Life

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. John 6:63 I’m pretty convinced at this point that I want to live my life believing God. Too much is at stake, and...

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Holding On To What Is Good

As a servant of Jesus Christ, God wants you to bind yourself to everything good, to whatever is inherently right and worthy. That task requires the use of discernment. With the help of God and His Word, you must carefully evaluate everything and thoughtfully decide what to reject and what...

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God Always Answers

I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God. Psalm 38:15 In a conversational relationship with God, God may not give us what we ask for, but he always responds in some way. We commonly say a prayer was answered only when we are granted our...

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Get Busy Doing Good

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men. Gal. 6:10. WE ALL have a mission in the world, though we may never be called to cross the sea, or to visit distant lands to preach the gospel. Christ’s command to each of us, is begun with the...

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First Things First

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Matthew 6:33 Some people seem to read this verse from Matthew backward, as though spiritually dyslexic: “Add all these things to your life, and if you have any leftover time, seek the...

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What Do You “Live” for?

Jesus lived and died so that “those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again” (2 Corinthians 5:15). God’s love comes into your life to change what you live for. Peter puts it this way: “That . . ....

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