Three things most Christians will never admit:
1) I was wrong
2) I have failed
3) I have sinned
"Confess your faults one to another,
and pray one for another,
that ye may be healed."
📕James 5:16 KJV
Getting revenge leads only to contention and strife! When you have been treated unjustly, trust God to take vengeance upon your adversary.
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves...
for it is written, Vengeance is mine;
I will repay, saith the Lord.
⚔ Rom 12:19, 1 Pet 3:14 KJV
An experience that costs nothing is worth nothing! Having Jesus as your Lord and Master will cost you everything.
Jesus said, "Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple."
🍞Luke 14:33 KJV
Displaying the word "CHURCH" in front of a building does not make it a true church of God.
Righteousness must be aflame in the pulpit and in the pews. The members and their ministers must live free from sin. The doctrine and discipline must reflect the whole truth of God's Word.
I used to read Psalm 91 daily in my US Army-issued Bible when I was a soldier during World War II, and I trusted God to keep his promises—for myself and my fellow soldiers—and it worked! Trusting in God still works today for every faithful, obedient disciple of Christ.
If God brings you safely through affliction, loss, sorrow or any of the other things that often plague humanity, it is because you love God—with all your heart!
Because he hath set his love upon me,
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him,
and honor him.
❤Ps 91:14-15
Christ did not save us for a life of fun and earthly pleasures. Paul said we are appointed not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for his sake.
Popular preachers avoid this sobering truth—but it is a truth that we will be judged by.
📙Phil 1:29 KJV
Real prayer is not formal or formulaic. In fact, it is very informal! That's why seeking God can't be taught in a seminary or Bible school. A person must be driven to seek God.
The New Testament shows us that Christ will judge and severely punish Christians who adopt the idolatry and carnal lifestyle of this present evil world.
📗Gal 1:4, Luke 12:47, Rev 2:20-23, 3:19 KJV
A true minister of Christ who lives a holy life and is unafraid to preach the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth walks a lonely road.
🌄John 8:45, Gal 4:16, 2 Cor 12:15 KJV
"There is but one God, the Father," writes Paul, "and one Lord Jesus Christ." Yet the spirit of error leads many to declare that Jesus is God—a heresy Paul clearly refutes. "There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
🕯1 Cor 8:6, 1 Tim 2:5 KJV
My friend, don't seek "tongues". Seek earnestly to be filled with irresistible faith and power from the Holy Ghost! Seek to be baptized and filled with the Spirit—and when he comes in, you will know it for yourself. You won't need someone else to tell you, "Now you have it!"
Don't pity the Christian who is buffeted by trials of faith. Our trials of faith are worth more than gold — for they produce patience, and bring us to perfection! Pity the man whose faith is in rituals and ceremonies, who is frustrated by his own beliefs. 1 Pet 1:7, Jam 1:3-4 KJV
When you're running late and can't pray for an hour, at least kneel down for a moment, lift up your hands, and cry out to God, "Father I need your help! Give me grace, mercy and peace, in Jesus' name."
"In my distress I called upon the Lord,
and cried unto my God."
🙌Ps 18:6 KJV
"As for God, his way is perfect."
If there was a better way to save us from sin and death, God would have found it. But there is only one way to eternal life! Jesus himself declared: "I am the way, the truth, and the life."
✝ Ps 18:30, 1Pe 3:18, Heb 9:14
1Jo 5:11, Joh 14:6 KJV
God wants to satisfy our souls with good things—but only if we are hungry!
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
He filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
🍇Mat 5:6, Psa 107:9 KJV
Christ's early church as recorded in the book of Acts was filled with divine love. Christians were of one heart and one soul and they shared everything, even selling their possessions to help the poorer saints.
A man asked Paul and Silas, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They said "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved"— but they didn't stop there! "And they spake unto him the word of God."
Christ's gospel contains more than just 'believe'.
🌄Acts 16:30-33 KJV
Why not do as Jesus commanded, and sell what you have—beginning with those things you don't really need—and give to the poor, laying up treasure in heaven? For where your treasure is, "there will your heart be also." Matt 6:21, 19:21
In 1988 I was so sick I lost 35 pounds in 10 days. I never saw a doctor, but only trusted the Lord. After 2 months he restored my health—and took away my appetite for candy bars, ice cream, coffee and sodas! Now I eat just one meal a day, and God is extending my life. Praise God!
The Bible is a wealth of divine knowledge and revelation—but it's no substitute for a personal relationship with God.
"If a man love me, he will keep my words;
and my Father will love him,
and we will come unto him,
and make our abode with him."
🌄John 14:23, 1 John 1:3 KJV
The Holy Ghost manages and directs our lives through the Word of God. "Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me."
🍞Psa 119:133 KJV
Does your outward appearance matter? Yes! God's holy temple is no longer a building in Jerusalem, but a human body—your body—and the Lord expects you to possess it in sanctification and honor by living holy and dressing modestly!
📕1Tim 2:9, 1Cor 6:19, 1Pet 1:15, 1Th 4:4 KJV
After the tragic loss of all his children and possessions, how did Job respond? He continued to worship the Lord! "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." Job 1:20-21
Once God opens our eyes to the truth, we can't stop there! We must begin a lifelong quest for wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.
"Through wisdom is an house builded"
"by understanding it is established"
"by knowledge shall the chambers be filled"
💎Prov 2:6, 4:7, 24:3-4 KJV
When Paul writes "She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth" he is talking about Christians.
Living in sinful pleasures will choke a Christian to death, turning them into a spiritual zombie: dead while they are alive!
🪔1Ti 5:6 KJV
My daily prayer is for God to make me a great intercessor for God's people, a trustworthy teacher of God's word, and a sterling example of what a true man of God should be.
Before all the people of Israel, the prophet Samuel declared his integrity: "Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded?" A lot of modern pastors could learn from this scripture! Most pastors today have both hands out.
🍞1 Sam 12:1-5 KJV
Persecution of true Christians in the kingdom of antichrist will serve as a real trial of faith! Those who refuse to receive his mark in their right hand or in their forehead—without which they cannot buy or sell anything—will face severe deprivation and hunger. Rev 13:16-18
Jesus said "Sell that ye have, and give alms"—and the early church obeyed him explicitly, unmotivated by promises of financial prosperity or personal gain.
"Having food and raiment let us be therewith content." 1 Tim 6:8, Luke 12:33 KJV
Mother, keep praying for your wayward child! Husband, keep praying for your unbelieving wife! Christian, keep praying for a world of lost souls! Don't despair and don't give up—for our prayers are preserved in golden vials before God's throne, and he will remember!
Rev 5:8 KJV
In a hospital many years ago I was asked to pray for a young man who was dying from an incurable disease. In terrible pain, he begged me, "Preacher, wherever you go, tell all the young people, if they eat the devil's corn he will choke them to death on the cob."
🕯 Gal 6:7-8 KJV
No generation in history has ever needed spiritual giants so desperately as our own. Everywhere we look we see the blundering cowardice and compromise of weaklings. We need heroes—men and women of valor—who will stand and defend God's heritage in the face of fierce opposition.
Boasting is normally unacceptable for a Christian, but David loved to boast about God delivering him out of all his troubles. God accepts that kind of boasting! Psalm 34:1-6
Salvation is not reformation—a repair job on our "old man"—it is the birth of a new man, a new creature with a divine nature, created of God in righteousness and true holiness.
📗Eph 4:24 KJV
Sympathy and empathy are natural.
Charity and compassion are divine!
"And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd."
🕯 Mark 6:34 KJV
Who is to blame for America's moral perversion and spiritual decadence? Is it our President? Our Congress? Our Supreme Court? No! The blame lies with fun-loving, self-serving pantywaist preachers who refuse to teach the doctrines of Repentance, True Holiness, and the Fear of God.
No generation in history has ever needed spiritual giants so desperately as our own. Everywhere we look we see the blundering, compromise, and retreat of weaklings. We need heroes — men and women of valor — who will stand and defend God's heritage in the face of fierce conflict!
If you are faithful to Christ, and you keep his word, he will set before you an open door to a place of refuge —"a door that no man can shut."
🚪Rev 3:7-13 KJV
"Forget not all his benefits." The benefits to serving God are always worth remembering!
He forgives all our iniquities
Heals all our diseases
Saves us from destruction
Crowns us with lovingkindness and mercy
Satisfies our mouth with good things and
Renews our youth!
Ps 103 KJV
The Holy Ghost will not dwell in an unclean temple—a body defiled or desecrated by ungodly habits—whether it belongs to a sinner or a professing Christian.
We were made to walk with God — and to serve him without frustration, fear, and defeat — which can only happen if Jesus liberates us from sin! "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness. . ." Rom 6:22
Jesus was no politician, but he proclaimed liberty and promised men freedom with a message more powerful than all the rhetoric of history's most eloquent orators.
🌄Lu 4:18, Mt 17:26, Joh 8:32-36 KJV
God does not divide us according to color, creed, or political persuasion like the world does. He uses only one great catalyst to separate people: Truth!
"Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."
📕John 8:40-47, 18:37, 2 Thes 2:10 KJV
No one bearing God's true message to their generation has ever received—or ever will receive—favor and approval from the ruling class. God's servants cannot be men-pleasers, Paul said. "For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."
📘Galatians 1:10 KJV
Too many Christians are drunk on pleasure. They want everything they see, spend money on things they don't really need, and go into debt for things they cannot afford.
Jesus said when a man unjustly divorces his wife he causes her to commit adultery. This is a tragedy, but it's not the unpardonable sin!
🌤Matt 5:31-32 KJV
The best way to show our gratitude for God's blessings is to serve him with joy and gladness!
"Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things...therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies"
🏆De 28:47-48 KJV
Fasting a meal or two is not enough. Praying a few minutes each day is not enough. If you want power through the Spirit to break Satan's yoke and have complete victory over the world, you must turn to God with ALL your heart.
"We are perplexed, but not in despair."
When the sea is stormy, and your course seems uncertain because you can no longer see the way ahead, let FAITH go to work! Hold fast to God's promises, trust fully in him, and he will guide your ship to its haven of rest.
🕯 2 Cor 4:8 KJV
I teach and preach the whole truth of God's word—things other preachers often avoid because they are afraid of losing church members—like holiness, godliness, repentance, God's judgments for sin, the fear of God, and the rising persecution of God's saints before Christ returns.
The book of Acts reveals that God sometimes miraculously delivers a Christian from terrible persecution—but most of the time he does not! God wants us to endure these things because "the trial of your faith is much more precious than of gold."
🏆1 Peter 1:7 KJV
"He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity." For a long time Americans have been recklessly sowing their wild oats, only to discover that now they must reap a bitter harvest of broken homes, broken health, and broken hearts. Hosea 8:7
Why do men reject God's Word and rebel against his Holy Spirit? Because they are fooled by Satan's promise: "You can have your reward now! Just live for today!"
Why will God send Elijah back to earth before Christ returns? Restoration! "He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers." The divisions in our families due to distrust, hatred, and rebellion must be healed!
🌍Mal 4:6 KJV
"God the Father" and "God our Father" are true Bible terms found 24 times in the New Testament. The term "God the Son" never occurs!
Theologians confuse Jesus with God, but Jesus declared, "I can of mine own self do nothing. My Father is greater than I."
💎John 5:30, 14:28 KJV
When you repent and believe the gospel, God forgives your sins and gives you a new nature—but then you are responsible to "keep thyself pure" by saying "No" to the devil and "No" to sin! 1 Tim 5:22
It is easier to trace a doctrine or subject throughout the scriptures using the reliable old King James Version of the Bible, than with any of our modern English versions.
If you are a Christian, your job or professional career is only an avocation. Your vocation is serving the Lord!
"Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called."
🏆Eph 4:1 KJV
America claims to be "the land of the free," but the flagrant abuse of our liberty has brought us into abject bondage. We have sold ourselves—body, soul, and spirit—to worship at the altars of exotic pleasure!
When I was younger I worked as an evangelist. Pastors scheduled me to go from church to church, preaching in revivals. That experience taught me a lesson: You can’t carry God’s timing in a suitcase.
God is the one who determines the times of refreshing!
⌚Jas 5:7, Ac 3:19 KJV
"Careful brother, you're judging!" is often just a cover-up for a sinful lifestyle.
Christ did warn us not to judge or condemn others, but he does expect us to judge between right and wrong! "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
🕯 John 7:24 KJV
"Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." To stay free from sin, you have to abide in Christ—otherwise you'll become frustrated, disillusioned, despondent, and bitter toward God, blaming him for what's really your own fault!
💎Gal 5:16, 1 Joh 3:6 KJV
"Beware of the doctrine of the Pharisees...Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy." Reading or hearing a message corrupted by error, heresy, or the doctrines of men can affect your spirit, your attitude, and your faith. Matt 16:11-12, Col 2:8
David always found mercy with God because when God convicted him of anything displeasing, David was quick to repent — and to offer God the kind of sacrifices he was looking for! Not excuses or accusations against others, but "a broken spirit and a contrite heart." Psa 51:17 KJV
You can buy pleasure, but not happiness! True happiness is the satisfaction of the soul—not the mind, or body—and is one of the rewards of living an unselfish life.
Today we need pastors who will speak God's Word with authority, and teach God's people to distinguish between good and evil, holy and profane, truth and error, wisdom and folly, righteousness and sin!