Train Your Spirit It [grace] has trained us to reject and renounce all ungodliness (irreligion) and worldly (passionate) desires, to live discreet (temperate, self-controlled), upright, devout (spiritually whole) lives in this present world. Titus 2:12 Also checkout; Read:The Power of Divine Timing: Trusting God’s Plan When Life Feels Stuck Christian …
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God Is in Nature When I consider thy heavens . . . —Psalm 8:3 To look into a microscope is to see another universe so small that only the electronic microscope can even find it. For instance, it is revealed that one single snowflake in a snowstorm with millions of …
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Salty Answers Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 4:6 1 Peter 3:15-16 Today’s Insights First Peter was written to believers in Jesus who were being persecuted because of their faith. In chapter 2, echoing Christ’s …
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Welcoming All Believers and the General Public to the Month of May Embracing New Beginnings: A Call for Hope, Faith, and Renewal in the Month of May As we step into the month of May, we are reminded of God’s faithfulness, His everlasting love, and His endless mercy. The dawn …
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Listening for God’s Voice After the fire came a gentle whisper. 1 Kings 19:12 1 Kings 19:8-14 Today’s Insights Some scholars believe that in 1 Kings 19, Elijah was suffering from depression. He was weary after three and a half hard years of ministry, the events on Mount Carmel, and …
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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. —1 Peter 5:8 When I was in the hospital in Hawaii, I read again of the shocking events which led up to the destruction of the United States fleet at …
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Let each one [give] as he has made up his own mind and purposed in his heart, not reluctantly or sorrowfully or under compulsion, for God loves (that is, He takes pleasure in, prizes above other things, and is unwilling to abandon or to do without) a cheerful (joyous, “prompt …
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When [the devil] speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44 Some people find it difficult to believe God’s promises because they’ve seen so many things in the natural world that seem to contradict them. They’ve seen faithful …
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Truly Trusting God I will instruct . . . you in the way you should go . . . with my loving eye on you. Psalm 32:8 Psalm 32:6-11 Today’s Insights A penitential psalm is a personal lament where the author confesses sin, expresses sorrow in repentance, and entrusts himself …
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Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. —Psalm 51:12 (TLB) It is not unusual for persons in their early twenties to defect from their early teaching. The reasons are many. Perhaps their exposure to unbelief “took” better than their exposure to …
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