There are two sides to salvation: Jesus’ death for you and the Spirit’s life in you. Just as Jesus died for you the death you deserved, so the Holy Spirit has come to live in and through you the life you could not attain. As you look to Jesus in love and trust, the Holy Spirit (without any effort on your part) raises you into the new way of life. Walking in the Spirit is a great beginning; supernatural empowerment lies…
The path of life invariably leads towards death. This gloomy fact is universal. We tend to bury our heads on this one, but let’s face the facts for a moment. You are going to die one day. This cannot be avoided. What’s next? Are you ready for that? There are four main possibilities that people have imagined which nicely bypass the problem created by our moral failure…
How can God possibly delight in us? Most days it’s quite a stretch just to believe that He loves and forgives us. But that He actually delights in us and rejoices over us, has passionate affections for us, and is totally devoted to us—that’s asking a lot! The truth is that we all have a spiritual sense cultivated in us by the enemy which he has been using to slander God deep in our hearts. This body of lies makes…
Many things in the spiritual life come in matched pairs, or mis-matched pairs if you count the ones that are on opposite sides like the new you and the old you, or the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness. Sometimes it can make your eyes cross and your head swim, but we’ve laid them out in a way that should help you steer clear of confusion. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I…