“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother…” – Luke 14:26, AMP Can you really consider yourself a disciple of Christ? Most Christians would be quick to answer, “Yes!”, to this question, but how many of us would be telling the truth? There is a difference between being a… Continue reading Are you really God’s disciple?
Category: Sanctification
The key to having Christ’s character is found in this one word.
…the greatest of these is love. – 1 Corinthians 13:13, AMP If you were in Solomon’s place, and God gave you the opportunity to ask for anything in the universe, what would you ask for? Wisdom, as Solomon requested? Peace? Happiness? Freedom from financial stress or personal strain or anxiety of any kind? Our answers… Continue reading The key to having Christ’s character is found in this one word.
God will give you the power to overcome at just the right time – if you ask.
For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.] – Romans 7:18, AMP It is at the moment of temptation that… Continue reading God will give you the power to overcome at just the right time – if you ask.
Let God help you with your spiritual insurance policy.
Put on God’s whole armor… – Ephesians 6:11, AMP This world is not safe. It is filled with risk, and that is why we buy insurance of all types. We buy life insurance to financially support our families in case we die prematurely. We buy health insurance to pay for treating illnesses that are too costly… Continue reading Let God help you with your spiritual insurance policy.
It doesn’t matter what others think about you. It matters what God thinks.
But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. – 1 Samuel 16:7, AMP We are such fools. We… Continue reading It doesn’t matter what others think about you. It matters what God thinks.
God loves it when you behave because then He gets to give you stuff.
No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. – Psalm 84:11, AMP God may withold something from us for a number of reasons. Perhaps what we desire is not good for us, and we are just not mature enough in The Lord to realize it. Perhaps what we long for is something… Continue reading God loves it when you behave because then He gets to give you stuff.
God would be glad to talk with you once you decide to give Him your undivided attention.
Be still, and know that I am God… – Psalm 46:10, KJV Have you ever been in a conversation with someone where, at the end of the conversation, you had absolutely no idea what the other person has been saying to you? We’ve all done it, and the reason we were clueless at the end… Continue reading God would be glad to talk with you once you decide to give Him your undivided attention.
Make sure you are a wise investor.
But then what benefit (return) did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None] for the end of those things is death. – Romans 6:21, AMP Why do people invest money in the stock market, or in real estate, or in a company of some kind? They do so for the express… Continue reading Make sure you are a wise investor.
God always completes what He starts.
I will cry to God Most High, Who performs on my behalf and rewards me [Who brings to pass His purposes for me and surely completes them]! – Psalm 57:2, AMP Have you ever known people who continuously fail to finish what they started? It’s one thing to have a project interrupted due to some unforeseen circumstance… Continue reading God always completes what He starts.
Two heads are not better than one.
[For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides]. – James 1:8, AMP It was Jesus Himself who said that a house divided against itself cannot stand (Matthew 12:25). The same is true of the double-minded person in James 1:8. Such a… Continue reading Two heads are not better than one.