Learning to Love And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we also do for you. . . About brotherly love: you don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.1 Thessalonians 3:12;Read More …

Relentless Love Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”—Hosea 3:1 No human can comprehend God’s love forRead More …

Love Assumes the Best [Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.—1 Corinthians 13:7 Love has no limits. Love never says, “You’ve gone too far. I can’t love you now.” “All things” means everything is included. Christlike love leaves no doubt in the mind ofRead More …

Love Brings Obedience “The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”—John 14:21 Obedience to God’s commands comes from your heart.Read More …

God’s Promises Are Yes For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in Him. Therefore the “Amen” is also through Him for God’s glory through us.—2 Corinthians 1:20 God keeps every promise He makes. When we walk in intimate fellowship with Christ, we have the assurance that every promise GodRead More …

Encounters with God But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of things you have seen, and of things in which I will appear to you.—Acts 26:16 God was working in yourRead More …

Be Anxious for Nothing Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.—Philippians 4:6 Don’t be anxious! Paul said there is nothing that should cause a child of God to worry. He was well aware of things thatRead More …

Without Faith But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.—Romans 14:23 The writer of Hebrews reminds us that without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb. 11:6). Whenever God reveals something, He expectsRead More …

Sin That Entangles Us Therefore since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and run with endurance the race that lies before us.—Hebrews 12:1 Sin is our most persistent, determined, and perniciousRead More …

Seeking Jesus Simon and his companions went searching for Him.—Mark 1:36 Simon Peter is well known to us for his foolish, extemporaneous statements throughout the Gospels (Matt. 16:22; 17:4; 26:33). But Peter was always seeking after Jesus. Peter followed Jesus from afar during the night of Jesus’ crucifixion (Matt. 26:58).Read More …