As we have covered, there is a principle of biblical interpretation called “the principle of first mention.” This principle (not law) states that wherever something is mentioned the first time in Scripture, there is usually a basic revelation of its purpose. For example, the first time the word “...

If you’re a parent of more than one child, it is likely that one of the great enigmas in your life is how two children who came from the same two parents can be born so different in nature. Then, we need to consider how we all have the same heavenly Father, yet every human being is so different!...

To be the dwelling place of God is our highest calling. For us to stay on point, our main focus must not be on who we are called to be but on who He is and how we conform to His image. We are changed by beholding His glory, not our own. We need to know our calling and be devoted to it, but our main...

Buildings and programs are not the temple of the Lord; His people are. We don’t go to church; we are the church 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our structures and organizations will never be a substitute for what He called His church to be. Only His people can be this church. As we have covered...

Knowledge of the Lord is a treasure of uncountable value. Our calling is likewise an unfathomable honor of the highest value. It is, “the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the...

We must be born again to see the kingdom, but not all who are born again see it. They can, but they don’t. Why? That is an important question that needs to be addressed for all who are about to be born again, and for all who have been in the past but still do not see the kingdom. We must see—and...

Abraham was apparently a member of the aristocracy of perhaps the most interesting nation and culture in the world at the time. He left it, and his family, to seek the city that God is building. As great as the things that man has accomplished are, none of them can compare to what God is building...

There has been a long time of rest since the last great wave of the Holy Spirit, but He is about to start moving again, as will those who follow Him. As stated before, and as we have overwhelming historical and biblical precedent for, we can expect many who have become comfortable in their present...

We should keep in mind that the “old wineskins” of today were yesterday’s “new wineskins.” Those who stop moving with the Spirit and settle into what they perceive to be comfortable places develop a rigid unwillingness to embrace what is new. This can happen to any of us, and it will as soon as we...

We are in the prep stages of the next move of God. The spirit of Elijah is preparing the way for Jesus to move in again, and we can expect it to prepare the way just as it did through John the Baptist. John didn’t preach about himself but the One coming who was greater . We’re not here to preach...