Jesus and the Bible are both completely reliable and trustworthy.

The Father gives us promises.
The Word reveals the promises.
The man or woman of God proclaims and teaches the promises.
Jesus suffered and died to pay for the promises.
The Spirit enables us to walk in and claim the promises.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit equips us to serve God, serve others and to understand the Bible.

God has assigned pastors to help lead you to maturity and stability through challenges and encouragement.

You have enemies of your peace and joy. They include unstableness, selfishness, gossip and anxiety. Pastors or spiritual leaders are workers for your joy.

Life is unstable and unpredictable. You never know what's coming, but you can know Who is coming. Joy is not in where you've been, joy is Who is waiting at the end.

For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, does not waver between "Yes" and "No." He is the one whom Silas, Timothy, and I preached to you, and as God's ultimate "Yes," he always does what he says.

It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

God will do this, for he is faithful to do what he says, and he has invited you into partnership with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.

If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny who he is.

Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True,

It is God who enables us, along with you, to stand firm for Christ. He has commissioned us,

1 "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,

16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written: 18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." 20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Therefore Herr says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men."

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ

For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.