Have you ever had your password declined and you could not access a computer, or a website, or an app? Have you ever, perhaps, even forgotten a password and tried several different passwords that you thought might work, but without success? That can be rather frustrating! Can you imagine if prayer worked like that? What if you forgot the “password” for prayer and your access…

Think about the practice of “writing a check” in relationship to Christ’s death. The Bible depicts the death of Christ as a payment that was made on our behalf. Consider this for a moment.  When writing a check, you must put a date on it. When Christ wrote the date, He said, “The hour has come” (John 17:1). For “Pay to the Order of,” He was…

The apostle John wrote the two shortest letters in the New Testament—what we call Second John and Third John. They may be short, but they are mighty and loaded with many golden nuggets, such as the way he closes both books. He said to both the elect lady and Gaius, “I have many things to write to you. I did not wish to do so…

It is so hard to watch people we love get wrapped up in sin! It breaks our hearts (sometimes it feels like it’s literally breaking). Sometimes our conscience gets so bothered by it that we may even try to relieve our conscience by finding an acceptable explanation. We might say things like, “He’s still a good person, just a little mixed up right now.” “At least…

You’ve heard the maxims before, like, “If you give him an inch, he’ll take a mile.” This is true of toddlers, salesmen and some business associates. But, even more so, it’s true of the devil! That is why God warned us to not “give place to the devil” (Eph. 4:27). While it is also translated, “opportunity,” the word means to not give the devil any…