Sufficient. What does that mean? I looked it up to find similar words. Adequate. Enough. Do you feel like you have enough to do life or do you suffer (like many people) from inadequacy? As believers in Christ, we want to please Him, and yet so many times we fail, make a mess of things, find we are inadequate. Paul’s Sufficiency Apostle Paul dealt with an ongoing troubling problem and asked God to remove it. Did he claim it by…
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking…If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is…
What would you give to know forgiveness, to know there is nothing against you, or to know that you are clean before God? Memories of the wrongs we have done in the past haunt us. Do you hear the whispers, “You are guilty. You committed a terrible thing.” Maybe they aren’t whispers, maybe they are shouts and screams in your mind that torment you whenever the memories come to mind. I think even believers, born-again Christians, struggle with knowing they…
Seeing Clearly I pray we would see You, Lord Jesus, as the prize above all else. That seeing you, we will see clearly. You, who have been before all time, set aside Your royalty to take on the human form so You could live as one of us. You, who set aside Your rights, personal needs, and desires to learn obedience, making You the spotless lamb that would be sacrificed for our sins. Although You came as a baby and…
