Not awakening love before it pleases does not mean we wait around for it to happen. It means that we dare not rush into love until we are ready to handle it responsibly.
Have you learned to look for the good that God is working to bring out of your tribulations?
Your faith is a gift. Thank God today for choosing to renew your heart and pray earnestly that He would do the same to a non-believing friend.
We all must equip ourselves to defend the faith. Yet in our defense we must be gentle, avoiding the temptation to be pridefully harsh or overtly contentious.
R.C. Sproul analyzes unanswered prayer and asks us to remember the Lord when we go before Him. He will not give us stones when we ask Him for bread.
In today’s typical estimation of ministry efficiency, Philip would have been best-suited to minister among the Samaritans or evangelize in the Greek-speaking cities. But God sent him to a divine appointment with a single man.
