Jesus is dead serious about making Him the most important person in our lives. He will not take a second place. He must be supreme, or He wants nothing to do with us. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, […]
Proverbs 14:30-A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. The word “tranquil” in this passage means “to be in a contented emotional state, not angry or worried”. So having a peaceful heart, has nothing to do with other people, like the emotion envy carries with it…(John 14:27) Generally […]
John 15:10–If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. Think about what it means to abide in someone’s love? The “want to” speaks to the security, comfort, and peace that we first define that love to be, before we […]
The longer I am in ministry, the more keenly I become aware of how few people are truly saved. Of course, I cannot know for certain whether someone is truly saved. Only the Lord knows that. However, I can read the signs and look at the fruit to see whether the root is good. Besides, […]
One of the hardest things in life is to wait. And yet our eternal life depends on it! I hate waiting. Don’t you? I am sometimes late to the meetings and appointments simply because I hate waiting. I hate the feeling of wasting my time by getting there early and waiting until the meeting starts. […]
John 11:37–But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?” I don’t think there is a person alive who hasn’t thought to God, “why did this have to happen this way?” But faith in God is to strive to trust […]
What is the point of praying if we almost never get what we want? Honestly, how many things you have asked for were given to you exactly as you have asked it? Maybe they would’ve taken place whether you have prayed or not? Such questions are natural. I’ve asked them myself. There wouldn’t be satisfying […]
John 9:2-3–And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. Our human nature is so curious to know the reason “why”, […]
Do you go to God to get things or do you use things to get at God? The question is similar to: Do you work at a job to provide for your family or do you use your family to get better jobs? I don’t think anyone would like the answer, “I use my family […]
In reference to the recent mass shooting: (Continue praying for our nation, and the tragedy of Satan blinding eyes to think we don’t need Christ more than anything else!) John 6:66-68–After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.67 So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you want to […]