Daily Devotions

“3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. “”4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.” (Hebrews 12:3–4, ESV) If Satan opposes the new convert he opposes still more bitterly the Christian...
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“Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5, ESV) As we move farther on and mount higher up in the Christian life we may expect to encounter greater...
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“Ye shall receive power.” This was and is a unique afflatus, an enduement of supernatural energy affecting every department of the believer’s life and remaining with him forever. It is not physical power nor even mental power though it may touch everything both mental and physical in its benign outworking. It is, too, another...
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Numbers, Numbers, Numbers – it seems that is all I hear from church leaders today.  The amazing thing is that they clothe their need for numbers in evangelism, thinking that the more we have, the more we can reach.  But do we want to reach with quantity or do we want to reach people...
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For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. (1 Th 2:9, ESV). “The amount of loafing practiced by the average Christian in spiritual things would ruin a concert pianist...
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“We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin”  (Ro 6:6, ESV) The spiritual giants of old would not take their religion the easy way nor offer unto God that which...
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