And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you,...

And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power… Matthew 10:1 We can learn some important things from men like Moses and Samuel about responding correctly to the call of the Lord. The first one is this: when you sense the Spirit’s call, go to...

My son, give me your heart …. Proverbs 23:26 Prayer works.Do you know anybody who believes that?Sure you do, and so do I.I know Christians who believe it and non-Christians who believe it. In fact, as I’ve traveled around the world, I’ve seen for myself that...

The way of the slothful man is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the upright is a highway.Proverbs 15:19 The Bible doesn’t tell us to prepare in the wilderness a path for our God. It doesn’t tell us to pray for a little opening so that Jesus can sneak through...

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God…. Psalm 42:1–2 After more than 30 years of ministry, I’m convinced that if we want to pray Spirit-led prayers, we must be Spirit-fed pray-ers. We...

… do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.(Ps. 4:4) God’s Old Covenant people knew a great deal about meditation. He taught them about it when He brought them out of Egypt and said: … You shall lay up these words of mine in your...

If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes … because you did not know the time of your visitation.Luke 19:42, 44 If you’ll learn to watch and be sensitive and obedient, you...

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.Hebrews 13:15 KJV Notice that verse says it is by Him—by the Lord Jesus and by the indwelling Spirit of God—that we offer up our...

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk...

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.(Gal. 5:25) In the spirit. The Lord has been speaking that phrase again and again to my heart in recent times. It’s a familiar phrase to me. Over the years, I’ve studied and preached a lot about the...