The Life of Promise

Romans 1:16, “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.” Paul in the above verse gives the promise that everyone who believes in the Gospel receives salvation.  You are apart of “everyone,” therefore if…

1 Corinthians 6:11, “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” The word sanctification means, “to be made holy and separated from sin.”  In the prior verses to the above…

Ezekiel 36:26, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel was a powerful Jewish prophet who lived in the 6th century B.C. before the time of Jesus, but he was given a…

John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16, the Bible’s most famous verse, is power packed with the goodness of God.  First we learn, “God so loved the world,” thus we know that…

Philippians 3:20, “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.” Have you ever traveled out of the country before?  I’ve had the great honor and privilege of going on four missions trips out of the US since being in ministry- three times to India (with…

Acts 1:4-5, “4 …Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Jesus promised the disciples before He ascended to heaven that He would send them…

1 Corinthians 12:7, “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.” Imagine if Jesus had a party like the kind you went to when you were younger where the host gives everyone a gift of some kind- candy, little toys, etc.  Consider at some point during the party…

1 Peter 2:24, “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” I believe the most difficult promise to share with people on this earth is the promise of physical healing.  The reality of suffering…

Romans 10:17 (KJV), “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Have you ever lost your faith?  Maybe there was a situation you faced and it didn’t go the way you prayed and now you don’t have the same kind of faith in God you used too?  Well, never fear-…

1 Peter 1:3, “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Webster’s definition of hope is, “to expect with confidence.”  Living in the world today we face unprecedented…