But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day (Prov. 4:18 KJV) What a description of the life of the righteous! It is like the early morning sun. Can you think of the dim sunlight when you wake up in the morning? Remember how Read More
Spiritual transformation
New Wine Must be Put into New Bottles
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved (Lk. 5:38 KJV) The Pharisees asked Jesus why His disciples were not following the regular fasting traditions of the day, as John the Baptist’s disciples did. He responded by saying new wine has to be put into new bottles, meaning what He Read More
If these Things be in You
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Pet. 1:8 KJV) The Apostle Peter through the Spirit tells us if “these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither Read More
God’s Beautiful Design for your Spiritual Growth
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him (Lk. 2:40 KJV) Jesus, as a Man, is God’s perfect picture of what the first Adam was supposed to be, and He is called the last Adam. He was born as a man and had Read More
Beholding in a Glass the Glory of God
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. 3:18 KJV) Paul makes a comparison between the glory of the Old Testament revealed through Moses and that of Read More
How to Change Your Heart
You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it…You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth (Ps. 65:9-10 ESV) The title of this devotional is certainly going to be very unusual to many people, not because changing our hearts is not something we desire but Read More
The Renewal of the New Man
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him (Col. 3:10 KJV) The new man that has been created in Christ is renewed day after day to become more and more like Christ in expression. When we receive Christ, our spirit becomes born again Read More
When I Became a Man
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things (1 Cor. 13:11 KJV). The Apostle Paul illustrated a believer’s spiritual journey towards maturity, by recalling his own growth from childhood to manhood. First, Read More