“This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.” Jn 15:12 NLT Jesus said, “I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!” (v. 11 NLT). What are these “things” that you must do to have His joy […]

“In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God…for you.” 1Th 5:18 NKJV Gratitude doesn’t come naturally to us, but grumbling does. No one had more cause to grumble than Joseph. Abandoned, enslaved, betrayed, and estranged. Those are the chapter titles for his life story. Yet when he talks about it you won’t […]

“He said, ‘Which way shall we go up?’ And he answered, ‘The way through the wilderness.’” 2Ki 3:8 The Israelites discovered that for them, the way into the Promised Land was through the wilderness. One Bible teacher refers to it as “God’s killing field.” He says: “In the wilderness experiences of life, the things that […]