What a love have we that Jesus gave it all so we could live. What an amazing freedom I have found in His cross. I melt at His awesome name and tears well up in my eyes when I think about His goodness. I am so undeserving, but yet He saw different. I cannot earn what He has done, nor prove through actions that I am worthy. I used to try and prove my love through actions. This doesn’t work. You see, I had taken the verse “If you love Me, you will keep My commands” and I had used it as some sort of burden to prove my love. The truth is: His love revealed compels me. All I need to do I love Christ. Yes, because the more I love Him, the...

God is never moved by pride, but it is with humbleness that God’s heart is moved. We know very little about Jabez in the Bible. 1Ch 4:9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez and said, “I gave birth to him in pain.” 10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel: “If only You would bless me, extend my border, let Your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will not cause any pain.” And God granted his request. Most preachers use verse ten to explain the story of Jabez out of context to back up their prosperity Gospel. The prosperity message is not the Gospel at all, but many...