Are you tired of living like a pauper when everything you need has been provided? Perhaps your focus is wrong. Do you tend to dwell on your weaknesses, temptations and past failures? When you look inside your own heart does…
“He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love” (Song of Solomon 2:4). In the parable of the Prodigal Son the father’s joy could not be complete until he was sitting in the banqueting hall…
The parable of the Prodigal Son is about two sons—one who comes to the end of his own resources, and one who would not claim his father’s resources. The parable is also about the father’s unconditional love and the provisions…
You cannot divorce God’s provisions from his love, which has to do with the abundant riches laid up in glory for our use. He has given us provision for every crisis in life to help us live victoriously at all…
The Holy Spirit has been leading me to pray for a greater understanding of God’s love. After reading 1 John 4:16, I realized how very little I know about living and walking in God’s love. “We have known and believed…
“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11). Dear Jesus, You told me to resist the devil and he would flee from me, But I…
God’s Spirit has always been calling mankind to himself—to holiness, purity of heart, a separated life—and in every generation a remnant answers this call. Joseph responded to God’s call at a very early age; his ten older brothers received the…
“He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant . . . until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him” (Psalm 105:17, 19). Joseph was tested and tried in…
Joseph was in one of his darkest hours—lonely, downcast, about to give up his dreams, questioning his place in God. Suddenly, the call came from one of the king’s guards: “Joseph! Get cleaned up—Pharaoh is calling for you!” In that…
Does our heavenly Father favor certain of his children? Does the Bible say God is no respecter of persons? When it comes to salvation and his wonderful promises, God treats all alike but he also puts his special favor on…
Joseph had a vision that his life would be used mightily by God. But that vision seemed like a pipe dream after his jealous brothers sold him into slavery. The following years of Joseph’s life were filled with hardship and…
David prayed, “Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust” (Psalm 16:1). The Hebrew word that David uses for preserve in this verse is packed with meaning. It says, in essence, “Put a hedge around me,…
