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Psalm 34:8 (NASB) Taste and see that the LORD is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This invitation to taste and see, is, in other words, an invitation to come and prove by experience the truth, that the Lord is good... For the heart tasting by experience...

Proverbs 24:16a (NASB) For a righteous person falls seven times and rises again, ............ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The falling is not being spoken against, but the rising is applauded... For times of missing the mark shall be experienced, it is in the rising, in the turning back and the...

Replace not fix... Jesus said; you must be born again.. Scripture says; that we might walk in newness of life.. This new life is a replacement not a fix of the life we were born into when we were born into the life of this world... This new life, from the moment of the new birth, till one...

Romans 7:6 (NASB) But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘that we serve in newness of the Spirit’ Let me change one word here and see if it has a ring...

How many of God’s children long to be established in Christ.. Their hearts ache after the hope of one day being so established in Him, that come what may, their foundation is so secure it can and will weather all... Be it known, that this establishment which the heart craves after, God’s heart...

Colossians 3:23-24(NASB) Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for people, knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘from the Lord you will receive’ God being the...

2 Corinthians 10:5 (NKJV) casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As one learns to reckon oneself dead to sin and alive unto God at all times, the mind...

Hebrews 11:25 (NASB) choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘the temporary pleasures of sin’ If sin is evil why is it that evil has any pleasure in it at all? Shouldn’t evil be, dark, cruel and full of...

Colossians 2:11 (NASB) and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘a circumcision performed without hands’ What is this circumcision that is performed without...

Philippians 4:1 (NASB) Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture puts forth that we are each other’s joy and crown... Joy, because there is nothing more joyful then seeing...

2 Chronicles 16:9a (NASB) “For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth, so that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. ..............................” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ God loves righteousness... As one pursues righteousness one quickly starts to see God’s hand in...

Ezekiel 36:27 (NKJV) “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do [them.] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The question put forth is; ‘Would God promise to do something for one, that one could do for oneself ?’ Seeing the answer to...

1 Thessalonians 3:7b (NASB) ..................we were comforted about you through your faith; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To taste the faith of a fellow believer is a strength and a confirmation to the believing heart... For the Christ in one does recognize the Christ in another.... In scripture this...

In the learning of Christ does the inner man grow... As the love of Christ is tasted and experienced, it is discovered that all things in this life are a means to this end; ~The growing of Christ in one by the manifestation of the love of God in one.~ For God is an eternal will to all...

1 Timothy 3:9 (NASB) but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 1 Corinthians 1:21b (NASB) ................................to save those who believe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are saved by faith, we are saved by believing something so outlandish, that there is nothing a man...

Colossians 1:5b-6 (NASB) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~heard in the word of truth, the gospel which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth...

2 Thessalonians 3:8 (NASB) nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘so we would not be a burden to any of you’ Not being a burden to another is an act of...

Deuteronomy 28:2 (NKJV) “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘shall.... overtake........ because.... obey..’ One does not need to worry about being blessed by God.... For as one obeys, will the...

Romans 15:13 (NASB) Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Faith brings joy, walking and living by faith brings in a joy that is undeniable and unstoppable... The world may fall...

Reckoning from an absolute.. The teaching of reckoning oneself dead is widely known, and widely tried.. And in many cases is met with frustration at what seems to be a teaching that doesn’t produce the effects that the teaching itself says are it’s fruits.. This is because this teaching, as...