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...
Pastor Stevens often taught that God uses trials to test and mature His children, while Satan seeks to use those same circumstances as temptations. The believer who responds to adversity with faith, rests in God’s character, and remains occupied with Christ gains spiritual maturity now and eternal reward in the...
Moses asked the Lord for something big for himself. “Show me Your Glory” (Exodus 33:18). It was an impossible ask. For God to do such a thing would have meant death for Moses. The Lord told him this. Moses had spent 40 days with God on Mount Sinai receiving the...
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...
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...
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. Jesus said that some would “see the Kingdom in power.” Three of His Apostles witnessed the essence of all power at...
Jesus invited three of His Apostles – Peter, James, and John – to take a climb with Him. Up the mountain, they went to a place where the Savior gave Himself to prayer. Seems to me this would have been a time when I would want to keep my eyes...
What kind of faith has been given to us? We find the answer to this question in the first verse of 2 Peter. This servant and Apostle made it clear that the faith that was in him and in the earliest Jesus followers is the same faith that we possess....
"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...
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...
