Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy’s power, and raised up into newness of life in God.
I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.
You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness—confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love with Jesus, conversing with Him, He turns up the light. There is no darkness at all in His presence. The worst possible darkness to mankind is not in the hearts of God-hating Communist leaders or Christ-hating atheists. It is, rather, the horrible darkness that blinds so-called Christians who refuse to walk in the light.
Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to Your image in every area of my life’? Or has your bitterness taken root, turning into rebellion and hardness of heart? Have you learned to shield yourself from the convicting voice of God’s Spirit?
At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us. . . God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakable power!
Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.
Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?
The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.