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A Vital Foundational Truth

Speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
(Ephesians 4:15 NIV)

We know of many children of God
who have been the Lords children for years and they have
been working for the Lord many of them, and yet they have come to
a standstill; they have...

Bible Verses: Ephesians 4:15

Abounding in Love

May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for
everyone else, just as ours does for you. (1 Thessalonians 3:12 NIV)

Love for those of our own company may not be so difficult. But the Word
adds "and toward all men." That goes deeper. I have of late felt more deeply and...

Bible Verses: 1 Thessalonians 3:12 1 Corinthians 8:1 Ephesians 4:16

Oneness in Christ

Strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of the Spirit in the binding power of peace.
(Ephesians 4:3 AMP)

Oneness in Christ as a Body fitly framed together is what is portrayed. How
is this perfect unity reached? By all that is individual and personal being
left, by the Lord being the focal center, and by our giving diligence to
maintain the...

Bible Verses: Ephesians 4:3

The Perfecting of Holiness

Let our lives lovingly express truth in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him. (Ephesians 4:15 AMP)

Any system of religion that just puts on from
the outside, and covers over the inner life by mere rite and ritual is false, it

Bible Verses: Ephesians 4:15

"His Great Love"

Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way
into Him who is the Head. (Ephesians 4:15 ESV)

Things may be taking a new and different shape, but the
purpose of God is the same. We may be presented with His vision in new and
further-on aspects, but it is only what He originally meant. Can we adjust? Can
we leave "the things that are behind"? Without raising...

Bible Verses: Ephesians 4:15

You were enriched in everything by Him.

When we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. § He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the...

Bible Verses: 1 Corinthians 1:5 Romans 5:6 Romans 8:32 Colossians 2:9 Colossians 2:10 John 15:4 John 15:5 Romans 7:18 Ephesians 4:7 John 15:7 Colossians 3:16

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.

The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love. § Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. § The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and...

Bible Verses: Galatians 5:22 Exodus 34:6 Ephesians 4:1 Ephesians 4:2 Ephesians 4:32 James 3:17 1 Corinthians 13:4 Galatians 6:9 James 5:7 James 5:8

As the body is one and has many members . . . so also is Christ.

He is the head of the body, the church. § Head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. § We are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.A body You have prepared for Me. § Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.They were Yours, You gave them to Me. § He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world....

Bible Verses: 1 Corinthians 12:12 Colossians 1:18 Ephesians 1:22 Ephesians 1:23 Ephesians 5:30 Hebrews 10:5 Psalms 139:16 John 17:6 Ephesians 1:4 Romans 8:29 Ephesians 4:15 Ephesians 4:16