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Know God and Understand Him More

February 17, 2020August 7, 2016 by Jun P. Espina

Both the Ph.D. and the unschooled believe they know God. That’s why most people don’t like to attend a Bible Study. “Don’t teach us religion, for we too believe in God; we have our own religion; we don’t need your sermon!” Yes, that’s how most of us react when the subject is all about the Bible and Christ. But do we know God and understand Him from the Biblical angle?

Mere Shadow Celebration of the Old and Dying

February 17, 2020August 6, 2016 by Jun P. Espina

For I know I’m done with the idea of
thinking about things that don’t last;
fanciful, but fleeting, a mere shadow—
the old and dying don’t anymore celebrate!

God Giving Hope of the Apostle Paul?

February 17, 2020August 5, 2016 by Jun P. Espina

A God giving hope is what we need most in this life. But do we have Him in our heart, the God who is there when everything seems to fall apart? Some believe that hope and despair share the same destination. It is not true with regards to the kind of hope that the Holy Bible is teaching.

Quiet Life by Working Hard — Attend to Your Own Business

December 5, 2019August 4, 2016 by Jun P. Espina

God Himself urged all of us, believers of Christ, to live this kind of an excellent life: “But we urged you, brethren (or Christians), to excel still more.”

Truly Happy and Peaceful in this Life?

February 17, 2020July 17, 2016 by Jun P. Espina

The problem with most rich people starts when money becomes their god—their source of power and protection. Most of them live life in turmoil and confusion. They are not truly happy and peaceful in life. God said that He will add no sorrows to your wealth only if you believe it as God’s blessing to you. “It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it,” says Proverbs. Without faith that God owns everything, then we could never be happy in this life.

Faith in God is Faith in the Unseen Faith is the Conviction of Things Not Seen

November 9, 2022November 23, 2015 by Jun P. Espina

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Updated on November 9th, 2022

For we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7), since faith in God is faith in the unseen. Paul said that we need to walk or live by faith, not by sight. This admonition tells us not just to believe, but to keep on believing in God’s Word and to make it a way of life.

Daniel walked through faith in God. He worshiped Him daily against all odds until he was “cast into the lions’ den” because of his beliefs.

Genuine faith is just like the sun that shines continually beyond the dark, moonless night in some parts of the earth.

The Apostles did not pray to revive their faith (as if it were dead!), but to increase it to maturity.

Scriptures show that Stephen’s faith in our Lord Jesus was strengthened by the rain of stones that killed him.

To walk by faith thus is to live a life based on the “conviction of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1)—and the hope of eternal life in heaven through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Faith in God is faith in the Unseen.