December 2016

Exercise daily in God—no spiritual flabbiness, please! Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever. 1 Timothy 4:7-8 (TMB) Spiritual fitness requires spiritual training. In the same way your body needs regular exercise to stay

Strengthen yourselves so that you will live here on earth doing what God wants […] 1 Peter 4:2 (NCV) The ultimate life is about “doing what God wants.” Those whose lives are about negotiating, arguing or debating with God are living low-level lives. Once you submit yourself to God’s will,

For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.” Deuteronomy 32:47 (NKJV) God didn’t say, “By your ability”, or “By your connections”, or “By your resources.” He said, “By this word

And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly]

But the others said, “We can’t attack those people; they’re way stronger than we are.” They spread scary rumors among the People of Israel. They said, “We scouted out the land from one end to the other—it’s a land that swallows people whole. Everybody we saw was huge. Why, we