Impotence to Power](https://ggwo.org/impotence-to-power/): "Drug addiction is another possible effect of powerlessness."
- [Poems, Songs, Hymns, Complaints and Curses](https://ggwo.org/poems-songs-hymns-complaints-and-curses/): Talking to God and letting Him to talk to us is what our lives are meant to be about. We just get really confused about how to do this.
- [Atmospheric Cycles](https://ggwo.org/atmospheric-cycles-2/)
- [God's Still, Small but Cedar-Severing Voice](https://ggwo.org/gods-still-small-but-cedar-severing-voice/): "Don't live with the brakes on!" when it comes to living by faith. If His Voice can deliver Elijah from oppression in quietness and sever the cedars of Lebanon, it can sustain us today as we go from faith to faith, with grace upon grace, going from strength to strength, and being changed from glory to glory!
- [The Fullness of Glory](https://ggwo.org/the-fullness-of-glory/): It was a time of crisis. The king was dead and the nation’s future uncertain after an exceptional season of peace and prosperity.
- [Value Pack](https://ggwo.org/value-pack/): "As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- [Contentment](https://ggwo.org/contentment/): I have learned how to be content. Philippians 4:11 AMPC.
- [A Flower’s Power](https://ggwo.org/a-flowers-power/): Esther found herself on the inside, a girl of beauty dropped into the midst of a political storm.
- [Father and Contest](https://ggwo.org/father-and-contest/): The Father and the Contest --what does one concept have to do with the other? Actually, both are significant to the believer in Christ.
- [Common Sense](https://ggwo.org/common-sense/): Common sense can cure some depression but folks who renege at receiving God's grace may be the source of their own problem.
- [Happy Now Year](https://ggwo.org/happy-now-year/): We tend to think in terms of past and future, of what we did, and of what we are going to do. Such thinking leaves us ignoring the moment.
- [Good News of Great Joy](https://ggwo.org/good-news-of-great-joy/): I bring you good news of great joy. For unto you is born … a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
- [The Christmas Cross](https://ggwo.org/the-christmas-cross/): Some aspects of Christmas disclose themselves covertly: the Christ Child, a tiny babe, was also Mankind's Savior and continues to be our Personal Defender.
- [ADVENT:  The Word of the Lord Came to Us!](https://ggwo.org/advent-the-word-of-the-lord-came-to-us/): The advent of the Word of the Lord always resulted in an eternal purpose being fulfilled. With the Advent of the Living Word of God coming into the world as the Son of God Incarnate, His glorious Plan of redeeming mankind was brought to earth, soon to be consummated in the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of that same Living Word of God.
- [Angels We Have Heard](https://ggwo.org/angels-we-have-heard/): She was a woman on the run. Feeling unwelcome and mistreated as a maid in the home of Abraham and Sarah, Hagar made her escape.
- [Paradise Trees and Radicals](https://ggwo.org/paradise-trees-and-radicals/): "The most likely theory is that Christmas trees started with medieval plays.
- [Another Kind of Gift](https://ggwo.org/another-kind-of-gift/): For the shepherds, it began as a typical work night. They were at attention in the wilderness as usual.
- [Drum Your Drum](https://ggwo.org/drum-your-drum/): The Little Drummer Boy came and played his drum for the newborn King – “pa rup pa pum pum, rup pa pum pum, rup pa pum pum.” So goes the Christmas song.
- [Many Thanksgivings](https://ggwo.org/many-thanksgivings/): A friendship features a level of security and many factors determine this. I can list the first 400 of these determiners but lets skip to the real good ones.
- [The Weapons of the Shepherd](https://ggwo.org/the-weapons-of-the-shepherd/): A staff, a sling and a bag – these were the things that David brought to the field of battle. These tools of the shepherd represented his only weapons.
- [The End of the World](https://ggwo.org/the-end-of-the-world/): "For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
- [Be Wise, Be Ready, Be Faithful](https://ggwo.org/be-wise-be-ready-be-faithful/): Jesus was no hometown hero. In Nazareth, the people took offense at His words and His works.
- [The Blameless Heart, Walk and Way](https://ggwo.org/the-blameless-heart-walk-and-way/): David was persuaded that God's delight was not in him always "getting it right" but rather in his fearing Him and delighting in His Mercy. He thus kept himself free from his guilt and shame and knew that God saw him "blameless"!
- [A Woman and Her Bucket](https://ggwo.org/a-woman-and-her-bucket/): High noon, it was, and such a strange hour to come to the village well. This woman tried to sneak around right there in the bright, hot sun.
- [The House of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-house-of-grace/): She has also furnished her table.
- [Bound to Life Through Fear of the Lord](https://ggwo.org/bound-to-life-through-fear-of-the-lord/): The fear of the Lord is THE beginning. We first come upon this phrase in Proverbs 1.
- [Grace for the Lonely](https://ggwo.org/grace-for-the-lonely/): “Grace is more than love, it is love set absolutely free and made to be a triumphant victor over the righteous judgment of God against the sinner.” “The grace of God belongs to the realm of the infinite.
- [According to His Word](https://ggwo.org/according-to-his-word/): Mary was a simple teen-ager. Devout and sweet, betrothed to the town carpenter, she was ready to lead an unspectacular life and a gritty existence in Nazareth.
- [Build, Plant, Eat, Marry](https://ggwo.org/build-plant-eat-marry/): Jeremiah faced a nation pretty much all by himself. He spoke for God; but few listened and heeded the words given to him to tell.
- [Mary Magdalene](https://ggwo.org/mary-magdalene/): Not she with traitorous kiss her Master stung, Not she denied Him with unfaithful tongue; She, when Apostles fled, could dangers brave, Last at the Cross, and earliest at the grave.
- [The Wealth of Work](https://ggwo.org/the-wealth-of-work/): The Bible presents a view of the value of labor in the face of a heathen worldview that resents it.
- [LIMITLESS!](https://ggwo.org/limitless/): As a contemporary Christian artist has penned, "You're unrelenting with mercy and compassion, unstoppable Love that never ends". We have Grace to live in these unlimited resources of God - a way of life that benefits us and others, and brings great glory and pleasure to the One has given them to us without limit.
- [The Whole Picture](https://ggwo.org/the-whole-picture/): Early in the pages of our Bibles we are presented with the reality of what man was made for. The first chapters of Genesis describe the process of His Creation.
- [Seeds, Pebbles, Threads and Crumbs](https://ggwo.org/seeds-pebbles-threads-and-crumbs/): Size matters very little in the Kingdom of God. A seed, any seed, seems so small and so lifeless. But that’s just a surface analysis.
- [Reward](https://ggwo.org/reward/): "I am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your faith -- Your love has given me much joy and comfort, my brother, for your kindness has often refreshed the hearts of God's people.
- [How to Stay Young](https://ggwo.org/how-to-stay-young/): Want to grow old quickly? Allow bitterness to take root in your life. Want to stay young? Think young.
- [Air Fresheners!](https://ggwo.org/air-fresheners/): "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."; therefore, we are careful to let our heart be filled with the pure and powerful Word of God so that through our mouths He can send His Word to heal and refresh, and not wound and pollute.
- [Presence and Glory](https://ggwo.org/presence-and-glory/): Moses met the Lord in a corner of the desert. He was busy caring for sheep and caught sight of a bush afire.
- [Two Sisters](https://ggwo.org/two-sisters/): Martha received him into her house. Sister, Mary, sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. Martha was dragged about with much serving.
- [The Power of Presence](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-presence/): Psalm 73 puts down in verse things that we have all thought at some time or another. We groan at the success of those seemingly so rooted in evil practices.
- [What about Missionary Children?](https://ggwo.org/what-about-missionary-children/): One thing that is of great importance but seldom ever mentioned is the life of missionary children.
- [The Last Are First](https://ggwo.org/the-last-are-first/): The last shall be first. Jesus wanted His disciples to get this principle into their hearts. It wasn’t an easy task.
- [What To Do While We Wait](https://ggwo.org/what-to-do-while-we-wait/): Jesus is coming. Soon. Yes, this message has been shared for a couple thousand years. And this has left some skeptical.
- [More than Conquerors through ABSOLUTE Faith](https://ggwo.org/more-than-conquerors-through-absolute-faith/): " ... God's 'heredity' within us will always conquer the world outside us. In fact, this faith of ours is the only way in which the world has been conquered . For who could ... conquer the world ... except the man who really believes that Jesus is God's Son?" (I John 5:4, J.B.Phillips)
- [Worship, Wonder and War](https://ggwo.org/worship-wonder-and-war/): I came to church as a guitar player who could sing a little. Over time, I developed some skill in leading worship with a small group in a coffee house.
- [Jonah and God- a Relationship](https://ggwo.org/jonah-and-god-a-relationship/): Jonah slipped outta God's directive and wound up jailed, in a fish; cried out for God’s help, became fish-disgorge, bleached and beached, opted to go preach, saved the Ninevites nation.
- [Who Loves Most?](https://ggwo.org/who-loves-most/): She interrupted a dinner party to thank the Lord, and what a thanksgiving it was. Her story goes like this.
- [Balm for Bitterness](https://ggwo.org/balm-for-bitterness/): Ruth came out of Moab, a nation with a strange and despicable origin.
- [Divinely Bigger](https://ggwo.org/divinely-bigger/): We have now been in Japan for nearly one year and have gained some perspective of the Japanese lifestyle.
- [Fear of the Lord and Mercy That Rejoices](https://ggwo.org/fear-of-the-lord-and-mercy-that-rejoices/): Aaron was a man left in charge – and he blew it. Big time.
- [The Transparent](https://ggwo.org/the-transparent/): It lurks in the recesses of a man's heart and will surely burst forth when provoked by circumstance, and Job's stuffings came out a display of abject transparency.
- [Hearts for Glory](https://ggwo.org/hearts-for-glory/): If we are watchful, God opens our eyes and shows us His glory. We have been invited into His presence. He chose us to worship Him in the beauty of His holiness.
- [A Walk That Defeats the Enemy](https://ggwo.org/a-walk-that-defeats-the-enemy/): No matter what happens, the Lord is our friend. He is on our side, and He is just waiting to be gracious to us, to exalt His mercy
- [The Question of All Questions](https://ggwo.org/the-question-of-all-questions/): Jesus and His disciples took a trip to the seaside, to an area known as Caesarea Philippi.
- [Courage](https://ggwo.org/courage/): The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery.
- [The More Excellent Way](https://ggwo.org/the-more-excellent-way/): “And I will show you a still more excellent way” (1 Corinthians 12:31).
- [Sojourning in Seoul](https://ggwo.org/sojourning-in-seoul/): I started the month of May living in a house on a quiet street across from unplanted rice fields.
- [Faith Transforms Failure into Fruit](https://ggwo.org/faith-transforms-failure-into-fruit/): What glorifies and delights our Heavenly Father is not groveling in the misery that follows failure, but rather growing in faith response to His Mercy, and thus bearing fruit that will remain!
- [O Little Town](https://ggwo.org/o-little-town/): It was the point of entry for Jesus. The Son came here as Immanuel, God with us. It was at that time a shepherd’s place.
- [The Surprise Bride](https://ggwo.org/the-surprise-bride/): Imagine this: a family wedding feast happens and it finishes with you being made the surprise bride. We read of just such a story in Genesis 29.
- [Through a Glass/Thanksgiving](https://ggwo.org/through-a-glass-thanksgiving/): Change of mind, change of heart -- the possibility of such must never forsake us.
- [Without Hope, We Hope](https://ggwo.org/without-hope-we-hope/): "And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the Lord.
- [Hail Mary and the Fullness of Grace](https://ggwo.org/hail-mary-and-the-fullness-of-grace/): “Hail, Mary!” These words should mean something to us, and not for the reasons that many people attach to them.
- [The Caleb Way](https://ggwo.org/the-caleb-way/): Caleb believed God. He possessed a heart and a spirit that made him ready for action. He saw the Lord’s hand at work in what He did for the people of Israel.
- [The Joy of the Cross](https://ggwo.org/the-joy-of-the-cross/): There is unspeakable, immeasurable joy when we reckon ourselves dead to all that He isn't and alive unto all that He is, knowing that as He is so are we ... now!
- [New Perspective -- Truth!](https://ggwo.org/new-perspective-truth/): Through these and more, Christians must navigate, forever exalting God’s Word to be their Word of truth, and then disseminating, discerning, ignoring, and approving — sometimes all day long!
- [A Thief, Stolen by Mercy](https://ggwo.org/a-thief-stolen-by-mercy/): With Jesus of Nazareth at Calvary, there hung two thieves. One thief somehow came to understand that the cross was where he belonged.
- [The Things That Make for Peace](https://ggwo.org/the-things-that-make-for-peace/): Jesus showed up. Alive and unannounced, He appeared in the midst of them, a gang of anxious, frightened followers.
- [Flee, Follow and Fight](https://ggwo.org/flee-follow-and-fight/): “But you, Oh man of God …” Those are the words of Paul, the veteran, church-planting, Bible-teaching missionary pastor.
- [John the Baptist](https://ggwo.org/john-the-baptist/): John the Baptist/Herald proclaimed in the wilderness -- Repent!
- [The "How" of Humility](https://ggwo.org/the-how-of-humility/): The "how" of humility is simply to reckon on what the Lord Jesus Christ has already done for us and as us, and live by faith in His declaration of our death, burial, and resurrection with and in Him. "As He is, so are we [already] in this present, evil world."
- [How to Answer Our Discontent](https://ggwo.org/how-to-answer-our-discontent/): We can be people of very short memory. We forget and ignore what the Lord has done for us.
- [Healthy Leadership](https://ggwo.org/healthy-leadership/): Leaders are the ones with all the answers, the ones who have done it right without mistakes, the ones who know everything.
- [Communion and the Bread of Life](https://ggwo.org/communion-and-the-bread-of-life/): The feast of communion is to be a meal scented by fragrances of memory. Jesus took the bread at the Last Supper and presented it as His Body.
- [God Keeps Us -- Count the Ways](https://ggwo.org/god-keeps-us-count-the-ways/): Jude 1:24 teaches "... to keep you from falling ...to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
- [The Power of a Pebble](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-a-pebble/): Stones are lively, livelier than we think they are. We know this in one way because of the words of Peter, an Apostle of Christ.
- [How to Get Back to Appreciation](https://ggwo.org/how-to-get-back-to-appreciation/): They've traded their ability to live freely, to love, and to laugh, for reactions, repressions, and denials.
- [Simon and the Touch of the Spirit](https://ggwo.org/simon-and-the-touch-of-the-spirit/): This is the oft-misunderstood story of Magic Simon. Simon was a something of a wizard, a conjurer in Samaria, as we read in Acts 8.
- [A Prayer for His Own](https://ggwo.org/a-prayer-for-his-own/): Jesus’ great prayer for His own is what we find in John 17. This was a major moment in a night like no other on earth.
- [He Draws Rather than Demands](https://ggwo.org/he-draws-rather-than-demands/): The Lord delights in our delight to do His Will, responding to His Love and not to fear of what might happen if we don't do what He asks! Therefore, although He has the right to demand the yielding of our lives to Him, He instead woos us into willingly, whole-heartedly yielding them to Him, giving Him the right to do whatsoever He desires with them.
- [The Power of the Name](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-the-name/): Jesus has His place in glory. He went up. It must have been such a sight to see. He was speaking to these faithful followers, gathered on the Mount of Olives.
- [Kindness Mellows the Austere](https://ggwo.org/kindness-mellows-the-austere/): Luke 7:37-50 explains this "kindness."
- [Embrace the Spirit](https://ggwo.org/embrace-the-spirit/): It was a promise Jesus made to His men. He was going away, and Another would be coming to them.
- [What I've Learned in Youth Ministry](https://ggwo.org/what-ive-learned-in-youth-ministry/): I was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and as a teenager was part of several youth groups.
- [Forever Chosen](https://ggwo.org/forever-chosen/): Weakness wins – sometimes. We grow weary in our well doing. We feel alone and forgotten. We stumble and struggle to take the next step.
- [Life Quips](https://ggwo.org/life-quips/): I've dedicated 15 years of my adult life trying to discover "what makes us tick."
- [A Clear and Definite Message](https://ggwo.org/a-clear-and-definite-message/): John 14 is the chapter where Jesus declares who He is with clarity and definition. He discerned the thoughts that were coming to the minds of His men.
- [Exchange Your Life for His](https://ggwo.org/exchange-your-life-for-his/): Svetlana Alliluyeva was born the daughter of former-Russian leader, Josef Stalin.
- [Judas and John and the Glory of Love](https://ggwo.org/judas-and-john-and-the-glory-of-love/): Judas and John and Jesus. They spent so much time together through the three years of Jesus’ public ministry. They walked and talked together.
- [Beckoning Love](https://ggwo.org/beckoning-love/): In every person there lies hidden, a cry for love. Why hidden? Love’s lacking has built a fortress of defense — a defense which protects the cry.
- [Start with the Feet](https://ggwo.org/start-with-the-feet/): Feet. That’s what Jesus started with when He set His Church in motion. We tend to view Acts 2 as the Bible chapter that describes the birth of the Church.
- [ABUNDANCE THROUGH STILLNESS](https://ggwo.org/abundance-through-stillness/): We will never exhaust the multi-faceted and boundless resources that God has made available to us in Christ. Busyness and preoccupation with the things of this world can blind us and rob our awareness of this endless supply; but let us receive GRACE to be still, draw near to the Throne of Grace, and be refreshed by what we hear Him speak to our hearts, reminding us of all that is available to us through Him.
- [Our Refuge, Our Fortress](https://ggwo.org/our-refuge-our-fortress/): “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” “The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.” These sentences speak of the Lord and His care for us.
- [Grace and Heart](https://ggwo.org/grace-and-heart/): "There is nothing that will bend a man’s will like the recognition of divine love which is blessedness to come in contact with, and to obey."
- [Smoking Flax, Bruised Reeds and Mustard Seeds](https://ggwo.org/smoking-flax-bruised-reeds-and-mustard-seeds/): Luke 8 provides accounts of two remarkable occurrences in the public ministry of Jesus.
- [The Fresh Wind of Pentecost](https://ggwo.org/the-fresh-wind-of-pentecost/): The room was full of people and of prayer. Jesus had flown away. Through the clouds, He went. A number of them watched it happen.
- [The Flow of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-flow-of-grace/): Like a river dam or lock, We must manage the flow of grace. This includes that flow coming into our house, and then the flow going out.
- ["ALL and NOTHING!"](https://ggwo.org/all-and-nothing/): It seems that these perilous times in which we are living are reducing our options to live any other way than by what Matthew 4:4 asserts: "Man shall not live by bread alone but by EVERY Word that proceeds from the Mouth of God." This is thrilling! By faith, we receive Grace to throw ourselves on the Character of God and on the integrity of His promises, trusting Him with all our hearts to do exactly as He said He would do. Indeed, "....nothing that the Lord has spoken ... shall be unfulfilled or ineffective; for the Lord has done what He said ... " (II Kings 10:10)
- [Honest Honor and Long Life](https://ggwo.org/honest-honor-and-long-life/): “Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you” (Exodus 20:12).
- [To Belong](https://ggwo.org/to-belong/): Do I belong? Do you belong? This question must be answered daily, since daily we may doubt it.
- [Blessed to Rest](https://ggwo.org/blessed-to-rest/): Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy. This stands as the fourth commandment that we read in Exodus 20. God declared these commandments, 10 of them, to Moses.
- [Commandments Done Right](https://ggwo.org/commandments-done-right/): The word “commandment” is a word that sounds so forceful, so prohibitive, and so hard to us. We imagine a policeman shouting, “STOP!” when we consider it.
- [Three Hebrew Boys](https://ggwo.org/three-hebrew-boys/): As we obey the truth, God may allow us to be placed in precarious situations and locales -- only to deliver us and reveal His glorious nature.
- [The Wise Look for Mercy](https://ggwo.org/the-wise-look-for-mercy/): Living by faith pleases God (Hebrews 11:6). Hoping in His mercy delights Him (Psalm 147:11); loving it satisfies His requirement (Micah 6:8).
- [The Best Revenge](https://ggwo.org/the-best-revenge/): “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Jesus spoke these words from the Cross.
- [Remembering Easter](https://ggwo.org/remembering-easter/): My childhood highlighted Easter.
- [A Different Kind of King](https://ggwo.org/a-different-kind-of-king/): “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about Me?” These words are found in John’s gospel, Chapter 18.
- [Seeker of the Lost](https://ggwo.org/seeker-of-the-lost/): The Son of Man came for one reason, “to seek and to save the lost.” Jesus made this point in Luke 19.
- [The Way of the Lamb](https://ggwo.org/the-way-of-the-lamb/): God took down Egypt, a wealthy, powerful empire. He did it with series of plagues. Water was turned into blood. Frogs multiplied uncontrollably.
- [Need Encouragement?](https://ggwo.org/need-encouragement/): Sometimes the doldrums come, and we feel blue. There may be a reason why there maybe not. Discouragement is the unwelcomed guest.
- ["Arise out of Darkness!"](https://ggwo.org/arise-out-of-darkness/): Let's receive Grace to go beyond an ankle-, knee-, or loin-deep experience of His Life while on earth, and let's purpose to receive Grace upon Grace to get in "over our head-knowledge" in His Love, as His Light continually unfolds to us Who He is, what He's like, who we are and what we have in Him.
- [Still, Small Voices](https://ggwo.org/still-small-voices/): Elijah took shelter in a cave at Mount Horeb in 1 Kings 19. He had become a frightened man.
- [Fishers](https://ggwo.org/fishers/): Over time, these men became Great evangelists and fishers of men. The only thing required was the Holy Spirit.
- [We Have Seen So Much](https://ggwo.org/we-have-seen-so-much/): Imagine, Peter and that Saturday after the Cross. How long must that day have been for this man.
- [Jonah, Philip and Continuing with the Lord](https://ggwo.org/jonah-philip-and-continuing-with-the-lord/): There are two men in the Bible who were used mightily by God, but in very different ways, with very different attitudes.
- [The Lord is There](https://ggwo.org/the-lord-is-there/): The pages of the book of Ezekiel are full of strange and curious images.
- [Blue Days](https://ggwo.org/blue-days/): "The blues are common to the lot of a fallen human race."
- [Kingdom and the King](https://ggwo.org/kingdom-and-the-king/): “Let your Kingdom come, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
- [You Will Recover All](https://ggwo.org/you-will-recover-all/): When we lose our lives for the Lord's sake, we find them. Our all-loving, ever merciful and gracious God has already recovered all of our losses in Adam, giving us all that He is, all that He has, forever!
- [Living Water and Real Food](https://ggwo.org/living-water-and-real-food/): It was water she came for.
- [Faith Like a Mustard Seed](https://ggwo.org/faith-like-a-mustard-seed/): Jesus came down from the mountain where His glory shined forth for a few moments.
- [Sons](https://ggwo.org/sons/): "And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
- [The Samaritan and the Great Commandments](https://ggwo.org/the-samaritan-and-the-great-commandments/): A man got mugged. He was on his way to Jericho from Jerusalem. He was beaten, robbed, and left half dead. So begins Jesus’ story about the Good Samaritan.
- [No Condemnation](https://ggwo.org/no-condemnation/): “Don’t Ever let Satan detach your self-image from the kingdom of God’s finished work.” God says, “I’ve not only taken care of everything you’ve done, but I’ve taken care of everything people have done to you.
- [Noah Found Grace and God Told Him to Build](https://ggwo.org/noah-found-grace-and-god-told-him-to-build/): Noah was a man who found grace among a grace-less population.
- [They Erred, They Cried; He Heard, He Delivered](https://ggwo.org/they-erred-they-cried-he-heard-he-delivered/): Our God and Heavenly Father, "the Father of mercies", loves mercy and not only takes pleasure in those that trust and hope in it, but also rewards such who know and receive it (Psa.91:14) It behooves us to deeply consider His dealings with those in both the far and near past whom He has used to manifest - even show off - His Mercy....people of like passions as us who likewise could never deserve it. Such consideration will only cause us to love and embrace this cherished attribute of our God.
- [The Power of an Eternal Viewpoint](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-an-eternal-viewpoint/): I remember the night I saw the Lord. It wasn’t a vision that I encountered. Jesus did not stand before me. He did not come to me in a dream.
- [2019: My Resolutions](https://ggwo.org/2019-my-resolutions/): The question runs in my mind in circles. The year is new and I just feel like I must make some resolutions, So let me think… what does a resolution mean?
- [Grace Identity](https://ggwo.org/grace-identity/): Am I enough? This nagging question can cause us to soul search – but is it the right question?
- [A Man, a Widow and a Painter](https://ggwo.org/a-man-a-widow-and-a-painter/): “…the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple…” (Malachi 3:1). It happened just as the prophet said it would.
- [Andiamo Avanti !](https://ggwo.org/andiamo-avanti/): As Paul, we need to do "one thing: I, in fact, am forgetting completely the things that are behind, and am stretching forward to the things that are in front; bearing down upon the goal...the prize of the call from Above..." (Phil.3:13, Wuest)
- [Das Krist Kindel](https://ggwo.org/das-krist-kindel/): I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delight, snapped their saucy little fingers at the Chill December night; And in dressing gown And Slippers I had tilted back "My throne ."
- [Carpenter, Dreamer, Husband, Man of God](https://ggwo.org/carpenter-dreamer-husband-man-of-god/): Joseph the carpenter wanted to do the right thing, the gentle thing, the merciful thing. His betrothed, his wife-to-be, was found to be with child.
- [Indifference](https://ggwo.org/indifference/): Consider the analogy of a frog sitting in a water pot.
- [An Angel, a Girl and an Answer of Faith](https://ggwo.org/an-angel-a-girl-and-an-answer-of-faith/): Gabriel brought news from Heaven. It was this angel’s latest assignment, but it was unlike any he had been sent to do before.
- [The First Silent Night](https://ggwo.org/the-first-silent-night/): “Silent night, holy night – all is calm …” So begins one of the all-time favorite carols of this season.
- [Our Daily God](https://ggwo.org/our-daily-god/): Take up a daily cross (in identification with His cross).
- [Sifted and Sent](https://ggwo.org/sifted-and-sent/): Peter was a marked man, marked by the devil himself. Hell viewed this fisherman as something of a soft target.
- [The Tongue:  Little Instrument with Huge Effects](https://ggwo.org/the-tongue-little-instrument-with-huge-effects/): "Death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21) How often in the course of a day do we think of our tongues, or reflect on their "activity" at any given moment or in any particular circumstance?
- [Come, Drink of the Living Waters](https://ggwo.org/come-drink-of-the-living-waters/): And every man went to his own house. These words come at the very end of John 7.
- [Crumbs from the Table](https://ggwo.org/crumbs-from-the-table/): Jezebel country, Jesus spent some time there. He went to the region of Sidon and Tyre in search of some peace and quiet.
- [I Can't Help Me](https://ggwo.org/i-cant-help-me/): Some folks are intellectually brilliant, they depend on this. Some are physically endowed, this helps them. A third group have wealth, they turn to it.
- [The Way of a Neighbor](https://ggwo.org/the-way-of-a-neighbor/): Jesus made His points in stories. He was telling the Truth in a world that was – and is – ruled by liars. These liars are controlled by the father of lies.
- [A Thin Thread of Hope](https://ggwo.org/a-thin-thread-of-hope/): Her door was always open – for the wrong reasons. Rahab was a whore in Jericho, a significant and wild city in Canaan.
- [Joy Unspeakable, Full of Glory!](https://ggwo.org/joy-unspeakable-full-of-glory/): When we simply believe and hold God to His Word to do as He has promised to do, the Holy Spirit fills our hearts with unspeakable joy as well as a peace which passes all understanding. The multitudes living in misery in the world are longing for this supernatural provision that God offers us. Our walking by faith in His Word, filled with His Spirit, manifests this joy and peace and is attractive to souls who are longing to experience the same.
- [The Father's Heart and Our Purpose](https://ggwo.org/the-fathers-heart-and-our-purpose/): Jesus told a series of three stories in Luke 15, all of them related to lost things.
- [Friends in Deed and in Truth](https://ggwo.org/friends-in-deed-and-in-truth/): Paul found friends and together they changed cities. He met Aquila and Priscilla in Corinth.
- [Memories](https://ggwo.org/memories/): Memory Lane? I remember childhood fantasies; summer days, exploration and discovery. Naivete, longevity, and levity accompanied almost every day.
- [Reach, Stand, Wash and See](https://ggwo.org/reach-stand-wash-and-see/): Jesus spoke sentences of Truth to all who would hear. He came as the Word made flesh to walk among us. Jesus prayed and showed His followers how to pray.
- [The Holy House of God](https://ggwo.org/the-holy-house-of-god/): “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.
- [Hear the Beloved Son](https://ggwo.org/hear-the-beloved-son/): They went to the mountain with Jesus to pray. They got so much more. Peter, James, and John were there – sleeping, surprisingly.
- [The Work of the Word](https://ggwo.org/the-work-of-the-word/): What wisdom it is to invest our lives in the Word of God, which is forever settled in Heaven and will, with its work, extend all the way into Eternity!
- [Harvesting Hope](https://ggwo.org/harvesting-hope/): "...Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Romans 4:7 " ... even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
- [Formed from Soil, Made for Seed](https://ggwo.org/formed-from-soil-made-for-seed/): And God formed man from the dust of the earth. … Earth. Dirt. Mud. Top soil. This is what God chose to use when He decided to fashion a being after His image.
- [The Jesus Way to Pray](https://ggwo.org/the-jesus-way-to-pray/): God designed us for relationship with Him. The basic element of this relationship is the practice of prayer.
- [Creator, Creature and Creation](https://ggwo.org/creator-creature-and-creation/): Beginnings are important. The first impression we get when we open our Bibles is that God is Creator.
- [In Search of Miracles](https://ggwo.org/in-search-of-miracles/): All of these appeal to the masses of humanity who flee the responsibility which comes with true freedom -- The grace offered all men through Christ.
- [The Mantle of the Lord](https://ggwo.org/the-mantle-of-the-lord/): Elijah the Tishbite is one of the most notable and accomplished prophets of the Old Testament.
- [Good News and Bad](https://ggwo.org/good-news-and-bad/): Angrily driven, my hatred propels me to unprecedented heights of mischief and pain-inflicting.
- [Father, Intercessor, Friend of God](https://ggwo.org/father-intercessor-friend-of-god/): Job -- it was the book I was told to read first. That’s what Kitty Garcia, a fervent, faithful grandmother, told me as she handed me a fresh Bible.
- [An Anatomy of Salvation](https://ggwo.org/an-anatomy-of-salvation/): What are the conditions for eternal salvation according to the Bible?
- [The Orphan and the Lamb](https://ggwo.org/the-orphan-and-the-lamb/): Esther and Job, to me, are perfectly positioned in our Bibles.
- [Run Through, To and From](https://ggwo.org/run-through-to-and-from/): We are the Lord's sheep and have the privilege of hearing His Voice, recognizing it as His, and following Him. He has given us all we need to be more than conquerors in every trial and temptation: Himself as the way through, His Cross to where we simply exchange our inadequate and feeble lives for His resurrection and victorious Life, and superabounding Grace to flee from those things that will lead us into the snare of the fowler. We are indeed more than conquerors through Him Who so loves us!
- [Pivotal Believers](https://ggwo.org/pivotal-believers/): A pivotal believer is not one with a hero complex. They are reliant on the Lord and their training. Prayerful, intentional and focused.
- [The Kingdom That is Above](https://ggwo.org/the-kingdom-that-is-above/): Jesus faced Pontius Pilate, a vapid and insecure Roman leader.
- [Grace Ain't a leg to Stand On](https://ggwo.org/grace-aint-a-leg-to-stand-on/): Grace ain't a leg to stand on -- but comes running when all legs to stand on break. When all legs flounder, break, fizzle and flop -- then comes grace.
- [The Reconciled Mind](https://ggwo.org/the-reconciled-mind/): Bill Alderson, Baltimore When Jesus made his famous statement on the cross, “It is finished” in John 19:30, He was saying more than His work on earth was completed.
- [Gentleness That Makes Great](https://ggwo.org/gentleness-that-makes-great/): The message of Jesus slips through the cracks.
- [Forsake Not](https://ggwo.org/forsake-not/): "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- [Mastering Sin](https://ggwo.org/mastering-sin/): Bill Alderson, Baltimore We are introduced to the concept of sin early in the Scriptures, in Genesis 3 with the fall of Adam and Eve.
- [The Corner of the Housetop](https://ggwo.org/the-corner-of-the-housetop/): It’s better to dwell on the corner of the housetop than in a wide room with a brawling woman. That’s what Proverbs 21:9 tells us.
- [Citizenship](https://ggwo.org/citizenship/): Bill Alderson, Baltimore With the 2020 presidential election right around the corner, it is important that Christians understand citizenship.
- [The Little Scroll and Mysteries](https://ggwo.org/the-little-scroll-and-mysteries/): John the Apostle saw many things, more than any other man really.
- [Help for the Downhearted](https://ggwo.org/help-for-the-downhearted/): -- a lash or rope to frap a floating boat to a secure dock. Boats can be carried by wind or current and so the soul of man.
- [When was your last "cardioscopy"?](https://ggwo.org/when-was-your-last-cardioscopy/): We are told to, above all else, guard our hearts. When they get sullied through wrong thinking, the Great Physician orchestrates circumstances and situations so that we are willing to be still enough for Him to perform His cleansing procedure on our hearts, a procedure that He does well and thoroughly. Then our hearts can be filled with His Word and with meditations that please Him; and He is able to "lead us in the way everlasting."
- [The Bible Still Speaks](https://ggwo.org/the-bible-still-speaks/): Bill Alderson, Baltimore Thirty-six years ago, I was invited to a Bible study at an elementary school in Framingham, Mass., by a business friend.
- [Open Ears, Plain Words](https://ggwo.org/open-ears-plain-words/): “And they bring unto Him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech Him to put His hand upon him.
- [We Marched and Prayed](https://ggwo.org/we-marched-and-prayed/): We saw the body of Christ -- standing, singing, moving, walking -- and yes, praying. We went on the prayer walk at the D.C. Mall.
- [Welcoming the Prodigal](https://ggwo.org/welcoming-the-prodigal/): Bill Alderson, Baltimore One of the most recognizable of Jesus’s parables is the Prodigal Son.
- [Sad Things Come Untrue](https://ggwo.org/sad-things-come-untrue/): “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). “Gandalf!
- [The Glorious Church](https://ggwo.org/the-glorious-church/): Bill Alderson, Baltimore On Saturday, September 26, a bunch of us from the church ventured down Interstate 95 to Washington, DC, to be part of a great gathering of Christians at the Mall to pray and to recognize together America’s need for God to move.
- [A Saving Work](https://ggwo.org/a-saving-work/): “I’ll master it” said the axe: …and every blow made his edge more blunt till he ceased to strike.” “Leave it to me” said the saw: and with relentless teeth he worked backwards and forward…till his teeth were worn down and broken.
- [The Blood](https://ggwo.org/the-blood/): Sin comes touting a broad range of particulars, all originating from the ugly self-life of man's cursed nature.
- [Crumbs from the Table](https://ggwo.org/crumbs-from-the-table-2/)
- [Awakened to Tell the Truth](https://ggwo.org/awakened-to-tell-the-truth/): “Call out to your God!
- [SATISFIED WITH HIS LIKENESS](https://ggwo.org/satisfied-with-his-likeness/): As we continue to behold in the Word of God as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, we are constantly being transformed into His image, from glory to glory. (II Cor.3:18) But even now, in the whirlwind of wickedness of this world system, we are already as He is; and the more we reckon on this truth, the more satisfied we are with Who He is and with who we are in Him. Furthermore, our faith in action makes manifest the Son of God, destroys the works of the devil (I John 3:8), and others are drawn to the Lord and encouraged to look to and gaze upon the One Who alone can fully satisfy them.
- [Reconcile](https://ggwo.org/reconcile/): A part of our lives that requires humility comes when we must reconcile -- with God, with our friend, our spouse, a neighbor.
- [How Very Present God Is](https://ggwo.org/how-very-present-god-is/): Psalm 46 declares to us that God is our “very present help in trouble.” I have been thinking much about just how present He is.
- [The Tower and the Ladder](https://ggwo.org/the-tower-and-the-ladder/): The Tower of Babel brought people together for the wrong reason.
- [Purpose](https://ggwo.org/purpose/): When Christ came into my life, He gave me a purpose for living.
- [Changing Course](https://ggwo.org/changing-course/): Laura Hoffses, Baltimore The other day I was working out on my elliptical trainer when I noticed my cat walking past the open door and down the hallway.
- [Sabbath: Be Still and Know](https://ggwo.org/sabbath-be-still-and-know/): Day 6 of Creation came and the Lord formed Man. God breathed into the dust He had shaped and Man became a living soul.
- [A New Capacity](https://ggwo.org/a-new-capacity/): We scarcely know all that we have been delivered from, fellow believers.
- [Complainers Welcome!](https://ggwo.org/complainers-welcome/): Are you a complainer? I am. I actually think I am too good and too experienced at it. I am a well-practiced whiner and critic.
- [SUBSTANCE OR SUBSTITUTE?](https://ggwo.org/substance-or-substitute/): Jesus Christ, so loving us, came to earth as our Substitute sin offering, deriving His Life solely from the Father, so that we then could embrace Him as our life and be His Substance to others. Lord, may Your Love constrain us to surrender our own substitutions and sublimations that many may receive, be transformed by, and enjoy Eternal Substance and Abundant Life in this unstable world.
- [In This World, But Not Of It](https://ggwo.org/in-this-world-but-not-of-it/): In Matthew 17, tax collectors came to collect from Jesus and His disciples. They cornered Peter and asked him if Jesus complied with the rule.
- [Past the Past, Beyond the Future](https://ggwo.org/past-the-past-beyond-the-future/): The “Twilight Zone” featuring Rod Serling’s “from another world” commentary, peaked TV interest in a forgotten childhood.
- [Ruth, Lot, Witness and Comfort](https://ggwo.org/ruth-lot-witness-and-comfort/): Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose field I shall find favor.
- [The Heart That Discovers](https://ggwo.org/the-heart-that-discovers/): “For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7) While enjoying the water of the Delaware Bay at Lewes Beach last week, our family discovered a creature we had not seen before.
- [UPHELD](https://ggwo.org/upheld/): Corrie Ten Boom often said in her messages that "There is no pit that is so deep that the Love of God is not deeper still." God's Love perpetually, uniformly, everlastingly holds us up in any and all circumstances. There is no strength stronger and no protection surer than He Himself. Therefore, let's take hold of His strength and unconditionally surrender to His protection!
- [Joy of the Lord](https://ggwo.org/joy-of-the-lord/): How does Joy fit into the scheme of Christian living?
- [Martha and the Lord's Prayer](https://ggwo.org/martha-and-the-lords-prayer/): The disciples watched Jesus closely as He prayed. They were captivated and quiet in this instance.
- [Broadway](https://ggwo.org/broadway/): Self-Esteem, a much overused designation, finds its roots in cultural thinking.
- [A Day of Trouble Rebuke and Blasphemy](https://ggwo.org/a-day-of-trouble-rebuke-and-blasphemy/): Laura Hoffses, Baltimore In ancient times, there was a godly king who ruled in Judah. His name was Hezekiah.
- [Pride: The Beast Within](https://ggwo.org/pride-the-beast-within/): The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of those horror stories that we may know a little bit about.
- [Always Heard, Never Erased](https://ggwo.org/always-heard-never-erased/): We face a great challenge as believers in God.
- [Green — Yellow and Blue](https://ggwo.org/green-yellow-and-blue/): John was beckoned to “come up hither” as he saw a door. The voice was like a trumpet. Immediately, in the spirit, John saw the throne.
- [Revolution of Love](https://ggwo.org/revolution-of-love/): Mindy Stein, Berlin In the last few months, I found myself lost in a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions.
- [Justice Bottom to Top](https://ggwo.org/justice-bottom-to-top/): “… Two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him” (1 Kings 3:1). Solomon was now on the throne, sitting as ruler over the nation of Israel.
- [Our Trust, His Treasure](https://ggwo.org/our-trust-his-treasure/): Let's leave all reservations regarding His reliability at the Cross, and decide once and for all to trust him with all our heart. Only then will we - and others - see resurrection power manifested as the River of Life begins to flow from God through us to others.
- [Peter, A Redemption Story](https://ggwo.org/peter-a-redemption-story/): “Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
- [First Love and the Ten Commandments](https://ggwo.org/first-love-and-the-ten-commandments/): In Ephesus, there developed a model city church in a part of the world then known as Asia Minor, in what’s now part of Turkey.
- [See, What You Do Is ...](https://ggwo.org/see-what-you-do-is/): “Mom, I am playing with that brown boy – he’s nice.” So said our son one warm summer morning.
- [When I Was a Child](https://ggwo.org/when-i-was-a-child/): Knowing that I am different — I can isolate myself from others.
- [How Jesus Beat the Devil](https://ggwo.org/how-jesus-beat-the-devil/): Just after His baptism, Jesus was led into the wilderness under the leading of the Holy Spirit.
- [The Place He Laid His Head](https://ggwo.org/the-place-he-laid-his-head/): “…Foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” Jesus spoke these words in answer to a certain scribe, a man of the Torah, a copyist who spent his hours with letters and words and pen and ink and parchment.
- [Love — Found Them](https://ggwo.org/love-found-them/): J.B. operated as a spy of the K.G.B. in America during the cold war. A brilliant intellect, J.B. was especially chosen, trained and then sent.
- [A Donkey With Something to Say](https://ggwo.org/a-donkey-with-something-to-say/): Nature speaks up when she can no longer sit silent. She groans under the weight of what human beings do to her and to each other.
- [LOVE OF LIFE FOR A LIFE OF LOVE](https://ggwo.org/love-of-life-for-a-life-of-love/): If we get trapped into loving life without having a life of love, our love for the Lord, for others, and for what really matters to Him, will wax cold. Therefore, our faith will weaken and will not work, because the faith we've been given works by Love (Gal.5:6). Let us receive Grace then to truly know and believe the Love that God has for us. Only then will we truly love Him and be motivated by that Love to lay down our lives for others.
- [A New Day](https://ggwo.org/a-new-day/): There's a new world coming, with a new world order. Are we excited yet?
- [Our Friend and the Heart that Hears](https://ggwo.org/our-friend-and-the-heart-that-hears/): Abraham and the son of Promise walked toward Mount Moriah.
- [Job and Our Redeemer](https://ggwo.org/job-and-our-redeemer/): “In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. …” (Isaiah 30:15). Think of Job.
- [Love and Truth](https://ggwo.org/love-and-truth/): I will go to heaven one day, because He came to earth and died. Through His blood poured out, I was washed. Some folks feel He came to give us a second chance.
- [Resurrection Reports](https://ggwo.org/resurrection-reports/): The stone was rolled away. The tomb lay open and gloriously empty. The angelic world knew it, as did the Roman detail assigned to guard the place.
- [Weep](https://ggwo.org/weep/): "The survivors of the destruction of Jerusalem, left in Judah after the banishment of their fellow countrymen to the Euphrates, seemed, for the time, overwhelmed by the calamities that had befallen their nation.
- [Children and Praise Perfected](https://ggwo.org/children-and-praise-perfected/): The fullness of the Presence of God came to Jerusalem. This Presence did not come as the people thought it would come.
- [Shhhhhh ... !](https://ggwo.org/shhhhhh/): The Bible speaks for itself during this time of pandemic: "Be still, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused and risen from His holy habitation." (Zech.2:13) "The end and culmination of all things has now come near." (I Peter 4:7)
- [The God of the Last Laugh](https://ggwo.org/the-god-of-the-last-laugh/): Comic relief – this really is an essential part of the Gospel.
- [The Least](https://ggwo.org/the-least/): I spoke to a fisherman and found out he was a believer in Christ. He exhibited confidence, and a positive outlook.
- [What We Have to Give](https://ggwo.org/what-we-have-to-give/): “… What I do have I give to you …” It was Peter the Apostle who said these words to a lame man.
- [The Delicate Member](https://ggwo.org/the-delicate-member/): Who might these delicate members be?
- [Remember Sabbath](https://ggwo.org/remember-sabbath/): Face it; we’ve been put into time out. Like the disobedient child that it is, the world system is under something of a forced shutdown.
- [Stepping Stone or Millstone](https://ggwo.org/stepping-stone-or-millstone/): Will I sink or will I swim? In troubled times this can be our constant question. Self-preservation seems to dictate our options.
- [The Ephesians and First Love](https://ggwo.org/the-ephesians-and-first-love/): The church of Ephesus got off to a strong start and functioned as a faithful assembly for some years.
- [" ... like a weaned child ... "](https://ggwo.org/like-a-weaned-child/): For many years this age has been dubbed "the age of anxiety". What a time for us, the Body of Christ, to be established in quietness and confidence in Him; to cease from fretting ourselves by receiving Grace continually; to reveal Him as the only sure resting place and refuge to those who are so easily prone to fretting and fear. We are able because He is our Portion, and He is sufficient!
- [Gold Mine](https://ggwo.org/gold-mine/): South Africa has the deepest hard rock gold mine up to 12800 feet underground.
- [Real Equipment for a Real World](https://ggwo.org/real-equipment-for-a-real-world/): "Survival of the fittest" is a mantra of the extremely observant. But, is empirical evidence the same as truth? On two levels, no.
- [Devotion to Doctrine](https://ggwo.org/devotion-to-doctrine/): The disciples listened to Jesus and heard His final instructions. They watched as He took off for Heaven. Then, they did what He told them to do.
- [Hear the Bells](https://ggwo.org/hear-the-bells/): Bells toll, signalling for us to rise up, look up first, lift our heads before that, awake from shame into approval, honor, and esteem.
- [The Way Jesus Talks](https://ggwo.org/the-way-jesus-talks/): Jesus became a target for the religious leaders of His time on earth. It was mostly because of what He said.
- [Navigating Marriage](https://ggwo.org/navigating-marriage/): After 23 years of marriage, it is still a mystery to me. As we journey through life, we learn about the power of the Lord and the weakness of ourselves.
- [Awakened to God](https://ggwo.org/awakened-to-god/): Jacob was a man with a habit of making his own way. It started with his birth, which he helped to facilitate with his grasp on the ankle of twin brother Esau.
- [" ... but I give myself to prayer."](https://ggwo.org/but-i-give-myself-to-prayer/): "The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer." (Oswald Chambers)
- [Eye and How?](https://ggwo.org/eye-and-how/): 2 Corinthians 5:19 speaks a great truth to us, “That is, in Messiah, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them; and He has entrusted the message of reconciliation to us.” The Savior brought us a new consciousness, and in that conscience there is no ledger of a person’s willful flesh.
- [Speak for Yourself](https://ggwo.org/speak-for-yourself/): “You are permitted to speak for yourself.” Paul was standing before Roman rulers – Agrippa and Festus -- and a group of assembled dignitaries and officials of Caesarea.
- [Secrets](https://ggwo.org/secrets/): His presence, His Word, His life, His work. Have I done great things for God or man? No. Small stuff. I need God for the small stuff — all my stuff is small.
- [Sorrow, Rage and Resurrection](https://ggwo.org/sorrow-rage-and-resurrection/): Jesus came to earth and faced life and death at every level.
- [The Identity of Our Image](https://ggwo.org/the-identity-of-our-image/): Our identities can be fragile things. Insecurities color the way we see ourselves.
- [Vision Works](https://ggwo.org/vision-works/): 2 Corinthians 4:16 reminds us, "though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- [CONFIDENT KINGS IN A CONTINUING KINGDOM](https://ggwo.org/confident-kings-in-a-continuing-kingdom/): As kings to God our Father and as co-heirs of His Kingdom, let us come boldly to the Throne of Grace to receive overflowing Grace and of the gift of Righteousness to reign in this life, and to help draw and disciple others to our great King, Father, God, and Savior!
- [All Things Come to Praise](https://ggwo.org/all-things-come-to-praise/): 2020 has come to us. The book has closed on another year, on another decade according to most. The calendar serves us in marking out days.
- [A Man Like Us](https://ggwo.org/a-man-like-us/): Peter and his story are great gifts to us as believers.
- [Surprise!](https://ggwo.org/surprise/): The many-sided Christmas Story carries with it many surprises. Surprise: to strike with wonder or amazement especially because unexpected.
- [When Life Seems Impossible](https://ggwo.org/when-life-seems-impossible/): There are impossible things in our lives. Weighty things that have been part of our landscape for a long time.
- [The Greatness of Children](https://ggwo.org/the-greatness-of-children/): “Suffer the children to come unto me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14).
- [The Thrill of Hope](https://ggwo.org/the-thrill-of-hope/): “Long lay the world in sin and error pining …” So goes the lyric line in “O Holy Night,” one of our most popular Christmas carols.
- [When Life Plays Unfair](https://ggwo.org/when-life-plays-unfair/): I must leave the "fair/unfair" plane of existence.
- [From Pentecost to Pentecost](https://ggwo.org/from-pentecost-to-pentecost/): In Genesis 46:3-4, God told Jacob that the Lord would make him a great nation, promising that He would go with Jacob and his family to Egypt and “I will surely bring you up again”.
- [Hope Leads Us Home](https://ggwo.org/hope-leads-us-home/): Hope was planted in a heart. It would not be denied. The heart belonged to Ruth.
- ['I Will Go'](https://ggwo.org/i-will-go/): Rebekah came to the well of water outside the city of Nahor in Mesopotamia. She did this most evenings for her family.
- [Chain Breaker](https://ggwo.org/chain-breaker/): Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.
- [Prepared to Meet Our God](https://ggwo.org/prepared-to-meet-our-god/): What will it be like to stand before Jesus?
- [Blessings of the New Covenant](https://ggwo.org/blessings-of-the-new-covenant/): The Old Testament is filled with many blessings of God for His people.
- [Talitha Cumi and Other Miracle Words](https://ggwo.org/talitha-cumi-and-other-miracle-words/): Talitha cumi These words from Jesus are found in the fifth chapter of Mark.
- [Noah's Days](https://ggwo.org/noahs-days/): What does it mean?
- [The Holy City in Our Hearts](https://ggwo.org/the-holy-city/): “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:3) “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words will endure forever” (Matthew 24:35) These are things Jesus told His disciples about the future.
- [Ownership:  Mine, Yours, Ours](https://ggwo.org/ownership-mine-yours-ours/): God is the Father of all people everywhere who have received Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. But He wants me to embrace Him as MY Father. The Lord Jesus is the Savior of the world, but He wants me to enjoy Him as MY Savior. God became a Person and came to the Earth with a mission: to reveal what the Father was like and to make it possible to know the joy of having a personal relationship with Him. Let's get personal with Him in these last days as we prepare to be His Bride for all Eternity!
- [The Lord of All](https://ggwo.org/the-lord-of-all/): “Once there was a boy.
- [Leap into the River of God](https://ggwo.org/leap-into-the-river-of-god/): “As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and He said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he rose and followed him” (Matthew 9:9).
- [Home Going - Hope](https://ggwo.org/home-going-hope/): I'm listening to a song entitled "Almost Home." Yes, us believers are almost home. However, Jesus is passed into the heavens, already.
- [God at Home in Us](https://ggwo.org/god-at-home-in-us/): God made each of us for Himself. This reality is something we must embrace.
- [The Way to a Quiet Soul](https://ggwo.org/the-way-to-a-quiet-soul/): "All of your days have already been written in God's book; when you go through a disappointment, don't stop on that page, stay the course, keep believing; you may be tired discouraged and frustrated, but don't give up on your future, God is faithful" Dee dee Gee.
- [Be Children, See Children](https://ggwo.org/be-children-see-children/): Jesus overheard something His disciples likely didn’t want Him to hear. They were at odds. At issue was the question as to who was the greatest among them.
- [There is Now Therefore No Condemnation...](https://ggwo.org/there-is-now-therefore-no-condemnation/): The King James writers saw fit to add the words, "who walk not after the flesh..." This addendum is not in the original text. Why?
- [All, Better Than More](https://ggwo.org/all-better-than-more/): Nimrod, it seems, was able to bring people together for a purpose. The Bible refers to him as a man who became a mighty hunter.
- [From Law to Grace](https://ggwo.org/from-law-to-grace/): “For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized [came into being] through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17) The conversion from the old covenant to the new covenant is an interesting case study in the progressive revelation of God and His relationship to man.
- ["Your Face Will I Seek"](https://ggwo.org/your-face-will-i-seek/): We seek the face of the Lord by listening in silence before Him,by spending time in prayer, by seeking in the Book and reading, by determining to see His face in each face that comes in front of ours, by knowing no one after the flesh, reckoning that each one was created in His image.
- [Fishing for Rescue ](https://ggwo.org/fishing-for-rescue/): Fishermen wade smack-dab into the water where fish swim, as a blue heron readies for it’s own breakfast, lunch or dinner.
- [Threads of Faith](https://ggwo.org/threads-of-faith/): There’s a Bible story of two distressed people that shows up in three of the New Testament gospels.
- [A Dinner of Herbs](https://ggwo.org/a-dinner-of-herbs/): “All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
- [Learning How to Follow](https://ggwo.org/learning-how-to-follow/): The story of the Bible is the history of God leading His people through the wilderness.
- [The Way of the Blessed](https://ggwo.org/the-way-of-the-blessed/): What does it mean to be blessed? This is a significant Bible word.
- [Hearing the Voice of God](https://ggwo.org/hearing-the-voice-of-god/): A critical part of spiritual maturity is developing the ability to hear the voice of God.
- [The Last Shall be First](https://ggwo.org/the-last-shall-be-first/): What does it mean to have reputation?
- [Remember the One True Man](https://ggwo.org/remember-the-one-true-man/): This past Sunday was a Communion Sunday at our church, the day each month when we follow Jesus’ instruction to “do this in remembrance of Me.” It’s an ordinance, a practice of the Church, one that takes us back to the beginnings, back to the days of the earliest believers in our Lord and Savior.
- [HIS EYES and Ours](https://ggwo.org/his-eyes-and-ours/): Can we even imagine how the Eyes of Almighty God, the Ruler of the Universe, are fastened on us, that we are indeed "the apple of His Eye", that He dealt conclusively with the sin issue so that He could forever look upon those who would believe in His Plan to blot out all sin and trust in the One Whom He used to execute that Plan ... pure, active, doves' Eyes fixed on us forever ... ! It behooves us to turn our eyes upon Him and look full in His wonderful Face. His Word tells us what we will see there ...
- [When Heaven Comes to Earth](https://ggwo.org/when-heaven-comes-to-earth/): The song goes: "When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be, However, the Supreme joy of that “eternal” future is treasured in a lingering and finite present day earthen vessel.
- [The Bread of Life](https://ggwo.org/the-bread-of-life/): Jesus had a way of teaching that involved mystery. He spoke in many parables. The word pictures He employed were designed to keep people guessing.
- [Facing the Giant](https://ggwo.org/facing-the-giant/): David stepped out from the crowd and stared down a giant. The gruesome Goliath had come to bellow of his greatness.
- [Filling Man’s Poverty with God’s Riches   ](https://ggwo.org/filling-mans-poverty-with-gods-riches/): E. M. Bounds, a 19th century pastor in the Methodist Episcopal Church, wrote a number of definitive books dealing with prayer that are considered classics.
- [Identity -- from Within or Without?](https://ggwo.org/identity-from-within-or-without/): “Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God.
- [Adopted or Orphaned](https://ggwo.org/adopted-or-orphaned/): At the Last Supper, Jesus consoled His disciples that He would be leaving them, but would not leave them as orphans (John 14:18).
- [A Laughing Matter](https://ggwo.org/a-laughing-matter/): Sarah laughed. She really couldn’t help herself. She had heard something remarkable; no, she’d heard something impossible.
- [Pride - the Enemy of Grace](https://ggwo.org/pride-the-enemy-of-grace/): “…grace is His voluntary, unrestrained, unmerited favor toward guilty sinners, granting them justification and life instead of the penalty of death, which they deserved.
- [Names Written in Heaven](https://ggwo.org/names-written-in-heaven/): It’s good to read about Jesus. It’s time well spent to look at the gospel stories and pay attention to what the Savior did and said during His days on earth.
- [The Complexity of Life and True Liberty](https://ggwo.org/the-complexity-of-life-and-true-liberty/): For example, a grandfather rates hanging with his grandchildren a top priority. He is enamored by the sweet exchanges, and they love him.
- [Consider the Work of God](https://ggwo.org/consider-the-work-of-god/): When you want to get to know someone, you cannot rely on the five senses to tell you who a person really is. The real person lies somewhere beneath.
- ["Lord, You promised..."](https://ggwo.org/lord-you-promised/): Hebrews 11:27 says that Moses "never flinched but held staunchly to his purpose and enforced steadfastly as one who gazed on Him Who is invisible." His heart was fixed on One Whose character and integrity had been confirmed to him over and over again; therefore, he believed His promises and took Him at His Word. By Grace through faith we can certainly do likewise, with "the faith of the Son of God" to live by and with His pure, proven, and good promises hiding richly in our hearts to launch out on.
- [Make Joyful Noise](https://ggwo.org/make-joyful-noise/): “Make a joyful noise to the Lord.” Every now and then we just need to let out a good shout unto God.
- [The Bema Seat of Christ](https://ggwo.org/the-bema-seat-of-christ/): In 1 Corinthians 3:10-11, Paul's words speak loudly to our hearts: it's the Bema Seat of Christ.
- [From Rejection to Worship](https://ggwo.org/from-rejection-to-worship/): Jacob’s 11th son, Joseph is a picture of one who overcame rejection and became the second most powerful man in Egypt.
- ['Let My People Go'](https://ggwo.org/let-my-people-go/): Moses came to face Pharaoh just as he was. By appearances, there was so little about him to recommend his status as a diplomat.
- [Lost People](https://ggwo.org/lost-people/): Seems that this philosophy has some truth in it. "Utilitarianism" was founded by Jeremy Bentham, an English moral philosopher and legal reformer, born 1748.
- [The Cross and the Glory](https://ggwo.org/the-cross-and-the-glory/): Peter blurted out the truth: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus commended him for having the heart to hear what Heaven had to say about the Son.
- [Two Goats](https://ggwo.org/two-goats/): The most holy day of the year for the Jew is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It occurs in the midst of a 10-day period of introspection and repentance.
- [Open Doors and the Revelation](https://ggwo.org/open-doors-and-the-revelation/): The book of Revelation intrigues us because of what it tells about the future for the earth, this place we call home.
- [He Receives Sinners](https://ggwo.org/he-receives-sinners/): “…And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
- [God's Secrets!](https://ggwo.org/gods-secrets/): The Lord Jesus Christ has made it possible for all of His people to know all that the Father has told Him (John 15:15). We can be among those who enjoy His "sweet, satisfying companionship" by having our hearts established in the reverent, worshipful fear of the Lord (Psa.25:14, Ampl). This "fear" is simply "realizing His continual Presence"(Eccl.8:12, Ampl), believing against sight, reason, and feelings, that He is without interruption with us, throughout and to the end of this age (Matt.28:20)
- [Walk Before God](https://ggwo.org/walk-before-god/): Question: how does fallen man walk before a holy God in a corrupt world? This may be God’s greatest miracle. Yet, it was what God intended for man all along.
- [Resurrection and Our Holy Ground](https://ggwo.org/resurrection-and-our-holy-ground/): “Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead.
- [Jesus Wept as God and Man](https://ggwo.org/jesus-wept-as-god-and-man/): Jesus wept. We know this as John 11:35, the shortest verse in the Bible.
- [They Know Not What They Do](https://ggwo.org/they-know-not-what-they-do/): Slobs make messes, Pigpens dust-up and dirty all they get near, humans squirt out "humanity" which touches fellow and foe.
- [Hudson Taylor and the Heart of Missions](https://ggwo.org/hudson-taylor-and-the-heart-of-missions/): One of the greatest missionaries of the modern Christian age was (James) Hudson Taylor, who spent 51 years as a missionary to China and established the China Inland Missions, now known as OMF International.
- [Jesus and Gethsemane](https://ggwo.org/jesus-and-gethsemane/): Together, they came to a garden, a place to pray. Jesus led His disciples here after the Supper.
- [Discerning Good and Evil](https://ggwo.org/discerning-good-and-evil/): Along the road to spiritual maturity, there are a number of landmarks a believer must pass through so “that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:20).
- [Shallow](https://ggwo.org/shallow/): "[W]hen the Hubble space telescoped (sic) pointed to a black spot in the sky about the size of an eraser head for a week it found 30,000 galaxy(sic) over 13 billion years old with many trillions of stars and many many more trillions of inferred planets.
- [Noah, the Ark, the Ant and the Crumb](https://ggwo.org/noah-the-ark-the-ant-and-the-crumb/): Definition, direction, design, detail – these are words of concentration and understanding. They are also words that show us the way of God’s eternal activity.
- [The Priesthood of the Believer](https://ggwo.org/the-priesthood-of-the-believer/): One of the most important principles derived from the Protestant Reformation is the priesthood of the believer.
- [Weighty Matters for Humans](https://ggwo.org/weighty-matters-for-humans/): "The unjust conceives iniquity in his heart, there is no fear of God before his eyes. He is unwilling to see his sins forgiven, or to hate them.
- [God Said 'Light'](https://ggwo.org/god-said-light/): It was a word from God. This started it all. “Light. “ This was the word, and it was said in a season when the earth was without form.
- [Faith, Love, Obedience:  HIS, not Mine](https://ggwo.org/faith-love-obedience-his-not-mine/): What pleased the Father most about the life of His Son on earth was not so much His actions as His mental attitude of unconditional obedience to Him Who had sent Him. And it was because the Son loved the Father. Inside of us is the same power of His endless Life to live likewise. Because "as He is so are we", we now live with His Faith working by His Love in His obedience to His Word. By His matchless, inexhaustible Grace it is truly "not I, but Christ"!
- [Meant for Good](https://ggwo.org/meant-for-good/): “You meant evil.” It was Joseph who said these words in the book of Genesis.
- [A Galilean Wedding](https://ggwo.org/a-galilean-wedding/): It is no coincidence that Jesus’s first miracle was performed at a Galilean (Cana) wedding.
- [Little is Much](https://ggwo.org/little-is-much-2/): Little ones are the ones who know best the ways of the Lord. Jesus said so when He caught the disciples as they argued about who was the greatest among them.
- [Double-minded](https://ggwo.org/double-minded/): There is so much in this crazy world in which we live that competes for our attention. Life is confusing.
- [The Thirst of the Savior](https://ggwo.org/the-thirst-of-the-savior/): Jesus sat down by a well and asked for a drink from a woman, a Samaritan woman who was strangely coming for her water in the middle of the day.
- [All, yes All](https://ggwo.org/__trashed/): be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. ...have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
- [He Must Increase, I Must Decrease](https://ggwo.org/he-must-increase-i-must-decrease/): “He must increase.” John the Baptist saw the Lamb and he knew that his work was nearly done. He had felt the presence of the Lord even before he was born.
- [Let God's Love Define You](https://ggwo.org/let-gods-love-define-you/): God wants us to "know ... and believe ... the Love that [He] cherishes for us" (I John 4:16, Ampl). Let's then choose to believe and receive it, to keep ourselves in it (Jude 21), and to let our lives and identity be defined by this unchanging, life-changing Love in which He has enfolded us (Eph.4:15, Ampl) and wrapped us in tenderness (II Cor.5:14, Wuest), compelling us to truly live "not I, but Christ".
- [Making the Days Count](https://ggwo.org/making-the-days-count/): As I get older and older, the passage of time becomes more obvious and my awareness of time more relevant.
- [Snow, the Church and the Virtuous Woman](https://ggwo.org/snow-the-church-and-the-virtuous-woman/): “She is not afraid of snow for her household for all her household is clothed in scarlet” (Proverbs 31:21) Proverbs 31 concludes with a series of descriptions of the virtuous woman.
- [Not Success or Failure but Grace](https://ggwo.org/not-success-or-failure-but-grace/): Some precious friends struggle with failure. Paul, God's apostle to the Gentiles, learned it -- His secret? Contentment.
- [The Day the Wind Blew](https://ggwo.org/the-day-the-wind-blew/): The Wind came as they waited. They waited because Jesus had told them to wait. There were 120 of them, gathered together in a room in Jerusalem.
- [A Ministry of Excellence](https://ggwo.org/a-ministry-of-excellence/): One of the most important statements Jesus made at the Sermon on the Mount dealt with the people’s concerns about who He was in relationship to the Old Testament, defined by the Law and the Prophets.
- [Compassion, the Blood Cleanser](https://ggwo.org/compassion-the-blood-cleanser/): When I think of a person, fellow human sufferer; I well-up with love and compassion.
- [Kiss the Son, Take Refuge in Him](https://ggwo.org/kiss-the-son-take-refuge-in-him/)
- [From Religious to Spiritual ](https://ggwo.org/from-religious-to-spiritual/): As a new believer, I tried my best to live up to the standards of God and what I thought He expected of me.
- [Divine Light/Created Light](https://ggwo.org/divine-light-created-light/): Three notable "darkness" events happened in Bible history.
- [The Throne Above](https://ggwo.org/the-throne-above/): God answers His people in times of uncertainty and turmoil.
- [From This Time Forth ...](https://ggwo.org/from-this-time-forth/): We know that from the moment we receive Christ as our Personal Savior, we are forever His, forever a new creation, forever a temple of the Holy Spirit, forever hid with Christ in God and also in the Body of Christ. But we also must rehearse, know personally, and even own, that whenever we fail and confess it, receiving forgiveness and cleansing "of ALL unrighteousness", we are totally new, and free to fellowship with the Lord, from that moment forth. So from the Cross forth the Lord has given us an amazing way to experience a "fresh, new, and living way" of living on earth, with possibly only seconds of interruption in our fellowship with Him! Let's seize this hope and enjoy this means of victorious living.
- [Walking in the Law](https://ggwo.org/walking-in-the-law/): The word “law” is used in many different ways in the Scriptures so it is important to understand its meaning in the context it is used.
- [Mothers, Women, Wisdom and the Virtue of Hope](https://ggwo.org/mothers-women-and-the-virtue-of-hope/): A mother had some words for her son. This son just happened to be a king. Lemuel, King of Massa, he is called in the Proverbs 31:1.
- [Dark Society, Brighten Up](https://ggwo.org/dark-society-brighten-up/): In the ancient garden, God planted trees good for fruit. The tree of life was there, so also grew the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- [Adam, God's People and the Temple](https://ggwo.org/adam-gods-people-and-the-temple/): The Chronicles, books 1 and 2, begin with a name – Adam.
- [Like a Weaned Child](https://ggwo.org/like-a-weaned-child-2/): “O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; nor do I involve myself in great matters, or in things too difficult for me.
- [Common God-ness](https://ggwo.org/common-god-ness/): Lowly, small — that’s how Jesus came. Yes, a Star did shine. A host of angels sang praises to His glory. There were those moments of fanfare for sure.
- [On Christmas Night All Christians Sing!](https://ggwo.org/on-christmas-night-all-christians-sing/): On Christmas night all Christians sing, to hear the news the angels bring. News of great joy, news of great mirth, news of our merciful King's birth.
- [Eternal Matters](https://ggwo.org/eternal-matters/): Since the believer’s citizenship is heaven (Philippians 3:20), his highest priority is to learn how to live in a foreign land in the midst of unheavenly standards.
- [What to Do with Jesus?](https://ggwo.org/what-to-do-with-jesus/): What to do with Jesus? The Christmas story is full of people who had to answer this question. It really started with Mary, a young girl living in Nazareth.
- [The Father’s Love](https://ggwo.org/the-fathers-love/): "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
- [The Perfect Plan and Purpose of the Perfect Person](https://ggwo.org/the-perfect-plan-and-purpose-of-the-perfect-person/): Life for us is all about a getting to know a Perfect Person Who had a Perfect Plan to enable us to fulfill His Perfect Purpose while in this world. Through His Plan of Grace we are changed little by little into His same image and thus make Him manifest, and by faith we bring Him pleasure and glorify Him, fulfilling His desire as well as purpose for us on earth.
- [The Babe and the Shepherds](https://ggwo.org/the-babe-and-the-shepherds/): The Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes -- that’s the One. He’s the Son of God, the firstborn of Mary, a virgin girl from Nazareth.
- [Four Steps to Deliverance from Addictions](https://ggwo.org/four-steps-to-deliverance-from-addictions/): As a follow-up to my blog on “A Biblical Basis for Addictions," it will be good to examine four steps that are required to find total deliverance from addiction.
- [The Last Christmas](https://ggwo.org/the-last-christmas/): The snow fell stilly on the frosted ground .
- [A Biblical Basis for Addictions](https://ggwo.org/a-biblical-basis-for-addictions/): Psychology Today defines addiction as “a condition in which a person engages in the use of a substance or in a behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental consequences.” Spiritually speaking, the unbeliever is vulnerable to all kinds of maladies and infections because he is subject to his environment.
- [Steadfast Against the Drift](https://ggwo.org/steadfast-against-the-drift/): “The eye is the lamp of the body.
- [God Made Known](https://ggwo.org/god-made-known/): “Whom you therefore ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you” (Acts 17:23). This was the point Paul sought to drive home to a distinguished group of hearers.
- [Jesus and the Sting of Death](https://ggwo.org/jesus-and-the-sting-of-death/): Death hit Jesus hard. He felt the depth of its sting even before reaching the Cross.
- [Frustration](https://ggwo.org/frustration/): “Frustration” defines a “deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs.” Webster's Dictionary.
- [The Good Shepherd Who Became the Door](https://ggwo.org/the-good-shepherd-who-became-the-door/): “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6).
- [His Yoke, Our Rest](https://ggwo.org/his-yoke-our-rest/): "For he who has once entered God's rest also has ceased from the weariness and pain of human labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His own." (Heb.4:10) Imagine: at the moment of our salvation we enter into the very same rest that God did after He created the heavens and earth and all that is in them (Gen.2:2,3). But we experience that rest by faith in what He has said and now says to us by His Spirit - i.e., we take the yoke of His Finished Work upon us, upon our wills, choosing to "only believe" HIS Word and hear HIS Voice, and to do justly, love Mercy, and walk humbly before our God.
- [Mud That Made a Man See](https://ggwo.org/mud-that-made-a-man-see/): For a man near the Temple, the day started as every one of his days had started — in darkness.
- [Glory, Lifter of My Head](https://ggwo.org/glory-lifter-of-my-head/): “Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God.
- [The Light of Forgiveness](https://ggwo.org/the-light-of-forgiveness/): A woman was caught in the “very act” of adultery and brought to Jesus. She was thrown at His feet right there in the Temple, in the house of mercy.
- [What We Really Need to Know](https://ggwo.org/all-we-need-to-know/): Jesus has all the answers. I am convinced of this; as I am convinced that He is God the Son and as such His attributes include omniscience.
- [Water, Bread and Blood](https://ggwo.org/water-bread-and-blood/): Water. Bread. Blood. To me, it makes sense that the Lord used these to paint a picture of His salvation work in the world that He loves and cares for.
- [Battle Thoughts](https://ggwo.org/battle-thoughts/): Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's."
- [Staying Power](https://ggwo.org/staying-power/): "He that sits down in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty, Whose power no foe can withstand." (Psalm 91:1, combined translation)
- [Three Big Little Words](https://ggwo.org/three-big-little-words/): “And God said …” These are three big words that come to us again and again throughout Genesis 1, the chapter that opens our Bibles.
- [The Prophet's Dilemma](https://ggwo.org/the-prophets-dilemma/): In 2 Peter 1:21, Peter tells us that, “for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” This verse teaches that the human writers of the Scriptures did not receive their words by some method of dictation, but the truths they spoke of were ingested into their lives organically and the result was that each one provides a distinct perspective on the truths they report.
- [Globalism](https://ggwo.org/globalism/): "...advances in technology have provided both the blessing of a more informed public and the curse of a misinformed one -- men and women who are sure they know the truth because of what they have seen or been told on social media."
- [Meeting Jesus](https://ggwo.org/meeting-jesus/): Meeting Jesus, the gospel of John is all about this.
- [Jesus Listened to His Mother](https://ggwo.org/jesus-listened-to-his-mother/): A wedding, and a small town wedding at that. Something really big happened in Cana of Galilee, a village on a hill outside of Capernaum.
- [Inner Beauty](https://ggwo.org/inner-beauty/): Some days no thoughts come. Too much sugar in last night's snack? Maybe.
- [Be Strong and Courageous](https://ggwo.org/be-strong-and-courageous/): A test was once conducted where 10 high school students were placed in one room and shown three lines of varying lengths.
- [The Man Who Knew His Place](https://ggwo.org/the-man-who-knew-his-place/): “Behold the Lamb.” John the Baptist said this twice in the first chapter of the Apostle John’s gospel.
- [The Generosity of God](https://ggwo.org/the-generosity-of-god/): "There are those who [generously] scatter abroad, and yet increase more; there are those who withhold more than is fitting or what is justly due but it results only in want. The liberal [generous] person shall be enriched, and he who waters shall himself be watered." (Proverbs 11:42,25) Let us therefore receive the abundance of Grace to be the Lord's generous "liberals"!
- [The Beginning of Light and Life](https://ggwo.org/the-beginning-of-light-and-life/): Light came and this Light shines on and on. Light remains unfathomable for it possesses a character and essence that defies human definition.
- [Belonging](https://ggwo.org/belonging/): to be in a proper situation.
- [Courage in Our Strange World](https://ggwo.org/courage-in-our-strange-world/): Proverbs 7 is a chapter about an unwise guy who wanders into trouble. It’s a scene that takes place in the twilight.
- [Where Our Prayers Go](https://ggwo.org/where-our-prayers-go/): In the book of Exodus, Moses is given a pattern for the Tabernacle.
- [The "Cause to"'s of God](https://ggwo.org/the-cause-tos-of-god/): In the Old Testament we see more often than in the New the phrase "Cause me to ...". But when the Age of Grace began believers in the Lord Jesus Christ had the Spirit of Grace abiding in them, Who worked in them both to will and to do of all His good pleasure.(Phil.2:13) Perhaps that it is why there are very few "cause to"'s in the New Testament but many "let"'s and "let not"'s; and when we read them we are not intimidated by our inability to carry out what's asked, rather we are confident that we have GRACE to meet every need, every challenge, every task that is set before us. Let us, therefore, be strong in the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, glorifying Him greatly by receiving it in abundance!
- [The Corruption of Mankind](https://ggwo.org/the-corruption-of-mankind/): For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
- [In the Presence of Enemies](https://ggwo.org/in-the-presence-of-enemies/): The shadow of death, we are walking through it, as Psalm 23 so clearly states for us.
- [Holy as He is Holy](https://ggwo.org/holy-as-he-is-holy/): “… As he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy’ (1 Peter 1:15-16). Be holy.
- [Joy or Sorrow, A Decision](https://ggwo.org/joy-or-sorrow-a-decision/): “And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.
- [Jesus and the Tastes of Death](https://ggwo.org/jesus-and-the-tastes-of-death/): "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man" (Hebrews 2:9).
- [The Captain and Our Holy Ground](https://ggwo.org/the-captain-and-our-holy-ground/): Joshua fit the battle of Jericho. And the walls came a tumbling down. That song composed long ago by Southern slaves became a rallying cry for freedom.
- [A Tale of Two Tamars](https://ggwo.org/a-tale-of-two-tamars/): It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife.
- [Our Personal, Present So-Loving God](https://ggwo.org/our-personal-present-so-loving-god/): “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.” These are the words from John 3:16, a verse broadcast near and far.
- [A "New" Friend](https://ggwo.org/a-new-friend/): We can know of the Holy Spirit, and we can know something of what He has done in the past, is doing in the present, and will do in the future. But do we know Him as a Person of the Trinity Who, like Jesus, is our Friend? It is He, after all, Who is our Guide even unto death - or the Rapture! - and it is He Who is preparing us on earth to be the Wife of the Lamb of God in Heaven for all Eternity!
- [The Way of Our Priesthood](https://ggwo.org/the-way-of-our-priesthood/): The sick and the poor – Jesus said they would be with us, always. And they remain with us to show us the heart of God.
- [The Word Never Voided](https://ggwo.org/the-word-never-voided/): A dying robber. A naked, demon-fueled savage. A prodigal son. These three New Testament characters speak to me about the nature and power of the Word of God.
- [The Night Meeting That Changed Everything](https://ggwo.org/the-night-meeting-that-changed-everything/): Nicodemus was a man of the Bible and a teacher in Israel. He saw and heard of Jesus.
- [Sweet Smell](https://ggwo.org/sweet-smell/): We have received grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ (Ephesians 4:7).
- [Making Do with Donkeys](https://ggwo.org/making-do-with-donkeys/): There are a couple stories about donkeys in the Bible. One of them was given a voice; another one gave Jesus a lift into Jerusalem.
- [James Garfield -- Man of Integrity](https://ggwo.org/james-garfield-man-of-integrity/): "He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, Guarding the paths of justice, and He preserves the way of His godly ones" (Proverbs 2:7-8) When I moved to Northeast Ohio to plant a church in 1998, we ended up locating it at a senior center in Mentor, Ohio.
- [As the Bride Waits ...](https://ggwo.org/as-the-bride-waits/): We, the Body of Christ, are the Lord's Bride-in-waiting; what are to be thinking, doing, as we wait for our Day? How do we best prepare for our Wedding with the King of kings? We increasingly become occupied with HIM, with His thoughts toward us, with what He's like, with what He's done already for us, with what our life with Him will be like throughout all Eternity. Then inevitably there will be an overflow of these pure, lovely, honest, true thoughts to those around us. The Author of these thoughts will be manifested and the works of the devil will be destroyed (I John 3:8) and people will be drawn to this One Whom our souls so love.
- [The Conquest of the Depths of Death](https://ggwo.org/the-conquest-of-the-depths-of-death/): Jesus came and got to the root of things. He went low, when everyone’s expectation focused on highness.
- [Ready Eyes](https://ggwo.org/ready-eyes/): “The sky shall unfold, preparing His entrance. The stars shall applaud Him with thunders and praise. The sweet light in His eyes shall enhance those awaiting.
- [The Lamb We Behold](https://ggwo.org/the-lamb-we-behold/): “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). John the Baptist announced this in the hearing of some of his followers.
- [Sister Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/sister-wisdom/): “Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister,’ and call insight your intimate friend” (Proverbs 7:4). Sister Wisdom – it is she we must come to know and love.
- [The Temple](https://ggwo.org/the-temple/): The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- [Longsuffering](https://ggwo.org/longsuffering/): In Revelation 5 a Lamb prevails worthy to open the seven- sealed scroll.
- ["Lift Up Your Eyes"](https://ggwo.org/lift-up-your-eyes/): In these perilous, frightening times it's easy to fasten our focus on people and events around us, both close by and far away. But such a lateral focus will cause fretting, which causes harm. Instead we receive Grace to lift up our heads and our eyes and focus rather on what is not seen - i.e., eternal, and to trust our God, Who is Love, to fulfill His purpose in all that takes place. He is seeking the lost, by all means and at all cost, completing the gathering of the Bride of Christ. For our part then, let's lift up our eyes and look unto Him, because our full redemption is nearer than ever!
- [Faith, Blessing and Turns of History](https://ggwo.org/faith-blessing-and-turns-of-history/): Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses – these are the names of heroes to those of us who read the Bible.
- [I Don’t Want to Think on It Any More](https://ggwo.org/i-dont-want-to-think-on-it-any-more/): The universe fills with thoughts — big enough for every human being to have his or her unique version. We play with it, enjoy it, embellish and create.
- [And Still There are Songs](https://ggwo.org/and-still-there-are-songs/): These lyrics represent the chorus from “In the Girl There’s a Room,” a song by Sara Groves.
- [The Songs of Jeremiah](https://ggwo.org/the-songs-of-jeremiah/): Jeremiah was a prophet, not a bullfrog as the old Three Dog Night song once told us.
- [Two Men](https://ggwo.org/two-men-2/): Two brothers approached and offered God yield of their life occupations. One offered a sheep, the other fruit.
- [Hearing, Confession and Conviction](https://ggwo.org/hearing-confession-and-conviction/): In thinking about the Christian life, I am convinced that there are three important principles for us to understand.
- [Our True Value](https://ggwo.org/our-true-value/): When we as God's people get ahold of the Love of God for us and truly perceive our value to the Trinity - because of what Christ accomplished on the Cross - then we are indeed indomitable!
- [Spiritual Warfare](https://ggwo.org/spiritual-warfare/): “When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden, in which He entered with His disciples.
- [The Way of Honor](https://ggwo.org/the-way-of-honor/): “Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you” (Exodus 20:12).
- [Mystery and the Gospel](https://ggwo.org/mystery-and-the-gospel/): "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
- [A Reflection on the Moon](https://ggwo.org/a-reflection-on-the-moon/): “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore. …” Those are lyrics from an old Dean Martin song.
- [Foxes, They Spoil the Vine](https://ggwo.org/foxes-they-spoil-the-vine/): "The voice of my beloved!
- [God and the Groanings](https://ggwo.org/god-and-the-groanings/): God spoke our world into being.
- [MLK and Drum Major Instincts](https://ggwo.org/mlk-and-drum-major-instincts/): We have been celebrating the life of Martin Luther King on a national level since Congress passed a bill recognizing his birthday, January 15, as a national holiday in 1983.
- [Taste the Honey of the Word](https://ggwo.org/taste-the-honey-of-the-word/): Jonathan took a taste of honey in 1 Samuel 14. His eyes brightened in an instant.
- [Spikenard, Myrrh and Camphire](https://ggwo.org/spikenard-myrrh-and-camphire/): Song of Solomon 1:12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
- ['I Am': The First and the Last](https://ggwo.org/i-am-the-first-and-the-last/): Alpha. Omega. The Beginning. The Ending. The First. The Last. These were words Jesus used to describe Himself.
- ["Where are you?"](https://ggwo.org/where-are-you/): Our God always has redemption in Mind, at Heart. He certainly followed the first 2 sinners after they left the Garden with His eyes, His Heart, and with His provision and covering. Spurgeon wrote: "I am come to find you wherever your may be. I will look for you till the eyes of My pity see you. I will follow you till the Hands of my Mercy reach you, and I will still hold you ... to My Heart." We are indeed forever being held in the sphere of His boundless Love.
- [Fully Assured](https://ggwo.org/fully-assured/): “For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (as it is written, "A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE YOU") in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.
- [“Draw Me After You “](https://ggwo.org/draw-me-after-you/): Faith exists the truly held, felt, smelled, and shelled nugget of gold — the one of my hopes and dreams — but comes by hearing, and the spiritual sense of hearing can only come by the Word of God..
- [Seeing What Others Cannot See](https://ggwo.org/seeing-what-others-cannot-see/): The book of Hebrews was written to encourage believers who were facing trouble. It seems the people of God often find themselves in difficulties. Why is this?
- [Forgiveness -- The Ultimate Power](https://ggwo.org/forgiveness-the-ultimate-power/): “But with You there is forgiveness, that You might be feared” (Psalm 130:4). This verse defines just why we should hold God in reverence and awe. He forgives.
- [A Chosen Man, a Wise Man](https://ggwo.org/a-chosen-man-a-wise-man/): “And you shall call His name Jesus.” The sentence came to Joseph, in a dream from the Angel of the Lord.
- [Christmas - A Narrow Passage](https://ggwo.org/christmas-a-narrow-passage/): Not always, but occasionally, "over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go," sadly detours us onto unfamiliar routes.
- [Our Glory Is Not Our Own](https://ggwo.org/our-glory-is-not-our-own/): It wasn’t much of an entrance, by the world’s standards anyway. But then God never needs much to work with.
- [Refugees, Safe and Hidden in Him](https://ggwo.org/refugees-safe-and-hidden-in-him/): "Hid with Christ in God" ... Jesus in us, us in Him, He in the Father ... We are indeed dwelling in the secret place of the Most High Whose power no foe can withstand. We fled to Him for refuge from sin, guilt and shame, and for protection from our strong enemy; and we are hidden in Him forever, covered from the wicked plots of men and from the evil strategies of the god of this world ... "who touches us not" because we are covered and hidden by One infinitely greater then him! What strength, rest and security is ours all the days of our lives!
- [Perspective](https://ggwo.org/perspective/): When I was first introduced to studying the Bible, it was in the context of the King James version and I had a hard time with it.
- [A Song, A Dream, A Promise](https://ggwo.org/a-song-a-dream-a-promise/): A girl got a song. A carpenter got a dream. A just and loyal old saint got a promise from the Spirit. All of them are part of the Christmas story.
- [Walkin' with Jesus](https://ggwo.org/walkin-with-jesus/): " Contrary to popular expectation, Christianity offers no simple solution to man's problems or to the integration of his personality; it does promise the abiding presence of Christ.....There is no offer of ease, but the promise of grace for the experience" -- Morris A.
- [Two Elijahs and Our Signs of Hope](https://ggwo.org/two-elijahs-and-our-signs-of-hope/): A cloud the size of a man’s hand. That’s all Elijah’s servant saw in 1 Kings 18.
- [Living Life on the Edge](https://ggwo.org/living-life-on-the-edge/): “O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear! I even cry out unto You of violence, and You will not save!” (Habakkuk 1:1).
- [Dr. Brengle](https://ggwo.org/dr-brengle/): On one occasion when Samuel Brengle was introduced as "the great Dr.
- [Faith That Saves](https://ggwo.org/faith-that-saves/): Two tables. Two hosts. Two salvations. The episodes I want to examine are both found in the gospel of Luke.
- [Resurrection Life](https://ggwo.org/resurrection-life/): The pivotal point of the account of the raising of Lazarus in John 11 is Jesus’s words found in verses 25-26, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.
- [Cynicism -- The Battle](https://ggwo.org/cynicism-the-battle/): "The world always has had a cross between two thieves for the one who comes to save it."
- [Fixed Heart, Single Eye, Sound Mind](https://ggwo.org/fixed-heart-single-eye-sound-mind/): Because of His superabounding Grace toward us, we can firmly fasten our minds, fix our hearts, focus our eye on whatsoever things are honest, lovely, pure, true, of good report and that have virtue (Phil.4:8). This will spare us the pain of living with a heart divided from the Father's and a mind divided from the Mind of Christ, experientially, and will give us the joy of experiencing His promised Peace.
- [The All We Have to Give](https://ggwo.org/the-all-we-have-to-give/): A widow marched to the offering box with all that she had, as we read in Mark 12. Just two mites were in her hand – all of the money she had to her name.
- [The Shadow of His Wings](https://ggwo.org/the-shadow-of-his-wings/): A lot gets said about the little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay. We really make quite a to-do about the Christmas story with its manger. And well we should.
- [A Love Story](https://ggwo.org/a-love-story/): When we get to our after-death resurrection, we will not have a sin nature. I see that quite easily.
- [God is for the Birds](https://ggwo.org/god-is-for-the-birds/): The birds, God is for them; especially the small seemingly insignificant ones. I see this best when I read through Psalm 84.
- [Hesed](https://ggwo.org/hesed/): One of the most important words in the Old Testament Hebrew is hesed, translated “mercy” in the King James, but may be better translated “lovingkindness.” According to Spiros Zodhiates, a noted Greek scholar, hesed goes beyond mercy and encompasses more completely the idea of God’s loyalty to covenant obligations.
- [The Complaint Department](https://ggwo.org/the-complaint-department/): The curse of a complaining spirit can be read about in our Bibles, in the book of Numbers.
- [The Crimson Worm](https://ggwo.org/the-crimson-worm/): “The Crimson worm [coccus ilicis] is a very special worm that looks more like a grub than a worm.
- [The Greater Commandments](https://ggwo.org/the-greater-commandments/): How does the way of love in Christ begin? Jesus told us of the greatest commandments. He answered a question posed to Him in Mark 12.
- ['Neither Do I Condemn You'](https://ggwo.org/neither-do-i-condemn-you/): Cast at the feet of Jesus, she was alone and in trouble. She was surrounded by accusers. She’d been caught, witnessed in the very act of adultery, they said.
- [THE Faithful God](https://ggwo.org/the-faithful-god/): I'll never forget something Micah Stambovsky said some years ago in a message: If we won't believe that God is faithful, why seek to know Him? Why bother with Him? Why invest all these hours, days, months, years in reading and studying and sharing His Word ... if He's not faithful. But He IS faithful, and it IS worth spending a lifetime searching the Scriptures, "seeking in the Book and reading", stepping out in faith on what He has promised, because "He Who promised IS faithful and reliable to His Word, to what He has promised" (Heb.10:23)
- [The Deity and Humanity of Christ](https://ggwo.org/the-deity-and-humanity-of-christ/): “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
- [The True and Lasting Temple](https://ggwo.org/the-true-and-lasting-temple/): In the final chapter of the book of Amos, we read these words of promise: “On that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, and repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old.” (Amos 9:11) The Day of the Lord is a particular and consistent theme through the Bible.
- [The Ferry Boat over the Jordan](https://ggwo.org/the-ferry-boat-over-the-jordan/): Some have written about trains and boats and long journeys; T. DeWitt Talmage illustrates the crossing from earth to heaven too.
- [The Life We Now Live](https://ggwo.org/the-life-we-now-live/): The apostle Paul wrote the book of Galatians to set the record straight.
- [God's Love for the World](https://ggwo.org/gods-love-for-the-world/): The world is a crazy place. I think we can all agree about this. It mostly does two things to us. It makes us mad, and it makes us afraid.
- [O The Blood](https://ggwo.org/o-the-blood/): They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb! Oh the blood of Jesus -- it will never lose it's power.
- [Spirit Led Marriage](https://ggwo.org/spirit-led-marriage/): “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
- [Like Precious Faith in Present Truth](https://ggwo.org/like-precious-faith-in-present-truth/): What kind of faith has been given to us? We find the answer to this question in the first verse of 2 Peter.
- [The Life of Faith — Not for Fainthearted](https://ggwo.org/the-life-of-faith-not-for-fainthearted/): “As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
- [I Already Know](https://ggwo.org/i-already-know/): There is enough evil in this world to make anyone angry all the time. There is enough goodness in God to bring anyone to joyful peace.
- [Our Adversary and Our Advocate](https://ggwo.org/our-adversary-and-our-advocate/): “Your adversary the devil …” Peter tells it straight. He understood the reality of Satan. And so should we.
- [The Christian Life Is Not Hard](https://ggwo.org/the-christian-life-is-not-hard/): Christ's extraordinary love for you and I is so marvelously expressed in I Cor.
- [Face Trials with the Word and the Spirit](https://ggwo.org/face-trials-with-the-word-and-the-spirit/): “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,” (1 Peter 4:1).
- [Heavenly Minded, Adorned and Furnished](https://ggwo.org/heavenly-minded-adorned-and-furnished/): “Wives be subject to your own husbands …” This instruction begins the third chapter of 1 Peter.
- [Treasure](https://ggwo.org/treasure/): Before a child learns to count, he may value a dollar bill more than a twenty because he likes the picture better.
- [The Power of "a little member"](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-a-little-member/): If we truly believe that "life and death are in the power of the tongue", then we will pray as King David did in Psalm 141:3, "Set a guard, O Lord, before my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips."; nothing can slide off the tongue as long as these two "watchmen" are guarding it! We might also pray according to his words in Psalm 37:13 - "Keep [my] tongue from evil and [my] lips from speaking deceit." How thankful we are that His Grace is sufficient for us to guard our hearts, out of whose abundance the mouth speaks! Then we can trust Him that our tongues will communicate only that which edifies and ministers Grace to the hearers.
- [Do I pray because I love God?](https://ggwo.org/do-i-pray-because-i-love-god/): I frequently pray because I have a need, or because I am looking for assurance.
- [How the Lasts are Made First](https://ggwo.org/how-the-lasts-are-made-first/): The last shall be first. Jesus said these words more than once. And those who heard the Savior say them were mystified.
- [Divine Spiritual Ethics](https://ggwo.org/divine-spiritual-ethics/): “You feel downcast, you’re hurting, you don’t feel good, you’re tired, you’re exhausted, and you are tempted to be depressed or to receive stress.
- [Proverbs 31 Husband](https://ggwo.org/proverbs-31-husband/): Are you still husbanding your wife? And if you are not, what is she responding to?
- [Chosen, Royal, Holy, Peculiar and Alive](https://ggwo.org/chosen-royal-holy-peculiar-and-alive/): “Taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.” (Psalm 34:8) Peter did just what this verse of Scripture describes.
- [Wishful Thinking](https://ggwo.org/wishful-thinking/): “The definitely concrete fact that they (the atheist), do not acknowledge God determines their knowledge of God.
- [Hands](https://ggwo.org/hands/): I stood there silent as a church sang its praises to God with their hands. Hands singing what mouths could not, hands singing for ears that could not hear.
- [Incorruptible Seed](https://ggwo.org/incorruptible-seed/): Take a seed in your hand – a tomato seed for instance. Examine it carefully. It does not seem like much could come from it.
- [A Friend of Christ and a Friend of Sinners](https://ggwo.org/a-friend-of-christ-and-a-friend-of-sinners/): You and I are friends of sinners. This is a work of God. This work is manifested as we agree to be one with Him.
- [Born Again to the Living Hope](https://ggwo.org/born-again-to-the-living-hope/): Peter understood crises of identity. Perhaps more than any other figure in our Bibles, this Apostle wrestled with who he was.
- [A Death without Dying](https://ggwo.org/a-death-without-dying/): Many mysteries doth life bring to us. Why so? We are not all-knowing, in fact, on the extreme side of finite do we face the simple day.
- [" ... and treasure them."](https://ggwo.org/and-treasure-them/): As we continue to hear and receive the Word of God, day after day, we are "heaping up and storing for ourselves treasures in Heaven, where ... thieves do not break through and steal." (Matt.6:20) Investing our lives in the Word of God is the soundest investment we could make of our lives, enriching with eternal treasure the lives of others as well as our own, and gladdening the Heart of God.
- [Illness Need Not Offend Me](https://ggwo.org/illness-need-not-offend-me/): A pastor, during missions convention, spoke of our afflictions (which oftentimes plague us), and he asked this question: Are you going to compare your affliction with the glory of God?
- [Rejoice with the Mind at Peace](https://ggwo.org/rejoice-with-the-mind-at-peace/): “Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar’s household.
- [Freely Give](https://ggwo.org/freely-give/): Are you writing books, writing songs, are you making or creating something unique that you hope will be a benefit?
- [Rejoicing and the Resurrection](https://ggwo.org/rejoicing-and-the-resurrection/): “Rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.” (Philippians 3:1) Rejoice – there’s that word again.
- [Think Like Jesus Thinks](https://ggwo.org/think-like-jesus-thinks/): “The joy of the Lord is your strength.” You might be surprised at the location of these very words in the Scriptures and at the situation in which they were spoken.
- [In God](https://ggwo.org/in-god/): Heads need a lifting often because “… they are increased that trouble me! The opposition thickens and becomes a countless number squeezing in on me.
- [Think Joy](https://ggwo.org/think-joy/): I want to talk about Paul, a man who wrote a good deal of what we know as the New Testament in our Bibles.
- [When Testings Come](https://ggwo.org/when-testings-come/): The subject of biblical testing at the initiation of God is one of fleeting understanding.
- [" ... through the Church ... "](https://ggwo.org/through-the-church/): Without the manifestation of the Son of God the works of the devil are not destroyed (I John 3:8); and without His followers continually revealing His Love among themselves, He is not manifested to the world. This Love cannot be manifested in and through us without choosing to let death to self work in us that Life might be manifested and work in others. How vital it is, then, that we do all we can, by His Grace, to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace!
- [A List to Live By](https://ggwo.org/a-list-to-live-by/): A good list is a good list and can help us in many ways. I think I am coming to the place where I need lists more than ever.
- [Highway](https://ggwo.org/highway/): Matthew Henry makes an observation about what this verse meant: First it meant, “No trade.
- [Patience in the Race of Faith](https://ggwo.org/patience-in-the-race-of-faith/): I am a runner. Not everyone is. It takes a series of choices to run, especially on days when your feet kind of hurt and you knees ache a little.
- [Going On](https://ggwo.org/going-on/): Dad was first to go in our family. A shocking heart attack and he was gone.
- [Substance for Faith](https://ggwo.org/substance-for-faith/): At a certain point, we come to the subject of faith in the epistle of Hebrews.
- [He will Hold me Fast](https://ggwo.org/he-will-hold-me-fast/): “I will arise, I will go to Jesus; He will embrace me in His arms.
- [A Body Prepared Once for All](https://ggwo.org/a-body-prepared-once-for-all/): “… We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10). God the Son became Man.
- [The Power of the Blood](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-the-blood/): What can make me whole again? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. What can wash me white as snow? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.
- ["But GROW!"](https://ggwo.org/but-grow/): "From glory to glory He's changing me", and how does this happen? We hear the Word by which comes faith; we receive grace upon grace to go from faith to faith, which causes us to go from strength to strength. All the while we are growing up into Jesus Christ in all things, and in the grace and knowledge of Who He is. The fruit resulting from this process glorifies the Father, and His eternal purpose for us on earth is fulfilled as our lives afford Him this pleasure.
- [Jesus Has Taken His Seat](https://ggwo.org/jesus-has-taken-his-seat/): “Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man” (Hebrews 8:1-2).
- [Our Happily Ever After Hope](https://ggwo.org/our-happily-after-hope/): Once upon a time. Happily ever after. We know these words. They are the opening and closing lines of so many fairy tales and fantasy stories.
- [Brand New](https://ggwo.org/brand-new-2/): We all know the awesome experience of seeing something that is pristine, new. It evokes the senses, draws out the appreciation in us, fires the feelings.
- [Who Told You?](https://ggwo.org/who-told-you/): If we are not persuaded as to Who the Lord Jesus Christ is, we will not be persuaded about who we are in Him according to what He has told us in His Word. We then will believe strangers' voices who will distort our true identity in Christ, until perhaps the Holy Spirit arrests us with the question: "Who told you you were .........?" He then reminds us of God's standard for our identity, and we are restored to our right mind, "the Mind of Christ"!
- [Our Anchor of Assurance](https://ggwo.org/our-anchor-of-assurance/): “For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the Word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding Him up to contempt” (Hebrews 6:4-6) If we are going to talk about the book of Hebrews, we have to address this passage.
- [The Priest Who Seeks and Saves](https://ggwo.org/the-priest-who-seeks-and-saves/): “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the Lost” (Luke 19:10) “And being made perfect, He became the Source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him” (Hebrews 5:9) Hebrews 5 carries forward the description of Jesus as High Priest that was begun in Hebrews 4.
- [Sabbath and the Throne of Grace](https://ggwo.org/sabbath-and-the-throne-of-grace/): Rest. Sabbath. These are foreign words to too many busy, busy people. To rest is really a matter of faith.
- [The Reproofs of Hope](https://ggwo.org/the-reproofs-of-hope/): “Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession” (Hebrews 3:1).
- [Sovereign God, Sovereign Love](https://ggwo.org/sovereign-god-sovereign-love/): God uses kings for His purposes. Cyrus was one of these, Jehu was another. Isaiah 45:1-3 speaks of God’s sovereign plan.
- [Pay Attention to Great Salvation](https://ggwo.org/pay-attention-to-great-salvation/): The ultimate weapon of Heaven is the cry of a child. Psalm 8 tells us this.
- ["Bring him to Me."](https://ggwo.org/bring-him-to-me/): How do we effectively obey Jesus' words: "Bring him to Me."? We first come to Him ourselves and learn to rest in His Love. Then we, as happened to Paul, are pressed on all sides by the Love He has for us and are held to one purpose by It, unable to consider any other: we go and bring others to Him.
- [The Final Word Puts Angels in Order](https://ggwo.org/the-final-word-puts-angels-in-order/): Jesus came as the Final Word from Heaven to earth. God got down in the dirt with us, as one of us.
- ["Come Up Here!"](https://ggwo.org/come-up-here/): “After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven!
- [Get Big By Being Like a Child](https://ggwo.org/get-big-by-being-like-a-child/): “And calling to Him a child, He put him in the midst of them and said, ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
- [He Sold All That He Had](https://ggwo.org/he-sold-all-that-he-had/): “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up.
- [With JOY Draw Water from the Wells!](https://ggwo.org/with-joy-draw-water-from-the-wells/): The more intimately we get to know the One Who is our Salvation and strength, the more quickly we will run to the wells of His Salvation, and the more abundantly we will draw from and drink of the water of His Word.
- [The Temple of His Body](https://ggwo.org/the-temple-of-his-body/): “The Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom you delight in; behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts” (Malachi 3:1).
- [Brand New](https://ggwo.org/brand-new/): We all know the awesome experience of seeing something that is pristine, new. It evokes the senses, draws out the appreciation in us, fires the feelings.
- [Obey and Be Ready for the Battle](https://ggwo.org/obey-and-be-ready-for-the-battle/): “Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices” (Proverbs 1:29-31) In Proverbs, Lady Wisdom gives her directions.
- [Loving Lives of Light](https://ggwo.org/loving-lives-of-light/): Darkness held us hostage until love broke through. We were shadowed from the radiance of God's glory. This is Hell’s way. It operates in subtlety.
- [Who is our Beloved?](https://ggwo.org/who-is-our-beloved/): Through hiding the Word of God richly in our hearts ( e.g by attending services, personal Bible study), communing with the Lord often, spending time alone with Him, listening in silence before Him and waiting for Him to speak to us personally, meditating on what we've learned of Him ... all these will bring us into ever-increasing intimacy with the One Whom our souls so love, and we will be ready to speak freely of Him to others who, in turn, will hopefully seek Him.
- [One with the One who is One](https://ggwo.org/one-with-the-one-who-is-one/): “… Walk in manner worthy of the calling to which to you been called …” (Ephesians 4:1).
- [Love Makes for No More Stumbling](https://ggwo.org/love-makes-for-no-more-stumbling/): Rom 14:1-4 teaches, ” Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
- [Made for Eternity](https://ggwo.org/made-for-eternity/): Eternity – it’s what we are made for. Ecclesiastes 3:11 tells us this. Our hearts have something about them that craves mystery and understanding.
- [Keep your Eyes on the Outstretched Hand](https://ggwo.org/keep-your-eyes-on-the-outstretched-hand/): Peter beckoned the Lord, “bid me come unto thee on the water.” He too walked on the water.
- [The Person of Perfect Peace](https://ggwo.org/the-person-of-perfect-peace/): The common people heard Jesus gladly. This, we read in Mark 12:37.
- [Do We Love Him More Than ... ?](https://ggwo.org/do-we-love-him-more-than/): There is an abundance of Grace available to us as the Bride of Christ to love our Bridegroom with all our heart, our soul and our strength ... more than anyone and anything else in our lives. May we declare to the Lord as David did in Psalm 73:25: "there is none upon earth I desire besides Thee."
- [Our Right-Hand Man](https://ggwo.org/our-right-hand-man/): “Great peace have they who love Your law: And nothing shall offend them.” (Psalm 119:165) Great peace is promised to those who love the Law of the Lord.
- [Two Sides of the Same Mind](https://ggwo.org/two-sides-of-the-same-mind/): Romans 7 presents a discourse of indecision. Expositors comments, “… it is the cry of a human soul, if ever there was a personal cry."
- [Love, Crazy and Strong](https://ggwo.org/love-crazy-and-strong/): “… Love is as strong as death … many waters cannot quench love …” (Song of Solomon 8:6-7) All the wonder and wildness and bewilderment of this crazy thing called love is put down for us in Song of Solomon.
- [Getting the Whole Story](https://ggwo.org/getting-the-whole-story/): Life doesn’t seem to make sense. Surely you have had this thought. More than that, you’ve probably said this, out loud.
- [The Ant: A Small Thing Worth Watching](https://ggwo.org/go-to-the-ant/): “Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise” (Proverbs 6:6) “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers” (Proverbs 6:16-19) Proverbs is the book of the Bible that brings things down to ground level.
- [Telling Yourself the Truth](https://ggwo.org/telling-yourself-the-truth/): “Speaking to yourselves in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. …” (Ephesians 5:19). “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
- [ABUNDANCE!](https://ggwo.org/abundance/): The Lord is looking for those who will freely receive from Him, believing that He is indeed the God of all Grace, Who wants to load us with Grace upon Grace upon Grace upon Grace. This eager reception of His spontaneous, free, absolute favor glorifies Him and thus makes manifest the Son of God, which destroys the works of the devil. May He give us all Grace to continually receive His Grace for all that He allows in our lives and calls us to do, thus bringing Him great glory and thus fulfilling His purpose for creating us (Isaiah 43:7).
- [A New Year's Pursuit](https://ggwo.org/a-new-years-pursuit/): Thinking in terms of old year/new year? In many ways our lives progress that way. But, what about a new dynamic -- time/eternity?
- [Job, Pain and the Way of Wisdom](https://ggwo.org/job-pain-and-the-way-of-wisdom/): “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight” (Proverbs 9:10). What is wisdom for?
- [God Takes His Temple](https://ggwo.org/god-takes-his-temple/): “The Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His Temple, even the messenger of the Covenant, whom you delight in; behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts” (Malachi 3:1) Suddenly, that’s how Jesus showed up.
- [Peace Heals Friendships on Earth](https://ggwo.org/peace-heals-friendships-on-earth/): It was an oversight; therefore overlook it.
- [The Shepherds Got an Angel Show](https://ggwo.org/the-shepherds-got-an-angel-show/): Just outside of Bethlehem, shepherds were on the watch over the sheep under their care. It was an ordinary night. They were likely cold and weary.
- [Wise Guys and a Villain](https://ggwo.org/wise-guys-and-a-villain/): Bad guys, good guys. Every great story has a combination of these characters. And the story of the birth of Jesus has its share of them.
- [Joseph, the Dream and the Ant](https://ggwo.org/joseph-the-dream-and-the-ant/): “I am with Child.” How did those words fall upon the ears and heart of Joseph? Imagine the questions he must have asked and the answers Mary gave him.
- [A Little Strength](https://ggwo.org/a-little-strength/): “I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name” Revelation 3:8 “Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not.” 2 Corinthians 4:1 “For who hath despised the day of small things?” Zechariah 4:10 “For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” Habakkuk 2:3 “…thou hast kept the word of my patience,” Revelation 3:10 Somehow we get to walk with God alone.
- [Mary Got a Song to Sing](https://ggwo.org/mary-got-a-song-to-sing/): It was an ordinary day in a hardscrabble town situated in northern Judea.
- [Have You Caught Any Fish?](https://ggwo.org/have-you-caught-any-fish/): Imagine, your Master and Savior was arrested, tried, and crucified before your eyes. He was buried in a grave.
- [Spirit Love vs. Natural Love](https://ggwo.org/spirit-love-vs-natural-love/): 1 John 4:10-18 makes this clear.
- [Resurrection Words](https://ggwo.org/resurrection-words/): “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name” (John 20:31).
- [Done and Won](https://ggwo.org/done-and-won/): Darkness and Light. At war as never before. Evil meets good. Face to face. The world of lies against the Man of Grace and Truth.
- [Love is Long-Spirited](https://ggwo.org/love-is-long-spirited/): Love is long spirited.
- [Certainty in Uncertain Times](https://ggwo.org/certainty-in-uncertain-times/): These perilous times are so full of uncertainty for those who don't know the Lord Jesus Christ. But we who have believed and trusted in Him as Lord and Savior have the privilege of being cemented in certainty. Living by faith is the key. His Word, His Presence, His Spirit in us, His Body, the Cross - indeed, all that pertains to Him - is our certainty in these times and our stability. And His Love constrains us to reach out to those who are floundering in insecurity and draw them in to the certainty that simply being in Him affords us.
- [A Moment with Truth](https://ggwo.org/a-moment-with-truth/): Religion and politics came together to face the Truth. And the result was the most significant confrontation in all of world history.
- [The King’s Table](https://ggwo.org/the-kings-table/): David never forgot the love of his friend, Jonathan. This man had helped David escape at a time when Saul’s jealous wrath was pointed toward him.
- [All One -- the Father, the Son, the Spirit and Us](https://ggwo.org/all-one-the-father-the-son-the-spirit-and-us/): The hour had come. Jesus finished His talk in the Upper Room and led His disciples toward Gethsemane.
- [Adam the Last, the Son of David](https://ggwo.org/adam-the-last-the-son-of-david/): Strangers in a hostile world – this is what the disciples of Christ were and are to be. Jesus said so in John 16.
- [The True Vine and His Branches](https://ggwo.org/the-true-vine-and-his-branches/): “I am the True Vine.” Here we come to another of Jesus’ clear declarations about who He is. Have you noticed the way of a vine? A vine cannot stand alone.
- [My Assigned Portion](https://ggwo.org/my-assigned-portion/): Once Jacob distanced himself from all that he valued and possessed on earth, he was available to give the Lord his undivided attention in a wrestling match, refusing to quit until the Lord blessed him. He prevailed, and one of the greatest blessings he came away with was that the Lord was now his Portion, preempting family, livestock, servants, riches - all earthy blessings. By Grace we can do likewise, counting all other things but loss that we might win Christ and know Him intimately now as we prepare to be His Bride!
- [The Heritage of Christianity](https://ggwo.org/the-heritage-of-christianity/): Flavius Josephus tells us in his work, The Jewish War that there were three separate sects of Jewish leadership, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes in the century before Christ as well as the first century AD.
- [Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled](https://ggwo.org/let-not-your-heart-be-troubled/): The Way. The Truth. The Life. Jesus defined Himself – very clearly, very concretely in Chapter 14 of John. He made a declaration about who He is.
- [Depression](https://ggwo.org/depression/): And “Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place!
- [Love As You Have Been Loved](https://ggwo.org/love-as-you-have-been-loved/): The supper ended. Jesus rose from the table and proceeded to shock everyone in the room.
- [Jesus: The Grain of Wheat and the Lamb of God](https://ggwo.org/jesus-the-grain-of-wheat-and-the-lamb-of-god/): Passover was coming. Jesus drew near to Jerusalem for the celebration of the great feast of remembrance.
- [Peter and the Passover](https://ggwo.org/peter-and-the-passover/): Passover time arrived, and the Lamb of God was where He had to be to do what He had to do.
- [What Will I Give To My Wife?](https://ggwo.org/what-will-i-give-to-my-wife/): Do I try to provide for my wife beyond the provision of God? Do I seek a house for her when God intends for an apartment?
- [Not Fear but Faith](https://ggwo.org/not-fear-but-faith/): Proverbs 10:24 "The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
- [Two Mites and Falling Rocks](https://ggwo.org/two-mites-and-falling-rocks/): Two mites. It was all that she had and she gave it away. She tossed those small coins into the treasury at the Temple in Jerusalem, according to Luke 21.
- [Jesus Faces Questions](https://ggwo.org/jesus-faces-questions/): Jesus talked and He got people talking. His words carried an authority that listeners could sense, if they were listening with the right motives at heart.
- [God’s Love and Man's Best](https://ggwo.org/gods-love-and-mans-best/): "He rests in His love."
- ["Deeply Rooted, Founded Securely"](https://ggwo.org/deeply-rooted-founded-securely/): Knowing "the Love that God cherishes for us" is the key to remaining stable and fixed in these unstable times. This is "first Love" mentioned in Revelation 2:4, to a church that was doing everything right and well - which the Lord acknowledged as good and commendable, but not the main thing He was looking for. How will the Love of Christ be manifested and the works of the devil destroyed, unless we FIRST know practically, believe unwaveringly, and embrace unrelentingly the Love that He has for us? Let's receive Grace to return to "First Love", be rooted in it and founded securely on it, and rest in it with Him!
- [Jesus Visitations](https://ggwo.org/jesus-visitations/): Jesus approached Jerusalem. He rode upon a borrowed donkey. The sight of the city of David broke the heart of the Son of David. Jesus wept.
- [God Is The First One](https://ggwo.org/god-is-the-first-one/): God is the first One; I minister unto the Lord, and you are ministered unto as He desires.
- [Ways of Faith and Prayer](https://ggwo.org/ways-of-faith-and-prayer/): It comes as no surprise to me that as the time of the Cross draws near Jesus purposed to instruct His followers in the areas of faith and prayer.
- [Remember, Pay Attention to You](https://ggwo.org/remember-pay-attention-to-you/): In Luke 17, Jesus provides some indicators about how things will be as His time to return draws near.
- [A Bible College And A Wall](https://ggwo.org/a-bible-college-and-a-wall/): Let us imagine a Bible College as a wall: people in place of blocks of stone: a living wall, joined by the word of God.
- [Aim and Catch](https://ggwo.org/aim-and-catch/): “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- [Mercy and the Reality of Hell](https://ggwo.org/mercy-and-the-reality-of-hell/): Luke 16 opens with an interesting story Jesus told of a steward who wasn’t doing his job. He wasted his master’s goods says the passage.
- [Discipline And Love](https://ggwo.org/discipline-and-love/): What is the discipline you want in life, where does it come from, how is it achieved?
- [Get, Gird, and Guard!](https://ggwo.org/get-gird-and-guard/): Get Wisdom and understanding - take in the Word by hearing and reading it. Gird up the loins of your minds, casting down any thought that is not according to His Word and His Nature, and bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Guard your heart with all vigilance for out of it spring the issues of life; and out of its abundance the mouth will speak. Therefore, let it be Truth in me, Truth out to others!
- [Art That Is Communion](https://ggwo.org/art-that-is-communion/): Is my art about the art, or is it about being with God?
- [Hope , a Daily Revival](https://ggwo.org/hope-a-daily-revival/): A life makes little sense without hope. The Bible refers to hope as the anchor of our soul. Visible Hope? --- not really hope, so says Romans 8:24.
- [Lost Things Are Still Owned](https://ggwo.org/lost-things-are-still-owned/): Lost things. A sheep. A coin. A son. These things are what Luke 15 is about. Jesus cares for what’s lost. It really is His total focus.
- [God Did Not Need A Rich Man](https://ggwo.org/god-did-not-need-a-rich-man/): I was reading an international prayer bulletin this morning, and among the many prayer requests for soul and spirit needs and desires, there were a number of material needs hoped for: one church was seeking a building to meet in, another was seeking two bikes.
- [Simple Decisions](https://ggwo.org/simple-decisions/): I always want to know what God's will is, but when I have the trust of a child for God, I don't need to know His will, I only need to hear His call.
- [Faith Not Imagined](https://ggwo.org/faith-not-imagined/): Faith is not what I imagined it to be.
- [Places at His Table](https://ggwo.org/places-at-his-table/): A man got used. This man was just stumbling about. He fell again and again. His bruised body was hard to look at.
- [Boats in the Water](https://ggwo.org/boats-in-the-water/): Boats enable a person to float atop the water. Some submarine type boats give a person underwater access.
- [Made Straight at the Door of Hope](https://ggwo.org/made-straight-at-the-door-of-hope/): She hobbled into the synagogue. Again.
- [I Do Not Frustrate the Grace of God](https://ggwo.org/i-do-not-frustrate-the-grace-of-god/): I do not set aside, disesteem, neutralize, violate, cast off, despise, disannul, frustrate, bring to nought, or reject the Grace of God.
- [Safe, Secure, and Satisfied](https://ggwo.org/safe-secure-and-satisfied/): There are no people on earth who are more safe and secure than those who are in Christ, regardless of circumstances; thus, we who are in Him, now and forevermore, can be the most satisfied people in the world. His ears, His eyes, His hand are open to us and "He satisfies our necessity and desire at our personal age and situation with good". There will never be a moment where He will leave or forsake us and is nearer to us than our nearest foe. Should we not then be the most satisfied, thankful people in all the earth? Yes, and by Grace through faith, we are!
- [Well-known in All Our Ways](https://ggwo.org/well-known-in-all-our-ways/): Leaven. Whispers. Sparrows. Hairs. Ravens. Lilies. Sheep. All of these words refer to little things. And Jesus had a lot to say about small stuff in Luke 12.
- [Why art Thou Cast Down, O My Soul?](https://ggwo.org/why-art-thou-cast-down-o-my-soul/): Twice in Psalm 42 the Psalmist cries out, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?
- [To Repair And Restore](https://ggwo.org/to-repair-and-restore/): There is a people who seek God day by day and delight to know His ways and yet whose streets are broken up.
- [Eyes Open to the Light](https://ggwo.org/eyes-open-to-the-light/): Many who know a little bit about Christ hold an opinion of Him as a gentle philosopher and poet. He came to show love and bring people together.
- [The Bones of Prayer](https://ggwo.org/the-bones-of-prayer/): Prayer is big when it comes to following Jesus. We all want to know how to talk with God, and how to do it properly. Prayer comes easy to some.
- [The New Math](https://ggwo.org/the-new-math/): Subtract sin from a man and what do we get? Something very blessed and also precious results.
- [For The Sake Of The Gospel](https://ggwo.org/for-the-sake-of-the-gospel/): "I do all things for the sake of the gospel." I Cor. 9:23a (NASV) Really Michael, do you do all things for the sake of the gospel?
- [Like Martha, Like Mary](https://ggwo.org/like-martha-like-mary/): Two sisters. Two very different personalities. Still, they were one in heart for and toward Jesus. They were like this along with their brother Lazarus.
- [Love God. Love You. Love Others.](https://ggwo.org/love-god-love-you-love-others/): “What shall I do to inherit eternal life?” “Who is my neighbor?” These questions came from an expert in the Law of Moses.
- [Identity](https://ggwo.org/identity/): Who are you Michael? And I begin to talk about Christ: I am a man who is eating the Bread of Life: Jesus Christ.
- [Firm and Fixed in Turbulent Times](https://ggwo.org/firm-and-fixed-in-turbulent-times/): The generation of Israelites mentioned in Psalm 78 "turned back in the day of battle" because they didn't set their hearts aright nor prepared their hearts to know God , and their spirits were not steadfast and faithful to God." (verses 5-8) Because the Lord Jesus "set His Face like a flint" to fulfill the Father's Plan and His Eternal Purpose, we now have Grace to hold fast our confession of faith to the end, standing fast in the liberty we have in Him, and being steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, holding fast to what we have till He comes for us!
- [Great Harvest, Few Laborers](https://ggwo.org/great-harvest-few-laborers/): Jesus refused to allow His followers to sit idle, even after they’d stumbled. There was work to do, and He commissioned them to do it.
- [Help for Our Unbelief](https://ggwo.org/help-for-our-unbelief/): “I believe, help my unbelief.” It’s a prayer I have learned to pray just about every day.
- [Dead Does not Mean Divorced](https://ggwo.org/dead-does-not-mean-divorced/): "Water baptism is such a blessed celebration in our churches because it visibly demonstrates the great inner transformation that happens to us.
- [Do I Speak With God The Way I Speak With You?](https://ggwo.org/do-i-speak-with-god-the-way-i-speak-with-you/): How much speculative theology do I have?
- [Adopted, Not Enrolled](https://ggwo.org/adopted-not-enrolled/): I am so glad God told us that with salvation we are adopted into a family rather than telling us He has enrolled us into a school.
- [Taking His Shine](https://ggwo.org/taking-his-shine/): Jesus invited three of His Apostles – Peter, James, and John – to take a climb with Him.
- [Learning the Way of the Cross](https://ggwo.org/learning-the-way-of-the-cross/): As time went on, Jesus began to teach the disciples in new ways. He gave them things to do. He trained them in His mission and purpose.
- [Joy Comes in the Morning](https://ggwo.org/joy-comes-in-the-morning/): After a long layoff, I was finally getting called back to work.
- [JUBILEE!](https://ggwo.org/jubilee/): The Son of God Himself has made us absolutely free to enjoy "the unsearchable riches of Christ" now and throughout all of Eternity. We simply keep ourselves in the sphere of His Love by faith and let His faith work by His Love in us. This releases us into "the glorious liberty of the children of God" in which we can enjoy unlimited access to the Lord, His sweet satisfying companionship, and healthy relationships with each other .... an experiential "Jubilee" in which we are returned to our "ancestral possession": what Adam and Eve enjoyed in the Garden of Eden, and even more because WE, unlike them, are IN HIM through the new birth.
- [God Does Not Pout](https://ggwo.org/god-does-not-pout/): God does not pout, He does not sulk; He is faithful.
- [Threads of True Faith](https://ggwo.org/threads-of-true-faith/): Two desperate people fought their way to Jesus. One was a father whose daughter lay dying in his home.
- [Writing With God (part 2)](https://ggwo.org/writing-with-god-part-2/): We are engaged to God in a relationship that has made us free. I am made free to walk by the Spirit, and I am made free to write by that same Spirit.
- [The Way of the Seekers](https://ggwo.org/the-way-of-the-seekers/): Seeking Jesus is what the latter part of Luke 8 is all about. The people gathered ‘round Him to hear His Word. They were stirred and hungry for the Message.
- [Jesus Loves a Backslider](https://ggwo.org/jesus-loves-a-backslider/): “And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed.
- [Soil, Seed and Fruitfulness](https://ggwo.org/soil-seed-and-fruitfulness/): “And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, ‘A sower went out to sow his seed.
- [Sitting Across From The Treasury](https://ggwo.org/sitting-across-from-the-treasury/): One man sits across from the treasury, one lone man quiet. One thousand million suns, the furnace of creation, burn because He said "Ignite!"
- [Nature? What is thy Vision?](https://ggwo.org/nature-what-is-thy-vision/): Chesterton talks about "nature."
- [Interest In The Things Of Others](https://ggwo.org/interest-in-the-things-of-others/): Phil. 2:1-4 "If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
- [The Joy of Sharing Our Faith](https://ggwo.org/the-joy-of-sharing-our-faith/): I don't know about you, but I find soulwinning to be absolutely exhilarating. Just like the song says, "...the burdens of my heart roll away..."
- [The Great Miracle of Forgiveness](https://ggwo.org/the-great-miracle-of-forgiveness/): She crashed the dinner party, just to get to Jesus. It was an embarrassing moment for the religious man who’d extended the invitation to the Son.
- [The Tongues Of Men](https://ggwo.org/the-tongues-of-men/): I Cor. 13:1 "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."
- [Mercy: The Truth by Contrast](https://ggwo.org/mercy-the-truth-by-contrast/): I wondered how much God protects my life through mercy and decided to explore contrasting words and concepts.
- [The Son of Man is Lord of All](https://ggwo.org/the-son-of-man-is-lord-of-all/): “I will show you what someone is like who comes to Me, hears My words, and acts on them: He is like a man building a house...” (Luke 6:47-48).
- [Something More Than Fresh](https://ggwo.org/something-more-than-fresh/): “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, it will spill, and the skins will be ruined.
- [The Fear Of The Lord](https://ggwo.org/the-fear-of-the-lord/): "So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase."
- [" ... my soul waits in silence ... "](https://ggwo.org/my-soul-waits-in-silence/): The Lord is looking for those who will sit still and listen in silence before Him as He disciplines and instructs us and teaches us from out of His Word, "that we might keep ourselves calm in the days of adversity." (Psa.94:12,13) He will give us Grace to wait on and for Him, cultivating inward quietness and able to maintain calm even when outwardly life is noisy.
- [Jesus Goes Home](https://ggwo.org/jesus-goes-home/): “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
- [God Was Already There](https://ggwo.org/god-was-already-there/): When my wife and I went to Trinidad as missionaries, God was already there. He had been there, He was there, and He stayed when we left.
- [Known By God](https://ggwo.org/known-by-god/): Are my books on God's bookshelf? Are they in His library? Has He taken them and held them and read them?
- [Jesus in the Battle](https://ggwo.org/jesus-in-the-battle/): The gospel of Luke begins by showing us how the Son entered into life on earth. Mary conceived through the Holy Spirit and Jesus was born.
- [Let Freedom Ring](https://ggwo.org/let-freedom-ring/): From “The Freedom of the Christian Man” by Helmut Thielicke, we read an explaining of the parable of Jesus from Luke.
- [Decisions Made From Peace](https://ggwo.org/decisions-made-from-peace/): God's will is clear: it is that I live by faith. I am tempted to put the details of life before the faith and I end up confused and indecisive.
- [Jesus in Our River](https://ggwo.org/jesus-in-our-river/): Jesus showed up at the river. We read about this moment in all of the gospels. He came and put Himself among those who saw themselves as sinners.
- [Antisemitism and Replacement Theology](https://ggwo.org/antisemitism-and-replacement-theology/): The current war in Israel against Hamas is highlighting the climate around the world regarding the attitudes toward the Jews.
- [Writing with God](https://ggwo.org/writing-with-god/): There are two root questions concerning my writing: how intimate with God do I want to be as a writer, and how intimate does God want to be with me as I write?
- [Antisemitism in History](https://ggwo.org/antisemitism-in-history/): The current war in Israel against Hamas is highlighting the climate around the world regarding attitudes toward the Jews.
- [The Voice That Made Waves](https://ggwo.org/the-voice-that-made-waves/): “… the Word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
- [Home](https://ggwo.org/home/): "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters."
- [Supplication](https://ggwo.org/supplication/): Luke 11:9,10 "And I say unto you, ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
- [A Mother's Heart, the Father's Business](https://ggwo.org/a-mothers-heart-the-fathers-business/): “Where’s Jesus?” This was the question that Mary was shouting. She had to be.
- [Christmas, it’s for Real](https://ggwo.org/christmas-its-for-real/): They tell me of a peace that passes understanding –a certain discernment, a spiritual insight, an intuitive state.
- [Supply](https://ggwo.org/supply/): II Peter 1:5 (NASV) "...in your faith supply moral excellence..."
- [Flesh and Bones](https://ggwo.org/flesh-and-bones/): “The idea here is, that there is a close and intimate union between the Christian and the Savior – a union so intimate that they may be spoken of as “one.'” Barnes 1Corinthians 6:17 adds,” But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
- [Immanuel](https://ggwo.org/immanuel/): ""Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which translated means, "God with us."" Matt.1:23 (NASV) God is here in this room with me as I write these words.
- [Surprise, Surprise, Surprise](https://ggwo.org/surprise-surprise-surprise/): It’s Christmas, and what I really enjoy about Christmas are the surprises that come. It is really so great to open a gift that happens to be totally unexpected.
- [Sowing Seed](https://ggwo.org/sowing-seed/): Proverbs 11:24a says "There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more," (NASV) and Proverbs 13:23a says "Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor,".
- [His Rags, Our Riches](https://ggwo.org/his-rags-our-riches/): “And she gave birth to her firstborn Son and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.” “And this will be a sign for you: you will find a Baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” What was it that Jesus wore upon making His entrance to this world of ours?
- [Peace, Access, Endurance, Approvedness, Hope, Love](https://ggwo.org/peace-access-endurance-approvedness-hope-love/): Tribulation works out endurance, and endurance, approvedness. Then comes hope, the assurance of which we are not ashamed. Then love floods the heart? Wait!
- [The Days Preceding ...](https://ggwo.org/the-days-preceding/): How important it is for us, the Body of Christ, in these days preceding the Rapture, to have a spiritual posture like that of Joseph and Mary: they simply, humbly received and believed and acted upon the Word of the Lord as given by His angels. And let us be as the wise men, who diligently and confidently sought the King of the Jews. Let us receive Grace upon Grace to hear counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction, that we might be wise in these our last days on earth (Proverbs 19:20), prepared to meet our God.
- [Eyes Of Worship](https://ggwo.org/eyes-of-worship/): How do we get frustrated worshipping God? We don't. If all my ministry is a worship of God, then there will be no frustration in my ministry.
- [The Other Baby in the Christmas Story](https://ggwo.org/the-other-baby-in-the-christmas-story/): The story of Christmas is really one about the birth of two boys.
- [Keeping Myself From Idols](https://ggwo.org/keeping-myself-from-idols/): John chapter 6 describes a group of people who were following Jesus but who had changed: in verse 2 they were following Him because they saw the signs that He was a man of God, but by verse 26 they were following Him for food alone.
- [Obedience and the Salvation Purpose of God](https://ggwo.org/obedience-and-the-salvation-purpose-of-god/): “Be it unto me according to your Word.” “My Father … Your will be done.” Like mother, like Son.
- [An Eternal Weight Of Glory](https://ggwo.org/an-eternal-weight-of-glory/): An eternal weight of glory: your Creator, your Savior, pleased with you, pleased by you, not for a moment or a time, but pleased with you for all of eternity.
- [A Priest, His Wife and a Son -- The Prequel to the Incarnation](https://ggwo.org/a-priest-his-wife-and-a-son-the-prequel-to-the-incarnation/): “An orderly account … to give certainty.” Luke wrote his gospel based upon this purpose.
- [Unprofitable Servants are We](https://ggwo.org/unprofitable-servants-are-we/): much less heaven and eternal life.” taken from John Gill commentary.
- [Let Your Eyes Delight In My Ways](https://ggwo.org/let-your-eyes-delight-in-my-ways/): Proverbs 23:26 "Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes delight in my ways." I only have so much attention to give.
- [Trust, Wait and Rest in Christ](https://ggwo.org/trust-wait-and-rest-in-christ/): The disciples were so eager for the Kingdom moment. We read about their excitement in the first chapter of Acts.
- [Many Mysteries: A Christian Journey](https://ggwo.org/many-mysteries-a-christian-journey/): Mystery surrounds everything we call life; the Christian life is no exception.
- [Thinking With God](https://ggwo.org/thinking-with-god/): In this beautiful relationship that Christ has brought us into, we live a life of grace received and grace offered.
- [GRACE to, and 'til, We See His Face](https://ggwo.org/grace-to-and-til-we-see-his-face/): The Apostle Peter urged us to "grow in the Grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ". The Apostle Paul knew that without receiving, welcoming, standing and living in the Grace of God there would be no Glory for God - which is a principal reason we are on this earth. So may we, by Grace through faith in His Word, continually seek His Face in and for all things, thanking Him always in all things, bringing Him Glory and pleasure, until finally we see Him Face to face in the place that He has prepared for us.
- [Noah, Lot and the Faithfulness of God](https://ggwo.org/noah-lot-and-the-faithfulness-of-god/): Noah and Lot both lived among evil and decadent societies. Each faced the challenges of their situations in very different ways.
- [Abraham and His Heart for Sodom](https://ggwo.org/abraham-and-his-heart-for-sodom/): “Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
- [But Noah ...](https://ggwo.org/but-noah/): “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:8).
- [Cain, Abel and the Voice of the Blood](https://ggwo.org/cain-abel-and-the-voice-of-the-blood/): Genesis 4 reveals to us just how fast darkness descended upon the human heart.
- [When Men Demonize One Another](https://ggwo.org/when-men-demonize-one-another/): “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
- [The Snake and the Trees](https://ggwo.org/the-snake-and-the-trees/): The snake was subtle. He didn’t try to advertise the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- [Are Christians "Weird?"](https://ggwo.org/are-christians-weird/): Are Chrisians weird? No. Things are weird outside of their design, that is when we notice "weirdness."
- [The First Thing](https://ggwo.org/the-first-thing/): Andrew Murray wrote: "Do not think of your love to Him, but of His great Love to you ...Meditate on this day and night until you have the assurance: He loves me unspeakably." Be grounded in "First Love", and then without any self effort, His unfailing Love will be shed abroad in your heart to those around you, making manifest the God of Love Who alone can destroy the works of the devil. In 5 simple words: "Just let God love you!"
- [The Song of the Beginning](https://ggwo.org/the-song-of-the-beginning/): As we open to Page 1 of our Bibles, we carry with us expectations.
- [Come to the Waters, Seek His Face](https://ggwo.org/come-to-the-waters-seek-his-face/): We read a very scary list toward the end of the Bible in the book of Revelation: “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8).
- [Curse Words](https://ggwo.org/curse-words/): Have you ever caught yourself wishing that someone were dead? Seriously – have you wanted to see someone struck by lightning? Two of the Apostles did.
- [I Am Come into My Garden](https://ggwo.org/i-am-come-into-my-garden/): A garden is a place a beauty, beauty that is growing more beautiful.
- [Make Your Complaint and Thank Him](https://ggwo.org/make-your-complaint-and-thank-him/): We don’t like the mess we have gotten ourselves into. This is a fact of life.
- [Lovingkindness](https://ggwo.org/lovingkindness/): “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
- ["The Immeasurable Ministry of the Holy Spirit"](https://ggwo.org/the-immeasurable-ministry-of-the-holy-spirit/): The Holy Spirit is truly the Trinity's Gift to us while we are on the earth with a mission to fulfill the Great Commission. He helps, counsels, comforts, strengthens, and intercedes for us. Let us continually receive Grace to not insult, resist, grieve or quench this Precious Spirit of Grace but rather to co-labor with Him in bringing Glory to the Father, edifying the Body of Christ, and proclaiming the Gospel of Grace to the world and winning the lost.
- [Kiss the Son](https://ggwo.org/kiss-the-son-2/): “Kiss the Son, lest He be angry. …” (Psalm 2:12). The Psalms, like everything else in our Bibles, are ultimately about Jesus.
- [Our Great God](https://ggwo.org/our-great-god/): Malachi 3:6 “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
- [There Is No Casual Worship](https://ggwo.org/there-is-no-casual-worship/): There is no casual worship.
- [The Lord Builds the House](https://ggwo.org/the-lord-builds-the-house-2/): “Unless the Lord builds the House, they labor in vain who build it …” (Psalm 127:1) The Flood of Noah accomplished a reset for the earth and her inhabitants.
- [Songs to Sing Along the Way](https://ggwo.org/songs-to-sing-along-the-way/): We are on a journey through a world that is not our true Home. We seek the “City whose Builder and Maker is God” according the Hebrews 11:10.
- [Judgment Must Begin](https://ggwo.org/judgment-must-begin/): JFB comments: “If even the godly have chastening judgments now, how much more shall the ungodly be doomed to damnatory judgments at last.” Our judgments are chastening, for the purpose of our sanctification.
- [Communion](https://ggwo.org/communion/): Will I bring my tithe into communion? Will I enter into communion as I wash the dishes in my sink? We do not have an absent father, we have an ever present One.
- [Beyond!](https://ggwo.org/beyond/): "But grow in the Grace, knowledge, and understanding of the Lord Jesus Christ ", Peter said in II Peter 3:18. It's not by our power that we do so, but according to the working of HIS mighty power in us. We simply yield our lives to HIm to work in us to will and then do what He desires, and by Grace through faith, He takes us beyond our present capacities spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and even physically, and we find ourselves being changed from glory to glory!
- [Obedience of One](https://ggwo.org/obedience-of-one/): Friends, by one man’s disobedience, many were made sinners. This one man was Adam, who’s fame is recorded at the outset of the Bible, in the book of Genesis.
- [Holy Self Talk](https://ggwo.org/holy-self-talk/): “As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after You, O God.
- [Feelings and Forgiveness](https://ggwo.org/feelings-and-forgiveness/): The Psalms is the book of the Bible that allows space for our feelings. And one of the feelings that we really need help with is the feeling of guilt.
- [Well-Known, Much Valued](https://ggwo.org/well-known-much-valued/): “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have You ordained strength because of Your enemies, that You might still the enemy and the avenger” (Psalm 8:2) “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:12) The Psalms tell us a lot about our identity, about how we were made, what we were made for, and why we were made.
- [Psalms and the Music of the Shepherd](https://ggwo.org/psalms-and-the-music-of-the-shepherd/): The middle part of our Bibles is called the poetic section or the wisdom literature. These books are for our hearts and souls.
- ["Dead unto Sin, Alive unto God"](https://ggwo.org/dead-unto-sin-alive-unto-god/): Paul wrote "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" (Rom.14:23). He also penned in Romans 6:11, "consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God". So to enjoy all that God is and all that He has, we must simply exercise faith - i.e., believe! - that we are already dead to self, the senses, and all that is of the old sin nature. We ARE alive to God! And we live and live by His faith, our minds and affections set on things Above, and thus we enjoy Him and what we cannot see or experience by our senses. THIS is the victory that overcomes the world (I John 5:4)!
- [A Good and Honest Heart](https://ggwo.org/a-good-and-honest-heart/): The soil of my heart, or the heart of any person, must be good and honest. This is what the parable of the sower of seed teaches in Matthew 13.
- [How Do I Know What To Pray?](https://ggwo.org/how-do-i-know-what-to-pray/): I was asked the question this morning "How do you know what to pray?"
- [The Stone Rolled Away](https://ggwo.org/the-stone-rolled-away/): “Who will roll away the stone?” This weighed on the minds of a trio of women – Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome.
- ['Himself He Cannot Save'](https://ggwo.org/himself-he-cannot-save/): “He saved others, Himself He cannot save. …” These were mocking words directed at Jesus as He hung on the Cross at Golgotha.
- [All For Jesus and Jesus For Us All](https://ggwo.org/all-for-jesus-and-jesus-for-us-all/): The crisis point comes to every one of us when it comes to following Jesus. We see it most clearly in Mark 14.
- [Keep Watch as We Wait](https://ggwo.org/keep-watch-as-we-wait/): Jesus entered the Temple and pronounced His judgment. The Son was astonished at what was going on in the structure upon which the Lord set His Name.
- [Sailing](https://ggwo.org/sailing/): A man ventured to sail solo on a trip which would take him completely around the world.
- [What Three Marys Teach Us About Tenacity](https://ggwo.org/what-three-marys-teach-us-about-tenacity/): Three Marys model three vital components of a satisfied, fruitful, and tenacious life of Faith: (1) listen attentively to the Word of God and make this a priority in our lives; (2) ponder and meditate on what we have heard, letting our hearts keep His Words that we have taken in: (3) and keeping ourselves in the Love of God and resting in It as He does, which will constrain us to follow Him wholeheartedly to the end, willing to give up our lives for others because His relentless Love for us prohibits us from considering any other option.
- [The Great Commandment and Our Two Cents](https://ggwo.org/the-greatest-commandment-and-our-two-cents/): Reading the Bible, we encounter plenty of instructions and commands. In the first books, the ones written by Moses, there are 613 of them.
- [The Donkey and the Fig Tree](https://ggwo.org/the-donkey-and-the-fig-tree/): A donkey and a fig tree. The Lord made them both. He sought to use each of them. The donkey was a colt, a young animal never ridden before.
- [Prayer - Eternal Conversation](https://ggwo.org/prayer-eternal-conversation/): I never need to start a prayer; God has already spoken to me and continues to do so, I only ever need to enter into the conversation.
- [How to See](https://ggwo.org/how-to-see/): “… Rabbi, let me recover my sight” (Mark 10:51).
- [Christ Crucified, Eternal Scope](https://ggwo.org/christ-crucified-eternal-scope/): “Nay, we have renounced the secrecy which marks a feeling of shame. We practice no cunning tricks, nor do we adulterate God’s Message.
- [Glory and Flames](https://ggwo.org/glory-and-flames/): What were we made for? How would we have turned out if Adam and Eve had not fallen? I think the Mount of Transfiguration account gives us the answer.
- [The Weight of Matters](https://ggwo.org/the-weight-of-matters/): In this Age of Distraction, may the Lord pour out His Grace on us to (1) stay in the most excellent and highest way (of His Love, I Cor.12:31); (2) to hear, read, receive the Word of God richly and hide it in our hearts; and (3) to be occupied with the weightier matters of life which concern Him most: Righteousness, Justice, Mercy, and Faithfulness to God and to man (Matt.23:23; Prov.16:6).
- [Loaves, Signs and Sight](https://ggwo.org/loaves-signs-and-sight/): “How many loaves do you have?” This is the first of several questions Jesus posed in Mark 8. He had taught the people for hours in an out of the way place.
- [Marvelous](https://ggwo.org/marvelous/): What a remarkable God we have: He takes people who cannot keep themselves alive, and He keeps them alive.
- [A Heart for the Crumbs](https://ggwo.org/a-heart-for-the-crumbs/): Reading through the gospels, we find interesting moments when Jesus was challenged by the ones who claimed to be servants of God and His Law.
- ['Take Heart, It Is I ... '](https://ggwo.org/take-heart-it-is-i/): Nazareth had something of a hardscrabble reputation.
- [Family Adventure](https://ggwo.org/family-adventure/): Glad to stay and glad to go; ready to stay and ready to go. Only a believer would go so far, and only a believer would stand so firm.
- [A Word ... in A Moment](https://ggwo.org/a-word-in-a-moment/): Luke 6:45 gives strong motivation to store God's Word in our hearts, letting the Holy Spirit teach us, so that great will be the possibility of (1) our having a word in season for others - delivered at an opportune moment; of (2) our blessing the Lord with the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts; and of (3) being blessed ourselves!
- [Seekers and the Savior](https://ggwo.org/seekers-and-the-savior/): Three seekers, three deliverances: this is what the text of Mark 5 gives to us.
- [Sower, Seed and Soil](https://ggwo.org/sower-seed-and-soil/): The Word of God gets scattered like seed, Jesus said in Mark 4. The sower goes forth to sow.
- [Take Heed that No Man Deceive You!](https://ggwo.org/take-heed-that-no-man-deceive-you/): "Take heed that no man deceive you!" Keep your eyes open, lest some one may or may not deceive you at any point in time.
- [God Is Listening](https://ggwo.org/god-is-listening/): "...You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
- [Money And Love](https://ggwo.org/money-and-love/): In between my birth and death, I will receive and acquire money, some amount, more or less.
- [Ye are Washed, Ye are Sanctified, Ye are Justified](https://ggwo.org/ye-are-washed-ye-are-sanctified-ye-are-justified/): Some Galatian Christians had fallen from grace, and the Hebrew Christians were warned about failing the grace of God.
- [Giving Someone a Hand](https://ggwo.org/giving-someone-a-hand/): “For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is My brother, and My sister, and mother” (Mark 3:35). This is the final verse of Mark 3.
- [Forgiver, Healer, Bridegroom and Rest](https://ggwo.org/forgiver-healer-bridegroom-and-rest/): The reality of who Jesus is neatly unfolds for us in Mark 2. Read carefully and take note of how He began to tell people of His eternal identity.
- [One and Done](https://ggwo.org/one-and-done/): Death comes once and is done for a believer in Christ. The doorway which death opened and closed behind it exists still, but cannot be gone through backwards.
- ["Seeking HIS Righteousness"](https://ggwo.org/seeking-his-righteousness/): When we realize the inestimable value of our sins being imputed to the Lord in exchange for His Righteousness being imputed to us, we will not hesitate to avail ourselves of His abundant Grace in order to walk from faith to faith in His promises, thus receiving imparted Righteousness and revealing the One Who IS our Righteousness!
- [Kiss The Son](https://ggwo.org/kiss-the-son/): God wants to talk with me about everything, even those things that I do not want to talk with Him about.
- [Attraction, Astonishment and Offense](https://ggwo.org/attraction-astonishment-and-offense/): Jesus affected everyone He came into contact with – visible and invisible. Sometimes the reaction to the Son was one of attraction.
- [The Kingdom of Friends](https://ggwo.org/the-kingdom-of-friends/): “… The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand: repent and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15) This was the message that Jesus announced.
- [Frailty](https://ggwo.org/frailty/): II Cor.4:7 "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;" Frailty makes much room for faith.
- [Jesus Faces the Devil](https://ggwo.org/jesus-faces-the-devil/): “The Spirit immediately drove Him out into the wilderness. And He was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan.
- [What Are The Things That Are Normal?](https://ggwo.org/what-are-the-things-that-are-normal/): What is normal for people made brand new? What is usual, typical, what should be expected?
- [Intimacy](https://ggwo.org/intimacy/): Do I desire the intimacy that God desires? I surprise myself: often I do not desire it.
- [We Can Rest Because He is Seated](https://ggwo.org/we-can-rest-because-he-is-seated/): The Lord Jesus Christ has finished the work needed to reconcile us to God and to atone for our sins. Once He ascended to Heaven, He did what no other high priest had ever done under the Old Covenant: He sat down; He rested from His labors on our behalf. But He did more: He raised us up together with Him and seated us at the Right Hand of the Father so that we could enter HIS rest, even right now while we are on the earth! Let's enjoy this rest and the blessed quiet that He has promised to all those who will simply respond to His "Come unto ME".
- [The Voice from the Wilderness](https://ggwo.org/the-voice-from-the-wilderness/): The voice was heard. It came out of the wilderness. This is how the gospel of Mark opens.
- [All Things Made New](https://ggwo.org/all-things-made-new/): “Behold, I am making all things new …” These words came from “He who sits on the Throne.” John wrote them down, as he was told to.
- [Not Idols but True Foundations](https://ggwo.org/not-idols-but-true-foundations/): A skeptic doubts, but something deeper had happened to make them doubters.
- [The Messenger and the Handmaid](https://ggwo.org/the-messenger-and-the-handmaid/): A messenger came to a handmaid. These two beings carried hearts of remarkable humility, I think.
- [Silent? Calm? Not for Joseph](https://ggwo.org/silent-calm-not-for-joseph/): Silent night, holy night. All is calm. All is bright. Is this really how the Christmas story goes?
- [Strengthened with Might](https://ggwo.org/strengthened-with-might/): Strengthen? "To empower, that is, (passively) increase in vigor" (Strong's Concordance) Might?
- [Christ's Beautiful Church](https://ggwo.org/christs-beautiful-church/): It is amazing how beautiful the Church of Christ is: she is loved by God, and it is the love of God that makes things beautiful.
- [The Revelation Christmas Story](https://ggwo.org/the-revelation-christmas-story/): Heaven answered Hell. This is the real point of the Christmas story. The true Light came into the world. See John 1:9.
- [Called Out Of, To, and Into](https://ggwo.org/called-out-of-to-and-into/): After the Father draws us to the Son unto salvation (John 6:44), The Son draws us to Himself, calling us into the most amazing and intimate relationship that our hearts could ever hope for. Then He calls us to something, a specific call according to the measure of Faith and of Grace that He has bestowed upon each individual believer (Rom.12:3; Eph.4:7). Let us receive Grace to not miss enjoying maximumly the first call - to Himself - by focusing more on what He's called us to do.
- [The Table of the Lamb](https://ggwo.org/the-table-of-the-lamb/): The table is the place of ultimate grace. It is there that we are invited to sit. It is there where we are served.
- [Soul Leanness vs. Spiritual Prosperity](https://ggwo.org/soul-leanness-vs-spiritual-prosperity/): “This effect often occurs.
- [Past And Present](https://ggwo.org/past-and-present/): The past was not better; God is here with me today. When I long for the things of the past, I need to turn and take what God is handing to me today.
- [All in the Hands of the Lamb](https://ggwo.org/all-in-the-hands-of-the-lamb/): The hands of Jesus – imagine them. What a precious picture this should be for us.
- [Husband And Wife](https://ggwo.org/husband-and-wife/): My wife should be even more glad to be married to me after twenty years of marriage than she was when we were first married.
- [The Blameless and Highest Way](https://ggwo.org/the-blameless-and-highest-way/): Before Isaiah told the Israelites that they would "hear a word behind them saying, 'This is the way; walk in it ...'" ( Isaiah 30:21), he reminded them of the Nature and Character of the One Who was giving that word (v.18-20). When we as the Body of Christ are pressed on all sides by the Love that Christ has for us personally, we will trust His Voice and His Word and be willing to walk in HIS Love, "the highest way", "the blameless way", in the Sanctuary, away from sin, guilt, shame, and blame.
- [The Scroll and its Seals](https://ggwo.org/in-the-hands-of-the-lamb/): Behold the Lamb. The Baptist proclaimed this message to his followers.
- [Young And Old Alike](https://ggwo.org/young-and-old-alike/): In the same way that youth need to learn how to begin life, the elderly need to learn how to end life.
- [The Scene of Sovereignty](https://ggwo.org/the-scene-of-sovereignty/): “Come up and see, and I will show you things to come.” Jesus extended this invitation to John the Apostle in Revelation 4.
- [Choosing My Words With The Holy Spirit](https://ggwo.org/choosing-my-words-with-the-holy-spirit/): "It is strange if what concerns a believer is different than what concerns God." - Pastor Willis Moses.
- [What Will I Do With Offense?](https://ggwo.org/what-will-i-do-with-offense/): Sometimes I get offended; when I do, there is one simple question for me to ask: I ask myself "Michael, do you love, are you loving right now?"
- [Jesus at the Door](https://ggwo.org/jesus-at-the-door/): Revelation is the Bible book that piques our curiosity in a major way. Its words turn lots of heads. Strong reactions are provoked. Some take it literally.
- [Family Dynamics and the Purpose of God](https://ggwo.org/family-dynamics-and-the-purpose-of-god/): Two brothers. Two sisters. These four people are at the heart of the story of Israel, the people of God.
- [What Was It Like ...](https://ggwo.org/what-was-it-like/): What we can't possibly know nor understand now regarding what it was like for the Lord Jesus Christ to to leave Heaven and come to earth and experience all that He did, we will know in Heaven; because we will be just as He is, and we will know even as we are known. For now, we seize the privilege of living by Faith - the only way to please God - to grasp even minimally the price He paid to redeem humanity to Himself.
- [Coat of Many Colors](https://ggwo.org/coat-of-many-colors/): The days are dark, perhaps sad and wearisome. In the case of Joseph, his favorite coat had been torn off, with him left helpless in a pit.
- [Noah and the Voice of God](https://ggwo.org/noah-and-the-voice-of-god/): The Voice of the Lord is the important element in Bible stories. We discover this very early in our reading of the Word.
- [The Great Fall Got an Answer](https://ggwo.org/the-great-fall-got-an-answer/): A snake and a sneer, a trick question posed to an undiscerning ear. This is what set up mankind for the great Fall.
- [We Win with Wisdom from Above](https://ggwo.org/we-win-with-wisdom-from-above/): Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
- [For Starters, Substance Matters](https://ggwo.org/for-starters-substance-matters/): The Beginning. It matters. It matters a lot.
- [Jesus Shows Himself Alive](https://ggwo.org/jesus-shows-himself-alive/): Fearful. Frightened. Gripped by their unbelief. Two disciples got out of town. Jerusalem was unsafe, especially now that the body of Jesus was gone.
- [Where There is No Vision, the People Perish](https://ggwo.org/where-there-is-no-vision-the-people-perish/): Proverbs 29:18 teaches, “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
- [Do We Seek A Balance?](https://ggwo.org/do-we-seek-a-balance/): There is no disconnect between what we call our spiritual life and our so called natural life.
- [The Sounds of the Cross](https://ggwo.org/the-sounds-of-the-cross/): Luke 23 is the chapter of the Cross. It, to me, is best described as a chapter of sound, of voices mostly. It requires reading with our imagination.
- [Prayer:  What It Is, What It Isn't](https://ggwo.org/prayer-what-it-is-what-it-isnt/): The Apostle Paul declared in II Corinthians 5:14 that "the Love which Christ has for me presses on me from all sides, holding me to one end and prohibiting me from considering any other ... " When we abide in living communion with Him and His Words abide in us, we get to know that Love, and it gives us great, child-like audacity to ask Him anything our heart desires. True prayer is relational, not religious.
- [Still ... Quiet ... Silence ... Shhhhhh!](https://ggwo.org/still-quiet-silence-shhhhhh/): By Grace through faith, let us enter our "chambers", shut the doors, hide ourselves alone with the Lord for awhile. Thus we learn to "listen in silence before the Lord" and to distinguish the still, small Voice from all others. This is how we are able to hear our "marching orders" from the Lord and how the war against quietness and stillness is won.
- [A Diligent Heart, an Obedient Redeemer](https://ggwo.org/a-diligent-heart-an-obedient-redeemer/): Ruth became a gleaner. She and Naomi were two widows living in Bethlehem with little means of support, and they had to be in need of something to eat.
- [From Motes And Beams To Blessing](https://ggwo.org/from-motes-and-beams-to-blessing/): When I desire the ministry that I am part of to be blessed, I pray to the God who does things exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all that I could think or imagine.
- [A Steadfastly Minded Friend](https://ggwo.org/a-steadfastly-minded-friend/): When we open the New Testament, we are met first with the genealogy that is at the beginning of the gospel of Matthew: “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1).
- [The Testimony](https://ggwo.org/the-testimony/): One man slept in his reclining chair. An elderly gentleman, he woke to our singing with annoyance written all over his face.
- [Appearing](https://ggwo.org/appearing/): At the end of the gospels, we see Christ appearing to His deeply discouraged and troubled disciples.
- [Shake Off the Snake](https://ggwo.org/shake-off-the-snake/): The viper slithered out from a pile of wood arranged for a bonfire. The serpent struck fast. It sunk its fangs into the hand of the one gathering sticks.
- [Safe in the Midst of the Storms](https://ggwo.org/safe-in-the-midst-of-the-storm/): “… The sea was no more” (Revelation 21:1). This is one of the promises made in Revelation about the ultimate New Creation. No more night. No more tears.
- [Self-Esteem or Conscious of God’s Love?](https://ggwo.org/self-esteem-or-conscious-of-gods-love/): “When the child poses the question, ‘who am I,’ he is really asking…that he be recognized as an object of primary value in the universe.
- ['Become Such as I Am'](https://ggwo.org/become-such-as-i-am/): “I appeal to Caesar.” Paul made a final, clean, and total break with his past.
- [Learning to Love Mercy](https://ggwo.org/learning-to-love-mercy/): In Exodus 34:5-7, the first attribute of the NAME of the LORD which He Himself proclaimed to Moses, was Mercy. He wants us to love Mercy as He Himself loves it and even delights in it. By choosing to go boldly to the Throne of Grace to receive it in times of failure, letting it cleanse us of the effects of our sins and shortcomings, we are candidates for bringing Him much pleasure; for "He delights in them that hope in His Mercy" and trust Him enough to receive it abundantly.
- [Reason, Righteousness, Self-Control and Judgment](https://ggwo.org/righteousness-self-control-and-judgment/): “They sent for Paul and heard him speak of faith in Christ Jesus” (Acts 24:24). “They” were the Roman governor Felix and Drusilla, his wife.
- [Stewards of the Mysteries of God.](https://ggwo.org/stewards-of-the-mysteries-of-god/): Let's see verses 1-5 in their many points.
- [Open Ears](https://ggwo.org/open-ears/): Little ears do hear. And they hear all too well – well enough to make a big impact sometimes. This was true of the ears belonging to the apostle Paul’s nephew.
- [Be a Witness](https://ggwo.org/be-a-witness/): In Ecclesiastes, we have the writings of a wise man, Solomon—the king of Israel who is also called, "the preacher."
- [The Power of Testimony](https://ggwo.org/the-power-of-testimony/): In trouble again, Paul did something that I think he did a lot in such circumstances. He told himself and others the story of how he met Jesus.
- [Our Choices, God's Purposes](https://ggwo.org/our-choices-gods-purposes/): “The Lord’s will be done.” Paul had set his face toward Jerusalem. It was a place in agitation.
- [God Loves Loving Us](https://ggwo.org/god-loves-loving-us/): It's not difficult to grasp that "God loves loving us" when we realize that Love created us. And Love so loved all that He gave us His Son so that we could be reconciled to Love, live in fellowship with Love, manifest Love, and be secure and kept in the sphere of Love now, on earth, and for all Eternity. There is no fear in Love; therefore, let us proclaim it and reveal it in and to all the world!
- [When a Sermon Put Someone to Sleep](https://ggwo.org/when-a-sermon-put-someone-to-sleep/): A long sermon can put a person to sleep. Not everyone can keep up. Concentration can bring exhaustion.
- [Our Schoolmaster](https://ggwo.org/our-schoolmaster/): Preparatory to our faith was Law, it came by Moses.
- [Not Neglecting Abundance](https://ggwo.org/not-neglecting-abundance/): I love this statement in Neh.10:39 "Thus we will not neglect the house of our God."
- [Faith to Faith, Glory to Glory](https://ggwo.org/faith-to-faith-glory-to-glory/): Another city, and another move of God with Paul at the center of things. In Acts 19, he arrived at Ephesus, a city more to the interior of Asia Minor.
- [Count It All Joy](https://ggwo.org/count-it-all-joy-2/): Pastor Stevens often taught that God uses trials to test and mature His children, while Satan seeks to use those same circumstances as temptations.
- [Work, Marriage and Mission](https://ggwo.org/work-marriage-and-mission/): Paul came to Corinth as we read in Acts 18; he had arrived in another significant city in what is now Greece.
- [The Resurrection and a World Upside Down](https://ggwo.org/the-resurrection-and-a-world-upside-down/): “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also” (Acts 17:6). The Gospel impact was quick and powerful wherever it was introduced.
- [My Repentings are Kindled Together](https://ggwo.org/my-repentings-are-kindled-together/): Conquerors, that plunder a conquered city, carry away the wealth of it, and, after some time, often return to burn it. God will not thus utterly destroy Israel.
- [Hearts Made Ready](https://ggwo.org/hearts-made-ready/): “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us’” (Acts 16:9).
- ["By One ... Many ... "](https://ggwo.org/by-one-many/): What do we do when we know the Lord has called us to offer up, or rise and stand up, or go up, or look up, and not give up ... even if we are alone in our obedience to Him? Will we respond as Isaiah did to God's question: "Whom shall I send and who will go for Us?" with "Here am I; send me!" (Isaiah 6:6) The Lord is always ready to give abundant, inexhaustible Grace to "the one" who will say "yes" to the desires and Will of the One Who is looking for "the one" who will obey so that many might be benefited.
- [The Balance of Fellowship](https://ggwo.org/the-balance-of-fellowship/): “Then came Paul to Derbe and Lystra.” Lystra? Really? This was the very place where Paul had been stoned and left for dead.
- [Knowing Man Through Christ ](https://ggwo.org/knowing-man-through-christ/): "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
- [Consolation and Comeback](https://ggwo.org/consolation-and-comeback/): “Barnabas wanted to take along John Mark” (Acts 15:37). The Bible tells the truth.
- [It is Blessed to be God Sent](https://ggwo.org/it-is-blessed-to-be-god-sent/): The way of peace comes as we get Dead in Christ.
- [The Embrace of Grace](https://ggwo.org/the-embrace-of-grace/): The Holy Spirit blew in like a rushing wind and so the Gospel movement set sail. Men and women were being added to the Church daily.
- [Rest](https://ggwo.org/rest/): As we, through the Cross of Christ and our co-crucifixion, cease the competition of the flesh, we discover God’s seasons spoken of by Solomon, “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-10).
- [Continue in the Face of Opposition](https://ggwo.org/continue-in-the-face-of-opposition/): The Gospel cannot be ignored. It exhorts people to choose. Once heard there can be no neutrality about it. This reality has been true from the start.
- [JOY!](https://ggwo.org/joy-2/): Faith works only by Love; and knowing the Love God cherishes for us + the Faith of the Son of God in us + our free volition to choose to believe His Word = JOY unspeakable and full of Glory! So as Paul implored us, "Let us be full of joy NOW!"
- [Soul](https://ggwo.org/soul/): A complexity, “soul” is more simply observed as feelings, judgments, opinions, rationalizations, and self-consciousness; all muddying the will, making decisions difficult.
- [Love Never Fails](https://ggwo.org/love-never-fails/): I was thinking about love and became deeply impressed with this truth: our victory in the Christian life is found in love.
- [Repentance That Leads Unto Life](https://ggwo.org/repentance-that-leads-unto-life/): “If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?
- [Peter, Visitations and Like Precious Faith](https://ggwo.org/peter-visitations-and-like-precious-faith/): The Spirit had to work on the hearts of even the most celebrated of the Apostles.
- [The Focus of Jesus:  Failure or Faith?](https://ggwo.org/the-focus-of-jesus-failure-or-faith/): Job and Peter recognized Who the Lord was in the midst of their failures. This caused them to look away from themselves and unto Him, remembering His Love, His Nature, His integrity. Motivated by their renewed fellowship with Him, they received Mercy to cover their failures and Grace to go forward in obedience to His directives. The "curse" of misrepresenting Him (Job) and of denying knowing Him (Peter), thus turned into huge blessings for both of these great men of God who had humbled themselves under His mighty Hand.
- [Wisdom, a Child](https://ggwo.org/wisdom-a-child/): "When he (Yahweh), gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I (wisdom), was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men" (Proverbs 8:29-31).
- [See the Light, Get the Life](https://ggwo.org/see-the-light-get-the-life/): Saul viewed himself as the weapon of the Lord. He purposed to crush the people of the Way, as the Jesus Movement had come to be known.
- [Who Can Understand His Errors?](https://ggwo.org/who-can-understand-his-errors/): Psalm 19 speaks loudly: “for its full effect we need divine grace to show us our faults, acquit us, restrain us from the practice, and free us from the power, of sin” (JFB).
- [Setting the Witness in Motion](https://ggwo.org/setting-the-witness-in-motion/): “… It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- [Break the Bottle](https://ggwo.org/break-the-bottle/): “An elderly Christian lady had the habit of drinking a little glass of whiskey every evening, just to warm her up a little.
- [Stephen and the Way of the Believer Priest](https://ggwo.org/stephen-and-the-way-of-the-believer-priest/): Stephen was a man chosen from among his peers to be a leader in the early Church. Apparently, His faithfulness in following Jesus had an impact on people.
- [Go, Stand and Tell About This Life](https://ggwo.org/go-stand-and-tell-about-this-life/): “But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out, and said, ‘Go and stand in the temple, and tell people about this Life’” (Acts 5:19-20).
- [Are You the Disciple Whom Jesus is Loving?](https://ggwo.org/are-you-the-disciple-whom-jesus-is-loving/): Could it be that the Lord had the Apostle John pen five times in his Gospel that he was "the disciple whom Jesus loves" so that we who would follow would know that it was possible for us to be called the same?! John was fully persuaded of the Love that God cherished for him, of His calling to Himself, of His trustworthiness to fulfill that call, and of the importance to others that ALL believers likewise know and believe the Love that God cherishes for them. Only then can the manifestation of this boundless, unconditional Love bless the Lord, build up the Body of Christ, draw the lost to Him, and destroy the works of the devil. Therefore, let us all, by faith, be personally persuaded!
- [Correction and the People of God](https://ggwo.org/the-way-of-correction-and-the-people-of-god/): “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.
- [Name above All Names](https://ggwo.org/name-above-all-names/): Sinless creation, (elect angels), comparatively distant from His unapproachable purity is lifted into nearer participation of Him, and in this wider sense is reconciled” (Jamieson Fawcett Brown Commentary).
- [The Resurrection Body of Truth](https://ggwo.org/the-resurrection-body-of-truth/): What happens when you see too much? Can you ever be the same? Can you un-see what you have seen?
- [Lame Feet, Holy Feet, Greater Works](https://ggwo.org/lame-feet-holy-feet-greater-works/): There was a man in Jerusalem who spent his days like a good number of guys on Dundalk Avenue just now.
- [Cast it down](https://ggwo.org/cast-it-down/): " … because you are seated way above the devil. There is a great divide.
- [A New Day](https://ggwo.org/a-new-day-2/): Every feature of the Christian’s salvation, position and hope is dependent on the resurrection of His Lord.
- [The Thirst of the Son](https://ggwo.org/the-thirst-of-the-son/): “I thirst.” Jesus said this from the Cross, according to John 19:28.
- ["The God of Breaking Through"](https://ggwo.org/the-god-of-breaking-through/): In II Samuel 5:20 David called the Lord "the God of breaking through" and indeed He has proved Himself to be just that, as seen throughout the Bible. His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension comprised the greatest "break-through" in the history of mankind, giving unlimited access to the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ to whomsoever would place their trust in Christ and what He did on the Cross. Because of this greatest of victories in the greatest of battles, we, like the Apostle Paul, can say with confidence: "Through Christ I can do ALL things". He goes before us in all situations, paving the way with Love, making plain and even the rough paths, promising to never leave or forsake us. Then one day - perhaps soon! - He will break through the heavens suddenly, snatch up all those who comprise His Bride, and take us to the place that He has been preparing for us since He ascended. This will be His final "break-through" in the Church Age!
- [The Lord Had Need of Him](https://ggwo.org/the-lord-had-need-of-him/): “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing” (John 15:5).
- [What Makes a Faith Hero?](https://ggwo.org/what-makes-a-faith-hero/): Hebrews 11 gives us a record of heroes, a list of people who believed God and trusted Him for their lives.
- [Possible Impossibilities](https://ggwo.org/possible-impossibilities/): Not so easy for a man to cross over from impossible to possible; so goes the quagmire of a man’s journey on earth.
- [Our Savior at the Throne](https://ggwo.org/our-savior-at-the-throne/): “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, who is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession” (Hebrews 4:13).
- [Arise ... and Do the Next Thing!](https://ggwo.org/arise-and-do-the-next-thing/): Whether it be Isaiah, Jeremiah, the Apostle Paul, most importantly the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, there is a Divine plea to all of God's people to rise up out of spiritual sluggishness and inactivity and obscurity. How? As Jeremiah did, we find the Words of God, we eat them by faith, and they become the joy and the rejoicing of our hearts - which gives us the strength to simply do "the next thing" that the Lord asks us to do ... always by Grace through faith.
- [Claim the Promise of Rest](https://ggwo.org/claim-the-promise-of-rest/): “… the promise of entering His rest still stands …” (Hebrews 4:1) “But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them” (Exodus 1:7).
- [Focus on Him](https://ggwo.org/focus-on-him/): The external world without focus is full of generalities, but requires deeper insight for accurate living. With my 600 ml.
- [The Defeat of the Fear of Death](https://ggwo.org/the-defeat-of-the-fear-of-death/): Fear of death – this is the primary weapon of the devil. And Jesus had to defeat it by being subject to it as we are subject to it. He had to be human.
- [Voices of Clarity](https://ggwo.org/voices-of-clarity/): Elihu presents himself in the story of Job in a manner that reminds me of John the Baptist.
- [Who's Telling You Who You Are?](https://ggwo.org/whos-telling-you-who-you-are/): Perhaps the single most important factor in being established in a proper identity is being persuaded of the Love of God for us. If we don't believe He loves us, it will be difficult to believe and live by His Word, which is the only "mirror" that will tell us the Truth of who we really are. Also, how we can give our God the pleasure of loving Him when we haven't first believed that He loves us exactly as He has loved the Son (John 15:9; I John 4:19)? Let's not be deceived by the father of lies, who hates our God, and does all he can to blind our eyes to the Truth of God's Love and estimation of us. Let's choose to see ourselves through the Mirror of the Word of God with the Holy Spirit illuminating our understanding.
- [Let the Sparks Fly](https://ggwo.org/let-the-sparks-fly/): Job believed that God was there with him. He just couldn’t see or feel Him during the progression of his trial.
- [Adoption or Slavery–Our Choice](https://ggwo.org/adoption-or-slavery-our-choice/): Romans 8:15 "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
- [Am I Fascinated With God's Conversation With Me? Do I Hang On Every Word?](https://ggwo.org/am-i-fascinated-with-gods-conversation-with-me-do-i-hang-on-every-word/): Why am I in Bible College class? To be with God today. I am with God in those things He has called me to.
- [Refuse to Live a Lie](https://ggwo.org/refuse-to-live-a-lie/): Easy answers rarely help someone in distress and disquiet. And sadly we are too quick to assume and critique.
- [Christ Did Not Consult Me For The Building Of His Church](https://ggwo.org/christ-did-not-consult-me-for-the-building-of-his-church/): Truth Does not Rust. There is no tarnished wisdom. There is no faded love.
- [I Am Still Finding My Wife](https://ggwo.org/i-am-still-finding-my-wife/): An excellent wife, who can find? The man who allows God to bring a wife to him finds an excellent wife.
- [Job Sees No Wrong](https://ggwo.org/job-sees-no-wrong/): “Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.
- [He Thinks About You](https://ggwo.org/he-thinks-about-you/): “Sometimes during the last war, my students wrote me from the battlefield, and one sentence came up again and again in countless variations: ‘I am so exhausted from marching, my stomach is so empty, I am so plagued with lice and scratching, I am so tormented by the biting cold of Russia and so dead tired, that I am totally occupied, without the least bit of inner space for any speculative thinking.
- [No Quarreling at the Cross](https://ggwo.org/no-quarreling-at-the-cross/): Why did God choose David to be the Prince of the Millennium? Could it be that he understood, trusted in, and received and extended Mercy like few in the history of mankind have or will? He knew the Name of God (Ex.34:6) and he knew that his God was a merciful, forgiving, gracious, long-suffering God, and that He esteemed His Word even above His magnificent Name! This precious shepherd-turned-king was humble enough to believe and receive this unending Mercy "which endures forever" instead of "quarreling" with God that he - and others - didn't deserve it. Thus he delighted God (Psalm 147:11) more than those who didn't fail nearly as much and as seriously as David did. The Lord requires of us that we love Mercy, and David did.
- [Job and Details about the Devil](https://ggwo.org/job-and-details-about-the-devil/): There is a section of our Bibles that is categorized as Wisdom or Poetic literature.
- [Freedom](https://ggwo.org/freedom-3/): I don't have the freedom to do anything; I have the freedom to things by faith.
- [Righteousness And Glory](https://ggwo.org/righteousness-and-glory/): Christ remains my righteousness; He is faithful as my righteousness, He is unchanging, He does not fall.
- [Adoration](https://ggwo.org/adoration/): When do I love the Lord? When I believe that He loves me. When do I worship my God? When I believe that He has paid attention to me. When do I serve Christ?
- [And He Answered Me](https://ggwo.org/and-he-answered-me/): When I have seen a mote He has shown me my beam. When I have heard a lie He has answered a motive. He is for me, and so He corrects me.
- [What Did Mary Really Know?](https://ggwo.org/what-did-mary-really-know/): Mary, did you know That your Baby Boy will one day walk on water? Mary, did you know That your Baby Boy will save our sons and daughters?
- [In His Name](https://ggwo.org/in-his-name/): Our position, our location, is IN the Name of God, the I AM. We are inextricably united with the Godhead, the Trinity: Jesus in us, us in Him, He in the Father, and us one Spirit with the Lord because we are united to Him (I Cor.6:17). This gives us tremendous authority in prayer; and when we grasp the full impact of our position in His Name, we, like Moses in Ex.34:8, will bow our heads and worship Him, each with a heart united to honor His Name; and we, like King David and the Apostle John, will have fruitful and effectual lives of prayer.
- [A Tender Plant in Dry Ground](https://ggwo.org/a-tender-plant-in-dry-ground/): “For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him” (Isaiah 53:2).
- [Keep Me Where You Are](https://ggwo.org/keep-me-where-you-are/): Jesus comes and with Him the door of the sheepfold. Upon entering the fold there comes safety, because Jesus, who is the Door, guards the entry way.
- [The Prophet and the Virgin](https://ggwo.org/the-prophet-and-the-virgin/): “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14).
- [Where Will I Receive The Words That I Speak?](https://ggwo.org/where-will-i-receive-the-words-that-i-speak/): Wicked words multiply, false witness bearing fruit: the foolish are afraid, and the bitter divide.
- [Give Thanks in Great Expectation](https://ggwo.org/give-thanks-in-great-expectation/): “I have seen an end of all perfection: but Your commandment is exceeding broad” (Psalm 119:96). I have thought much on this passage from Psalm 119.
- [Made for Glory, Really](https://ggwo.org/made-for-glory-really/): Moses asked the Lord for something big for himself. “Show me Your Glory” (Exodus 33:18). It was an impossible ask.
- [Awake to Righteousness](https://ggwo.org/awake-to-righteousness/): Deuteronomy shares a parallel word: “Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn." How? I must Know Him.
- [Follow God in Freedom and Responsibility](https://ggwo.org/follow-god-in-freedom-and-responsibility/): “… And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle” (Exodus 13:16). It happens. We get what we want. Sometimes. Then what?
- [The Lamb, the Blood and the Defeat of Death](https://ggwo.org/the-lamb-the-blood-and-the-defeat-of-death/): “And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey His Voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go” (Exodus 5:2). Enough!
- [Is Christ Manifested Inside or Outside the Camp?](https://ggwo.org/is-christ-manifested-inside-or-outside-the-camp/): Let us by faith receive GRACE to leave life "inside the camp", being comfortable in conventional Christianity, and follow the Lord Jesus Christ "outside the camp", where we embrace the Cross, fellowship with His sufferings, and make manifest the Son of God that the works of the devil might be destroyed.
- [Rod in Hand, God in Heart](https://ggwo.org/rod-in-hand-god-in-heart/): “And the Lord said unto him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.” (Exodus 4:2) Moses carried a rod, a stick, a staff, a piece of wood.
- [We're Going Up!](https://ggwo.org/were-going-up/): “Those liable to death shall sink into unending existence. The dead shall be wakened into the essence of perpetuity. We shall be transformed!"
- [Moses: the Light, the Voice, the Name](https://ggwo.org/moses-the-light-the-voice-the-name/): “And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
- [Joseph Saved to Save](https://ggwo.org/joseph-saved-to-save/): “Is my father still alive?” “Am I in the place of God?” These are two questions that were posed by Joseph at the climax of his story.
- [Jacob Never Let Go](https://ggwo.org/jacob-never-let-go/): We have to talk about Jacob because it is, after all, masquerade month. October closes with what we now call Halloween.
- [Moderation](https://ggwo.org/moderation/): “The existence of such a word (translated moderation) shows a high degree of ethical development amongst the Greeks.
- [Learning A Contentment That Quickens](https://ggwo.org/learning-a-contentment-that-quickens/): May the staying and the waiting be as good as the going and the doing, because being with the Lord is what makes both the staying and the going good, it is what makes the waiting and the doing both blessing.

## Pages

- [Blog](https://ggwo.org/blog/): By Steve Andrulonis November 21, 2018 Peter was a marked man, marked by the devil himself. Hell viewed this fisherman as something of a soft target.
- [Shortcodes](https://ggwo.org/shortcodes/)
- [Sermons old](https://ggwo.org/sermons-old/)
- [A Powerful Booklet](https://ggwo.org/pop/)
- [Feature 4](https://ggwo.org/feature-4/)
- [Feature 3](https://ggwo.org/feature-3/)
- [Feature 2](https://ggwo.org/feature-2/)
- [Feature 1](https://ggwo.org/feature-1/)
- [Screens](https://ggwo.org/screens/)
- [Carl Stevens Bible Classes](https://ggwo.org/carl-stevens-treasure-trove/carl-stevens-bible-classes/)
- [Carl Stevens Treasure Trove](https://ggwo.org/carl-stevens-treasure-trove/): The CHS Treasure Trove is a collection of sermons, Bible classes, booklets, and devotionals by our founding pastor, Carl H. Stevens Jr.
- [Doctrine Booklets](https://ggwo.org/carl-stevens-treasure-trove/doctrine-booklets/): During many years, Greater Grace has published close to 500 Doctrine Booklets covering a wide range of Bible doctrine subjects.
- [GGCA Live](https://ggwo.org/ggcalive/)
- [Live Video 2](https://ggwo.org/livevideo2/)
- [GG Youth Text Message Sign UP 2](https://ggwo.org/text2/)
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- [Contact 21040](https://ggwo.org/community-groups/zip-21040/contact-21040/)
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- [GGCA Live Sports](https://ggwo.org/ggca-live-sports/): 3/4/17 GGCA Varsity Girls Basketball MCST Championship Final!
- [Contact 21206 NW](https://ggwo.org/community-groups/zip-21206/contact-21206-nw/)
- [Outreach-orig](https://ggwo.org/outreach-orig/)
- [Baltimore Church](https://ggwo.org/baltimore-church/): Greater Grace Church Baltimore is a multi-faceted hub of spiritual activity and vitality.
- [Devotional](https://ggwo.org/carl-stevens-treasure-trove/devotional/)
- [Sermons](https://ggwo.org/sermon-search/)
- [Ministries Overview](https://ggwo.org/ministries/)
- [CHS - Gallery](https://ggwo.org/carlstevens/chs-gallery/)
- [Obituary](https://ggwo.org/carlstevens/obituary/): Carl H. Stevens Jr., longtime pastor of Greater Grace World Outreach in East Baltimore and one of the pioneers of Christian talk radio, died Tuesday evening at his home of congestive heart failure.
- [Carl H. Stevens Jr. Memorial](https://ggwo.org/carlstevens/): On Tuesday evening, June 3, 2008, Pastor Carl H. Stevens Jr. found himself looking full in the wonderful face of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
- [Service Times & Location](https://ggwo.org/service-times-location/): Simultaneous interpretation is available at each church service for the Deaf, Spanish, Russian and French speaking people.
- [Sermons (with search filter)](https://ggwo.org/sermons2-2/)
- [Brief History](https://ggwo.org/history/): God called Pastor Carl H. Stevens to preach over four decades ago. At the age of 23, he became a believer in Christ after hearing the witness of his wife.
- [What is Greater Grace (matt)](https://ggwo.org/what-is-greater-grace-2/): Greater Grace Church Baltimore is a multi-faceted hub of spiritual activity and vitality.
- [Prayer Requests](https://ggwo.org/prayer/)
- [Photo Galleries](https://ggwo.org/photos/)
- [Live Schedule](https://ggwo.org/live-schedule/)
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- [Newcomers](https://ggwo.org/newcomers/): Welcome to Greater Grace!
- [Pastoral Care-orig](https://ggwo.org/pastoral-care-orig/): The heart of Pastoral Care is to serve each person in the compassion of Christ with understanding and prayer.
- [Conference Series](https://ggwo.org/conference-series/): 'Pay Attention!'
- [Find Your Community Group](https://ggwo.org/community-groups/): We are currently updating the Community Groups pages.
- [परमेश्वरको माया](https://ggwo.org/find-god/%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%b6%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8b-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%af%e0%a4%be/)
- [Sargaar vosonk amhi kiten korunk zai?](https://ggwo.org/find-god/sargaar-vosonk-amhi-kiten-korunk-zai/)
- [ਆਪਣੇ ਮਾਨਾਨੁ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ਵਰ ਦੇ ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਨਾਲ ਭਾਰਨਾ](https://ggwo.org/find-god/%e0%a8%86%e0%a8%aa%e0%a8%a3%e0%a9%87-%e0%a8%ae%e0%a8%be%e0%a8%a8%e0%a8%be%e0%a8%a8%e0%a9%81-%e0%a8%aa%e0%a8%b0%e0%a8%ae%e0%a9%87%e0%a8%b6%e0%a8%b5%e0%a8%b0-%e0%a8%a6%e0%a9%87-%e0%a8%aa%e0%a9%8d/)
- [क्या आप परमेश्वर के लिए तैयार हैं?](https://ggwo.org/find-god/%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%af%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%86%e0%a4%aa-%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%b6%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%b0-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%b2%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%8f-%e0%a4%a4%e0%a5%88/)
- [സ്വർഗത്തിൽ പ്രവേശിക്കാൻ ഞാൻ എന്ത് ചെയ്യണം?](https://ggwo.org/find-god/%e0%b4%b8%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%b5%e0%b5%bc%e0%b4%97%e0%b4%a4%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%a4%e0%b4%bf%e0%b5%bd-%e0%b4%aa%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%b0%e0%b4%b5%e0%b5%87%e0%b4%b6%e0%b4%bf%e0%b4%95%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%95%e0%b4%be%e0%b5%bb/)
- [MVI 7932](https://ggwo.org/find-god/mvi-7932/)
- [Spása milostí skrze víru - jak se stát křesťanem](https://ggwo.org/find-god/spasa-milosti-skrze-viru-jak-se-stat-krestanem/)
- [İsa Məsih vasitəsilə xilas və sülh necə tapmaq olar?](https://ggwo.org/find-god/isa-m%c9%99sih-vasit%c9%99sil%c9%99-xilas-v%c9%99-sulh-nec%c9%99-tapmaq-olar/)
- [Ubumi bwaba muli Yesu Christu eko tulolela fye lyonse](https://ggwo.org/find-god/ubumi-bwaba-muli-yesu-christu-eko-tulolela-fye-lyonse/)
- [Mawu pe agbemavor](https://ggwo.org/find-god/mawu-pe-agbemavor/)
- [Mawu lorwo](https://ggwo.org/find-god/mawu-lorwo/)
- [Modimo ona le morero ka bophelo ba hao](https://ggwo.org/find-god/modimo-ona-le-morero-ka-bophelo-ba-hao/)
- [MVI 7940](https://ggwo.org/find-god/mvi-7940/)
- [نزل يسوع المسيح من السماء لاجل خلاصكم](https://ggwo.org/find-god/%d9%86%d8%b2%d9%84-%d9%8a%d8%b3%d9%88%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ac%d9%84-%d8%ae%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b5%d9%83%d9%85/)
- [نجات براى نوع بشر](https://ggwo.org/find-god/%d9%86%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%89-%d9%86%d9%88%d8%b9-%d8%a8%d8%b4%d8%b1/)
- [Isten másként oldaná meg](https://ggwo.org/find-god/isten-maskent-oldana-meg/)
- [настоящая любовь](https://ggwo.org/find-god/%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d1%8f%d1%89%d0%b0%d1%8f-%d0%bb%d1%8e%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%8c/)
- [As jy nie Jesus het nie, dan het jy niks](https://ggwo.org/find-god/as-jy-nie-jesus-het-nie-dan-het-jy-niks/)
- [Den viktigaste frågan](https://ggwo.org/find-god/den-viktigaste-fragan/)
- [Gracia: ¡un concepto radical!](https://ggwo.org/find-god/gracia-un-concepto-radical/)
- [Como Ser Salvo](https://ggwo.org/find-god/como-ser-salvo/)
- [Jesus! The answer for our sin. Simple.](https://ggwo.org/find-god/jesus-the-answer-for-our-sin-simple/)
- [Undiscovered Hope](https://ggwo.org/find-god/undiscovered-hope/)
- [Music Ministry-orig](https://ggwo.org/music-orig/): "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him."
- [Men's Ministry orig](https://ggwo.org/men-orig/): To help men connect and be involved in the many ministry opportunities in the church.
- [GriefShare-orig](https://ggwo.org/griefshare-orig/): The journey of grief is a painful process and you don't need to walk it alone.
- [Counseling orig](https://ggwo.org/counseling-orig/): Anyone who comes for counseling can expect to sit with someone who is compassionate, understanding, patient, and empathetic.
- [Doctrinal Statement](https://ggwo.org/doctrinal-statement/): The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments have been given by the verbal plenary inspiration of God and therefore are inerrant (Ps.
- [How Can I Find God?](https://ggwo.org/find-god/)
- [What is a Community Group?](https://ggwo.org/communities/): A Greater Grace Community group is a team of dedicated leaders and followers of Christ with a mission to bless their community.
- [Find a Greater Grace Church](https://ggwo.org/locations/)
- [What is Greater Grace? orig](https://ggwo.org/what-is-greater-grace-3/): Greater Grace Church Baltimore is a multi-faceted hub of spiritual activity and vitality.
- [Daily Radio Show](https://ggwo.org/daily-radio-show/)
- [What We Believe-orig](https://ggwo.org/what-we-believe-orig/): All Scripture contained in the Old and New Testaments is verbally, plenarily, and inerrantly inspired by God.
- [Contact Us OLD](https://ggwo.org/contact-old/)
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- [Financial Accountability](https://ggwo.org/financial-accountability/): Greater Grace World Outreach, as a nonprofit organization is funded primarily by freewill contributions from our parishioners and others who support our mission.
- [Beyond Frozen Borders: Beyond The Book](https://ggwo.org/bfb/)
- [Anmol Chawan | A "Precious" Life](https://ggwo.org/anmolchawan-apreciouslife/): "We love because He first loved us."
- [Choir](https://ggwo.org/choir/)
- [Young Adults Ministry](https://ggwo.org/ya/): Text "ggya" to 94000 to get updates.
- [The Easter Play | 2026](https://ggwo.org/easter/)
- [Recovery](https://ggwo.org/recovery/): Freedom that Lasts is a Christ-centered, Bible-based, local-church-focused discipleship ministry to those enslaved in life-dominating sins or overcome by hurtful events of life.
- [Giving Missions](https://ggwo.org/give-missions/): Faith promise giving encourages believers to give sacrificially beyond what they think they can give.
- [Give](https://ggwo.org/giving/): Your support of the General Fund fuels our vision to reach every neighborhood in Baltimore with the Gospel.
- [Special Needs Ministry](https://ggwo.org/specialneeds/): The Perfect Praise Ministry welcomes any volunteer, young or old, with a heart to help share Jesus' love and truth with others needing an unconventional setting to receive.
- [Missions Donations](https://ggwo.org/missions-donations/)
- [Photos2](https://ggwo.org/photos2/)
- [Tour](https://ggwo.org/tour/)
- [Greater Grace Church](https://ggwo.org/): Greater Grace is a local church with a worldwide impact. All ages can join us for weekly services with relevant life changing messages and contemporary worship.
- [Calendar](https://ggwo.org/calendar/)
- [Missions Live Rap](https://ggwo.org/missions-live-rap/): One time missions event relevant to everyone in the church.
- [Drive In Church](https://ggwo.org/drive-in-church/): Greater Grace Church in Baltimore is offering Drive In Church Services during April and May and all are welcome!
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- [Books](https://ggwo.org/books/): “Elisabeth Elliot is a woman set apart by the Spirit of God.
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- [Pastors Retreat 2016](https://ggwo.org/photos/pastors-retreat-2016/)
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- [Thomas Schaller](https://ggwo.org/thomas-schaller/): A pastor and missionary for more than 30 years, Pastor Schaller led the establishment of thriving churches and Bible schools in Finland in 1975 and Hungary in 1990.
- [Our Leadership](https://ggwo.org/our-leadership/): The Chairman of the Board of Elders is at the same time the Senior Pastor of the church.
- [What We Believe](https://ggwo.org/what-we-believe/): All Scripture contained in the Old and New Testaments is verbally, plenarily, and inerrantly inspired by God.
- [What Is Greater Grace](https://ggwo.org/about/): Everything one might expect from a 1500 member church…and more.
- [Womens Ministry](https://ggwo.org/womens-ministry/)
- [Pastoral Care](https://ggwo.org/pastoral-care/): Pastoral Care is ministering to the whole person and the whole family.
- [Outreach](https://ggwo.org/outreach/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhmkK6luUEE We extend the arms of our church, reach out to our community and extended neighborhoods, and to surrounding cities with the Good News, the Gospel of Christ.
- [Music Ministry](https://ggwo.org/music/): "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him."
- [Men's Ministry](https://ggwo.org/men/): To help men connect and be involved in the many ministry opportunities in the church.
- [Griefshare](https://ggwo.org/griefshare/): Greater Grace Church provides an opportunity to be with people who understand the pain of your loss.
- [Food Pantry](https://ggwo.org/foodpantry/): Every recipient is treated with care, dignity, and the love of Christ. Items are provided through the generous contributions of local vendors.
- [Counseling](https://ggwo.org/counseling/): In addition to those prerequisites for counseling, they can expect to be counseled from the Bible, because in it, God provides “all things that pertain to life and godliness” regarding issues of the soul.
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