In the early stages of our Christian life, we do not watch with Jesus, we watch for Him. We do not watch with Him through the revealed truth of the Bible even in the circumstances of our own lives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
“You are not your own” (1 Corinthians 6:19). To say, “I am not my own,” is to have reached a high point in my spiritual stature. The true nature of that life in actual everyday confusion is evidenced by the deliberate giving up of myself to another Person through a sovereign decision, and that Person is Jesus Christ. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
You can never set apart for God something that you desire for yourself to achieve your own satisfaction. If you try to satisfy yourself with a blessing from God, it will corrupt you. You must sacrifice it, pouring it out to God— something that your common sense says is an absurd waste. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Jesus did not say, “He who believes in Me will realize all the blessings of the fullness of God,” but, in essence, “He who believes in Me will have everything he receives escape out of him.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Revelation 21:1-9 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Today we have far too many desires and interests, and our lives are being consumed and wasted by them. Many of them may be right, noble, and good, and may later be fulfilled, but in the meantime God must cause their importance to us to decrease. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
What was the joy that Jesus had? Joy should not be confused with happiness. In fact, it is an insult to Jesus Christ to use the word happiness in connection with Him. The joy of Jesus was His absolute self-surrender and self-sacrifice to His Father— the joy of doing that which the Father sent Him to do— “…who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross…” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support...
Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.LUKE 10:20 Jesus Christ is saying here, “Don’t rejoice in your successful service for Me, but rejoice because of your right relationship with Me.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Revelation 20:1-15 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Every time you venture out in your life of faith, you will find something in your circumstances that, from a commonsense standpoint, will flatly contradict your faith. But common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense. In fact, they are as different as the natural life and the spiritual. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Prayer is not a normal part of the life of the natural man. We hear it said that a person’s life will suffer if he doesn’t pray, but I question that. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God in him, which is nourished not by food, but by prayer. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mountaintop with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into darkness. “If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:23). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
There are times in our lives when our peace is based simply on our own ignorance. But when we are awakened to the realities of life, true inner peace is impossible unless it is received from Jesus. When our Lord speaks peace, He creates peace, because the words that He speaks are always “spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support...
We will never know the joy of self-sacrifice until we surrender in every detail of our lives. Yet self-surrender is the most difficult thing for us to do. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Revelation 19:15-21 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?MATTHEW 7:9 The illustration of prayer that our Lord used here is one of a good child who is asking for something good. We talk about prayer as if God hears us regardless of what our relationship is to Him (see Matthew 5:45). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Jesus did not say, “Dream about your Father who is in the secret place,” but He said, “…pray to your Father who is in the secret place….” Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray. We cannot seem to get our minds into good working order, and the first thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support...
Revelation 19:10-16 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Have I ever come to the point in my life where I can say, “I indeed…but He…”? Until that moment comes, I will never know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit means. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
The preaching of today tends to point out a person’s strength of will or the beauty of his character— things that are easily noticed. The statement we so often hear, “Make a decision for Jesus Christ,” places the emphasis on something our Lord never trusted. He never asks us to decide for Him, but to yield to Him— something very different. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support...
Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
God intends for us to live a well-rounded life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside. Then we tend to fall back into self-examination, a habit that we thought was gone. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Have you ever been there? Has God’s Word ever come to you, pointing out an area of your life, requiring you to yield it to Him? Maybe He has pointed out certain personal qualities, desires, and interests, or possibly relationships of your heart and mind. If so, then you have often been speechless with sorrow. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Have you ever heard the Master say something very difficult to you? If you haven’t, I question whether you have ever heard Him say anything at all. Jesus says a tremendous amount to us that we listen to, but do not actually hear. And once we do hear Him, His words are harsh and unyielding. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
Does He Know Me: When I have sadly misunderstood Him?Does He Know Me: When I have stubbornly doubted? Does He Know Me: When I have selfishly denied Him? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
The answer to Nicodemus’ question, “How can a man be born when he is old?” is: Only when he is willing to die to everything in his life, including his rights, his virtues, and his religion, and becomes willing to receive into himself a new life that he has never before experienced (John 3:4). This new life exhibits itself in our conscious repentance and through our unconscious holiness. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support...
Revelation 19:1-9 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
If our experience of being set apart from sin and being made holy through the process of sanctification is still very shallow, we tend to mistake the reality of God for something else. And when the Spirit of God gives us a sense of warning or restraint, we are apt to say mistakenly, “Oh, that must be from the devil.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze— so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowship and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench it, and your spiritual life will be impaired. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support...
When we are afraid, the least we can do is pray to God. But our Lord has a right to expect that those who name His name have an underlying confidence in Him. God expects His children to be so confident in Him that in any crisis they are the ones who are reliable. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dhlministries/support
