“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” James 5:16 (NIV)
The Pepto-Bismol colored blanket draped my shoulders, my legs crisscrossed over the sterile hospital bed. My body racked with sobs of unco
Read more…"Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel." - Philippians 1:12
Are your life circumstances advancing the gospel? Can you see the Lord's hand in your life in such a way that all of your li
Read more…But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. —2 Timothy 4:5
A number of factors contribute to bad spiritual leadershift.
The economic squeeze. The Protestant ministry is notoriously unde
Read more…In the early morning hours of February 12th, I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit unlike anything I have ever personally experienced before. As I have sat with the Lord regarding the meaning of this encounter, He has graciously revealed the interp
Read more…"It's time to emerge!" I heard Holy Spirit shout this phrase into my spirit as we crossed over into a new season. Immediately I thought of Lazarus, as Jesus called Lazarus out of the grave, despite the unbelief of others. By all appearance's sake, La
Read more…For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to
Read more…Thus says the Lord: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me...." —Jeremiah 9:23-24
It is t
Read more…Lord Byron's Statue
Balaam said, "I have sinned;" but yet he went on with his sin afterward. One of the strangest characters of the whole world is Balaam. I have often marveled at that man; he seems really in another sense to have come up to the line
In this teaching Jim Rohn talked about the children of Israel murmuring, complaining, and always speaking negatively. Why do you think they were ever happy?
Do you think this ancient spirit of murmuring and complaining, are what is in the people tod
“Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses.” 2 Corinthians 6:4 (NIV)
Have you ever walked into church or Bible study, surveyed the women around and thought …
Oh, she’s the
Read more…“Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. Peter looked stra
Read more…“But we are your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.” Psalm 79:13 (ESV)
I wake, my first thoughts shouting the same worry I slumbered with. The concern so deep
Read more…"If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more." - Philippians 3:4b
The apostle Paul surely could relate to the business executive. Paul reached the height of his profession only to have it completely stripped and
Read more…Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.—1 Timothy 4:12
This problem of personal identity not infrequently troubles the faithful minister. The congregation has ca
Read more…Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.—John 17:24
I believe that a pastor who is content with a vineyard
Read more…Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.—Hebrews 12:1
The lesson that comes to
Read more…Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.—2 Corinthians 3:5
That is the difference between Christianity and all the Oriental cults and religions. All cult religions try to
Read more…Have you ever experienced or dealt with any one of these negative energies and forces, that try to block your happiness?
Which one of these stumbling blocks is a hindrance in your family or bloodline?
What are you going to do differently, then you
Read more…Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead)....—Galatians 1:1
Conformity to the Word of God is always right, but having obedience to religious leaders is good only if thos
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