Devotions
The Muscle of God
“I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you” (John 16:7). I have found that most Christians seem to think the first time the Holy...
Full Assurance Of Hope
“And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end.” (Heb. 6:11 NASB) Believing God would be easy if it was instant. If we always saw the answer as soon as we asked, trusting God...
Listen to Your Spirit
For we walk by faith, not by sight. (2 Cor. 5:7) Sight is one of the five physical senses. We could say, “We walk by faith, not by our physical senses.” I’m not preaching something to you that I don’t do myself. I mean, I’ve been in...
What Are You Believing?
“…For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh” (Luke 6:45). You can sometimes find out why a person is struggling in faith just by listening to him for a few minutes. For instance, people have come up to me after being prayed for in a...
Change Directions and Break Out
“You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north” (Deut. 2:3 NASB). Have you ever felt that you were going around in circles really getting nowhere? How would you feel discovering that you were leading two million people in forty laps around...
True Worshippers Esteem God’s Word
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves” (James 1:22 KJV). If you are a true worshiper of God you highly esteem the Word of God. You recognize that the Word comes from God and that no word from God is void of power....
New Creation
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature [creation]: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). I’m glad I’m a new creature. I was only fifteen when I was born again, but I remember...
Real Intercession
“And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor” (Isa. 59:16). When somebody hurts us, our natural human reaction is to strike back…to ask God to clobber them. But that’s not God’s way. I realized that one...
Distractions and Detours
The kingdom of darkness has a mission to distract and detour us from the will of God. He can succeed by simply keeping us busy doing things other than what God has directed us to do. When we get busy with other things we will not live the abundant life God has...
By the Spirit of God
…Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. (Zech. 4:6) When I was in Louisville, Kentucky, a woman came up to me at a church service and said, “There is a woman in my prayer group who has cancer of both lungs. She has lapsed...