Category: Devotional
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“Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 8:26-27 PONDER THISThe Holy Spirit comes alongside us in our sorrow. Have you ever hurt so bad you couldn’t even pray? I have. All you can do is groan. […]
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“For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 8:22-23 PONDER THISAren’t you glad God gives you a fever when you have an infection? If you didn’t have a fever, you wouldn’t know you had an infection. The […]
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“And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
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in Devotional2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 PONDER THISMost of us want to hide our weaknesses, but Scripture encourages us to accept them. We accept weaknesses first because they are a fact of life. […]
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“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 8:1 PONDER THISBecause we’re in Christ, there’s no more condemnation for sin, and there’s no more control of sin. Romans 8:2 says, “For the law of the Spirit of […]
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“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 8:11 PONDER THISLove is the highest good, but forced love is a contradiction. Forced love is not love at all. In order to love, we must be free to […]
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“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 8:9 PONDER THISWhat is the Holy Spirit’s work in you? He is going to make you like God. By the work of the Holy Spirit, you’re going to act […]
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“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
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in DevotionalJOHN 10:10 PONDER THISWe have life by the Holy Spirit. When I say that, I don’t mean existence. Even an unsaved man has existence, but he doesn’t have life. How […]
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I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 12:1 PONDER THISHow do you start your day? Try lifting your hands to God and praising Him for all that you have. Say, “Lord, I praise You that You […]
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“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 6:3-4 Ponder This So many of us rely on whether we feel victorious to know whether we’re living a new life. The problem is, our feelings are the shallowest […]
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“Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?’”
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in DevotionalMATTHEW 16:24-26 PONDER THISHere’s the first step in possessing your possessions: learn dying and start living. That’s not contradictory. We must start by dying to the old ways. A cross […]