As the Holy Spirit has been unraveling some of the subtle sin patterns that have enabled me to be so busy in the kingdom, and yet lose my passion for the King (and my passion for personal godliness and holiness), I have discovered anew the great value of devotionals in stimulating my passionate pursuit of the King of kings and Lover of all lovers.

The good news of the kingdom of God – this wonderful supernatural realm that the risen Christ rules and that we all have begun to operate in and experience – is that there is a far superior way of living life and handling our sexual passions and needs, and walking out the marriage covenant with our spouse than that which the world system offers.

If intimacy with Christ (and if you are married) intimacy and oneness with your spouse are at the very top of Christ’s priority list for His children, I can promise you the enemy of our souls and our own sin nature will not sit idly by.

It is not enough to just intellectually acknowledge that God delivered His Son over to the horrors of the cross for us. We must personally own it and most of us never did until someone helped us see the necessity of a personal faith response to what Christ did on the cross for us.

It is my conviction that the practice of a daily quiet time or focused time with the Lord is one of the most fruitful and critical spiritual disciplines a disciple of Jesus could ever pursue. And the biggest reason or motivation for that is His own practice as seen in a number of passages such as Isaiah 50:4.

The best way to overcome unrighteous judging of others is to develop a lifestyle of daily dealing with the stuff in your own life as the Holy Spirit reveals it to you, which He is more than faithful to do when He can get our attention.

Why should we make teaching in the local church a priority? Well there are many solid reasons for doing so and there are many obstacles and enemies against it. I've laid out below some of the more obvious reasons for the importance of the teaching ministry of the church.

The quickest way to neutralize the church’s intended effect on its members and on the city in which it is established is by allowing human or worldly or natural wisdom to infiltrate the minds of its members and leaders. Sadly this has happened to a significant degree in the church in our nation.

“Heavens” in the old and new testaments Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:9 Then God said, ” Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. Genesis 1:14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; Genesis 1:15 and let them be for lights in the expan

“Heaven” in the Old Testament Genesis 1:8 God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. Genesis 2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. Genesis 6:17 “Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. Genesis 11