For even when we were with you, you gave you this rule: The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat. 2 Thes. 3:10 Work is any effort we engage in, physical or mental, to accomplish a goal. We will not get into the debate on some activities that could be classified as work by some and idleness by […]

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer. 29:11 Every one of us has at one time or the other, experienced disappointment, loss, or pain. We will do anything to shield ourselves from such painful situations; however, due […]

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. 2 Thess. 3:3 When we can control a situation, we have no worries at all. But when that is not the case, we become anxious. People can become so worried that they develop a stress disorder. Sometimes our experiences in life make us think […]

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?. Jer. 17:9 This verse is not ‘hate speech’ but a true diagnosis of the state of man since the fall. We cannot fathom how much we lost when we defaced the image of God in us. The perfect, sinless, and good man God created became a […]

With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. 2 Thess. 1:11 God created us for Himself and then called us individually to Himself. This call requires a walk of […]

I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. Isa. 62:6-7 A Watchman over a city is constantly alert and looks out for any approaching enemy […]

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1Thes. 5:16-18. Our text for today is one sentence divided between three verses with three distinct commands to do things only possible through the help of the Holy Spirit. In our broken world filled with evil, wickedness, error, natural disasters, economic […]

Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. Isa. 59:1-2. G od created us in His image to have fellowship with Him, demonstrating that with […]

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in […]

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Isa. 43:19 Isaiah 43 is a powerful chapter that brings us a note of hope. Although Israel is its focus, the message applies to every believer and the Church. […]