God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Romans 13:7 NIV Our dealings with other human beings is where we can demonstrate that we truly have heard our God. Or we can show that we follow in the footsteps... Continue Reading →
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Romans 13:1 NIV It is easier for us to accept that God has established our rulers and given them the right to have authority over us when... Continue Reading →
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 NIV So many of us let our thoughts, feelings, and our dealings with others fall into the uncharitable. It is our responsibility to demonstrate the Lord´s love for all His creation. It should be a natural reflex, but never forgotten. To forget... Continue Reading →
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV As Christians, we are to be joyful, patient and faithful. We may think we understand these qualities or have them. But should we be so hasty to congratulate ourselves? Joyful is not just a sentiment we have to describe the hope in... Continue Reading →
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 NIV The Bible has taught us so much about the fact that we to be... Continue Reading →
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12: 1 NIV We hear of offering ourselves to God, and often run out to perform a host of actions and declarations to convince the world... Continue Reading →
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Romans 11:33 NIV When the awareness of God overcomes an individual, there comes an overwhelming sense of awe! Anyone who has ever been swept over with this realization from above, anyone who... Continue Reading →
And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. Romans 11:23 NIV Tears have always been cried over those who found God, but then lost the love of God in them. When a person comes to believe, there is still the danger... Continue Reading →
as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day." Romans 11:8 NIV If we can be moved to honesty, we can detect deep a struggle within to let God into every corner of our... Continue Reading →
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. Romans 9:27 NIV History repeats itself. Over and over, time and time again, God´s children get cocky. We puff ourselves up with superiority. We think we have better religion. We call... Continue Reading →
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