(1 Corinthians 3:5-11)…..Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. …

(Psalm 145:8-9)…..The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works. The greatest deception is making people think God is bad. God is not guilty, of anything bad! The devil wants us to believe God is bad: that He is uncaring, that He does bad things to us, and that He is holding out on us, keeping us from enjoying good. But it isn’t true. God loves you more than you can …

(Hebrews 11:1-6)…..Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ² For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. ³ By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. ⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.⁵ By faith Enoch was taken away so that …

(1 Corinthians 1:4-9)…..⁴ I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, ⁵ that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, ⁶ even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, ⁷ so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸ who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called …

The power of darkness resides the realm of Satan. Darkness implies not only absence of light, but opposition to the light. Opposition to what is true and pure and wholesome, that is, the things of God. Darkness is not only a condition of being without light, spiritually speaking, it is to be without God and opposed to God. There is nothing man can do by himself to escape the power of darkness because mankind is a slave to sin, and sin is disobedience to the will of God (1 John 3:4)…

(James 1:21)…..Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the implanted (engrafted) word, which is able to save your souls. It is vitally important that we receive in us the implanted Word of God as believers in Jesus Christ. To receive the Word means to take the Word (as my possession), to contain the word (as being held by it), and to be the object of (as governed by it).Have you received God’s word in such a way. It is much like the behavior of the …

(John 15:5)…..5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. So you got up this morning to pray and then to spend some time in God’s word. I hope it is a very blessed time for you. I know it is for me. If I could, let me share with you some things on prayer, so it might help you in your prayer life.

There are three reasons to pray: for God’s …

(Psalm 24:3-4)…..³ Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴ He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD?

Who shall stand in His holy place? The “hill of the LORD, what is that phrase referring to?  It is a reference to Zion. What is Zion? Zion is the name of one of the hills of Jerusalem, the biblical capital of …