To rightly walk with God, we need to be built up in the knowledge of his will.
Even the greatest kings and armies of the earth are just small specks of nothing compared to God.
No matter how hard we row the boat – no matter how much we might try to cure our own diseases – we can’t make ourselves well.
God wants his churches to be filled with prayer. He wants us to pray with holy hands, and for our prayers to be all-encompassing, peace-pursuing, salvation-seeking, and God-glorifying.
We ought to remember to pray for the men on the job, the moments of opportunity God gives us, and for the message of Christ to be proclaimed clearly.
Jesus isn’t just another man. He’s the Son of God. Perfect in power. And powerful in his perfections.
Feeling downcast? Pray, sing, preach the gospel to yourself, and be convinced of God's love and sovereign power.
May God make us to be earnest in how we intercede for lost sinners!
Is anything too hard for the LORD?
The God who provides us with this peace – He himself, is eternal in his existence, limitless in his power, and infinite in his goodness.
God doesn’t just preserve us by putting a big, plexiglass dome over the sapling of our faith – but he preserves us by growing our faith into a mature tree, that can withstand windstorms and winters.
Spirit-empowered love is a glorious and beautiful thing that the world can never have too much of. It shouldn’t make any sense that we’d want to limit our love, or restrict our forgiveness to seventy-times-seven.
God has brought you, and me, and all of us together to receive the gospel fully, and to advance the gospel further. This is the fellowship we’ve been called into with one another. This is what gospel partnership is.
Jesus has taught us to pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,” because these are the things that he wants his disciples to love and prioritize.
In prayer, we’re raised up into conversation with Him – with the invisible, eternal inventor of galaxies and subatomic particles.
Being an elder isn’t just an administrative role, overseeing budgets, and programs, and buildings. No, the elder is a pastoral role, to oversee and serve the sheep.
Is there an extent to which Jesus could rightly call out, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” Yes, absolutely. Because Jesus was really and truly struck down by God the Father for our sin on the cross.
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me, you can do nothing.
Prayer isn’t our gift to God. Prayer is God’s gift to us.