"So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them. Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh." vs6-7 God can use us in old age. He's not bound by time. First, you don't have to regret the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of His disciples too, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not!” One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"Then Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to Him, went out and said to them, 'Who is it you’re looking for?'” The Lord Jesus is bold. He knows the time has come to glorify the Father and to save His own people....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, 'Because I bore him with pain.'” We can start with great pain, but be a blessing. First, Jabez was an honorable man. He grew up to become a blessing to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"I am in them and You are in Me. May they be made completely one, so the world may know You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me." The believer is loved, as the Lord Jesus is loved, by God the Father. First, this is a radical...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"May they all be one, as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You. May they also be one in Us, so the world may believe You sent Me." The world will believe the Father sent the Son, when all of the elect are gathered. Then, He shall come in clouds...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"They are not of the world, as I am not of the world." The believer is not of this world. He's something different altogether. First, this is the best definition of who we are. We are new creations in old bodies. We look the same, talk with...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"While I was with them, I was protecting them by Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled." The only people who are lost are so that the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those You have given Me, because they are Yours. Everything I have is Yours, and everything You have is Mine, and I have been glorified in them." vs9-10 The Lord Jesus is glorified by...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The number one mission of the church in Nigeria must be the planting of new churches. Too many places - Uyo, Owerri, Warri, Asaba… not to mention countless places in the North - do not have a known church preaching sovereign grace and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
