Focus: Acts 14:22 - KJV 22. Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.   Acts 15:32-36   It is never the joy of the enemy that anyone receives salvation. Hence, when a man is drawn out of darkness into the marvelous light of God, the enemy earnestly seeks to draw him back into darkness by luring him into his old ways, or confronting him with tribulations so as to

Focus: 1 John 4:17 - KJV 17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.   1 John 3:1-7   The essence of being believers is to live the life of Christ while in the body. When unbelievers see us, they are to conclude through us that the Lord is good. Except such conclusion can be drawn from our being, we live misrepresenting the person of God. Aside the misrepresentation, we live a life of deceit

Focus: 1 Peter 1:9 - KJV 9. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.   Romans 6:15-23   Eternal laws make it explicit that the souls that sin shall die. Hence, the essence of the works done by Christ to ransom man from sin is that as many as believe in Him may not have their souls in death but in life everlasting. It becomes a waste however for a person to assert faith in Christ, gain the whole world and then forfeit his soul to death in the end. Inv

Focus: Matthew 13:36 - KJV 36. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.   Matthew 12:24-30   Our God is good all the time and all He does continually is good. However, there is a being on the other side of the spectrum of life who is always poised to sow evil with a view to discrediting the deeds of God. No matter what he does, God holds the one that yields to h

Focus: Ephesians 4:26-27 - KJV 26. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27. Neither give place to the devil.   Psalms 37:8-11   Anger is a booby trap of the devil to entangle the believer in darkness. A person who is angry is neither humble nor meek. A proud person is resisted of God and that is what anger brings. Hence, anyone that allows himself to be angry opens the door unto evil and separates himself from the Lord. The Bible points to the fa

Focus: Romans 6:5 - KJV 5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:   Colossians 3:1-11   By faith in the word of God, everyone who believes in the works of Christ is dead to the flesh having been crucified with Christ, buried with Him through baptism and the life he lives afterward, is lived by Christ Jesus. Since a dead person feels no pain, the believer who is dead in Christ is by spiritual nat

Focus: Proverbs 3:3-4 - KJV 3. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4. So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.   Romans 14:13-19   All that matters in the sight of our God is love. Whatever we do that do not end up in love, is inimical to God. Hence, God enjoins that we operate in mercy and truth at all times so that other men and indeed, Himself will locate us with favo

Focus: 1 Timothy 6:11 - KJV 11. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.   2 Timothy 2:22-26   The difference between the believer and the unbeliever is that the one has found truth and basis for righteousness while the other has not. To him, life can be led successfully when engaging in all manner of things that the believer knows God will not approve. However, it becomes a terrible affair if a per

Focus: 1 Corinthians 15:10 - KJV 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.   2 Corinthians 11:21-31   There is no one who attains any success except by the help of God. In the case of the believer, we become whoever we are not based on our own abilities but by the grace of God. Indeed, it is not of him that wills, nor of

Focus: 2 Corinthians 13:5 - KJV 5. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?   Romans 8:5-11   There are very many people who have been drawn out of the faith by the enemy even though they assume they are still in the faith. They keep on going like the persons of old not knowing that they had since left the faith and are fully operating in the flesh. But God see

Focus: Isaiah 26:3 - KJV 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.   Isaiah 30:15-26   It is unfortunate that men assume they can get ransom outside of God. They seek hope and succor from places where they do not exist. In actual fact, they seek help from the source of their affliction and get plunged in greater crisis. Those who fix their gazes on the Lord away from the “molten images” of gold and silver that they crea

Focus: Psalms 91:1 - KJV 1. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.   Matthew 6:5-6   There is a place where God is which is not accessible to all. Only those with clean hands and pure hearts can access it. Incidentally, Christ makes it clear to us that clean hands and pure heart can be summed up in love: loving God and loving the neighbor. John made it simpler still by telling us in clear terms that it is impossible

Focus: Ephesians 6:12 - KJV 12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.   Ephesians 6:10-17   Ordinarily, there is such a grave power in darkness. The intention there, is to cause man to remain perpetually in darkness where all manner of evil dwell. These powers lure men through wiles and devices to ensure that their victims deny God a

Focus: Proverbs 4:21 - KJV 21. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. Proverbs 3:21-23   The word of God as presented in the Holy Scriptures, is a compendium that may not be understood unless taken as a whole document. There are those who think there is no need to study and learn the Old Testament claiming since the New came to replace the Old, the Old has become irrelevant. However, unless there is a deep understanding of the Old, the New

Focus: Psalms 119:105 - KJV 105. NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.   Proverbs 6:20-23   The world is covered with darkness and gross darkness the people. When darkness thrives, it is only those who have a flicker of light or at all, that are able to navigate their ways without having to grope. Unfortunately, when there is sudden darkness, it is difficult for people to locate the source of light. When in the dark, if a person hears the voice of an

Focus: Colossians 2:5 - KJV 5. For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 1 Corinthians 5:1-3   A people are as strong as the weakest link thereof. The strength of the Church is in her purity and closeness to God. However, as much as the Church permits profane acts in her system, the same exposes the entire body to condemnation and everyone is viewed with the eye of the p

Focus: Matthew 5:8 - KJV 8. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Psalms 24:3-6   God is a being and therefore approachable. However, He is not approachable to every manner of being because He is a peculiar being. He is such pure Light that anything that is impure burns at His presence. Hence, He requests that we all be holy as He is holy. Now, because He is Love, He does not desire any to burn. Rather than have men approach and burn, there is a gulf of separ

Focus: Hebrews 5:7 - KJV 7. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;   Matthew 26:39-44   With our God, nothing shall be impossible. However, our God has particular attributes that make Him who He is and He will never deny Himself. For instance, His promises are yea and in Him, Amen. Nevertheless, since He occupies eternity untimed

Focus: Psalms 38:15 - KJV 15. For in thee, O L ORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.   Psalms 38:1-15   Our God is indeed, Love. It is true that when we sin against Him, it is crass foolishness and real insubordination. Yet, because He is Love, He does not for our misbehavior cut us off totally to refuse to hear when we come soberly in repentance to Him. Some do assume and have made us to believe over the ages that because of sin, we are disconnected permanently from

Focus: 1 John 5:14-15 - KJV 14. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15. And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.   1 John 5:14-21   There is a fact which is incontrovertible. It is that God exists. Once we know that He is and we know Him well enough, we will know what He wants and what He despises. If we understand what He wants, we