Spirituality

Praying God's will means being honest with Him about what we want in prayer, but also giving up our lives and the outcome of our prayers. Wanting our lives to align more with God's will than with our own desires. Pray the will of God 1 John 5:14-15 says: “And this is the confidence that we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will,...

The heavenly host is a group or army with heavenly power to assist God's people. The main purpose of the heavenly hosts is to strengthen and comfort believers. “It is mainly the angels who are wanted, but the name carries with it the idea that all divine or celestial power is available to meet the needs of the people of God,” according to Scofield Reference Notes. 1. The heavenly...

When I held my new Bible in my hands, I didn't know where to start. It was 2004 and I had just given my life to the Lord. Everything about the Church, God, and the Bible was so wonderful and awesome and innovative. I knew the Bible was the key to this new life, but I didn't know how to apply it. Have you ever wondered...

The dove in the Old TestamentBaptismholy spirit: Before Jesus , the dove was seen sporadically throughout the Old Testament. Every reference to the dove in Scripture already had symbolic meaning and would ultimately be fulfilled in the broader context of Jesus' life and ministry, beginning with his baptism and continuing through the movement of the holy spirit, who still lives nowadays.symbol for the The dove during the floodDuring the last days of the...

1.THE The son of the man By far, the most common name Jesus called himself was "Son of Man", recorded over 100 times in the gospels. As a theologian George Knight said: "We know How Jesus used the title; but the For what is not as easy to explain. “ Sometimes Christ used Son of Man simply as a substitute for the pronoun "I", usually in the...

So we know that God's law contains instructions for a good life, a blessed life. Unfortunately, simply having the instructions do not help us keep the instructions. As a warning, look at what happened to the Israelites. While God was giving the tablets of the law to Moses, they were busy making a golden calf to worship. With Moses gone and God seemingly absent,...

We wait all the time. We wait to fall asleep at night; we wait for email replies, Amazon deliveries, for our paycheck to hit our bank account, for the people we share with Christ to respond to the Gospel, etc. What are the things you are waiting for? We wait for all kinds of things, but what does it mean to wait for God? Wait...

When is Jacob first mentioned in the Bible? Jacob is first mentioned in the Bible Genesis 25. When Jacob's mother Rebekah was pregnant with him and his twin brother Esau, she asked God why her two babies were fighting in her womb (Genesis 25:22 ). God responded that the enmity between the two brothers was a foreshadowing for the two nations that would arise from it – Jacob would be the father of Israel (Genesis...