Be energetic in your life of salvation, reverent and sensitive before God. That energy is God’s energy, an energy deep within you, God Himself willing and working at what will give Him the most pleasure. Philippians 2:12-13 THE MESSAGE. Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up…

The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:10-11. In Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets…

The fact is, I know of nothing good living in me – living, that is, in my unspiritual self – for though the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful…

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do…but what I hate, I do. Romans 7:15. My prayer is not that You take them out of the world but that You protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am…

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:1-3. My brethren, count it all joy…

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear…

We do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. Romans 8:9. Let the peace of Christ rule in…

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Romans 6:4. Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” He said. “Go, sell everything you have and…

I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:5 NRSV. If we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Romans 8:25 NKJV. This morning in our Friday…

The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.” He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice…