As we trust God to give us wisdom for today’s decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.
– Theodore Epp
Trust | Wisdom | The Future
When God forgives, He at once restores.
– Theodore Epp
Forgiveness | Restoration
God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task.
– Theodore Epp
Responsibility | Evangelism
Where do you stand in your relationship with the Lord? People often say, God is good to me, by which they mean that they have experienced good health or prosperity. What a person possesses is not always a safe measure of his dedication to the Lord.
– Theodore Epp
Prosperity | Health
Light reveals righteousness, and it also reveals sin.
– Theodore Epp
Light | Righteousness | Sin
Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart.
– Theodore Epp
The Tongue | The Heart
Bible-believing churches and pastors could well apply this principle of pointing out faults without offending. We need to be careful that we do not let a carnal spirit divide us and hurt us so the Lord finds it difficult to use us.
– Theodore Epp
Church | Carnality
First John 3:16 shows that true love is climaxed by our being willing to lay down our lives for fellow believers.
– Theodore Epp
Love | Relationships | Sacrifice
Perhaps we have been guilty of speaking against someone and have not realized how it may have hurt them. Then when someone speaks against us, we suddenly realize how deeply such words hurt, and we become sensitive to what we have done.
– Theodore Epp
Gossip
We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. This is true positionally, but it can be made true in our spiritual life only as we yield to the Holy Spirit’s control.
– Theodore Epp
The Holy Spirit | Surrender
Because the Scriptures say that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him, we need not conclude that a murderer cannot be saved. He can be if he will come to Christ and receive Him as Savior.
– Theodore Epp
Salvation | Murder | Eternal Life
The new life is life “in Christ”.
– Theodore Epp
Conversion
We are so easily entangled in earthly affairs and so easily consumed with the desire for those things that do not last. We will not live on this earth forever, so even our trials should be viewed in the light of eternity.
– Theodore Epp
Life | Eternity | Trials
Many people hear the Word of God, but to some of them it is only words; they do not accept it as the Word of God. What a paradox it is that all creation obeys His Word except we who are made in the image of God and have the ability to choose.
– Theodore Epp
Scripture | Apathy
If you have been mistreated, cheated or deceived and if your heart has been right all along, be assured that God knows this. God will eventually vindicate you, but in the meantime you should be confidently aware that God knows the truth concerning what has happened to you. He knows if your heart has been right.
– Theodore Epp
Justice | The Heart
It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.
– Theodore Epp
Christians | Apathy
The Lord made it very plain in the New Testament that believers cannot escape reaping the kind of harvest they sow. We cannot hide our sin; we will not get away with it. The secrets of the night are not hidden from God.
– Theodore Epp
Rebellion | Justice
The lesson for each believer is to humble himself, not to wait for the Lord to humble him.
– Theodore Epp
Humility
Perhaps God has been speaking to you and you wonder why you have troubles. Maybe you have suffered a financial loss and you find it very difficult to understand. Is God speaking to you in an effort to bring you back to Himself? You need to face these matters squarely and be honest with God as He deals with you.
– Theodore Epp
Struggles
We should never think that once we have given some money and time to the Lord that the rest is ours to do with as we please. All that we have belongs to God, so He should be taken into consideration in everything we do.
– Theodore Epp
Stewardship | Money
No believer lives a spiritually isolated life.
– Theodore Epp
Christians
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.
– Theodore Epp
Holiness