"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." - Ephesians 6:12 Have you ever felt like you're in a battle you can't see? That's because you are. As believers, we face spiritual warfare daily, though it often goes unnoticed. The good news is that we're not le...

"Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves…. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." – James 1:21, 22, 25 Other voices will speak into every situation under heaven, but t...

Revelation 10:8–11 (NKJV) 8 Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth.”9 So I went to the angel and said to him, “Give me the little book.” And he said to me, “Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”10 The...

"And that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity." - Ephesians 2:16 (NKJV)There was a Native American who was asked to describe his salvation, and even though he didn't speak very good English, he was able to paint an incredible picture. He put some leaves on the ground in a circle, and there was dirt in the middle. Then he placed a c...

"For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father." - Ephesians 2:18 (NKJV)Sometimes in marriage counseling or premarital counseling, I'll try to tell a couple that their greatest success will be when they have God in the center of their marriage. I describe their relationship like a triangle where God is at the top of the triangle. The husband is on one point on the side, the wife ...