Hope

“God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love and power and discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7 Fear is the opposite of faith.  But it is also a human emotion that must be brought under the authority of the cross by taking every thought captive and replacing Satan’s…

“…for we walk by faith, not by sight…” 2 Corinthians 5:8 Whenever there is the word “for” in the Bible, you should look what is before it to find out what it is there for!  The verse before this says that while we are at home in the body we…

“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of…

“For you have been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.”1 Corinthians 6:20 When you go to the grocery store and “redeem” a coupon, you have traded something of value for something else.  To redeem something is to pay a price for it, to clear something by…

“’Am I a God who is near,’ declares the Lord,  ‘And not a God far off? Can a man  hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?’ declares the Lord. ‘Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?’” Declares the Lord.” Jeremiah 23:23-24 The answer: “Where…

“For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.  For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace…” …