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It Is I Who Created The Earth And Mankind, One of the first things they tell you in military boot camp is we don't want you to think. Ours is not to wonder why, ours is but to do and die. In God those are solid words, God never asks to intellectualize. As scripture says in a different...

What Can Man Do To Me, We will never relinquish our love for our Lord regardless of how others view us. We will be strong, we will hold our faith and we will not fall. If we are scorned or mocked or laughed at, we will rise even higher. When people seem to persecute us, we just become...

You Have The Words Of Everlasting Life, Jesus spoke after feeding the five thousand and said to the crowd, I am the bread of life, he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood I will raise him up on the last day. Upon saying that, he noticed the people were getting up and leaving. They didn't...

I Waited Patiently For Him, There is no end to His vigilance and His mercy is forever pouring over us. From the first page of scripture, to the last, God is demonstrating His love for us. He gave us covenant after covenant after covenant because we kept going astray. Each time He developed...

We No Longer Live For Ourselves But For Him Who Died For Us, We no longer live in the flesh but rather we have given ourselves to Him. What our lives once were is withered and gone. We have surrendered to God and given all that we are to Him. We are aware and accept the Holy Spirit within...

It Is A Gift Of God Not And Not Works, We are not to boast because it is not something we earned but rather it was a gift from God. So is that it, are we all done now, we can just wander around with the joy of being saved. I suppose that could be a legitimate choice but if that was all then...

On Earth As It Is In Heaven, How many times have we all said the Lord's Prayer and how many times have we dwelled upon what it said. In my case, I did it for the longest time and did it by rote and it was kind of like something on the "need to do" list. It was at a point where my lips were...

Love That Is In Christ Our Lord, Scripture says if God is for us who can be against us. When we are able to be the evidence of God in this world through Jesus Christ, we have nothing to fear. The words says no demons nor height nor depth can take us away from His love. Once we are able to...

We Will Reap A Harvest If We Don't Give Up, The scripture asks us to be good to all people, especially the believers. If we don't do good, it doesn't separate us from the evil doers. So it is relevant that we are not only Christians in our hearts but Christians to the world. That is how...

I Say It Again Rejoice, Paul adds that in our prayer we present our requests to God. The peace of God transcends all understanding and it will guard your hearts and minds in Jesus. Paul is exhorting people to pray and to commit their hearts to Jesus. Above all other things God wants us to...

Inwardly We Are Being Renewed Day By Day, When we believe, faith is always our God even when we are not at our best, we still survive. In fact we can grow from our failures by first of all noticing them as they are then admitting them and then rising from the ashes. It's our Lord's...

I Thank My God Through Jesus Christ, Paul goes on after that by scolding those who have not yet accepted the gospel. The righteous will live by faith he says. But for the ones that did not accept the Gospel, they were the ones who knew God did no glorify Him nor did they give thanks to Him...

When We Were Still Powerless Christ Died For Us, We were all sinners and we all needed saving. It is written: Just as sin entered the world through one man, and through sin, death came to all people. God sent His Son on to the earth so through the cross Jesus would save all people. The...

Though Seeing They Do Not See, Jesus is addressing the mockers and the scorners, the fakers and the hypocrites. They have all the words of scripture in their pockets and yet none are I their hearts. When Jesus healed on the Sabath, they were ready to great harm to Him because in their view...

I Have Called You And You Are Mine, The Lord speaks to us in very generous terms directly to our hearts. There is no doubt in what He says, only certainty. He is not making a bargain with us, He is not saying I will do this, this and this for you and you better do this, this and this for me...

But To Receive Salvation Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, So that we may not only survive but that we can thrive, God put us here to help us help ourselves but not only to help ourselves but to help others. In order for us to help others, we need to full of God's love ourselves. We should be...

He Gave Me A Firm Place To Stand, How precious is our Lord God who drags us out of the pits of insecurity, despondency and a strong will to give up. No matter how deep the cave, regardless of how far the abyss reaches into the earth, God will pull us out. Scripture says that there is no...

You Are My Lord And I Will Exalt You, What a wonderful way to awaken in the morning by grasping the love of God. The psalms were written so long ago and yet people we ready to open the door to their hearts and let the Lord in willingly and joyfully. God made the light shine on us the...

My Peace I Give You, Jesus is in the early stages of imparting upon the apostles the fate that is soon to come to Him. He is trying to reassure them that everything will be ok but early on they are not buying it. First of all they have a hard time try to figure out where He is going, why...

But The Spirit Intercedes For us, Sometimes a lot of us hit somewhat of a road block and lose our way of direction. The best way to find our way is through prayer. So for us then what should we pray for when we are really stuck in the middle of nowhere. Well it is sort of like standing on...