I'll Be Honest

When praying in a corporate prayer meeting ask God to help you to forget everybody else. You’re not there to impress others with your praying. You’re not there to be eloquent as the Pharisees were. Your prayers don’t have to be fancy or perfect. Remember prayer is the expression of the heart to God so we need to learn to be free and to be ourselves. We need to learn to be specific in prayer.

Joy comes before obedience, rather than after. If you don't understand that, you will really be messed up all of your days. Joy is not the result of obedience, joy is the result of what God has done. So now your joy is fixed on a fixed and stable source. When your joy is based on your performance it is going to be up and down like the wind.

Paul Washer of HeartCry Missionary | http://heartcrymissionary.com

If a believer who fights against sexual lust can but look and realize that resisting temptation here is but for a moment. Yet in a brief vapor we will be in heaven and satisfied with such glories in Christ that are not worth comparing to anything here. So in view of such truths as that, we must not grow weary in our fight against sin.

At times when someone asks, "How do I deal with the hiddenness of God?" it is not God hiding Himself from us, but our own sin or busyness and neglect of the Lord that is the problem. Are there so many things that "have to" be done in my life that would lead me to leave God out of the picture? Is excelling in school, at the cost of spiritually shipwrecking, the right decision?

The peace of God is that which flows like a river; in that it is unending, refreshing, and life-giving. Paul calls us to "not be anxious about anything", but to pray and "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Authentic Christianity is a thorn in the side of this popular culture of the world in which we live in. The light of Jesus Christ in you, will have an effect... and will preach light to a world that wants to remain in darkness. - Michael Durham

Michael Durham is a pastor at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Kentucky http://www.ogbclife.com/ and is also a part of the ministry http://realtruthmatters.com/

(We apologize, the recording starts after the Scripture reading of 1 Corinthians 1.)

Listen brethren, your conclusions about Scripture are not infallible, your rationale deductions and principles that you draw from Scripture, are not equal to Scripture. When you begin to draw principles from Scripture and enforce them on other people, your beginning to get on ground, that is not safe. - Tim Conway

We must not withhold our fellowship from any faithful brethren because they don't think exactly like us, but we must understand who we have unity with and who we can have true fellowship with. We cannot approve of and agree with those who have no real love for Christ's Gospel. We cannot make people think we are in agreement with them when in reality we differ on the most basic truth. That is a false unity that we must turn away from. Peace with false Christians is not purchased by sacrificing the truth. Unity must not be sought at the expense of the Gospel.

Children, you may not have a big long record of sin like some of us adults do, but still you've got a lot of bad on your record. The wages of that sin is death in hell, but Jesus Christ came and died so that you don't have to suffer that hell. He alone is the Anchor of the soul that will save you from the storm of God's wrath.

When we speak as Christians about "us and them", isn't the very nature of those pronouns divisive talk? The Bible doesn't teach us, "white and black", but Paul says in Galatians 3:28, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."