So that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Hebrews 6:12 1. RESIST APATHY. Faith and patience are essential ingredients in advancement and achievement. They are the opposite of the word sluggish. The book of Proverbs warns about being a sluggard…

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the…

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Matthew 5:9 PRAY FOR PEACE. You can’t fake real peace. You have to get it from God. If you are feeling a bunch of vexation, you can take authority over the devil right now. Jesus said, “Peace, be…

“Yield now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you. Please receive instruction from His mouth and establish His words in your heart.” Job 22:21-22 1. YIELD. A yield sign is a beautiful thing–it tells us to look and acknowledge traffic and people around us. We…

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him. Psalm 28:7 1. LET GOD LIFT YOU. When King David had to strengthen himself in the Lord after a hard battle,…

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was…

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts . . . “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens…

The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of my salvation, the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. He delivers me from my enemies; surely You lift me above those who rise up against me; You rescue me from the…

“For I know the plans that I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 God is speaking hope to a people deported to Babylon at the beginning of 70 years of difficulty. Daniel, Shadrach,…

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14 1. WATCH YOUR WORDS. Life and death are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). If we guard our mouths, we can actually…