Words Of The Way, Abide

Abide may be our favorite Word Of The Way. The joy of bearing fruit for the Kingdom: Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever […]

Crushed?

When we express God’s Truth, we depress the enemy’s lies. The high and lofty one who lives in eternity, the Holy One, says this: “I live in the high and holy place with those whose spirits are contrite and humble. I restore the crushed spirit of the humble and revive the courage of those with […]

The Theology of Abiding

And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Matthew 8:26. ESV When we are afraid, the least we can do is pray to God. But our Lord has a right to expect that those who call on His name have an underlying confidence in Him. God expects His children […]

Life Dots

God affectionately holds the entire painting of our lives in His hands and has promised to create something beautiful of it. It took George’s Seurat two years to paint A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the famous seaside scene. Each color that the eye sees is composed of countless contrasting dots.* […]

Abiding In Him

Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in […]

The Practice of The Presence of God /2

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and […]