God uses my wife, Cathy, in mysterious ways. It's so mysterious I don't even understand it. All I know is that my wife has been given the ministry of tears. She can't open her mouth to preach a sermon without crying. She gets very emotional when she preaches. Let...
Did you know that I once got lost in downtown Los Angeles in the middle of the night? It's true; I really got lost in the middle of downtown LA! I had just preached a meeting and was being driven into downtown Los Angeles at about midnight when my driver and I got...
St. Valentine's Day has grown to symbolize the world's view of love—kisses, chocolate candy, romantic music, poems and pledges of devotion. It represents love's softest, most gentle side. It's sweet but not too strong. In reality, nothing could be further from the...
Every New Year's Day, Cathy and I get up and go into our dining room, which is the finest room in our home. There, among the candles and flowers, we take Holy Communion and tell the Lord, "We will sail past the landmarks that marked the past year." We mark every...
I thought I'd share a funny little story with you. A while back a man approached me with a strange question. He'd heard me make references to my heritage before, and so he approached me with a curious look on his face and began to ask a few questions. "You're a...
One of the tricks of the devil is to try and convince believers that God is caught by surprise by the devil's attack on their lives. He whispers that God hasn't figured out what to do about your situation. He insinuates to you that God is sitting up in Heaven...
This is an excerpt from Jesse's book, "Heaven - Close Encounters Of The God Kind" in which he tells of the wonderful things he learned during his trip to heaven in 1988. When I was with Paul in Heaven, I was so excited to be with a man who did so much to teach us...
The only way to stand in the strength of God is to spend time with Him. This intimate fellowship with Jesus will sustain you through any storm this life may bring. I was in the Atlanta airport and the devil was really irritating me. I was standing in line waiting...
When God sent Jesus to the earth, He expected a harvest—a body of believers called Christians—to come out of the seed sown called Christ. Jesus was God's seed. Christ was sowed, and Christians are continuing to be harvested. You and I are the very fruit of God, and...
When I first got out into the ministry, I faced some pretty hard times. But I was just happy to be serving Jesus. I was so glad to be in the ministry that it really didn't matter how rough it got. Let me tell you, it did get rough, but I was still able to enjoy...
Have you ever had somebody come up to you and say, "Uh, excuse me, but the Lord gave me a word for you?" How many of you have ever had that happen to you? The first thing your mind does when you hear that is to look at the person giving the word and see if they...
We, the Church, are the hand of the Lord. It is through us that others find out how much God loves them. It never occurred to me before that the Lord needs us, but we are His plan to reach others. When I saw the tears in Jesus' eyes as He thought about having to...
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