Joshua 3:5 teaches that today's obedience and sanctification prepare us to see God's wonders tomorrow. Learn why faithful Christian living matters.

Two times in the book of Haggai, God commands us to, Consider your ways. We often think of this command only for those living in

The Scriptures command the believer to grow. Now God does not say how fast we need to grow, but He does tell us that we must

Joash was made king at a very young age. His mother committed treason by trying to kill all the seed royal, but Jehoiada the priest saved

We often talk about being rooted and grounded in our Christian walk, and we often think that this

Nehemiah had a great heart for his people to never forsake God. Nehemiah saw the ruins that forsaking God brought upon his people, and now that he had rebuilt those ruins into a great wall to

Jesus warned the disciples about false prophets by saying you will know them by their fruit. Fruit is the result of the tree that it grows on. Therefore, you can define the kind of tree it is by the fruit that grows on it. I don't see oranges on a tree and say that it is an apple tree. The fruit defines the tree. You may not

The command for the believer is to grow, but there are some things that will keep you from growing in the Lord. The purpose of growth is manyfold. The purpose of growth is to make you more into the image of Christ. The purpose of growth is to keep a great passion in

Jesus said in Matthew 5:16, Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. The believer is to be the light of the world. Our light should shine brightly so everyone who

Jesus spent much time trying to get Peter out of Peter. What I mean by this statement is that Peter was filled with himself and selfish desires, and Christ could not do in his life what

When Jesus encountered two blind men who wanted Him to heal them, He asked them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? Jesus wanted to see what eyes they were looking through. When He asked them if they believed, they said, Yea, Lord. Their answer did not

James 2 talks about the works of a believer. In James 2, God makes it clear that the outside world will only know what Christ has done for you on the inside by the works that you do. For instance, when a person gets saved, nobody truly

If I were to survey the lives of the great preachers and believers from the past, I cannot help but see the similarities. There is no secret as to why God used them. Many today say they want to be used greatly by God as those from the past were used, but few ever follow the pattern of their lives to see God do the

God led Israel through the wilderness by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. When these moved, Israel was to follow and move. When these stayed, they were to stop and wait for God to go forward. It was critical

God was very direct with Israel that they were not to look to Egypt or Canaan to determine their way of living. God said we are not to do after their doings, and neither were we to walk in their ordinances. God made it clear

One of my favorite miracles that Jesus performed was the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus had very little to start with, but He ended up with much more after all the fragments were gathered. All Jesus had to start with was

The promise of possessions always promises contentment, but it only leaves emptiness and discontentment. The young man had many possessions, but he still knew that he did not have what he needed to get to Heaven. This is why this young man said to

Elijah was about to be taken to Heaven, and the young preacher, Elisha, would not leave his preacher’s side. When the moment came that God took Elijah up to Heaven, God left the mantle. That mantle represented the methods and God’s power on Elijah’s life. Elisha, seeing the mantle left on the ground, took off his

Solomon had everything set up for him to live a life for God and a life of great accomplishment. He started his reign right, but he did not end it right. Sadly, what started with great potential ended with Solomon having his

Sowing is never an easy process. When I worked in the strawberry fields as a teenager, the one season I hated was the sowing season. They gave us boxes of seedlings that we