Jeremiah 32:16-19 ESV
“After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying: ‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. You show steadfast love to...
Greetings all, yesterday I celebrated one free from PMO. And by no means has it been easy. Yet the benefits are there. Today I would like to recap what I did, how I benefited, and what needs work.
What’s helped...
Is doing new activities: such as exercising, reading and writing.
Less time...
2 Timothy 1:1-7 (ESV)
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
To Timothy, my beloved child:
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a...
In Timothy we read about the doctrines of demons the Spirit through Paul warned us about. I think I see they began in the RCC, with priests not being allowed to marry and in some fasting rules. But more obviously when the Pope's first began to burn at the stake the so called "heretics" after...
Philippians 2:14-16 ESV
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of...
This thread is for discussing speaking and praying in tongues from a Biblical viewpoint, bearing in mind the early church and present day psychology. This will take readers and posters into consideration of these Bible verses below, and cessationism, continuism, revival, and word striving...
Psalm 51
Introduction
For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
David, a man after God’s own heart, who followed the Lord with all his heart, was still flesh and blood. He was still human, and he was tempted to sin as we...
Isaiah 26:1-6 ESV
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city;
he sets up salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
Open the gates,
that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you...
Psalm 119:145-148 NASB
I cried with all my heart; answer me, O Lord!
I will observe Your statutes.
I cried to You; save me
And I shall keep Your testimonies.
I rise before dawn and cry for help;
I wait for Your words.
My eyes anticipate the night watches,
That I may meditate on Your word.
The...
The Holy City today is the church, the body of Christ, the saints of Almighty God. We are the Jerusalem which is from above. Physical Jerusalem is no longer the Holy City, for it is of Hagar, because her children are still in slavery to sin, i.e. because of their rejection of Jesus Christ. We...
It is a joy and a privilege to remember at times to pray and have passion for Christian revival and awakening. I like a definition of revival from dictionary.com: "restoration to life, consciousness, vigor, strength." I have lost the religious genuiness I once had, many of our churches have lost...
The presence of God is our divine immunity for total security. And one of the ways to enjoy this presence like the Apostles did is by taking the word to the world. When Jesus gave the great commission in Matthew 28:18-20, He told them to preach the word to the world and then he gave an assurance...
Zephaniah 3:1-5 NIV
Woe to the city of oppressors,
rebellious and defiled!
She obeys no one,
she accepts no correction.
She does not trust in the Lord,
she does not draw near to her God.
Her officials within her
are roaring lions;
her rulers are evening wolves,
who leave...
Someone has rightly observed and perhaps curious to know why most of my articles or teachings are heavily tilted towards prayer? As I write this I recollect a visiting guest minister to our church in the south western part of Nigeria, Ondo, making a comment during his message that I was a man of...
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty rushing wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting"(Acts 2:1-4)
That infilling of a mighty rushing wind brought about an...
I am the first to admit that some churches in some countries are on a roller coaster. Mainly in places where Christians are under excessive persecution. Places like China, Nigeria, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Pakistan and India to name a few.
In places like that, the choice is stark. A case of...
I'm referring to multi-day meetings where an itenarant evangelist (or pastor from a nearby church, more common where I live in MS) preaches sermons (usually containing "fire and brimstone" and coming from the KJV) urging the lost to come to Christ--followed by an endless singing of a song like...
Yesterday, I received notice that the building where my husband and I had first met, and where our relationship first began 47 years ago, had gone up in flames overnight. It had begun as a church building in 1885, but that church fellowship apparently sold it to the University of Akron in 1952...
We live in a time of great deception within our governments, within the church, within our families, and coming from the media. There is so much fakery going on these days that it is often difficult to separate truth from fiction; reality from fantasy. So many people are trapped in sinful...
Sometimes our bodies get tired and need rest. Other times our spirits get tired and need refreshed, i.e. our emotions sometimes get drained, or even our spiritual lives might feel like something is missing. Sometimes it is because we lack true Christian fellowship with the Body of Christ, and...