Instead, as we lovingly speak the truth, we will grow up completely in our relationship to Christ, who is the head. He makes the whole body fit together and unites it through the support of every joint. As each and every part does its job, he makes the body grow so that it builds itself … Continue reading For The Building Up Of The Body In Love
Author: Dennis Foote
What Spirit Is Speaking?
God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. Therefore, as the Scriptures say, โIf you want to boast, boast only about the Lord.โ โญโญ1 Corinthiansโฌ โญ1:30โญ-โฌ31โฌ โญNLTโฌโฌ You … Continue reading What Spirit Is Speaking?
How’s Your Relationship With God?
โญโญRemember what it says: โToday when you hear his voice, donโt harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled.โ Hebrewsโฌ โญ3:15โฌ โญNLTโฌโฌ Leaders lead by example and we teach what we know. This can be good or bad. We can be good examples and teach the truth or we can be bad examples and … Continue reading How’s Your Relationship With God?
Known
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. โญโญ1 Johnโฌ โญ4:8โฌ โญKJVโฌโฌ The secret sauce to a life well lived is the love of God flowing through our beings, unrestricted by judgment, worry or fear. It simply flows. Like water through a hose, when the hose is connected and the water is … Continue reading Known
Walk
โญโญJesus replied, โAll who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. Anyone who doesnโt love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who … Continue reading Walk
The Outpouring
โญโญโIn the last days,โ God says, โI will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants โ men and women alike โ and they … Continue reading The Outpouring
Rough Pruning & Fine Tuning
โญโญDear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. Jamesโฌ … Continue reading Rough Pruning & Fine Tuning
Do You Hear What I Hear?
โญโญBut Peter and John replied, โDo you think God wants us to obey you rather than him?โ Acts of the Apostlesโฌ โญ4:19โฌ โญNLTโฌโฌ Moments ago, I asked the Holy Spirit what the Body of Christ needed to know. He replied, โHow to hear.โ Here's my advice: learn how to confidently hear from God for yourself … Continue reading Do You Hear What I Hear?
Ethics
If everyone in the world was acting like I am right now, would the world be a better place? Or a worse one? That's how you can decide for yourself if something is morally right or wrong. Unless you're a psychopath. Then you'll think that the rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to … Continue reading Ethics
My Reasonable Act Of Worship
โญโญBrothers and sisters, in view of all we have just shared about Godโs compassion, I encourage you to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, dedicated to God and pleasing to him. This kind of worship is appropriate for you. Romansโฌ โญ12:1โฌ โญGWโฌโฌ Life is a discovery process. Following Jesus is a lot like being led … Continue reading My Reasonable Act Of Worship
Making Spirits Bright
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil โ the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God. Ephesiansโฌ … Continue reading Making Spirits Bright
What’s Your Why?
The purpose of my instruction is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith. โญโญ1 Timothyโฌ โญ1:5โฌ โญNLTโฌโฌ Examine your motives. Why do that? That way you'll know if you're misleading yourself. Why do you say that? As a man thinks, so is … Continue reading What’s Your Why?
What Pleases God?
It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dyingโโhe disappeared, because God took him.โ For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God. And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and … Continue reading What Pleases God?
Prepare The Way!
And it is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers back to their children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. Luke 1:17 NASB2020 John the Baptist was the … Continue reading Prepare The Way!
Everlasting Joy
And the redeemed of the Lord will return and come to Zion with joyful shouting, and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 35:10 NASB2020 Have you ever been in love? You know the feeling. The feeling you get when you're … Continue reading Everlasting Joy
Answer The Call
โDonโt let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.โ John 14:1 NLT Jesus replied, โAll who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. Anyone who doesnโt love me will not obey me. And … Continue reading Answer The Call
Victorious In Christ
But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57 NLT No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. Romans 8:37 NLT Yesterday evening, during the Online School of Prayer, we learned about recognizing and interceding for those suffering with … Continue reading Victorious In Christ
Homecoming
For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come. Hebrews 13:14 NLT Recently, in my circle, there have been accidents, illnesses, hospitalizations and saints graduating to their heavenly abode, myself included. I'm not dead yet, but after spending a few days in the hospital with heart … Continue reading Homecoming
Trust In His Love
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 1 John 4:16 NLT My personal approach to being a disciple of Jesus is to trust, listen, and obey. I believe if … Continue reading Trust In His Love
The Word of God and Prayer
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by … Continue reading The Word of God and Prayer
Do What God Tells You To Do
Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what … Continue reading Do What God Tells You To Do
Love First
The person who doesnโt love doesnโt know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8 GW We know, by definition, that God is love. Our Father's children do what Jesus did when the Son of God walked the earth. Jesus loved people. First and foremost, it was compassion that motivated everything that He did. We … Continue reading Love First
Sin Is A Symptom
Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, โHas God really said, โYou shall not eat from any tree of the gardenโ?โ Genesis 3:1 NASB2020 Our battle isn't against sin. It's against lies. The woman said to the serpent, … Continue reading Sin Is A Symptom
Stagnant or Flowing
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Your light must shine before people in such a way that they … Continue reading Stagnant or Flowing
Set Free
Jesus said to the people who believed in him, โYou are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.โ โBut we are descendants of Abraham,โ they said. โWe have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean, โYou will … Continue reading Set Free