Preparing for God’s Blessings

Enlarge the place of your tent,
 and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;
do not hold back; lengthen your cords
 and strengthen your stakes.

Called to Holiness

…God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved…

Colossians 3:12

Many believers still view holiness with a bit of personal dread, as though it is an unpleasant burden to bear in life. But God calls us to holiness because He loves us. We are called “holy…

Expecting the Lord

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13

We are to seek the Lord exclusively, and expectantly. Faith is required in our relationship with God, and is the avenue through which we receive the blessings of…

Judging God

Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:

Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?

Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.

Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison, the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden … the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

Warnings of Sexual Sins

Keep your way far from her,
 and do not go near the door of her house…

Proverbs 5:8

There are times in Scripture and in life when God’s Spirit needs to be very specific. Here in such a case where He warns…

Resisting Temptation

How can I do this great evil and sin against God?

Genesis 39:9

Joseph knew who he was and whose he was. He left his family by the cruelest means imaginable — his own brothers sold him into slavery — but he was still cognizant of who he was…

To Live Is Christ

For to me to live is Christ…

Philippians 1:21

We tend to think that life is about me and perhaps Jesus can help us a little to get by. He can help with circumstances, or give me patience in a difficult moment, but then it is all back on “my”…

Eternal Life: Our Goal

I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

1 Corinthians 15:50

Obeying Rules or Loving God?

And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.”

Mark 2:27

Rules exist for many good reasons, but rules should never exist merely for their own sake. The goal of all God-given commands is to…

The Aloneness of Discipleship

Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

Hope Always

Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.