“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27 As children of God, we must never lose focus of our identity in Him and His […]

“See how I love Your precepts; preserve my life, Lord, in accordance with Your love. All Your words are true; all Your righteous laws are eternal.” Psalm 119:159-160 All of God’s words are true and eternal. They never change or end. God only says what He means and does not […]

“He did not retaliate.’ 1 Peter 2:23 When someone disappoints or upsets you, what do you do? Pull out your big guns and react? Do you say, ‘You make me so mad!’? When you say that, you’re admitting someone else is controlling your emotions. You’re acknowledging you have given that […]

“My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.” Proverbs 23:16 Never underestimate the power of a spoken word! Only one man in American history ever resigned from the presidency: Richard Nixon. Do you know what brought President Nixon down? Traditional thinking says it was the tapes […]

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” Hebrews 10:23 The Bible encourages us to continue to hold fast to the Lord and His promises. In Hebrews 3:6, the Bible says, “But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we […]

“Pray continually” 1 Thessalonians 5:18 In the book “Praying Backwards”, author Bryan Chapell writes: “I have enjoyed watching a baker decorate a cake with an icing pipe. The icing is globbed into the tube as a yucky, unformed mess. But that’s not the end of the process. Attached to the […]

“The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs, and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. […]

“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!” Isaiah 26:3 Have you heard of stress dots? They are little pressure-sensitive dots that you place on your hand. As adrenaline changes in your body, the dots change colour and reveal if […]

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 When Christian Nicolai Mustad showed his Van Gogh landscape to art collector Auguste Pellerin, Pellerin took one look and said it wasn’t authentic. Mustad […]

“The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;” Lamentations 3:25 Sometimes when you have had a series of disappointing things happen, you can get in the habit of expecting more of what you already have. Or you may be familiar with […]

“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” Luke 6:45 “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever […]

“Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 Our Lord Jesus wants our lives to be cheerful. On three different occasions, He encouraged His disciples to ‘be of good cheer.’ And we really do have reasons to be cheerful. The first reason to be cheerful is because […]

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Jeremiah 29:11 We often develop strategies and life-plans, and then, at some obstacle or critical point, we say, “Just stick to the plan!” It […]

“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah 48:10 Charles Haddon Spurgeon had a plaque on his bedroom with the words written on it, “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Spurgeon, writing about the trials and […]

“Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.” Genesis 22:10 We are not all tested in the same ways, but we are all tested on the same issues. Consider Abraham, destined to be the father of many nations, after waiting for many years, God gave […]