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Emotional Healing
The Bible teaches that Jesus came to heal our wounds, to bind up and heal our broken hearts, and to give us beauty instead of ashes and the oil of joy instead of mourning (see Isaiah 61:1-3). Many Christians…
Created about 14 hours ago
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Insecurity
An epidemic of insecurity is stealing the joy of life from many people in our society today and causing major problems in their relationships. .... Those who are insecure, often seek the approval of others…
Created 5 days ago
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Loving Uniquely
You'll find that not all people need the same thing from you. One of your children, for example, may need more of your personal time than another does. One friend may need more encouragement on a regular…
Created 7 days ago
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The True Christian's Trademark
One of the most important facets of love is unselfishness, which is characterized in Romans 12:16 as the willingness to adapt and adjust to the needs and desires of others. People who have grasped the…
Created 8 days ago
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Use Your Potential!
You may know that God's created you with great potential, but you can't stop there. You have to develop your potential. I believe that many people are unhappy because they aren't doing anything to develop…
Created 12 days ago
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Living Up To Your Potential
It's amazing how many gifted people there are who just sit on the sidelines of life and do nothing. They never take a step forward to use the gifts God has given them because they don't believe they're…
Created 19 days ago
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Receive Forgiveness, Not Condemnation
Every single day of our lives we need forgiveness. The Holy Spirit... gives us the power of the blood of Jesus to continuously cleanse us from sin and keep us in right standing with Him. But if we are…
Created 20 days ago
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Conviction Is Necessary
God loves us even more than we love our own children, and in His love, He disciplines us. He tells us again and again when we're on the wrong path. He may tell us fifteen different ways, trying to get…
Created 21 days ago
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Conquering Fear With Faith
Sometimes we think of fear as an emotion, but it is actually a spirit. In fact, fear is one of Satan's favorite tools, and he particularly loves to harass Christians with it. But Jesus said, "All things…
Created 22 days ago
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My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee
2 Corinthians 12:8-10 (KJV)
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.Created 25 days ago
Labels: confusion distress god's grace grace hardships joy love persecution prayer strength suffering trial trials weak weakness
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Overcoming Our Weak Flesh
All the disciples had to do was stay awake and pray, but they kept falling asleep. Jesus, on the other hand, did pray, and an angel strengthened Him in spirit, enabling Him to endure the cross. The disciples…
Created 26 days ago
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The Hidden Power of Confession
What do you usually think of when you hear the word "confession"? Many people think first of the definition that has a negative connotation, being forced to admit you have done something wrong. But when…
Created 29 days ago
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Worship vs. Worry
When we worship the Lord, we release the emotional or mental burden that weighs us down. It is swallowed up in the awesomeness of God. When we keep our eyes on Him and worship, we will always see His…
Created 30 days ago
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Dealing with the Real Enemy
Are you facing challenging circumstances? Are you in need of provision in some area and not sure where it's going to come from? ..... There are many things in the world that threaten us. But our biggest…
Created about 1 month ago
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Freedom From Your Past
I couldn't make any progress until I realized that God wanted to release me from the prison of my past. I had to believe that neither my past nor my present determined my future, unless I let it. I had…
Created about 1 month ago
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Strength in Suffering
1 Peter 2:19-25 (KJV)
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.Created about 1 month ago
Labels: christ's sacrifice god is good hard times hardship hurting life persecution sacrifice strength suffer suffering the love of god trial trials trust
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Having the Faith to Move On
We really shouldn't view the Israelites with astonishment because most of us do the same things they did. We keep going around the same mountains instead of making progress, and it takes us years to experience…
Created about 1 month ago
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True Love Must Give
Everyone desires to be loved and accepted. But many of us try to find happiness the wrong way. We attempt to find it in getting, but it is found in giving. The love of God is the most wonderful gift we…
Created about 1 month ago
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Unconditional Love
God conquers evil with good (see Romans 12:21). He does that by pouring out His limitless grace upon us so that when we sin, His grace becomes greater than our sin. And just as it is impossible for God…
Created about 1 month ago
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Choosing Contentment
Contentment is a decision to be happy with what you already have. ... You can choose to be content every day. This is worth more than all the material possessions you could possibly accumulate in a lifetime.…
Created about 1 month ago
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Desiring God Instead of Blessings
How many of us can actually say, 'I am not jealous of anyone else or envious of what others have. If God gave it to them, then I want them to enjoy it"? .... There are times when He will put somebody…
Created about 1 month ago
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Healthy & Unhealthy Shame
Every day we encounter two different kinds of shame and it's critical that we know the difference. ..... Healthy shame reminds us that we are imperfect human beings with weaknesses and limitations. It…
Created about 1 month ago
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Free From Shame
If not for the work Jesus did on the cross, all of us would have to live with the overwhelming shame of sin. But because of His sacrifice, mankind has the opportunity to enjoy perfect freedom with one…
Created about 1 month ago
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Rooted in Christ
It is important to realize that our behavior comes from somewhere. Bad behavior is like the bad fruit of a bad tree with bad roots. You can spend your entire life dealing with outward symptoms, but the…
Created 2 months ago
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God Is The Only Lasting Source
As human beings we are created by God to be happy and to feel good about ourselves. As a matter of fact, we must feel good about ourselves, or eventually we will develop some sort of unhealthy, uncontrolled…
Created 2 months ago
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Using Our Mouths For The Lord
What would happen if you gave your mouth to God each day so that only godly words came from your lips? ... The health of your relationships depends on how you speak to, over and about others. Psalm 34:13…
Created 2 months ago
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A Consecrated Vessel
Though we are weak and imperfect, when we fill our vessels (ourselves) with the Word of God, we become containers of His blessing, ready to be poured out for His use. ... But first we must be wholly consecrated…
Created 2 months ago
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Look Up
Colossians 3:2 (KJV)
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.Created 3 months ago
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God works in you
Philippians 2:13 (KJV)
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.Created 3 months ago
Labels: desires growth holy spirit motivation motives pleasure work
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Set your affections on things above...
Colossians 3:1-2 (KJV)
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.Created 3 months ago
Labels: above affection contentment desires heart heavenly idolatry idols love thoughts
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Love Not the World...
1 John 2:15-17 (KJV)
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.Created 3 months ago
Labels: desires father flesh idols love lust pride world worldly
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights
2012-02-07
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One Flesh
Hebrews 13:4 (KJV)
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.Created 4 months ago
Labels: adultery honorable husbands love man and wife marriage one flesh oneness sex wives
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Mutual Sanctification
Galatians 6:1 (KJV)
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.Created 4 months ago
Labels: flesh love marriage meekness mutual sanctification oneness spiritual growth temptation
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Husbands
Ephesians 5:22-23 (KJV)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.Created 4 months ago
Labels: authority christ's church god's plan husbands love man and wife marriage one flesh oneness submission wives
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I Shall Make An Helpmeet
Genesis 2:18 (KJV)
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.Created 4 months ago
Labels: god's design helpmeet love man and wife marriage one flesh oneness submission wife
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The Two Shall Become One
Genesis 2:24 (KJV)
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.Created 4 months ago
Labels: leave and cleave love man and wife marriage one flesh oneness the two shall become one
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-12-24
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Rich In Blessings
Proverbs 10:22 (KJV)
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.Created 6 months ago
Labels: blessing blessings no sorrow photography rich true riches
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-12-02
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Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans
2011-12-02
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-11-05
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Seek Him <3
Psalm 119:2 (KJV)
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.Created 7 months ago
Labels: blessed blessed are they first heart life seek him whole heart
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Help Thou Mine Unbelief!
Mark 9:23-24 (KJV)
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.Created 7 months ago
Labels: believe faith help help thou mine unbelief love trust unbelief
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Only Believe
Mark 5:36 (KJV)
As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.Created 7 months ago
Labels: afraid be not afraid believe faith fear love only believe trust
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-10-31
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A New Heart
Ezekiel 11:19-21 (KJV)
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:Created 8 months ago
Labels: new heart recompense stony heart tender walk in my statutes
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Have faith in God
Mark 11:22-24 (KJV)
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.Created 9 months ago
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Wait on the Lord
Psalm 27:14 (KJV)
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.Created 9 months ago
Labels: be of good courage god's timing patience strength wait
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The Widow's Mite
Mark 12:43-44 (KJV)
And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:Created 9 months ago
Labels: give all trust god with everything
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2011-08-24
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Greatest Commandments
Mark 12:29-31 (KJV)
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:Created 9 months ago
Labels: greatest command love god love one another
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Render unto Caesar...
Mark 12:16-17 (KJV)
And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Cæsar's.Created 9 months ago
Labels: stewardship
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-08-24
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-08-24
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Have Faith in God
Mark 11:22-24 (KJV)
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.Created 9 months ago
