The Wake-Up Call

What if we learned to encourage one another more in our weaknesses—to embrace them—than in our strengths and building them?

The LORD is with you, mighty warrior!

An encourager must learn to see others as God sees them and to persist in making that vision personally and particularly known.

Our God is on a mission to encourage us, not so much because we need encouragement but because we have a massive mission in front of us.

God's love is no sentimental or emotive feeling—which can be devastated by the perpetrators of wickedness, or snuffed out by the disappointments of life.

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

There is only one upside of this kind of suffering and hardship—desperation.

It is an easy thing to believe in God. It is another thing entirely to believe God. The former is an affirmation of faith. The latter is faith itself.

As we encourage one another, we learn to speak to one another in the voice of God in the humble authority of Jesus in the loving power of the Holy Spirit.

The ongoing Holy Spirit chemotherapy for the deceitful sin cancer of an unbelieving heart is thick encouragement.

I have become convinced that the greatest and most singular need people who want to wake up, follow Jesus, and become imbued with his supernatural presence and power in the everyday world—which is holy love—is courage.

God's love is no sentimental or emotive feeling—which can be devastated by the perpetrators of wickedness, or snuffed out by the disappointments of life.

Entrust your life completely, constantly, and unreservedly to Jesus.

We must move beyond the threshold of the Christian life and begin constructing a soul, by the power of the Holy Spirit, in accordance with the new life God has put within.

Eternal life means freedom from sin and ultimate deliverance from death.

Discipleship is not preparation for eternal life; it’s practicing eternal life.

We know that we know that we know we are not created for death. We are created for life, and not only endless life but eternal life.

We can simply stand on the testimony, and stand we must—not with our gospel guns raised to shoot but, as humble lovers of the truth, ready to quietly serve or boldly speak up as the calling of faith requires.

This psalm sees the whole trajectory, from justification to sanctification and, indeed, even envisions that final day when we are delivered from not only the guilt and power of sin, but even the presence of sin.