Place your hope in God, not in man

This is what Jesus understood: All things come together for good to those who are called according to God's will,not man's. He died for man, but was obedient to God. God will use
us as a vessel once He can trust us to exhibit Christ in ourself.

The Test of our Faith

Frequently when our faith is examined by God, those things He calls us to do don't make sense.
Our rationality purges our spirituality. Faith depends on the object of your faith. If your faith is
in Christ Jesus, your grounds are good for stepping out onto the waters without anything other than an invitation of Christ.

You will receive power...

This is what Jesus told the disciples before his ascension. This power was from on high. It is through this power that they were enabled to make disciples of all nations. This same power has been here since Pentecost. We still have the power available to us because greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world.

When Your Pray - Pray Constantly & in Big Proportions

God answers prayer. Jesus mediates our prayer to the Father. The Holy Spirit fashions our prayer when we have groanings too deep for words. God does not only answer small petitions, but also the super-natural. So when you pray, pray without ceasing knowing that your Father hears your words and answers.

My Right to Choose?

Does the Christian have rights of choice? Did not the Lord Almight say "Walk before Me."
The problem with choosing is we may not understand all that God does about His plans for me.\
By insisting on my own rights, in essence we are acting as God and asking Him to follow.

We are to be one with Christ

Christ's High Priest Prayer calls for disciples to be "one with Him" like He is "one with the Father." This requires that we go through trials just as Jesus himself with through trials.
It involves development of the mind of Christ so that we may see through heaven's perspective rather than through one of the flesh.

Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God & Righteousness

By personal testamony, it is reality that Christ takes better care of us than we can take care of our self. If a person's heart is turned toward Christ, one almost doesn't need to petitition for needs through prayer, because he knows all of our needs and is faithful. We cannot separate ourself from the love of Christ and when we become God centered in our priorities, God will be Solomonic in meeting our needs.

How to take hold of one's own soul

The fundimental principle is learning how to live the spiritual life in the flesh. Pauls says it well when he says that the Spritual Man will not give in to the temptations of the flesh. This is because he understands that Christ died to sin and by our being in Christ, we too have died to sin. Spirituality is a discipline that needs practice to be effective.

What can separate us from the love of God?

The Apostle in this famous Romans passage goes on to say that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ. He goes on to say that we are more than conquerors to Him who loves us.
It is important to realize who is penning this advise. It is the Apostle Paul who surely is not deceived. If he is not deceived, then he tells us the truth about Christ which is that Christ joins us in our trials of life and takes us through them.

King of Kings and Lord of Lords

Jesus was transfigured on the Mount of the Ascension. He revealed His glory there but was not taken up to heaven then. Instead He began the substitutionary work of the Cross. The transfiguration was a turning point because prior to that time, His life was less threatened. After that time due to his death, burial, and resurrection & ascension He gave access to the Father and to heaven to all those who believe. He was the Son of Man, but also truely the Son of God.

God's Riches & Our Thankfulness

To anyone who is known to be a child of God, all of what our Lord has becomes ours in Christ Jesus. Anyone who says that can't afford to give is a liar, because God has abundantly blessed all of his children so that they are wanting nothing. The clue to getting along with God is recognizing his faithfulness and giving the credit where credit is due. This is manifested in our willing gifts to others.

Pouring Yourself Out As An Offering

We are to glorify Christ in our bodies. This is the proper role of Spiritual Gifts. It is an exercise of the mind over the body that through our good works, that we may display our salvation who is in Christ to the non-believing world. It is not that we are saved by works, because that is always by grace through faith, but once saved, works are evidence of the salvation received and the changed life to Christ's glory.

Your Service to Christ Is Determined by Him

Have you ever heard a sub-contractor say "I wonder which General Contractor I shall hire?" No, it is the other way around. The General Contractor decides whom He will employ. So it is in Christian service. You may aspire to be a speaker, but He wants you to be a busdriver. Or you may feel comfortable as an usher, but He sees you as a teacher. The only thing we must remember is to obey He whom we serve. This is the nature of Christian service.

So What Is Christian Liberty After All ?

Here is a big surprise. Christian liberty is conforming one's own life to the pattern of Jesus Christ. What Christian liberty is not is trying to shape the opinions and values of others to one's own interpretation of the image of the invisible Christ. This is why the Bible says "work out your own salvation with fear & suffering." Jesus commanded the disciples to make disciples of all nations,"not converts to your version of Christian life. The conscience we have is our measure of knowing whether we are true in our discipleship.

Salvation is God's Idea

Salvation is not an experience, but an idea in the mind of God. He declares those whom he chooses for righteousness through his son Jesus Christ. Preaching is to bring us into God's judgment and making way for the Spirit of God to convict us of our unrighteousness. Therefore praise be to God who though we we were first sinners, Christ died for us.

Identification with Christ

If one is saved, it is good to intercede for the benefit of others. The reason Jesus is the Great Intecessor, is because he took our place and identified with sin and became sin for us. In the same way, to intercede for another, you must identify only with the good of the other and not of yourself. In this way your Father who is in heaven will hear you.

Though it tarries, wait for it.

The vision of God is more that what can be grasped. It is more that what we can apprehend or comprehend. Yet, when a vision of God occurs, it heightens you in every spiritual way. It gives insight where there was blindness. It gives understanding to confusion. It gives the purpose to our being. It adds hope not only for today but also for the future. So though it tarries, wait for it, because what we are waiting for is God.