God knows our heart therefore we might as well be honest with Him.  If we have not received answers to our prayers, perhaps we need to take a close look at ourselves.  We know that God still answers prayer—that is not debatable.  We know that He still performs miracles and that is not debatable.  We know that some people still get through all of the “stuff” of this life to get to God for the miracles that they need. 

When Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again it was beyond the man to comprehend even as it is to modern man. Nicodemus would later come to understand and would become a follower of Christ. If you don’t know Christ in the full pardon of your sins; just watch those who truly believe.

People today believe the concept of individual autonomy. Truth has been relegated to “whatever is true for me is true.” Because the possibility of absolute truth has been widely rejected, people now depend on “personal truth.” But we can’t make up for the loss of absolute truth by creating our own truth. We are simply wrong too often.

It may be easy to refrain from harming others, but it is much more difficult to take the initiative in doing something good for them. The Golden Rule is the foundation of active goodness and mercy—the kind of love God shows to us every day.

Jesus wants us to place our trust in God during trying times and to pray for deliverance from Satan (the evil one) and his deceit. Some of you have been through, what seemed to be the darkest times of your life and you have, perhaps, wondered where God was in all of it.

Is it a sin to have money? NO! Is it a sin to love money? Again, NO! Is it a sin to put money in a more important place in one’s life rather than God? Absolutely YES! So, how do we balance our need for God and our need for money?