In Luke 11:11, one of the disciples said to Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray…” Not, teach us to preach, or teach us to win souls, or teach us to build big buildings, but “teach us to pray.” If you had asked the disciples a year earlier if they knew how to pray they would […]
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“And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called THE HOUSE OF PRAYER; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” (Matt 21:13) God has really been dealing with me that our church hasn’t truly been a “house of prayer” like we could or should be. That is not our
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” (Matt. 6:6) Jesus said that when we pray, we should enter into our “prayer closet” or private place of prayer.
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There used to be a TV commercial where an elderly woman was on the floor and she presses the button on her Medic-Alert necklace to call for help. She says, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” Did you know there are multitudes of Christians just like that lady? Somehow Satan has tripped them
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There are two words that often get overlooked in the verse I dealt with yesterday. (Phil 2:12) says “…work out YOUR OWN salvation” Paul wrote this while working out his own salvation in prison. He wanted the Philippian believers to do the same: work out THEIR OWN salvation. ►FIRST: you better have a salvation of
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(Phil. 2:12) “Wherefore, my beloved…work out your own salvation…” This verse doesn’t say to work FOR your salvation, but “work OUT your own salvation.” What exactly are we to “work out?” Well, the next verse says: (v.13) “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
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When Jesus, the King of all glory, left His throne in Heaven and came to earth, He had every right to set up His throne here and demand to be treated like the royalty He is. Instead, the Bible tells us in (Phil. 2:7) that he “made himself of no reputation, and took upon him
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(Rev 2:10) “…and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” The believers at the Church of Smyrna were already being persecuted. Then God tells them they will face ten days of tribulation. What if God sent you word that you were about
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In Philippians 1, things were not going well for the apostle Paul. He was in jail for preaching the gospel and had other jealous preachers attacking him, too! Not a very encouraging place to be. Paul quickly learned that he had no control over his circumstances, BUT he did have control over how he responded
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(Ps 14:1) “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God…” I know what you’re thinking: “There’s no such thing as Christian atheism.” And you would be right. But the Bible calls the atheist a “fool” and there are two types of atheists: the INTELLECTUAL atheist, and the PRACTICAL atheist. ►An INTELLECTUAL atheist