How To Reign
Death beds produce weighty final words. You don't waste them [...]
Death beds produce weighty final words. You don't waste them [...]
God isn't going to win. He's already won! Satan isn't going to lose. He's already lost! So what are you waiting on? This Christian life is not a walk-a-thon. It's a race.
To quote a line from The Princess Bride, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Today's "Christian" commonly has adopted the world's ideologies and, subsequently, its definitions to define scripture. Let's get something straight right from the start. God is not schizophrenic.
To you who have decided, to you who make God's business your business and aren't content to simply sit in salvation, you will be victorious! Have no fear. God has already planned your enemy's defeat!
God's grace may be abounding, but one thing it is not is cheap. It isn't sloppy and inexpensive. Though He has enough for all, it can be wasted. And though it is potent and powerful enough for the strongest of sinners, it can be misapplied and subsequently made of no effect. Its vastness is unsearchable, but its reach is precise.
You can only fear not when you know you have [...]
Don't kid yourself. We live in a polarizing time—a time [...]
It won't matter how much perfume you put on a corpse. If it's dead, it's dead. This is why the angel asked them, "Why seek ye the living among the dead?"
What do you have that the Master needs to carry Him through the streets? What have you kept tied up that needs to be loosed? What do you think you have that is too humble to be significant? I say to you that the Master has need of it. It's time to allow the King to be carried in on our backs. It's time for His praises to be heard. It's time to worship Him!
Battles are inevitable, but victory is a choice. Warriors live [...]