Month: May 2025

Let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give in. Galatians 6:9 AMP Resolve in your heart what you will do. It's time to buckle down. It's time to focus on the task at hand. It's time to dedicate ourselves … Continue reading Persist →

Put on your new nature, created to be like God — truly righteous and holy. Ephesians 4:24 NLT There is sometimes confusion about identity once we come to have faith in Christ. Am I the sum of my past mistakes and failures? Or am I a new creation in Christ? When we believe that Jesus … Continue reading Changing Clothes →

Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 NLT How do we remain in God? We abide in His love. When we love, we are doing what God does. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or … Continue reading Do Everything With Love →

Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world. James 1:27 AMP Just as what we say reveals what's in our … Continue reading What We Do Is Important →

If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. James 1:26 NLT Self-control is a fruit of the Spirit. Hypocrites pretend to be righteous, but their words and actions betray them. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? … Continue reading What We Say Is Important →

So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls. James 1:21 NLT Do the groundwork. What does that mean? Do the things that prepare a good foundation to build upon. To be … Continue reading Do The Groundwork →

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. James 1:19 NLT Prophets in the Old Testament spoke of a Messiah who would come and establish the Kingdom of God. Apostles in the New Testament, who were eyewitnesses to the life and … Continue reading The Example of Christ →

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. James 1:17 NKJV Christians have faith that God is Father. Our God is a good Father. He never changes. He is always good. He is always generous. … Continue reading Every Good & Perfect Gift →

God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12 NLT Don't fool yourself. This life is not about our own personal pleasure, comfort, entertainment and ease. It's a continual growth process marked by testing, temptation, trials … Continue reading Sin Is A Matter of the Heart →

And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field. James 1:10 NLT Material wealth brings confidence with it. Money affords us the ability to get things done in regards to things that can be bought or sold. The more money we … Continue reading Don’t Trust In Riches →

Believers who are poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them. James 1:9 NLT God loves everyone. Rich, poor, somewhere in between? It doesn't matter. There is no favoritism with God. He loves us because He created us and He's our Father, not based on what we possess. In fact, the poor … Continue reading Blessed Are The Poor →

If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. James 1:5 NLT It's better to trust in the Lord. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and … Continue reading Walk In Wisdom →

This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing to the “twelve tribes” — Jewish believers scattered abroad. Greetings! James 1:1 NLT James, a brother of Jesus, identifies himself as a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. The word slave can also be … Continue reading Trials By Fire →

He is also the head [the life-source and leader] of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will occupy the first place [He will stand supreme and be preeminent] in everything. Colossians 1:18 AMP The Church is Christ's Body. He is the Head of … Continue reading Christ Is Leading His Church →