Suffering for Christ: The Right Form of Persecution
If you suffer for being a Christian, don’t consider it a disgrace but a privilege. Glorify God because you carry the Anointed One’s name. 1 Peter 4:16 TPT Suffering for...
Triumph in Trials: Trusting God in the Midst of Suffering
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don’t jump to the conclusion that God isn’t on the job. 1 Peter 4:12 MSG The disposition of a believer to trials, challenges or...
Holiness with God: The Crux of Making Peace
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you,...
Ambassadors for Christ: The Key to Making Peace
And they have no experience of the way of peace [they know nothing about peace, for a peaceful way they do not even recognize]. Romans 3:17 AMPC There is a...
Pursuing Peace: The Call of Peacemaker
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9 KJV A peacemaker, as defined by the Mariam Webster dictionary, is one who makes peace...
Seeing God: The Blessing of a Pure Heart
Beloved, we are (even here and) now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be (hereafter), but we know that when He comes and is...
Draw Near to God: Purifying the Sinful Heart
Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with...
The Pursuit of Purity: Liberating the Incurable Human Heart
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one! Job 14:4 NIV One truth we find concerning the natural man’s heart is that it is too sick to...
The Deceitful Nature of the Heart: Unveiling the Path to Purity
The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? Jeremiah 17:9 NLT To pronounce a heart as pure, the...
Be a Channel of Mercy: Let Mercy Flow Through You
Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you? Matthew 18:33 NIV The standard of God has never changed for once. The way it...