Have you ever felt like you have a yoke around your neck forcing you to go in a direction you do not want to go? Whenever a child of God recognizes that the spirit of the age we live in is trying to dictate to us and lead us in the wrong direction, we should…
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God’s Way, God’s Word, Our Shield
The ways of God are not capable of being searched or laid out by men. All of His ways combined have no equal in their compatibility and goodness. They line up perfectly with His character and are to be admired because they all work together as one. His ways are without tarnish, and are never…
Beware in Seeking Your Blessings
Where are you in your walk with God? You can tell by looking at what you think about most often. If you are thinking about things that point to heaven, then you will be blessed. But if your thoughts are mainly all about matters here on earth, at some point the things you have longed…
Christ or the World?
How difficult it is today to tell the difference between the lives of the people in God’s Church and those outside of it! Each day it becomes clearer that the modern Church has been mostly taken over by worldliness. Many congregations build multi-building complexes to carry out their own worship, yet care very little about…
Be Watching and Waiting for Jesus is Coming!
We read in many places in the Bible that the return of Jesus Christ to Planet Earth to take His bride away is near. And they all stress that we need to be ready when He comes. We should be eagerly watching and waiting for Jesus’ soon return. What better motive could His bride have…
Love Me – 2 Words Jesus Desires of Us
The last night of December, a man many years old settled down late in his bed. Not being one to celebrate the new year’s arrival with all kinds of raucous festivities and with individuals he had never seen before, or ever desired to see again, he had chosen to just reflect on the memories, good…
Recognizing Jesus in Your Storm
“And Peter…walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid” (Matthew 14:29–30). The waves on the sea were truly high, and the wind was truly violent and overwhelmingly turbulent. But Peter did not notice or take them into consideration at first. He simply realized that it…
How Does Your Conscience Cope with the Cross?
A Christian is someone who is true to Jesus Christ. Being a Christian also refers to a change concerning our conscience and what we strongly believe. Yet the Bible does not tell us to walk by the light of our own conscience, but by the light of the Lord instead. Jesus taught that we should…
Room for the King?
“…it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be [enrolled in a census]…And all went to be [enrolled], everyone to his own city.” Luke 2:1,3 “Those days” refers to the time when the Roman Empire came to power. We need to understand…
Your Blessing is Coming – Don’t Give Up
The heavenly Father deals with all who are His children by considering eternity. If you are His child, you know you can count on God, whom you have tested and whose love you have experienced. Do you trust your earthly father? Then consider how much more you should trust your heavenly Father. Since He already…