Stand Your Watch! I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the lookout tower. I will watch to see what He will say to me and what I should reply about my complaint.—Habakkuk 2:1 The watchman’s job was vital. An approaching army left residents of an ancientRead More …

No Exceptions to Holiness On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him and sought to put him to death.—Exodus 4:24 Moses had just received one of the greatest commissions in history. He was to be God’s instrument to deliver the nation of Israel andRead More …

Truth Is to Be Experienced When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”—Luke 5:4 When Christ teaches you something about Himself, He implements it into your life through experience. As the crowds gathered around, Jesus choseRead More …

Christ Must Reorient You Going on a little farther, He saw James the son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in their boat mending their nets. Immediately He called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.—Mark 1:19–20 WeRead More …

God’s Ways Are Not Our Ways “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” [This is] the Lord’s declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”—Isaiah 55:8–9 Rarely does GodRead More …

Raising Our Expectations Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and wondrous things you do not know.—Jeremiah 33:3 Too often we settle for much less than what God wants to do through us. We read in Jeremiah 32:27: “I am the Lord, the God ofRead More …

Testing Reveals Your Heart Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands. He humbled you byRead More …

Reverence Therefore, brothers, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that He has inaugurated for us, through the curtain (that is, His flesh). . . —Hebrews 10:19–20 Our generation lacks a sense of wonder and reverence toward God. We want toRead More …

The Certainty of God’s Supply And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.—Philippians 4:19 This verse is one of the most practical we will ever encounter in the Bible. Every one of us faces needs in our lives; at times, theyRead More …

Where Has the Spirit Placed You? A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what is beneficial:—1 Corinthians 12:7 The moment you are born again you receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the gift. God doesn’t give you some thing, He gives you Himself.Read More …