What is a house of prayer? It is a place of fellowship, communication and intimacy with God. God desired that His physical temple be a place of communion with Himself, a place where He could fellowship with man.
There are some beautiful parallels between God’s temple in Jerusalem and His temple within the heart and life of every believer. God’s heart for every believer is that they become a temple in which He dwells — where communion between God and man takes place!
Not only did Jesus Christ humble Himself to take on humanity, but He went beyond that and “took upon Him the form of a servant” (Phil. 2:7).
Have you noticed how easy it is to serve with a motivation to be accepted or recognized by others? This is something we need to watch out for and ask God to purify us from.
Man finds his ultimate fulfillment in life when he lives out his created purpose. We were created to live for something bigger than ourselves — better said, we were created to live for Someone bigger than ourselves.
The more we see how God’s kingdom works, the more we will notice that His ways are opposite to man’s ways! Man’s way of leadership is seeking to be served. God’s way of leadership is that we seek to serve and put others’ needs above our own.
He went into the U.S. military space program as an atheist — he left it as a believer in Jesus and a creationist. Listen as Spike shares how the evidence for creation led him to put his faith in the Creator.
How do you practically love your spouse? or what should you do when they don’t seem to be meet the needs that you have?