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God has revealed Himself to every person and He reigns over all creation, every idol and soul of man.

Do you envy the wicked who live in ease while you struggle? Psalm 73 shows how to trust God and be healed of envy.

Sin destroys peace, health, and joy. Coming clean before God brings immediate and total forgiveness and relief.

Who may stand before the King of glory? Only those with clean hands and a pure heart. Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty!

When many things are rising against you, be encouraged; the Lord is a shield around you. Take comfort in what He has done before; He can do it again. Salvation belongs to the Lord!

Jesus promised that He would one day return. When He returns it will be unexpected. Some will be watchful as a servant awaiting his Master’s return, others will be caught by surprise and not be ready. Jesus will gather together the righteous and the wicked. The righteous will enter eternal life, the wicked will enter eternal punishment. Like a reaper with sickle harvesting wheat all will stand before Him to be bundled and separated. Jesus will establish the eternal kingdom. He will crush and put an end to all failed earthly kingdoms. It will not be by elections, or bombs but rather accomplished solely by His power.

Time is likely the greatest commodity one has. God is not bound to it because He is its creator and thus sits outside its parameters. The prophet Isaiah told King Hezekiah to put his affairs in order, for the end of his life was upon him. If you were faced with that reality today, what would you do with your time? King Hezekiah humbled himself and acknowledged God, finding his refuge in Him. Time is short, time is valuable, and the Bible tells us to make the most of it for the days are evil.

God promises that you will reap what you sow. The flesh is the sinful appetite and impulses contrary to righteousness. When we sow to the flesh, we will reap corruption & pain. The Spirit of the living God is received within our souls upon placing our faith in Jesus. Believers are filled, warned, and led by the Spirit. When we sow to the Spirit, we reap eternal life and blessing. Do not lose heart in doing good, for in due time you will reap. The faithful are encouraged to continue casting seeds of faithfulness and obedience even in seasons of weeping. The promise is that those who sow in tears will reap with joyful shouting. Are you sowing to the flesh or the Spirit?

God promised to bring salvation to all men, granting them forgiveness and eternal life. This salvation is only in Jesus as He alone is the fullness of God, resurrected from the dead with the power to save. Salvation is only received by faith and not works. If salvation were as the result of works, man would be able to put God in his debt. As it is, salvation is a gift to be received, not a prize to be earned. Salvation makes new. When a person is truly saved, they are transformed into a new person bearing the fruit of joyfully concurring with the law of God in the inner man. Have you been made new by receiving the promise of salvation? Are you proclaiming and urging others to believe on Jesus to be saved?

The Bible declares that God works all things together for good to those who love God. The Lord will use trials that we encounter to render the fruit of endurance and strength. God can use evil that is committed against the believer for good. Affliction strips us of ourselves and drives us to the Lord and His word, positioning us where He will use us most. God can use your failure. Like Peter, having thrice denied Jesus, all of your failures can be turned to a testimony of God’s grace and mercy if we will just give it to Him. Have you given all of your life to Jesus, who can make it new?

The Bible says that God’s promises are fulfilled as “yes” and “amen” in Christ. God promises that He will never change. He will change Who He is; from everlasting to everlasting, He is God. We may not completely trust in our fellow man, but we can trust the eternal character of God. His word never changes. Heaven and Earth will fade away, but His word will stand forever. God never changes what He hates. Many things are described as an abomination to Him, and time and culture will not alter that. God’s love never changes. He loves His own with an everlasting love and promises to never leave us nor forsake us. Do you know this never-changing God by faith?

It’s easy to trust God when prayers are answered exactly the way we hoped. But what about when life doesn’t make sense? When tragedy strikes, prayers seem unanswered, or you’re walking through a season of painful waiting? How do we continue to trust God’s goodness and sovereignty when His plans look different than our own? Join us as we wrestle with these honest questions and discover the hope found in God’s unchanging character. Together, we’ll explore how God is at work in every circumstance, even the ones we don’t understand, and how He faithfully uses every season for His glory and our good.

The Bible encourages believers to test the spirits of teachers to see if they are of God. They are to be tested by Jesus, as anyone who denies Jesus as coming in the flesh is not of God. They are to be tested by the Holy Spirit in that the Spirit gives power to discern truth and error. They are to be tested by the Word of God. A false teacher cannot accurately proclaim the Word nor can an unredeemed hearer receive its truth. Until a soul is made alive by the Spirit, the Word of God cannot be fully understood. Have you been made alive so as to hunger and thirst for righteousness?

Clouds without water are often found to be the tyrants among the people of God. A tyrant is a terrorist, not a shepherd. They care nothing for the sick, broken, scattered, and lost. Those they do encounter, they seek to dominate with force and severity rather than compassion. Tyrants would rather enslave people to systems of dependency and control than see them set free in Jesus. Tyrants ultimately are seeking to make disciples of themselves rather than Jesus. Like the Pharisees long ago, the modern-day tyrants actually view the grace of Jesus as a threat to their position and power. Are you under the influence of a tyrant? Have you come to the place of walking in the freedom that only the true Savior can give?

Jeremiah gave clear warning about lying, false prophets among the people. Those who are liars will give false comfort. They coddle people in their sin rather than expose their iniquity that they may be free. They make false predictions. Often claiming to know the end of the world, or God’s will for a person, they lead people astray in appearing to be uniquely enlightened. Liars are what people want. Their very existence is evidence of what the masses crave. People want a voice to entertain them, confirm their bias and promise them the realization of their desires. What do you want? The true God calls for repentance from sin and faith in Jesus?