Mindset For Success

Be unceasing and persistent in prayer. - 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (Amplified Bible) Never stop praying - (NLT) Always keep on praying - (Living Bible) Pray continually - (CEB) Pray without ceasing - (KJV) Pray all the time - (Message) Is prayer your first response or your last resort? Fight all your battles on your knees and you'll win every time. - Charles Stanley Is your heart in alignment with God when you pray? You do not have because you do not ask [it of God]. You ask [God for something] and do not receive it, because you ask with wrong motives [out of selfishness or with an unrighteous agenda], so that [when you get what you want] you may spend it on your [hedonistic] desires. - James 4:2b-3 (Amplified Bible) Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to ...

I am the Lord; there is no other God. I have equipped you for battle, though you don’t even know me, so all the world from east to west will know there is no other God. I am the Lord, and there is no other. I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the Lord, am the one who does these things. - Isaiah 45:5-7 (NLT) “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT) Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind: Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line? What supports it...

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God - Ephesians 2:8 (NASB) For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. - 1 Corinthians 1:18 (NASB) Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. - Romans 5:9 (NASB) Salvation has three aspects: • The Past: Justification -  We have been saved from the penalty of sin. • The Present: Sanctification -  We are being saved from the power of sin. • The Future: Glorification -  We will be saved from the presence of sin. The following are excerpts from John MacArthur's sermon Saved or Self-Deceived. In the feeble understandings of the anthropomorphic ideas, there was a moment in eternity when the Father determined to express His infinite and perfect love to the Son. And we can understand that there is an inter-Trinitarian love, the likes of wh...

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ' Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you.' Leave me, you who practice lawlessness. - Matthew 7:21-23 (NASB) There are some who say they are saved before they ever have any sense they are lost. - Arthur Pink The following are excerpts from John MacArthur's sermon Saved or Self-Deceived. When all is said and done in terms of the ministry of the word of God, the most important thing that we do is preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. The most important thing we do is to tell people there is a heaven and there is a hell, and you will spend eternity in heaven or in hell, and then to tell people that there is a way to heaven, guaranteed, absolutely sure,...

So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. - Philippians 2:12-13 (NASB) What is the believer’s role in sanctification, and what is God’s role? The Christian working out, God working in. Paul says to these Philippian believers: you’ve got to work out your salvation. You say, “Now, what does this mean?” Lots of people have been very disturbed by that statement. Some people think that means work for your salvation. Some people think it means work at your salvation. Some people might think it means work up your salvation. But salvation is not by works. You can’t work at it. You can’t work for it. You can’t work it up. “For by grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not of works, lest any man should boast,” Ephesians 2:8-9. Romans 3:21-24 is very cl...