In order to know your labor in Christ gains rest and significance; remember Israel birthed Jesus how rules and protects; overcome Satan’s accusations by Lamb’s blood, word of testimony and lose life for His sake, endure patiently and faithfully by resisting the devil and antichrist; resist deception and compromise in the great tribulation; achieve victory in Christ through…
To see prosperity and influence, one must acknowledge God’s reign, confess sins, exalt Him, humble yourself, trust His sovereignty and protection, and worship the King of Kings. Then God’s kingdom will come in His time to remove prideful leaders and enable you to endure trials. Acknowledge God’s Reign and Confess SinsDaniel revealed to Nebuchadnezzar in…
Give up your friendships, your possessions, your comforts, your ambitions, your reputation, your health and even your life, and you’ll find that God will give it all back to you, “pressed down, shaken together and running over” (Luke 6:38) (A. W. Tozer). God waits for our obedience before He acts. Israel took the first step…
How does the church deal with spiritual, emotional, mental, social and physical devastation in every nation? Jeremiah taught in Jer. 1-6 that you must drink from rivers of living water to empower prayer and fasting for shepherds after God’s heart to disciple biblical illiterate people in every city and nation. Jer. 7-13 explained how to equip…
We wonder why people don’t obey God’s word after hearing it. Certain things must be in place for people to be doers of the word. For disciples to receive God’s word, they must consider His holiness, experience forgiveness of sin, trust God’s protection and presence and reject faith in humankind and their strategies. Consider God’s HolinessIn…
Robert Webber, in his book, The Younger Evangelicals wrote, “The calling of the church in every culture is to be mission. That is, the work of the church is not to be an agent or servant of the culture. The churches’ business is not to maintain freedom or to promote wealth or to help a…
People keep searching for the key to happiness. People fill their lives with so many things: working on a computer, talking on their cell phones, listening to the radio, watching the television, combing our hair, etc. The more multi-tasking one can do the better, we often reason. God has another plan. He wants us to…
Many people have hardened hearts because they haven’t made a distinction between God’s unmistakable and powerful messages and the world’s. God uses tough circumstances, pestilence, bad health and natural disasters to get our attention to we listen to Him. People also exalt themselves above God by not acknowledging His unmistakable and powerful character. They don’t…
When danger chases after you, do you get angry, give up or fight it? When things don’t go your way, do you run hoping the grass is greener on the other side? In 1 Sam. 23, we learn from David’s experiences with Saul about specific strategies in protecting yourself from danger. Instead of defeat, become…