Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. James 4:7,8 We need God’s love in us to banish fear, work in us, to love other people with God’s love, but how we get this love, requires us to bow … [Read more…]
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind 2 Timothy 1:7 If God does not give us a spirit of fear, then why are we still afraid? It says in 1 John 4:18 “…but he who fears has not been made perfect … [Read more…]
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5:8 How does Satan “devour” people? He primarily does this through trying to deceive people. At the end of John 8:44 it says “for he is a liar and the father of lies”; … [Read more…]
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil Ephesians 6:11 You can’t stand firm in God nor speak boldly the truth without wearing the entire armor of God. But what is the armor of God? It is God! In Ephesians 6:14-17 the pieces … [Read more…]
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty 2 Corinthians 3:17 Wherever the Holy Spirit is located there is freedom but where He is not located there is bondage. The Holy Spirit is God and as such He is omnipresent, meaning He is everywhere at the … [Read more…]
”If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier … [Read more…]
When reading the Bible what do you want to “get out of it”? There seems to be two different popular paths to go down when answering this question, but we need to look to Scripture for the correct answer. The first popular path is to gain information about what the Bible talks about. It is … [Read more…]