If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9. There must be confession with the mouth. Have I made it? Have I openly avowed my faith in Jesus as the Savior whom God has raised from the dead, and have I done…
Read MoreYet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. Isaiah 53:10. Our Lord Jesus has not died in vain. His death was sacrificial: He died as our substitute, because death was…
Read MoreAnd God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Exodus 3:12. Of course, if the Lord sent Moses on an errand, He would not let him go alone.…
Read MoreAnd everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord calls. Joel 2:32. Why do I not call on His name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that when God is so near and will hear my faintest call?…
Read MoreBut God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish. Psalm 9:18. Poverty is a hard heritage; but those who trust in the Lord are made rich by faith. They know that they are not forgotten of God, and though it may seem that they are overlooked in His providential distribution of good things,…
Read More“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28. We who are saved find rest in Jesus. Those who are not saved will receive rest if they come to Him, for here He promises to “give” it. Nothing can be freer than a gift; let us gladly accept…
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