What to Understand Before Water Baptism
Sadly, many more people are baptized than really ought to be baptized. And far too many individuals receive water baptism short of an intention that reasonably matches God’s intention regarding it.
Water baptism signifies a separation of one thing from something else forever…
Take Courage in this Early Season
John speaks of how we are in an early season yet of the recovery of the Church as His Body, in which the potential of every single believer can begin to be realized. Being there before the crowd takes a certain amount of courage and a certain amount of discipline and much persistence and constancy.
Think Less About Provisions Than About Purposes
John speaks about how God’s provisions promised to us are not primary, but His purposes for us are. If we seek his purposes, we won’t cheat ourselves out of the most that we can be in Christ. As we go for what God has for us to be and to be about, He will provide in His own way.
War is Waged With Words
The contest between the Lord and the devil as it affects men is waged largely with words. All through history, the Lord and the devil have made their contest upon the consciousness of men by words. Satan is aware of the critical importance of the possession and control and especially the mass distribution of his word and his counsel. And Christians in America at this time are failing in keeping the circulation of the word of God up in circulation.
The River of God’s Purpose
The stream of God’s purpose, which began back in the thin and perilous places, all hidden from men, is widening into a river whose waters will gladden the hearts of [men and women] brought into a liberating relationship to the Savior.... Will you get into the river of God’s purpose? Or will you watch it go by?