Nothing But the Blood
We are cursed because of our sins, yet Jesus became a curse for us so that we may no longer be cursed.
We are cursed because of our sins, yet Jesus became a curse for us so that we may no longer be cursed.
Free to soar, limitless, we tread in life’s adventures.
As light begins to penetrate, insight breathes stability.
Christ seeks both the church and each person – He seeks to welcome into Heaven any who will open the door and listen to Him.
We all need an encounter with Truth where we stop being an ostrich – we stop being ostracized – and we want to obtain what He has for us.
I have seen God make a huge difference in my marriage, family, and career.
Our faith teaches us that shared sorrow is lessened, just as shared joy is amplified.
Captivated by His word, surrendered, they’re refined.
To leave God and Jesus undefined among all the unredeemed descriptions of who He is misses the point of our calling.
The Spirit of God is calling out, “Come home!”
As a parent, never forget that your greatest God-given responsibility is leading your kids into a lifelong personal relationship with Jesus.
Realizing we have been hidden with Christ in Heaven, we can live a different life here on Earth.
Only when the veil of disbelief is removed can we begin to live a truly transformed life in all areas of our lives.
The power of God was the only thing that could break the hold of demonic entities sent to foster disbelief and disobedience to the will of God.
God reached through the darkness with which we had surrounded ourselves, calling our names and extending His hand to pull us out of the pit.
There’s so much judgment and preaching AT people and not enough love, healing, and searching for the source of the pain.
Every believer must live in a way so that they will be counted when Jesus returns.
As soon as the first drop of Jesus’ blood was spilled, our redemption was secure.
Each day can be new and fresh with the recognition of who God is and what He has done for us
Jesus didn’t ask you to figure it all out.
God influences you to want to do it, and then He enables you to do it, but He will not do it for you.
The Father has prepared a magnificent feast for each of us—a table laden with every good and beautiful thing that reflects His nature.
Paul did not waste the opportunity; this man was Gospel fruit ripe for the harvesting.
Prayers are answered, miracles happen, and our life-in-Christ is never-ending.
God sent His Son so we can return to His image and likeness.
God is ready to make each and every person part of His people, His family.
It is the gospel message that the world needs to hear, and every believer must be willing to boldly bring it to those who need to hear it.
He still desires to make His triumphal entry into the individual hearts and souls of those that will receive Him.
The power and authority that Easter heralds should compel all of us to go and make disciples.
Those who have seen God do the impossible will reach out to us, “Please let us walk with you, for we have heard that God is with you”
We did not do anything to earn this status as His sheep so we can’t do anything to lose it, either.
Allow God to purchase your life with the blood of Jesus so that you may live and not die.
If we have met Jesus eye-to-eye in faith and repentance, the record has been cleared.
As believers, our current reality is one of eternal freshness.
Mass Defections from the Darkness are coming this year as we as Christians Rally around the banner of Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.
Each day brings His return closer, and the urgency to share the news of it is more urgent than yesterday.
By the stroke of His pen Jesus wrote your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
In the process of surrendering my life to Christ and being baptized, the Holy Spirit gave me a voice.
God is always on-time and exact in His plan. He brings us what we need in just-the-right package even if it’s not the one we asked for.
It is inconceivable that He worked out all the details for our rescue before He breathed life into dust… yet He did!
The devil can’t own you when Jesus already does.
We step over the line and move from head-knowledge to heart-knowledge, from being born of water in the natural to being born again in the Spirit.
At some point, our faith in the Lord must have a moment of decision when we choose to call upon the Lord and surrender our lives to Him.
Creation will have a clear understanding of the ultimate result of all we try to do without God.
God created us in His image and likeness to have communion with Him, and He invites us to be united with Him.
God is there, waiting for you, beckoning you to come to Him, to know Him, to experience His love and His forgiveness.
I started to examine the way I had been living and found myself on my knees in front of the same God I had turned my back on.
No one is ever too broken, too exhausted, or too much of anything to experience this life as God intended us to live it.
Make the choice to not follow the false directions of this world but follow Jesus.
One no longer has to earn salvation, but just needs to repent of sins and accept what Jesus had done.
If you have come to Him, then commit to staying in Him, beside Him, constantly in His presence.
To follow Jesus means you are willing to say everything belongs to Him.
Our heroes would remind us that the nations and the peoples need Jesus.
Without Christ, there remains a void that can never be filled by worldly means.
The blessings God pours out on your life are for you, but also for you to pour into others.
The greatest news you can be told is that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead to pay for your sins.
A spotless Lamb to redeem back man.
We carry around an ingrained sense of unworthiness, a shame that resulted from the fall.
The language is unmistakably clear, you cannot be saved and refuse to give up anything in your life.
It takes just one moment, and security is yours to hold.
He desires to do it all.
We have made the Gospel a complicated subject to explain followed by a lot of personal hoops.
God is right there waiting for you to return and repent of your sins so that He can heal you and love you once again.
If you don’t want Jesus in the valley, you also won’t want Him on the mountaintop.
And while we cannot pay for salvation, once we have found it, we are willing to give up everything else to possess it.
Out of death, He brought life.
The ugliness of mankind mocks, mutilates, and murders the Altogether Lovely.
The Lord’s offer of love requires a choice because we are entering a marriage.
Lord, we thank you for paying the cost so we could spend eternity with you.
Friend, I know you have loved ones in darkness who don’t know the goodness of God. YET.
His desire is to fill you with a love like you’ve never known, yet has been available this entire time.
Because of Christmas … we can hope for the impossible and we can trust the good, good Father.
So celebrate not only this season but sit daily with Him face-to-face.
I celebrated the birth of Christ twenty-one times before He was born in me.
The Lord wants you with Him.
Frivolous treatment of grace gives Satan reason to grin and rub his hands in glee.
God’s intends for baptism to serve as a sign of unity in the church.
Prior to second birth, the internal reality of a man or woman–even those who are religious–is sadly predictable.
A single drop of Jesus’ blood accomplished what all the sacrifices across all of time could not.
His Holy Spirit “rebirths” us, revitalizes our spirits, and takes up residence in our hearts, the core of our being.
How great the joy of the believer who humbly and gratefully bows when he is recognized for the treasures he has laid up in Heaven.
To accept Jesus involves being where He is for eternity.
The message in the “bottle” that had come straight from heaven was all about redemption–Christ lifted up on the cross.
My life was distorted and full of compromise before I captured the fullness of life in Christ.
The writer of Hebrews describes a sobering reality, “Each person is destined to die once, and after that comes judgment”
The Lord has made us His temple, His holy priests, and His sacrifices to offer at His altar.
Unbelief should not be allowed in the heart and mind of a believer.
The faith required to follow Christ is spelled c-o-u-r-a-g-e, and the decision to follow Him requires this.
By our actions, we determine the road that we will find ourselves on—paths to goodness and greatness or paths to a chaotic existence.
Yes, we are still sinners, and yes, we will still sin. But when we trust in the Lord, He frees us from the PENALTY of sin.
Jesus said, “Go and make disciples …” Are you doing what He said to do?
God is always there and available to help in any way that a person needs, not just physical needs but mental and spiritual needs.
In His obedience, Jesus lived a sinless life and carried our sins in His body on the cross as a ransom for every person who would believe and receive.
While His cross dealt with our sins, His resurrection spoke directly to the death element filling us and looming over our future.
Seek to shine even in your trials and struggles.
We have an open door into personal relationship with the King of Kings, not just to observe, but to learn Who He really is and His Way.
The true fountain of life springs up in the believer as one sees the light of God in Jesus.
The very Author of the Bible started teaching it to me Himself, and to this day, I’m still learning from Him.
We continually go back to the dead places looking for comfort and peace.
If Jesus is your King, don’t cower to the crowd of accusers.