Live your life for Jesus and not for the demands of this world. Everyone wants that kind of peace. We look for it in all the wrong places many times. It is never satisfying. To live for Jesus requires knowing Holy deeply and personally, then sharing Him with others in your daily life. Part of […]
Heart work is important for the health of your faith. It takes effort to maintain a pure heart in the midst of temptations, failures, struggles, and injustice. The inconsistencies and confusion of the enemy have a way of justifying revenge, self-righteousness, or prideful attitudes. These are not Jesus’ way and are our first clues that
When we actively seek the holiness within, the self within diminishes. To fully hear the voice of God within, we must recognize it. To recognize God’s voice in our spirit, we must know Him deeply and personally. To know God that personally requires consistent relationship and constant communication. Some days, when all that can be
The deaths of many family and friends these last couple of years have called to mind the mysteries of God’s timing. In the throes of grief, the mind doesn’t settle until we are able to give total and complete submission to that Holy timing. It is never the right time to lose someone in life
As a believer, our inner voice comes from the Holy Spirit. If we do not nurture that inner voice, everything under the sun will distract us from hearing it. In the course of living life, we must take the time to be silent and listen to what we are being told by God from within.
It doesn’t take very much temptation for humans to sell out their integrity to money, fame, or selfish pleasures. However, when we have Jesus in our hearts, our life outlook changes that. Jesus is truly the greatest gift to humanity. The Word gives us the guidelines for living. Holy Spirit gives us guidance, warning, gifts
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We all have choices to make every day. It is the difference between tearing down or building up. In the face of enemy fire it may be easier in the moment to retaliate promoting feeling justified, but it creates a false sense of winning at all costs. It tears down our soul defeating the warnings
The incredible life of my ancestors speaks of courage and a determined spirit of hope. As a noble Lord, he and his family lost their home, land, and many family members in war. They fled by ship that would take them and many others from Scotland to freedom in America. They docked in Virginia and
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Live free of the evil plots, destructive behavior, harassing spirits, and cruelty of humanity by staying close to God. Is it easier to do than joining the world in its depravity? No, however, the freedom from all of that is promised by God as we live out our faith towards eternal life. It is in
As believers, we are assured freedom from a lifetime of suffering, abuse, pain, fear, or other things no one knows about. That freedom comes with a cost to Jesus. He willingly died to save us. The cost we pay is remaining steadfastly faithful to God’s ways, holiness in our daily living, the Word, in prayers,
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