An Encounter With Jesus

One of my favorite Christian movies is entitled “The Encounter.” In this movie five people, each dealing with their own personal issues, find themselves at a diner, which is run by none other than Jesus Christ, Himself. Jesus offers each person His assistance in confronting and overcoming the struggles they face, however, just as it…

Submit To God, Resist the Devil

1 Peter 5:5-11 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for (b) God resist the proud, but gives grace to the humble. (6) Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due…

Who Knows The Heart of Man

Jeremiah 17:9-10 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. The heart refers to the mind, the source of thinking,…

Are You Free From Indwelling Sin?

Romans 8:5-11 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (7) Because the carnal mind is…

Freedom

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, John 8:31-36 31 Then…

Our Life’s Guide

1. What consumes our mind controls our life. Power, positions, titles, money, women, men, cars, clothes, drugs, alcohol 2. We must feed our brain with positivity. God’s Words, love for one another, education. 3. We must feed our brain with truth, from the Word of God. And we know that all things work together for…

Fighting To Win

I Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. As a youngster, growing up in the late 80’s and early 90’s, I bore witness to the rise of boxing great, “Iron” Mike Tyson. I can remember…

21st Century Idols

Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me. No other gods: God was not to be viewed by Israel as one God among many nor as the best of the gods. He was and is the only living God. He and He alone was to be worshiped, obeyed and adored by the Israelites.…

What Is The Spirit Filled Life

Ephesians 5:18-21 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of…

A Godly Healthy Mind

Psalm 37:1-8 Psalm 37:3 Trust in the Lord Psalm 37 is a wisdom psalm written as an acrostic. Its simple message is to maintain patience in the midst of our troubles. You and I, God’s people can have such patience because we know that our eternal reward will abundantly surpass any temporal troubles. Brothers and…