How to Gain Victory Over the Flesh

The Bible says that they that are in the flesh cannot please God. It also says that there is none that doeth good and sinneth not. First, what is meant by the word “flesh”? Often we use the word to mean our body. We need to understand that we are a threefold being. We are a fleshly body; we have a mind, which is our will, emotions, and intellect; and we are a spirit.

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I know what FLUFF is…and I Know What Fluff Isn’t!

I grew up very typical, in a typical town, typical church, no need to get into what religion, that is not the important thing here. I know there are a gazillion girls out there just like me, brought up like me, who may have been happy to let the family bible collect dust. This didn’t make me a bad person. I suspect many with a similar upbringing are good people, well meaning, thoughtful most of the time, sort of living in the moment, happy to float through life. But, I never considered that God might have more and want more for me than just floating.

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Water for the parched and weary land

By Kathleen D. Angell
I was in a circumstance today that I realized how much the Body of Christ can be thirsty for Love.
I’m often not attentive to others needs. Maybe it is a child’s or a teens needs, or just someone there in my day, that they just needed to know a touch of Jesus’ [...]

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Textual Criticism and Exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew

“ELIAKIM”
There are 2 Eliakim’s; one is a son of Hilkiah (Cp. II Kings 18: 18) and the other Eliakim is the king of Judah, whose name was changed to “Jehoiakim” by Necho king of Egypt (Cp. II Chronicles 36: 4).

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Homily, Let us Speak of Holiness this morning: Bernard of Clairvaux

A Cistercian Monk, Bernard, is considered in this manner by our readings today, reflecting the three-fold manner of his character and relationship with God and man. He died at Clairvaux, 21 August, 1153:

Bernard is wise, with the wisdom of God.

Bernard is Holy, with a Holiness of God.

Bernard is friend of God, as the New Testament tells us of friendship with God.

This is the way to abide in God.

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You’re With Me Lord – Psalm 139, Part 2

Have you ever felt as if God has abandoned you, that when you reach out to Him, He’s just not there? I have. There are times when the darkness is so dark and the storm is so violent that you feel you’ll never make it out, you feel like you won’t survive. You even wonder, where is God in the midst of it all? But we can’t rely on or trust our feelings. They are fluid, constantly changing, and influenced by our own limited and faulty perceptions. Feelings waver, truth does not!

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Joy

Love and Joy and Jesus life are those Waters in the Well that never go dry. You don’t have to keep them, you can give them away. And the more we give, the more we get in return to give away again.

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Prayer of the Lord’s Witness

Father, I ask you to help me keep an attitude of thankfulness. Forgive me for every time I’ve taken Your blessings for granted every time I’ve abused Your grace. Let me be ever grateful for the abundant mercy You’ve shown me. You are worthy of all praise, glory, and honor. O, God, let me be like the one leper (out of the ten) who returned to give thanks to his Healer.

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Attaining perfect finish

Stories are told of great people in the Bible who started their race with vigour and vibrancy but who stumbled when they were about breasting the tape.

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Homily, She has always spoken to my heart, Mary Magdalene

So frequently, the merit and worth of Mary Magdalene has been her controversy in the Church. That is the popular conception. After all, how widely spread is the belief she was married to Jesus. An unlikely reality, by most Biblical and Gospel measure: One sermon writer says:

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Special Report: 50th Anniversary of Baptist Seminary in retrospective — celebration Spring, 2009

By Peter Menkin

The 50th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (Mill Valley, California) celebrated this last part of Spring, 2009, ushered in memories and celebration of a Homecoming on the Mill Valley, Campus.

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Revival Prayers for Dayspring

We are to worship Father, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit not the gifts of the Spirit (I do not think we do) but we may certainly ask for and desire the gifts.

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The Hope Of Glory

God had given Israel a hope. He had given them an expectation that was for a future time. He declared it to them in ceremonies, feasts, offerings and by the prophets. Their lives were in expectation of something to come. So when THE TIME came and God finally spoke in His Son summing up in Him their hope (Heb. 1:1-2), most of them rejected Him.

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Do you have to be Baptized to be saved?

Now when they heard this [the gospel], they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do [to be saved]?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins (Cp. 3: 16); and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

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Revival Prayers for Dayspring

We are not looking for the Toronto Blessing or the Brownsville revival but we are looking for the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and whatever they have for Dayspring Christian Fellowship for today here and now.

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