Devotions
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...
We Can All Be Fishers of Men
Mark 1:17 (NLT) Jesus called out to them, “Come, be my disciples, and I will show you how to fish for people!” The first two disciples Jesus called were Simon (Peter) and his brother Andrew. They were fishermen by profession, so Jesus told them something they could...
Obedience Pays Off
Centuries before Jesus came to the earth, God’s people, the Hebrews (or Israelites), were captives in Egypt. God told Moses to guide the people out of Egypt and into the Promised Land. After leaving Egypt, Moses sent twelves spies into the Promised Land to...
“I Am Willing”
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us...