Please, come closer,” he said to them. So they came closer. And he said again, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into slavery in Egypt. But don’t be upset, and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives. Gen 45:4-5 There are times we go through things, and it’s like we seem to think like: “our ... »
What do you want to change? Who do you want to become? What do you want to achieve in life? Do you know you have the power to achieve anything you might want? Do you know you have the power to become the person of your dreams, to get to the future you desire? We hear about successful people, we hear about things working out for some others, and sometimes we feel it would have been nice to right no... »
Last time, we saw how hope is what gives us strength and confidence to go on for God, now matter what. Faith is what makes us act on the Word of God and receive His promises, and how love guides us on why we do everything we do. Love is God in us, for God is love (1John 4:8). These virtues would give us the strength we need to stand and RECEIVE all God has for us, and to receive it in such a way t... »
David Green’s story reads like something out of a fictional story. From a loan of $600, he has built up a business currently worth about $3 billion. Not only that, he is the LARGEST recorded individual benefactor to charismatic and Word of Faith (evangelical) churches worldwide. This article is culled from the October 8, 2012 issue of Forbes. Its original title was ‘David Green: The Bi... »
Hebrews 12:1 ¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. There are many of us who would love to live our lives fully for God, but we have been held back by what the Bible calls ‘weights’. You see, when the devil se... »
Do you want a whole new life? Why not know and have Him deeper within you now, and know that Jesus is Lord? Just say these words out now… I believe Jesus came to suffer and die for my salvation, into the blessed life that God wants for me. I also believe He rose up from the dead for the same reason. Today, I proclaim that I am sorry for my sins, and I accept the blood of Jesus to wash me clean. I ... »
Central Truth: It takes a positive faith – a now faith – to get positive results. When Paul, writing to the Corinthians, said, “And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (I Corinthians 13:13), he was not inferring that hope and faith are not important. Each has its place, and one cannot be substituted for another. We cannot substitute love for hope. Neither... »
Why were you made? Have you ever wondered? Let’s see… God’s Word says you are a solution. You are God’s solution. When your room is looking littered, what do you do? Of course you would go out and get a broom, and use it to tidy it up, right? Well, when God has something that He doesn’t like, He does the same thing. The broom is a solution. He gets a solution to solve... »
1 Corinthians 15:10, NRSV 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I WORKED HARDER than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. In this passage of scripture, Paul says he worked MORE than everybody else because of the graceof God that was given to him. This shows us a key fact that people ... »
JOHN 16:23,24 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ASK THE FATHER in my name, he will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. In John 14:13,14 the Greek word for “ask” implies to demand as something due. In other words, we could say, “And whatsoever ... »
