James 5:16 - Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. There are two things that jump out at me in this verse. First, the Lord hears and responds to the prayer of …
BEING DIVINELY PERSUADED
MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS: Ro 12:3: "For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith”. There is nothing like having …
SMELLING LIKE A ROSE – YIELDING
MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." Rom.6:13 Throughout most of my life as a Christian I have had plenty of opportunities to walk in …
WILLING TO DO WHAT?!
Psa. 110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. If you haven’t figured it out yet we have a huge heart problem. The tendency with most humans is that they have a basic …
SONS AND DAUGHTERS
Rom. 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. Recently I have been thinking a lot about the last days. Just the mention of this topic stirs up thoughts of wars, famines, earthquakes, and the mark of the beast. Sometimes we tend to overlook the greatest sign of …
DANGEROUS PRAISE
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.Psalm 51:15 I went to a Bible School near Fresno, California back in the 1970’s. Part of the curriculum at the school was evangelism. Each week there would be an evangelism assignment as part of the course requirements. There were some really unusual assignments …
EGGS, SCORPIONS, AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD
“I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.” —Jeremiah 33:3 Many Christians have never really tasted the heavenly realm of the kingdom of God. As a matter of fact, many aren’t aware that the heavenly experiences are even available to us today. We read about Paul being caught …
YIELD
“One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. PSALM 27:4 Yield!!! I was in a revival service in 1994 and …
YIELDED VESSELS
YIELDED VESSELS 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. I will never forget taking my lunch breaks while working at B&C Egg Ranch in my first year as a Christian. I would get …
SHAPING THE RIVER INTO WORDS
SHAPING THE RIVER INTO WORDS My heart bursts its banks, spilling beauty and goodness. I pour it out in a poem to the king, shaping the river into words: (Psalm 45:1 MSG) What an incredible depiction of the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of a Christian, our hearts are bursting with the …