Topic:Don’t Play Dead Gloria Copeland From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11:12 The Amplified Bible translates Matthew 11:12, “…a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion.” I want you to get violent today. Yes, violent, determined, …
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Topic:Sticks, Bricks, and God Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 22–23 Titus 1 The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised. Job 1:18–22 After praying about what God was calling them to do in the next phase of their lives, Mark and Nina determined that moving to the urban core of the …
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Topic:The Care and Feeding of Fellow-Workers Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was quite unwilling to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity. 1 Corinthians 16:12 That is a most remarkable verse, especially in view of the attitude many today have that the apostles were, …
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Topics: Hope Hope for the Future By Billy Graham October 31 For our citizenship is in heaven; from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. —Philippians 3:20 (NASB) If you are moving to a new home, you want to know all about the community to which you are going. And since we will spend eternity …
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Topic:It’s Your Decision Kenneth Copeland And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw [Jesus],he fell at his feet, And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall …
Read More »Topic:Everyone Needs a Mentor Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 20–21 2 Timothy 4 To Titus, my true son in our common faith. Titus 2:1–8 As I walked into my new supervisor’s office, I was feeling wary and emotionally raw. My old supervisor had run our department with harshness and condescension, often leaving me (and others) in tears. Now I wondered, …
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Topic:HE IS THE GOD OF YOUR VALLEYS TOO 1 Kings 20:23 Then the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. Therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them in the plain, surely we will be stronger than they. In 1 Kings 20, we find the Syrians being …
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Topics: God’s Love God Is Love! By Billy Graham October 30 Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love . . . —Jeremiah 31:3 As I read the Bible, I find love to be the supreme and dominant attribute of God. The promises of God’s love and forgiveness are as real, as sure, as positive, as human words can …
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Topic:The First day of the Week Now about the collection for the Lord’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be …
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Topic:Come, Lord Jesus Gloria Copeland 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. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. …
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