Lk.1:46,47 – And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.” I recently challenged our church to pray daily for at least fifteen minutes in the Spirit every day. It doesn’t sound like much but if you actually do that consistently you will see changes in your …
Isa.54:2 – Enlarge the place of your tent;Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not spare them;Lengthen your ropesAnd strengthen your pegs. All of us know we need to grow or expand our spiritual capacity. Dick Mills used to describe this as spiritual enlargement. The question is how do I enlarge myself spiritually. One …
Matt.14:16 – But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go; you give them something to eat!” “You give them something to eat”. Those words hung in the air as the disciples tried to find a way out of the uncomfortable predicament they found themselves in. It seems like the Lord is always …
1 Cor. 4:15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Christians can be really weird. One minute they call you their spiritual father, the next minute they treat you like a weird uncle. It …
John 1:4,5 – In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. All of us are born in a state of spiritual darkness. No matter how many good things you do, no matter how many prayers you pray, …
Eph. 2:8,9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. This is the stumbling stone of the gospel, we are saved by faith and our works have nothing to do with it. At the end of …
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. I wonder what would happen if Christians began to live as if they really believed in another world beyond this one. We all say we believe in life after death and say that we …
Ezek. 47:4 Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep. At first glance, it seems like this vision is about you wading out into the deep places in God’s river But maybe there …
Rom. 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. What an awesome passage of Scripture! The Lord is working everything out in my life according to His plan. Actually Paul was speaking out of his own experience. If …
MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS BAILEY- “For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.” IS.51:3 We are having our annual Summer …
