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...

And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh … I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath ….(Acts 2:17, 19) We are living in the final hours of this age. God’s mighty plan is about to...

These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.Matthew 15:8 One of the primary ways to get in the spirit is to put our attention more fully on the Lord. That means setting our thoughts on Him, focusing...

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”1 Samuel 16:7 The heart means...

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.Romans 13:12 No doubt, my dear, praying friend, you are already taking the light of the Gospel to those around you. You are already...

Give to the Lord, O kindreds of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! 1 Chron. 16:28–29 There is just something about...

Now a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company of men.” And Joram said, “Get a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’” So the horseman went to meet him, and said,...