philippians-2:8-11

"The Triumph of the Cross!" What a seeming contradiction! The Cross--beatings, mockings, injustice, false accusations, excruciating pain, death. But also triumph! Satan defeated, Salvation provided, resurrection, ascension, enthronement! We Christians who live almost 2000 years after all this took p... Read More

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise" (Ps. 51:17). "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to rev... Read More

"God hath highly exalted (Christ), and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow...and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2:9-11). Preeminently, all true revival is about God bringing glory b... Read More

There are three great motives that urge us to humility. It becomes me as a creature, as a sinner, as a saint. Humility as a creature we see in the heavenly hosts, in unfallen man, in Jesus as Son of Man. Humility as a sinner appeals to us in our fallen state, and points out the only way through whic... Read More

"[God] having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, whether things in earth or things in heaven" (Colossians 1:20). The Apostle Paul uses here an expression of deep significance -- "the blood of His cross." We know how greatly he valued the e... Read More

"I am in the midst of you as he that serveth" (Luke 22:27). In the Gospel of John we have the inner life of our Lord laid open to us. Jesus speaks frequently of His relation to the Father, of the motives by which He is guided, of His consciousness of the power and spirit in which He acts. Though the... Read More

God’s Word has an essential role in all aspects of your prayer life. Your communion with God will be based on and include much communion through the Word. Your praise must of necessity make much use of Scripture as you praise the Lord. Whatever time you spend on your devotional life, surely about ha... Read More

"...But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself...he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him" (Hebrews 9:26-28). One of the clearest and most important messages of the New Testa... Read More

Can do (2480) (ischuo from ischus = might) means to be strong in body or in resources. Ischuo can speak of physical power (Mk 2:17, 5:4, 9:12). It can speak of having the required personal resources to accomplish some objective as here in Php 4:13 or conversely with the negative speaks of that which... Read More

Be on alert (1127) (gregoreuo from egeiro = to arise, arouse) means to be watchful or to refrain from physical sleep. Later gregoreuo came to used in the moral and religious sphere and was used to call for one to be on the alert, in a constant state of readiness and vigilant (alertly watchful especi... Read More