Phil.2:12,13 – work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to desire and to work for His good pleasure. Christianity is hard too comprehend, no impossible to comprehend, with human reasoning alone. There are just so many things about it that don’t make …
Phil.2:13 – NLT – For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. The message of God’s grace has been misunderstood and misused since the time of the Apostle Paul. Augustine spent his ministry life fighting this error and preached consistently on grace calling it sovereign …
Phil.2:13 – Amp – For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure. This verse touches on the greatest of …
Phil.4:17 – NKJV – Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. I love to look at various translations of the Bible to check the various shades of meaning in the original language often lost in translation. Today’s verse is describing the results of generous giving. In …
Phil.3:9,10 – My passion is to be consumed with him and not clinging to my own “righteousness” based in keeping the written Law. My “righteousness” will be his, based on the faithfulness of Jesus Christ—the very righteousness that comes from God. And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus more fully and to …
MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I …
Phil.3:10 – That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; This verse was written by Paul toward the end of His life from his imprisonment in Rome. This verse will leave you breathless if you take a good look at …
Phil.3:10 – that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; This is a surprising statement coming from the Apostle Paul. “I want to know Him…”. If anyone knew Jesus it had to be Paul. His conversion to Christ was sudden, shocking, …
Jn.11:25,26 – “I am the Resurrection, and I am Life Eternal. Anyone who clings to me in faith, even though he dies, will live forever. And the one who lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” This could be the most radical statement of all made by Jesus Christ. He …
MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS “I have not yet reached my goal, and I am not perfect. But Christ has taken hold of me. So I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize.” Phil. 3:12 CEV The Apostle Paul never looked back from the Damascus Road experience. If anything it grew deeper …
