Good morning! Part of the will of God is to act differently than the world. Right now, the world is acting foolish like God isn't real and that life has no value. They are loud, rude, hateful, unthankful, violent, inebriated and lewd. How you react to this will reveal your alignment with God's will or not. We don't need to shout, scream, throw fits of rage and be violent towards those who act foolish. We can know what, why and in whom we believe and readily defend the gospel

Good morning! The Lord leads us by His word and through prayer. If you never open our Bible or pray, you should never expect to hear from God and know it is His voice trying to lead you. You will not recognize His will unless you read the document that contains it. The Bible has God's will revealed for us. An heir doesn't know what they have inherited unless the will is read. We are heirs and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17) as children of God. You don't know what you ha

Good morning! Too many people who have a big platform are coming out saying how they have given their lives to Jesus and been saved, which is great, but when there is no life change, did they really give their lives to Him? Holding onto the lifestyle that Jesus paid the price to free you from is not being saved. If we say we love Jesus, yet still live like the world, we have not been transformed. We do not bear the evidence of salvation if we lie about our conversion through

Good morning! God's voice is powerful. It is often likened to thunder in Scripture. When He speaks, things happen. At creation's beginning, He spoke and nothing became everything just at the sound of His voice. He does great things that we are still trying to figure out. He voice commands and everything has to listen. If He says "snow" it snows. If He says rain, it rains. He is the Lord. He is sovereign. He alone is God. What do you think would happen if He spoke over your l

Good morning! It is amazing that a holy, perfect God would invite sinful humanity to talk with Him and reason together. It is amazing He doesn't desire to immediately judge, but to offer an opportunity to be forgiven. He provided a way out of death. He provided atonement under the law and redemption under the new covenant. He not only buried and covered our sin, but provided Jesus to be the final sacrifice needed to complete the payment and punishment for sin. We not only hav

Good morning! In Joshua's day, there were many people groups who served many different gods they made for themselves. The moon gods, the sun gods, fertility gods, gods that required human sacrifice (often children) and many other pagan gods. He warned the people of God not to follow such things. In today's world, we still many people who serve pagan gods, idols and other gods they make for themselves. We have a lot of these practices assimilating into the church of God and ch

Good morning! Our culture and even the world are in political unrest. Division, wars, rumors of wars...we're headed into the the last of the last days. How we as the church respond will announce to the world and the enemy who we serve and is the Lord of our lives. How are you responding? We must be watchful and faithful in prayer. We must be petitioning heaven and interceding for earth. We must have a heart of gratitude despite all the reasons we have to complain. We must not

Good morning! Father God, having made known to us through prophesy His plan of redemption, fulfilled all that was needed for us to be reconciled to Himself in Christ. He fulfilled His will in Christ to forgive us, pay the penalty for our sins and grant us eternal life. There is still prophesy to be fulfilled about Christ. His first advent was to come to earth to reconciled us by fulfilling the law. His second advent is to complete the plan of redemption by bringing us believe

Good morning! We are nearing the advent season which is all about the prophesy of the Messiah. There were over 300 prophesies about Jesus in the Old Testament about His conception, birth, birthplace, life, ministry, death, burial and resurrection. He fulfilled them all. The odds of this happening are mathematically astronomical. If Jesus had just fulfilled 48 of these prophesies, the odds are 1 in 10 to the 157th power, meaning 1 with 157 zeroes after it called a quindecillio

Good morning! The Pharisees knew the letter, meaning the law inside and out. They had it memorized. But they couldn't see the one the law pointed to when He walked up to them and spoke. The letter didn't give life, only pronounced death. It made room only for covering sin, but never removing it or redeeming us. The letter is a mirror for us to see our sin and the need for a Savior. If you live only by the letter, your heart will grow hard and legalistic. You will miss Jesus i

Good morning! This verse starts out with something we cannot overlook. God is faithful. That's enough right there to make a verse on its own. The darkness of this world and the struggles of life can make you doubt that profound truth. But we must never forget God is faithful. We must also not neglect that we were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus the Christ. God has called us into a relationship with Himself through Christ. Even when we are not faithful, God never

Good morning! There is so much talk about identity right now. My first book from 2016 was about identity because I saw the trend heading towards a loss of true identity and wanting to have a sense of belonging. When you don't know who you are, you will be easily manipulated. So many people are struggling with gender, race, sex and sexuality and doing harm to themselves and others while trying to find who they really are. You will never know who you really are until you know w

Good morning! Since sin entered into humanity, life has been much harder than God intended it to be. Through the Scriptures, we have a portrait of heaven to give us hope of what to look forward to for us who believe. Jesus calls us heavenward as the ultimate calling into the riches of His glory. It is our inheritance. This verse is a prayer for us to have a full understanding of knowing the hope of this calling. We need to be enlightened in this day of enlightenment and every

Good morning! Sometimes, trials can make us feel like we're all alone in our struggles. We may even entertain the lie that no one knows what we're feeling or can relate to our struggling. We can use that as an excuse to isolate ourselves and the enemy loves that. Being alone with your thoughts is a dangerous place to be in times of struggle. It can be intoxicating to get lost in your own thoughts and internal dialog. This is why it is important to be sober and vigilant becaus

Good morning! We don't save ourselves by our own merits. It is only by the grace of God found in faith in Jesus Christ. It evens the playing field, so-to-speak. We all have sinned, we all need forgiven and we all need Jesus to do it. So many people trust in their church attendance, volunteer time, the work they do for the Lord, how much money they give or some other good work. If that saved you, then why did Christ have to come, suffer and die on a cross? If God sent His Son

Good morning! So many people live by their senses, feelings, emotions and what feels good in the moment. I hear things like, "I don't feel convicted by that so I don't see anything wrong with it." What a deception! There are things the word tell us not to do. You don't need to feel conviction or pray about it because God has already declared it as sin. If you try to use the Bible to justify your behavior, the motives of your heart is amiss. If you sow to the flesh, you will r

Good morning! Grass is resilient, but it is temporal. It can be destroyed just like the flesh. Flowers have a season, but at the end of the season, they fade and die. So it is with the glory of man. Our own glory only lasts for a season but the glory of the Lord will last forever. His word is eternal so we should build our life on His word and not our own abilities. His word performs what He sends it to do and does not return void. It accomplishes the purpose for which it was

Good morning! The word of God is unlike any other book in the world. You not only read it, but it reads you. It shows you the truth about yourself and cuts through all the masks we wear to cover up things we'd rather keep hidden. It looks beyond just the actions, it looks into the motives of our hearts to determine why we are doing what we do. That's kind of frightening. Maybe that's why so many people neglect to read it. The word gets to the heart of the matter in every matt

Good morning! The Bible is not just another book. It's not just a collection of books. It's not a fairy tale or traditional folk lore passed down through time. It is the inspired word of God. It is historically, archeologically, prophetically, scientifically and geographically accurate. There is no other book or books like it. Sixty six books, forty authors, spanned over fifteen hundred years with over forty three thousand cross references. Over three hundred prophecies about

Good morning! People are on edge it seems. I think they are too involved with the worldly communication out there and allowing the divided narrative to get into their belief system. It has invaded the culture of the church which should not be. We cannot speak to one another with such hatred and discord and expect anyone to believe us when we say God is love. If someone disagrees with you on something, pray instead of getting into an argument. I see so many people talking like