Rom.12:1 – I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Paul’s letter to the Christians in Rome stands as a theological masterpiece. He weaves a complete message about the power of the gospel and the glory …
1Cor.12:11 – NLT – It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are exactly that, they are gifts of grace that flow out of the anointing. The Lord intends for the gifts of the Spirit to …
1 Cor.14:1 – Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. The Old Testament was characterized by the prophecies of the Hebrew prophets. In other words, the Spirit of prophesy was a major vehicle used by the Lord in early Israel. Apparently Paul believed it was to continue to play …
1 Cor.14:1 – Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit during the first century of the church marked the end of a long drought in regard to the working of the Spirit in our world. Throughout the centuries the Lord had moved in …
Isa.48:6,7 – You have heard; look at all this. And you, will you not declare it? I proclaim to you new things from this time, Hidden things which you have not known. They are created now and not long ago; And before today you have not heard them, So that you will not say, ‘Behold, …
Rom.3:5,6 – But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking from a human viewpoint.) Far from it! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? My unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God. Let’s take that a little …
Jn.1:16 – Amp – For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift]. This one verse in John’s gospel can take your breath away all by itself. First John describes the fullness …
1 Cor.13:1 – If I were to speak with eloquence in earth’s many languages, and in the heavenly tongues of angels, yet I didn’t express myself with love, my words would be reduced to the hollow sound of nothing more than a clanging cymbal. Many people miss the whole meaning of this beautiful passage of …
WALKING IN THE HARMONY OF HEAVEN Matt.18:19,20 – Again, I give you an eternal truth: If two of you agree to ask God for something in a symphony of prayer, my heavenly Father will do it for you. For wherever two or three come together in honor of my name, I am right there with …
Acts 2:3,4 – Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Recently I have had several people ask me if the events of 2020 …
