Assurance

God Is Still There

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. (Psalm 46:1–3)

Deep Calls to Deep

My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon-from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. (Psalm 42:6–7)

Being Persuaded

For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

2 Timothy 1:12

The confidence we have in God is not based in ourselves, rather we are persuaded by His Word, by the life…

God’s Forgiveness

Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me…

Psalm 25:7

Often I wake up and wonder why a person like me is called into the family of God. A call to preach and to pastor the people of God is also…

To Be Known of God

Many will say to me on that day, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?” Then I will tell them plainly, “I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!”

The Lord Is in this Place

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

Genesis 28:16

This little gem of Scripture teaches us a truth that we should always keep before us — God is with His people…

Reasons for Security

…that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.

John 17:26

Our security in our salvation is not grounded in our own achievement, but in the achievements of grace, in what Christ has done and continues to do in our…

Seeing Christ’s Glory

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

John 17:24

The Place Prepared

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

John 14:3

I confess that I miss the many funerals that I have attended elsewhere in ministry — NOT because I like to…

The Staggering Thing!

And here is the staggering thing — that in all which will one day belong to him we have been promised a share (since we were long ago destined for this by the one who achieves his purposes by his sovereign will), so that we, as the first to put our confidence in Christ, may bring praise to…