People are experiencing much loss since the coronavirus like jobs, health, finances, travel, school, and normal lifestyle choices. We see much uncertainty, fear, and anxiety since the coronavirus pandemic. Paul wrote in Philippians 3:7 that everything is
A person reigns with Christ and shepherds the nations by:1. Walk in Christ’s love doing first works2. Endure suffering, poverty and persecution3. Obey teaching from whole counsel of God4. Be pure without compromise or idolatry 5. Walk in Christ’s victory to overcome busyness and over-confidence6. Embrace evangelistic opportunities relying on God7. Listen to Jesus’ voice for zealous…
Those who live by the Spirit in prayer, love, hospitality and spiritual gifts see God’s glory as they participate in Christ’s suffering. They are then equipped to shepherd His flock and receive the crown of life while experiencing exaltation, restoration and strengthening through humility and standing firm in the faith. Live in the Spirit By…
People experience healing after suffering through genuine faith, obeying God redeems them from empty life, growing spiritually by drinking God’s word, becoming a living stone to offer spiritual sacrifices, and enduring injustice while entrusting themselves to Christ. A healed person influences God and their spouse and becomes a peacemaker in various spheres of life through…
“Bad will be the day, for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he…
“Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as parts of one whole. If our practical life is centered on our own interests, cluttered up by possessions, distracted by ambitions, passions, wants and worries, beset by a sense…
“All born-again people are in training for rulership. Since the supreme law of that future social order, called the kingdom of God, is agape love, therefore their apprenticeship and training is for the learning of deep dimensions of this love. But deep dimensions of this love are only learned in the school of suffering. Purity…
Life often throws us for a loop since it’s so unpredictable. Stuffing your emotions only hardens your heart. Acknowledging your emotions opens the door for healing. Knowing God’s love for you provides the foundation to persevere through the process of healing. Psalmist’s Position The Lord loves the gates of Zion where His people dwell, including…
How many times have you felt ready to throw in the towel because circumstances seemed like a flood ready to drown you? It reminds of Is. 59:19: “when the enemy comes in like a flood” (KJV). During the first quarter of my freshman year in college, nothing was going right. Both school and my living…
Sometimes God seems like He has abandoned us. After getting fired from my job because I refused to compromise my convictions, it took seven months to find another one. I wondered why God acted so slow. My prayers didn’t seem to go anywhere. Did God realize I was obedient by confronting my boss over an…