Exploring Those Important Questions, Part Three
If it’s God’s Word and God’s desire, your promise given will not turn up empty.
If it’s God’s Word and God’s desire, your promise given will not turn up empty.
We must walk by faith knowing that we are overcomers because Jesus already overcame.
God is not only getting us ready, but He is also getting something ready for us.
As we grow in our walk and in faith, we then begin to see some purging that is taking place in our lives.
Facing resistance will train us to build strength and character as we press ahead.
Examining our priorities and where we are in our walk with God is a great way to start the new year.
Being a disciple of Jesus involves implementing spiritual disciplines in our lives.
If we want to be fulfilled and feel complete, we only will achieve this as we align our lives with God’s plan and His will.
New direction, new fervency, and new vision will be given with blueprints that will catapult us to a new level in our service to the Lord.
You are favored in the eyes of the Lord as you walk in His ways.
God delights to swoop down and make us a thriving servant in His name.
This seed, the Holy Spirit, within cannot be destroyed.
Restoration occurs because of who He is in and through us.
Let the Word work. It’s alive and active.
The enemy delights when we keep our focus on the problem, the despair or anguish that we are in.
He doesn’t promise when He’ll answer, but He will answer.
Hand them the life preserver and show them the One who preserves and redeems all life.
Our good works of being His chosen ones are simply being His witnesses.
He has heard your cry; and He shall move on your behalf to deliver you from that trap, from that snare.
Blessing someone who has done you wrong disarms the enemy.
God told the Israelites they were stiff-necked and rebellious, yet, still, the apple of His eye.
His love for you is so constant, consistent, and complete that it reaches into eternity.
We, as Christians, should value our bodies as a sacred place where God dwells.
Christians can sow forth light to the extent that they receive it from the Lord and reflect it from Him to others.
Our Abba is instructing us to arise and shine.
If we become like non-Christians and become contaminated by the impurities of the world, we lose our influence.
If our goal is to become like Him, applying the beatitudes will challenge the way we live each day.
Great is our reward in heaven as we follow hard after our God.
The enemy loves to use those we love to verbally attack and falsely accuse.
As a disciple of Jesus, suffering is inevitable.
As a child of God, when we intercede, we are being pacemakers.
Being pure in heart involves having a singleness of heart toward God.
We are asked to be merciful, to love mercy, for when we do, we are blessed.
Spiritual refreshment, abundance, enjoyment, and nourishment are provided by the One who is all of that.
The great peace we receive is unmixed blessedness.
If you are mourning the loss of someone or something, be encouraged that the Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
No matter our status in life, we must recognize our spiritual poverty before we can come to God in faith to receive the salvation He offers.
Positioning ourselves to hear God and receive direction is of high importance.
There is a mandate on His church, His Ekklesia, to complete what He began.
From this place of community within, they walked as Jesus walked, not only in word and deed but in the miracles of God.
There are just some things that defy the laws of nature that cannot be explained; they are beyond human understanding and reasoning.
We can use the keys to access heaven’s resources and gain insight from God’s perspective for our current earthly situations.
Oftentimes, revelation is given without full understanding from the one who receives it.
Let’s begin by having a deeper understanding of who Jesus is, our perfect King.
We must understand that the power of hell that comes against us will not prevail.
The Spirit will endow Him with the wisdom to undertake wise purposes and with the power to carry them out.
Jesus so desires to be complete in us, not have us compete for position.
We are being instructed to hear what the Spirit is saying.
We can marvel at His counsel and walk in His counsel as He consoles and counsels us.
Being empowered to fulfill the plan of God upon your life will include warfare.
God has always intended for man to be brought back to Himself through His Spirit.
Embrace and listen to the sound that is going forth throughout the earth.
Abandonment unto God is the road and journey that we are called to walk on.
The strength of Jesus is within us, enabling us to withstand being battered and torn and still able to flourish.
Keeping in step with the Spirit is obeying, yielding, and surrendering.
Gentleness is a spiritual weapon that disarms the enemy.
We are in a covenant relationship with God which should warrant us to be faithful, first to Him and then to others.
God always has our best interest at the center of His heart.
Kindness is a fruit of the Holy Spirit that has great power.
Think about how patient God is in all things and especially with us.
We remain in His peace as we serve to glorify Him not ourselves.
It is pitiful that we know so much about Christ and yet enjoy Him so little.
Everything we do for God comes from this first fruit of love.
God’s righteousness produces this quietness and confidence, which is our strength.
God changes us from the inside out!
Repentance is a change in how I think that leads to a change in how I live.
Being baptized in the Holy Spirit will enable us to be fully surrendered and fully committed to the Great Commission.
Your call is a kingdom call, a kingdom call that has a Bridegroom King, whose name is Jesus.
God is promising He will do it again.
God usually directs us in a different way than what others may think.
God brings wonder and joy with each new sunrise.
She was speaking to all who would listen, especially to all who had longed for His appearing.
The Holy Spirit was present upon their meeting as babies, then once again present when John baptizes Jesus years later.
The stage was being set for God to intervene and make the impossible possible.
As the holidays approach, so do anxiety and sadness start to settle in for some.
Are we thankful for the knowledge of knowing Jesus?
If you are in a rough season, start thinking of God’s love that endures forever!
If we truly understand the goodness of God in our life, we don’t need to understand why He allows certain things to happen.
If there still is a breach between you and another party, remember God is the Repairer of the Breach.
Recalling the good things that God has done, and will still do, can bring us into an atmosphere of praise and giving thanks.
Getting alone with God will bring strength and new direction.
Keep looking up saints of God! Our helper is on the way!
One of the jobs of the Holy Spirit is to lead us to Jesus, always connecting us to Him; and always glorifying Him.
Humility is a character of Jesus that we should imitate.
It’s not how we begin that’s important; it’s how we finish.
I am exhorting us to keep looking up and seeing ourselves soar.
God will move on our behalf.
In those times of being weary, He may be drawing us to Himself.
An everlasting Father will be an enduring, compassionate Provider and Protector.
Maybe the lesson of walking on the water is also about overcoming and rising above.
A Royal Priesthood ministry flows out of a servant’s heart.
We were created to position ourselves face to face toward the Light of the World, who is Jesus.
Being led by the Holy Spirit becomes our primary way of living as we grow in the knowledge of Jesus.
As His follower, you are the radiant glory of God.
It’s time to start declaring who you are in Him.
Loving one another is not a suggestion.
If we look in the mirror, we see ourselves; but what’s inside is what should be seen by others.
The love of the Lord remains for us our heritage.
Who we are on the inside and what we say on the outside should line up.
Recognize that God is always ready to help and that He is our strength.