holiness

Friday, September 16, 2016, 6:30 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Broken and Contrite.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Revelation 18:1-10 (ESV). Luxurious Living (vv. 1-3) After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was...

Sunday, August 21, 2016, 5:00 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “His Tender Mercies.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read 2 Peter 3 (ESV). Scoffers Will Come (vv. 1-7) This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your...

Saturday, August 20, 2016, 6:00 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Draw Me Close.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read 2 Peter 1:1-11 (ESV). Equal with Ours (vv. 1-4) Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing...

Friday, August 12, 2016, 4:55 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Zeal for Your House.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read James 2:14-26 (NASB). Dead Faith (vv. 14-17) What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a...

The process by which God develops deep spiritual roots in us is typically unglamorous and often painful. But when the winds begin to blow — and many trees around you are going down — you’ll be really glad you have deep roots.

Thursday, July 14, 2016, 6:00 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “You Never Let Go.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read 2 Thessalonians 2:13-3:5. Belief in the Truth (vv. 2:13-14 NASB) But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God...

Saturday, July 9, 2016, 4:47 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Near the Cross.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 (ESV). Encouraging Others (v. 1) Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you...

Friday, July 8, 2016, 6:37 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read 1 Thessalonians 3 (ESV). We Are Destined (vv. 1-5) Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone...

Monday, June 20, 2016, 8:36 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Have Thine Own Way, Lord.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Ephesians 5:1-21 (ESV). Imitators of God (vv. 1-2) Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave...

Sunday, June 19, 2016, 3:00 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Seek the Lord.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Ephesians 4:1-24 (Select vv. ESV). Worthy of the Calling (vv. 1-7) I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to...

“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and...

Sunday, June 5, 2016, 6:30 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Seek the Lord.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read 2 Corinthians 11 (Select vv. ESV). Being Led Astray (vv. 1-6) I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy...

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverbs 9:10) God’s love is amazing — and it’s essential that we know how much He loves us. But we also desperately need the fear of God. Don’t you think Adam and Eve knew God loved them? They walked with Him, intimately interacted with Him...

Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 5:38 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song, “Lord, Move Me.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Romans 12:1-2 (ESV). I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which...

Monday, February 15, 2016, 3:54 p.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Fear Not, Little Flock.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Luke 5:1-11 (ESV). On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he...

When God says in his Word that we are to be holy as he is holy, he means that we are to be separate from (different, unlike) this sinful world, because we are becoming like Jesus. His idea of worship of him is that we offer our lives to him as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to him, which...

This is a prayer inviting God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – to come within us in power, to cleanse and purify our hearts, to transform us into Christ’s likeness, to anoint us to be Christ’s witnesses, to revive our hearts, to help us to have integrity in all we do, to help us to obey the Lord...

Paul is giving us instructions from the Lord here on how to live holy lives unto God. We are to set our minds on Christ and on heavenly things, not on the things of this earth. We died, and our lives are now hidden in Christ. Christ is now our life, not just part of our life. We are to put to...

The Lord Jesus had just spoken to my heart this morning concerning how his divine discipline via trials, tribulations, troubles and hardships is a gift of his grace to his church. I was reading in Isaiah 29. What the Lord taught me was that God brings into our lives, or else he permits in our...