‘Hold firm’ can also be translated, ‘hold out the word of life’. We shine as we speak the gospel message...

How are you going to ‘hold onto the word of life’? How are you going to take in God’s Word so as to pray it and live it?

“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice..."

Grumbling and complaining will make us dark stars. These behaviours are symptomatic of unbelief

The devil wants us isolated from one another and to make us believe that we are isolated from God.

We should all have a big vision of Jesus and hearts filled with awe that He has served us in such a way

Let’s take Jesus at His word and ‘turn around to see the voice speaking to me’. Ask The Spirit to speak through His word to you today.

God, through Paul, is reminding us that we have been loved and served by Jesus who is God and is truly worthy of our service.

Are we filled with encouragement from the truths of God’s tenderness and compassion?

The Philippians were being opposed because they were out of step with the culture in this Roman colony.

To live as citizens means that we ‘strive together as one for the faith of the gospel’.

‘Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”’

Citizens of heaven love unity. We are urged to ‘stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one…’

The verb ‘conduct’ means (literally) to “live as citizens.”

Joy comes from standing on what we know, and we know that life and death are doors to joy and service.

Are you standing on what you know? Do you know and rejoice in the certainty of your salvation?

‘A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.”' (Luke 9:35)

Paul, in his imprisonment, trusted in the availability and strengthening of the Holy Spirit.

Paul was in very perplexing circumstances and yet he knew that He could speak to his Father about anything.

Paul’s attitude reveals that he is trusting in the ability of God to overrule those who would...