Vacancy or No Vacancy Matthew 12:43-45 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he,...

The Past–The Future–It’s What’s Within That Counts THE PAST THE FUTURE IT’S WHAT IS WITHIN THAT COUNTS We Think. We Feel. We Behave. We all think. Sometimes the thoughts go every which way, and it seems we can’t control them. II Corinthians 10:4-5 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling...

Don’t Forget Your Helmet I Thessalonians 5:6-8 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an...

Where God Has Put You And Why I Timothy 1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who hath enabled me, for that which he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. I am called as much as Paul was. This verse if very instructive to us for our place in God's plan. We need to be thankful we were born where we were...

The Hard Way Proverbs 13:15 Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors is hard. This scripture is carefully said. It's positive and then not so positive. It doesn't say the transgressors. It just says transgressors. If Solomon had written it that way it would seem that he excluded himself...

The Lord Never Said I Promise Ezekiel 12:25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD. We're good at saying I promise and sometimes that's...

There Is Safety With God II Corinthians 1:9-10 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us…. There is a world we cannot see. We...

Why Me? Message by Jonah Shoop, Evangelist John 5:5-8 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him,...

Your Left Hand Doesn’t Have to Know It’s a devilish desire to let people see what we do. The Pharisees even gave alms so the people could see them. They had a plan. The servants they took with them would tell others to stop and look at what they were doing. They needed to remember that you have to serve from a secret place first before...

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