Do you remember the excitement you felt when you were first born again? The Holy Spirit seemed so close, and it felt as if Jesus was standing right beside you. Then, after a few years, you found yourself making breakfast, sending your children to school, going to the office, and doing the ordinary things that life requires. You began to wonder, where did that feeling go?

People are constantly searching for the newest method or the latest spiritual fad. Paul reminds us that if God's principles have brought us to this point, they'll continue to take us where God wants us to go.  Keep doing what works.  Keep walking in the Word.  Keep depending on the Holy Spirit.

Every promise reveals the heart of God. He desires to deliver you, strengthen you, guide you, and bring you safely to the finish line. The same God who planned your salvation has also planned your provision, your peace, your wisdom, and your victory. He sees the end from the beginning, and He already sees you standing with Him in eternity.

Don’t give up on God because He has promised He will come through for you. He is faithful. He is dependable. If you don’t have the answers you are seeking, remember He promised that those things that are hidden will be revealed. In other words, those things you don’t understand right now will be brought to the light one day. Then you will understand and be glad you continued to follow the One Who is faithful, the One Who can be trusted, the One Who has the answers, the One Who has given us everything we will ever need in this lifetime!

God wants us to become stable and to become effective in life. And that doesn’t happen by accident, it comes from discipleship. God’s desire in this earth is not just converts; He wants disciples.

The rock of the Word of God dissected, looked at, compared with other Scriptures. What Jesus said, what Paul said, Peter said, James said, all of them must be studied. Go back to Moses, Isaiah. That is the Word working together.  Hearing and doing the Word gives you stability. Hearing and not doing gives you collapse.

When Jesus died and rose again, God reconciled the entire world to Himself. The war between heaven and earth ended at the cross. But reconciliation is not automatically applied to every person’s heart. It’s like an announcement waiting for a response. You have to come and claim it.

When everything around you is confused and chaotic, the Word of God will reorient you so you can see clearly and walk straight—no matter what’s going on.

The world can’t turn you upside down and keep you there if you come back to the Word. The Word is like a life vest. You might feel like you are going under but strap the Word on and—no matter how hard the world tries to push you down—when it lets go you will pop right back to the top. Wrap your children in the Word and they will float when the culture tries to drown them.

Matthew 8:16 and 17 says, “When evening came, they brought to Him many who were possessed with demons, and He cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, ‘Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.’” Matthew correctly translates the words of Isaiah 53 and makes it clear that the passage refers to physical sickness and pain.

The Holy Spirit has always been with man, but before Pentecost His ministry was limited. He lived in a temple made with hands and came upon individuals at certain times for certain tasks. When Jesus Christ rose from the dead, the veil of the temple was torn from the top to the bottom, not just to let us in, but to let the Holy Spirit out. From that day until this, the Holy Spirit desires to live in every person who is born again and to fill believers with life and power.

Every believer will face storms. The rain will descend. The floods will come. The wind will blow. These storms are not optional, they are inevitable. The issue is not whether storms will come, but whether your life is built to endure them.

Prayer is one of the most widely discussed subjects in the Body of Christ, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. Many believers enter into prayer without knowing what the Word of God actually teaches about it.

We are living in the dispensation of grace, and we have been for more than 2,000 years. Because of this long period of grace, many Christians have drawn a wrong conclusion. They say, “I don’t really care for the Old Testament. God was different back then. He was harsh. He was angry. He is not like that anymore.” But that simply isn’t true. God has not changed.

There are statements Jesus made while suffering physically that are profound, but this one reaches deeper than nails, deeper than thorns, deeper than the spear. This is not merely the cry of a man in pain—this is the cry of a sinless Man who, by choice, became sin for us.  Jesus was forsaken by God on the cross.

There is a wisdom that comes from the Word of God about how to handle relationships, especially the relationship between parents and children. And no one faced that challenge more uniquely than Jesus.

This is the second statement Jesus made from the cross and it was spoken to the thief who accepted Him as Lord and Savior just before he died.  Even on the cross, Jesus was still fulfilling His purpose of why He came. Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost.

I want you to notice that little word “Then.” No word in the Bible is there by accident. “Then” means man had done his worst. For thirty-three years men had tried everything they could to get rid of Jesus. Herod tried to kill Him as a baby. The religious leaders tried to ambush Him and discredit Him. His own hometown crowd tried to push Him off a cliff. Even the Roman government found no fault in Him but still crucified Him. False arrest, mock trial, beating, crown of thorns, nails driven into His hands and feet, the cross lifted up in front of a mocking crowd. Men had done everything possible. And then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them.”