Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth. Numbers 12:3 Into the Text For a long time, I associated gentleness with weakness, or being a pushover, or shrinking back. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Gentleness is not weakness. It
So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth. Colossians 3:5a Into the Text As Christians, we have to learn to live with the difficult tension of the “already but not yet.” All of the spiritual blessings the Bible speaks about are ours already, but we are
By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient because she welcomed the spies in peace. Hebrews 11:31 Into the Text From an outside perspective, Rahab is the last person one would expect to be in a study on obedience. She was a prostitute. She was a Canaanite.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God). Ephesians 6:17 Into the Text Very often, the battles we face are lost or won in our minds. This is because we live in a fallen world, and Satan loves to
“Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” Romans 5:1 “yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ
I will meet you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites. Exodus 25:22 Into the Text God wanted to be with
You are too just to tolerate evil; you are unable to condone wrongdoing. So why do you put up with such treacherous people? Why do you say nothing when the wicked devour those more righteous than they are? Habakkuk 1:13 Into the Text We all have been, are, or
“Do not honor yourself before the king, and do not stand in the place of great men; for it is better for him to say to you, ‘Come up here,’ than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.“ Proverbs 25:6-7 Into the Text Throughout
I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete. My commandment is this—to love one another just as I have loved you. John 15:11-12 Into the Text When Jesus spoke these words, He was about to face betrayal,
For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function, so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another. Romans 12:4-5 Into the Text Sweet sister, God has created