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Many people feel uneasy when they hear the word prosperity. They associate it with greed or superficial teaching. Because of this fear, they limit God's promises to the spiritual domain. They believe...
We live in an age of information overload. We listen to sermons and read devotionals every week. Yet we often struggle to remember what we learned. Most of what we hear slips away within days. Hearing...
Most Christians know the word "saved." Fewer know that the Greek word behind it, sozo, also means "healed," "delivered," "made whole," and "preserved." One word carries the entire package. That matter...
Paul prayed for the believers in Ephesus. He asked God to give them a spirit of wisdom and revelation, explaining that this wisdom comes when the eyes of your understanding are enlightened. In the Gre...
We often treat the Bible as a collection of general ideas. We think God inspired the concepts but left the details to human writers. However, the writers of the Bible did not view Scripture this way....
Your brain will not stop. You lie down at night and a crowd of thoughts shouts over each other. You replay conversations. You rehearse disasters. You solve problems that do not yet exist. And the hard...
A shadow has no physical substance. The shadow of a dog cannot bite you. The shadow of a weapon cannot cut you. It may look threatening, but it has no power to harm you. Many believers face trials tha...
Read a promise in the wrong tense and you will file it in the wrong drawer. Many believers do this with Romans 8:11. They read it, feel a moment of hope, and then push the whole promise into the futur...
Seasons often begin with a storm. You look at your circumstances and feel the wind. The boat sits in the middle of a rough sea. But the storm is not your destination. God did not rescue Israel from Eg...
The law asks, "What did you do?"Grace asks, "Who are you with?" If Peter had been led by law, he would have stayed in the boat.The law would remind him of denial, failure, and broken promises. But gra...
The law tells you what to do. Grace tells you what has been done. One system demands from you. The other supplies for you. And the Bible is very clear about which one you live under today. Most Christ...
Why do we sin? Why do we find ourselves trapped in habits or behaviors we hate? We often think the problem is a lack of willpower. We assume we are not trying hard enough. But Peter says the root caus...
Most people translate shalom as "peace." That is like translating the word "home" as "a building." Technically correct. Still incomplete. Shalom is one of the richest words in the Hebrew Bible. It app...
We often reduce "peace" to a calm feeling in the chest. While that is part of it, the biblical definition is much stronger. If you ask a Hebrew scholar about the word Shalom (שָׁלוֹם), they will tell...
God loves to hide treasures in His Word for those who are hungry enough to search for them. Psalm 91 is often called the Psalm of protection. It promises that no evil will befall us and no plague will...
Social media promises to connect the world and make it smaller. The actual result is a documented rise in severe depression. Paul writes to Timothy that the last days will bring people who are lovers...
In the natural world, there is a delay. You sow a seed in October and wait through the winter. You harvest in April. Months pass between the work and the reward. But God promises a season where the ti...
A courtroom has already delivered the verdict. The judge has left the bench. The gavel has struck. And yet the defendant rises again to ask, "But are you sure?" That is the picture of a believer who d...
A courtroom and a cross say the same thing: the debt has been paid. The difference is that the cross paid it for everyone who will ever believe, two thousand years before they were born. Forgiveness i...
Some breakthroughs don't arrive in one moment.They come in layers, one word at a time. God calls us to gather as an invitation. Hebrews says: "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together... and...
