What is a need? Who is qualified to determine what is a need? Is it something essential? What is essential? Essential to what? To survival? To health? (Physical health only, or mental and emotional health, as well?) Are essentials universal? Or do they vary from person to person, or from country to country, or from […]
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The answer to this question is that you should ask until you get the answer. When you believe you have the answer, it would be silly to ask again. But how should you determine when you get the answer? What evidence will you require to believe you have the answer? What will God have to
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Pleading the Blood of Jesus is not begging — but a legal term. REVELATION 12:10-11 NKJ 10 . . . the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their
1 JOHN 4:4 ICB 4 My dear children, you belong to God. So you have defeated them because God’s Spirit, who is in you, is greater than the devil, who is in the world. This message is simple and has two parts: God is greater than anything, and because you’re a believer in Jesus Christ,
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Imagine you were God — all alone — nothing but you and space. Wouldn’t you want to have others around to keep you company? So you decide to create some other beings. You want to have some intelligent conversation and relationships, so you create them with freedom of choice. Things are perfect. You have a
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“Alms” are not some kind of tree, but something you should know about — and do. The Greek word translated alms in the New Testament originally meant mercy or kindness, then came to represent the kind deeds caused by mercy and kindness. So it came to mean charitable giving to the poor — or giving
2 CORINTHIANS 8:9 NLT 9 You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich. God placed the first humans, Adam and Eve, in a garden paradise where all their needs were abundantly supplied,
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GALATIANS 6:6-7 NLT 6 Those who are taught the word of God should help their teachers by paying them. 7 Don’t be misled. Remember that you can’t ignore God and get away with it. You will always reap what you sow! A law of human behavior is that you will get more of what you
LUKE 8:11 NKJ 11 “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. A seed is powerful. As a seed begins to grow, it will push up dirt, rocks, etc. Whatever the obstacles are, God’s Word planted in your heart will push them out of the way. A seed begins its growth
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DEUTERONOMY 30:19 NKJ 19 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; Most people don’t realize that God has given them the power to choose whether they will be blessed.