Luke 11:1-13 “So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.”  (Romans 8:26, AMPC) Praying…

Luke 18:1-8; Acts 12:1-12 “So I say to you, Ask and keep on asking, and it shall be given you; seek and keep on seeking, and you shall find; knock and keep on knocking and the door shall be opened to you.”  (Luke 11:9, AMPC) Praying continuously and consistently is what helps believers develop a solid platform for a successful prayer life. One…

Genesis 32:22-30; 2 Kings 18:41-45 “The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].”  (James 5:16, AMPC) I once heard someone say, “If prayer does not touch your heart, it will not touch the heart of God.” Prayer has to be passionate and flow from the depths of our heart. We can’t just recite prayers…

Matthew 26:36-46 “let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us.” (Hebrews 12:1, AMPC) I remember a song we used to sing several…

Genesis 3:1-24 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”  (Romans 12:1, NKJV) Sin stopped the first man from living perpetually in the home that God made for him and his family at the beginning. The advent of sin was responsible for the ‘Fall’…

I Thessalonians 4:1-12 “Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own.” (1 Corinthians 6:19, AMPC) It is incumbent on each of us to know how to ‘possess’ our bodies in sanctification and honor. We know our…

2 Timothy 2:14-26; Galatians 5:16-25 “But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).”  (Galatians 5:16, AMPC) Overcoming sin will not be a fight we lose most of the time if we walk daily…

Psalms 139:1-24 “For thus said the Lord of hosts, after [His] glory had sent me [His messenger] to the nations who plundered you–for he who touches you touches the apple or pupil of His eye:” (Zechariah 2:8, AMPC) God created you to be a star. You are God’s VIP, God’s celebrity! No, you don’t need Hollywood to recognize you as such, God already…

Hebrews 2:6-18 “Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and wonders [that are to take place] in Israel from the Lord of hosts, Who dwells on Mount Zion.”  (Isaiah 8:18, AMPC) Think about Jesus for a moment. He is the ‘Super-star,’ the pre-eminent one. He said God made him and his children to be for signs and…

John 8:31-59; Genesis 45:1-13 “Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.”  (Daniel 12:3, NKJV) When you start seeing yourself like God sees you and start calling yourself by the names God calls you, there are some ignorant people who will consider you arrogant. Remember that…