When God saves a person He totally transforms Him. It is instant. There is no delay. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says he is a "new creation in Christ, old things are passed away; behold all things have become new." To practice the walk of the new man, we...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One of the reasons God saved us is that we might be fruitful Christians. He has not saved us merely that we might be free from judgment and go to heaven when we die. He saved us that the "character of Jesus Christ might be reproduced in us while...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A.W. Tozer states, "It is part of my belief that God wants to get us to a place where we would still be happy if we had only Him! We don't need God and something else. God does give us Himself and lets us have other things, too, but there is that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Psalm 42:1-2 says, "As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?" That is the truest expression of a child of God in worship. His...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Prayer to the believer is like breathing. It is necessary to live and it's needful to survive. William Gurnall said that "Praying is the same to the new creature as crying to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What are we to do to come to Jesus? Luke 15:1-2 says, "The tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, 'This man receives sinners and eats with them." When I read verses like that,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Yesterday we saw that believing God was a non-negotiable in the Christian life. Today we're going to see that fearing God is no different. Psalm 112:1 says, "Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who delights greatly in His...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
John Wesley's Rule for Christian Living: Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever... you can! (Christian History,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Can you make that bold statement? Do you demonstrate it or live it? We must understand what it means to be a servant. First it means you see yourself as a servant. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4:1, "Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled -- Matthew 5:6 There is a thirst and a righteousness that promises complete fulfillment. That hunger and thirst is that which has to do with God. Hungering and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
