Retro

Have you ever noticed that Jesus never complained about whatever situation He found Himself in? Even at Gethsemane He asked if the cup could pass from Him, but He didn’t complain. In the end, He simply reaffirmed His total surrender to whatever the Father wanted. Several times in the gospel of John Jesus said that […]

What does it mean to do something in Jesus name: to pray for someone to be healed in Jesus’s name, or to simply pray to the Father in Jesus’ name, or to minister the word in the name of Jesus? We get some real insight from the healing of the man by the gate beautiful

Acts 10:1-5 NASB [1] … Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, a [2] a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually. [3] About the ninth hour

The word “eternal” comes from the Greek word that simply means “age.” Throughout the New Testament, the writers referred to “this age” and “the age to come.” The age to come is obviously a reference to the time of the kingdom of heaven’s full manifestation on the earth. We are living in the now time

What does it look like to see through the eyes of Jesus? What does this world look like to Him? Does He only see the evil, or does He see more? How does He see people? Does He only see the brokenness, or does He see more? Does He see the kingdom of darkness prevailing,

Galatians 2:4; “But it was because of the false brethren who had sneaked into spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.” Galatians 5:1, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefor keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke

Joel 3:14 NASB  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Whenever you find yourself in an emotional or spiritual valley it is usually because the day of the Lord is near. Whenever you are about to break through into a place where

1 Corinthians 1:2 NASB To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: The word “holy” is where we get the word sanctified, and

1 Corinthians 2:7 NASB  but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; Instead of the word wisdom, you could insert the word “plan.” The plan that God had, to undo the consequences of the Fall of man, is the wisdom that Paul is

Genesis 1:26 NASBThen God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 2 Corinthians 4:4,6