"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." - Romans 8:11

If God the Father was able to breathe new life into the lifeless body of His Son, then you and I are also beneficiaries of this great gift – given to us when Jesus died and was raised from the dead. But it's up to us to grab hold of this gift in faith and believe it as...

Romans 7:15 - I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. - When the Apostle Paul wrote this about 57 A.D. he was talking about his sinful nature that he well knew all Christians have. That is having faith in Christ but at the same time occasionally doing something that we know Christ is opposed to. Sometimes we all give in to our temptations (I know I do) and later we wonder why. Today this is commonly called our dual nature and whether we...

1 Corinthians 11:28-30, "But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep."

Communion is the "mystical form" of the Tree of Life, hidden from the spiritually blind. Jesus said that if we partake unworthily (without understanding that He Himself is...

This was supposed to be one of the greatest baseball teams of all time. It was the year that the Houston Astros, with all the things they accomplished in the regular season and in some of the postseason, would become a team for the ages.

Instead, we got some highly teachable moments.

The only destiny the Astros headed for was a brick wall. We have just seen one of the most bizarre World Series ever played, one where the home team never mattered. The...

2 Corinthians 10:4 says, "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds."

How is gratitude a weapon?

ASPECTS OF GRATITUDE:
Gratitude means being grateful not only for what God has already done but for what He is about to do. Combining faith with gratitude multiplies the power of this spiritual weapon.
The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy. He uses fear to capture hearts. He uses lies to capture...