Ask for the Ancient Paths

"When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."   Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand His decisions and His ways!   He has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine n...

We do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.   Now the Green Blade Riseth, Author: John Macleod Campbell Crum, 1928   Now the green blade riseth, from the buried grain, Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.   In the grave they laid H...

"Fear not, for I am with you."

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. … The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. Let the peace of Chr...

"Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood–I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people." ------- Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. . . The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and...

"The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever.”" "I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns."" "On his robe and on hi...

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” 1 Corinthians 2:9

Everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their strengthening, encouragement and comfort. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church. Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. For you can all prophesy in turn so that...

Since the children have flesh and blood, Jesus too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death – that is, the devil – and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. Hebrews 2:14,15 ----------- From the journal of John Wesley, Sunday, January 25, 1736: There was now an opportunity of trying whether they [the Moravi...

The Lord said to Samuel, “The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”   The Healthy and Mature Prayer -- Lord, help me to walk through this well as a Christian, so I can help others who later walk the same path.  Jeremiah 6:16 -- “Lord, which of these paths helps me to love you more?” James 4 -- You do not have, because...

"Your Father knows what you need before you ask him." ------------ Wesley's Covenant Prayer: I am no longer my own, but yours.   Put me to what you will, rank me with who you will;   put me to doing, put me to suffering;   let me be employed for you or laid aside for you;   exalted for you or brought low for you;   let me be full, let me be empty;   let me have all things, let me have nothing; I f...

How can a lemon help teach eternal lessons?

"Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it." Scriptures Referenced:  Luke 14 Matthew 16 Matthew 8 Luke 12 Philippians 2

"I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” Scriptures Referenced: Matthew 8 Matthew 16 Luke 23 Revelation 2, 20 and 21 1 Thessalonians 5 John 13 Matthew 5 Luke 14 Ephesians 6

"Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it." Scriptures referenced: Matthew 16 Hebrews 12 James 1 Hebrews 1

"If I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you." Scriptures Referenced: Acts 4 Acts 5 Matthew 12 John 12 John 14 2 Corinthians 4 John 8 Colossians 2

"Everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their strengthening, encouragement and comfort." Scriptures Referenced: 1 Corinthians 14 Jeremiah 6 Galatians 5 Matthew 6 Galatians 6

"Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son." Scriptures Referenced: John 3 Numbers 21

"I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws." Scriptures Referenced: Ezekiel 36 Philippians 2 1 Peter 2 Psalm 133 Colossians 3 John 17 1 John 4 Galatians 5

"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace." Scriptures Referenced: Colossians 2 Titus 3 Genesis 1 Mark 12 Deuteronomy 6 Deuteronomy 7 John 13 John 17 Ephesians 4 Hebrews 4 John 15 Ephesians 5

"For this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." Scriptures Referenced: 1 Timothy 4 John 18 Matthew 5 Isaiah 53 Isaiah 9 Deuteronomy 18 Jeremiah 31 Ezekiel 36 Exodus 19-24 Mark 10 John 12 Mark 1 Luke 19 1 Timothy 1 John 10 1 John 3 Hebrews 2 2 Peter 1

"Those who wait on the Lord are never put to shame." Scriptures Referenced: Psalm 25 Romans 10 Psalm 23 2 Corinthians 4 John 20

"I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it. I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say." Scriptures Referenced: John 5 John 12 1 Corinthians 2  

"God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us." Scriptures Referenced: 2 Corinthians 4 John 20:30-31 Matthew 24 John chapter 2 Philippians 2 Ezekiel 36 Colossians 1 Ephes...