It could be an evening meal. It could be lunch. In fact, God wants the sacred to be blended into all areas of our lives as we commune with each other and remember Jesus and why He died for us on the Cross.
Brother Lawrence in The Practice Of the Presence of God said, “He […]
We all need encouragement, don’t we? People can be so discouraging. Especially people who are not walking with Christ. God wants us to fellowship. Satan doesn’t! Being around Christians will give us a lift because they will come to us with a heavenly perspective. That’s why it’s important for all of us to be […]
We’ve all seen the images. The cowboy riding off into the sunset. The picture of the guy on his mountain bike on the edge of a mesa in Monument Valley, Arizona. That’s cool every once in a while. But God doesn’t want us to be lone rangers. To pray, yes. To be alone with God, […]
In Acts 2:40, Peter “kept on exhorting” those listening to his famous Pentecost sermon to be saved from a perverse generation. Why does he have to keep on exhorting? Because the world has a mesmerizing lure. It’s like a shiny lure hanging in the stream attracting rainbow trout. It looks so good, but when they […]
To be baptized in the Holy Spirit is to be fully saturated. When you are saturated by the Holy Spirit like the apostles were on the Day of Pentecost, you will go from observer to all-in child of God, ready for service. When God reveals Himself to you in this way, you can’t help but […]
We each have a mission. Read the verses above. What do you feel a tug in your heart to do? Step out and try it. You won’t know until you try. Consider Billy Graham. He felt a desire to preach and began by preaching alone in the forest before he went before people. And think […]
The Holy Spirit will guide you and give you the words to say. You will know He is in your midst as you are witnessing. It’s a wonderful thing! It’s God’s power working through you! It bears testimony of God. And God will heal and deliver by the Holy Spirit’s power to help you witness. […]
The high priest, Aaron, went in once a year during the days of the Old Testament on the Day of Atonement. He had a rope tied around him with bells in case he died in the presence of the Lord. He would take the blood from the sin offering and sprinkle it on the mercy […]
The Holy Spirit draws us to God (John 6:44) and enables us to come to Him (John 6:65). This is clearly seen in Acts 2-3 when the Holy Spirit came and Peter, now full of the Holy Spirit, preached the Gospel. As soon as he preached the message of the Cross, the Holy Spirit convicted […]
God knew that we couldn’t minister on our own. It says in John 6:33, that “the Spirit gives life, but the flesh profits nothing.” Acts 10:38 says that Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit to have power in His ministry. He emphasized this in Luke 4:18. If Jesus needed the anointing of the Holy […]