I can guarantee this truth: A single grain of wheat doesn’t produce anything unless it is planted in the ground and dies. If it dies, it will produce a lot of grain. – John 12:24 If you want a yield, you have to yield. Let me say that again. If you want a yield (profit, …
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Meditations on spiritual exercise*
Exercise daily in God—no spiritual flabbiness, please! Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever. You can count on this. – 1 Timothy 4:8, MSG The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen. If it doesn’t challenge you, …
Learning how to see
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears. – Isaiah 11:3 “If you can see the invisible, you can do the impossible.” This popular quotation sums up one …
The secret of boldness
Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. – John 8:28 If you’re ever feeling stuck, or want to check whether the life you’re …
Modus Operandi
So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does. – John 5:19 Jesus’ M.O was simple: just do what He saw the Father do. Not because He was Jesus…but because of His position …
Decree or describe?
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep…And God said…” – Genesis 1: 2-3 The primary purpose of words is creation. Not description or analysis of how dark the situation…but outward creation of that which exists unseen. So if you need it but don’t see it, …
Kryptonite
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. – Mark 7:13 And He could do no mighty works there because of their unbelief. – Matthew 13: 58 The Word is living, active, sharper than any two edged sword, the power of …
Superhero options
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. – Matthew 5:14 I’m not even supposed to be telling you this. But when men are growing up and are reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman…these aren’t fantasies. These are options.This is the deep inner secret truth of …
Through the Looking-Glass
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into …
Let it shine
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. – Matthew 5:16 John tells us that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5) At the same time, we understand that in the beginning, the earth …