Acts 2: 26 Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; moreover my flesh also will abide in hope. It is a horrible thing to live without hope, and yet there are many people who are doing just that. But you don’t have to be without hope any longer. Jesus brought hope into the […]
1 John 4: 4 You are from God, children, and you have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. This is one of those verses that we hear often but I wonder if we see the meaning in it. Yesterday we explored the idea of […]
Colossians 1: 3 We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you. It is important that we pray for each other as we see in the example Paul set for us. We need each other’s support. Jesus said that while we are in this world we will have […]
1 Corinthians 15: 57 Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Today’s verse concludes our series on the armor of God and the necessarily attendant victory in Christ. This verse speaks so loudly and is at the very crux of standing in victory when it feels like all […]
Luke 10: 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. I have written to you recently about the authority of the church over the power of the enemy. This is a delicate and somewhat […]
Proverb 22: 24 Do not associate with a man given to anger; or go with a hot-tempered man. Truth be told, it is no fun being around someone who is prone to angry outbursts. Should it be a surprise that God has specifically given us instruction to avoid associating with these people? Some people walk […]
Revelation 12: 11 And they overcame him (the devil) because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony. Jesus told us that the devil comes “to steal, and kill, and destroy” (John 10: 10). But we are over comers (1 John 2: 13) through him that came to bring […]