UPLIFT - The Righteous Shall Enter"Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them,And I will praise the LORD. This is the gate of the LORD,Through which the righteous shall enter.Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity.Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!We have blessed you from the house of the LORD." (Psalm 118:19-20, 25-26)The LORD has ALL power ...  Read More

Acts 18:18, 26 So Paul still remained a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had hishair cut off at Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow... So he [Apollos] began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.There Christian life sho...  Read More

"And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us" (Acts 17:26-27)When Paul the Apostle wrote a letter to a church, he knew that he was united t...  Read More

"Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, HIM I proclaim to you" - Acts 17:22-23The Lord is near. These are such beautiful ...  Read More

"Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” - Acts 17:2-3There is power in the spoken word of God. When God speaks, light follows.  From the very beginning, God said, "Let there be li...  Read More

"And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour...But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immedi...  Read More

"Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas." (Acts 16:6-8)Jesus never expected His followers to do anything or go anywhere without the leading and enabling of the Hol...  Read More

UPLIFT - Diffusing Conflict With Space"Now Barnabas was determined to take with them John called Mark. But Paul insisted that they should not take with them the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work. Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another." (Acts 15:37-39)The Lord's heart for His people is that we love one another in such...  Read More

"So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in th...  Read More

"Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. ...As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." (1 Peter 4:1-2, 10)After...  Read More

"And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make." (Jeremiah 18:4)Our God is a great Master Potter! Ever since He created man, God made everything good for him and formed man toward being an expression of His grace and glory. He does not make mistakes. He never makes two of the exact same of ...  Read More

"Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead" (Phil. 3:12-14)Press on dear saints! This is a command that is sure to bring bl...  Read More