The New Birth and Baptism of the Holy Spirit

Are we taking advantage of our inheritance given? Born from Above Our new birth in Christ, through faith in our Father’s resurrection of Christ, has made all things new. We are a new creation in Christ. All the “in Christ” truths are ours to receive. This week, before...

That I May Know Him – Week 23

Scripture reading is the only way into the fullness of God. Without God’s word, we are powerless against the devil and subject to the world. Jesus said, in His prayer to the Father, before being offered up as our sacrifice: “I do not pray that You should take them out...

When Jesus Ascended

What it might have been like to lose Jesus into the clouds. This Friday will mark the Ascension of our Lord Jesus into the clouds, followed by ten days of prayer in the upper room to the coming of the Holy Spirit. I wonder what that might have felt like. To begin...

That I May Know Him – Week 22

Pentecost, where we celebrate the giving of the Law through the Spirit and not the letter. We are in or near Pentecost Sunday (depending on the year you use this reading schedule). Pentecost is the day Israel celebrates the giving of the Ten Commandments through Moses...

Joined to Jesus’ Peace

All the blessings of the Lord are in our Lord Jesus Christ.  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 Here, “Peace” in the Greek means “to join peace”, to...

That I May Know Him – Week 21

All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God. As we read the Scriptures given this week, we can expect that they will profit us for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, so that we—as matured sons and daughters of God—may be...

God is

The Kingdom of God is not, “What if?”, but “God is!” Sunday morning early, while praying, the Lord spoke this phrase into my heart, “The Kingdom of God is not, ‘What if?’, but ‘God is!’”  Immediately, I knew the Lord was expanding my heart by restricting my mind from...

That I May Know Him – Week 20

When we read our Bible aloud, faith comes from hearing the word of God. When we accept God’s word as truth and read it with the expectancy of meeting Jesus in it, we are ready to hear the word near us, in our mouths and our hearts. “But what does it say? ‘The word is...

SP – Search Me and Know Me

God waits for us to hear His voice and invite Him into our hearts. “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalms 139:23-24 King David understood that to...

That I May Know Him – Week 19

Prosperity and Success are linked to Bible meditation. When we keep the word of God in our mouths through meditation, speaking to ourselves, and reading aloud the Scriptures, we are promised prosperity and success, along with the courage and strength to observe God’s...
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