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Why do some prayers seem to go unanswered? Prayer is more than worrying out loud to God. We need to know what God says, know what we are asking for, and stop allowing past disappointments to keep us from praying again.

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One of the biggest obstacles to answered prayer can be all the unanswered prayers behind us.

We prayed before. Nothing seemed to happen. Someone didn't get healed. The situation didn't change. And little by little w...

Family can be one of our greatest blessings—and one of our greatest battlegrounds.

The enemy knows how powerful families are, so one of his favorite strategies is to turn us against each other.

He uses words, offenses, old hurts, judgments, opinions, rejection, politics, religion, divorce, and family history to keep us divided.

So what do we do?

First, pray.

You don't have to cram the Gospel down somebody's throat. You don't have to win every argument. And you don't have to fix your relativ...

One of the biggest problems we have is that we don't know who we are.

The enemy loves identity theft. If he can convince you that you are your failures, your fears, your sins, your past, or what somebody said about you, he can keep you confused about your purpose and your destiny.

But your identity does not begin with what happened to you.

It begins with God.

God deliberately made you in His image and likeness. You were not an accident. You were not a mistake. You have an origin, an identity...

Throughout the Bible, trumpets sounded an alarm, gathered God's people, announced a king, warned of approaching danger, and called people to repentance.

The Feast of Trumpets points us to something we cannot afford to ignore: Jesus is coming back.

We don't have to be frightened or spend our time trying to calculate the exact day. Jesus told us to watch and be ready.

The question is not, Can I figure out the date?
The question is, Am I ready if He comes?

This is a time to wake up, repent, sur...

Have you ever looked around and wondered, “God, why are they getting by with this?”

Jeremiah asked it. David asked it. The writer of Psalm 73 asked it. So this isn't a new question.

The problem is that when we keep looking at the wicked, the injustice, and everything that seems wrong, we can get angry, distracted, discouraged, and pulled into a fight God never asked us to fight.

Psalm 37 tells us: Don't fret because of evildoers. Trust in the Lord. Do good. Rest in Him.

Nobody is getting by ...

We are living in a day when the fear of the Lord has nearly disappeared. People want God on their terms, but God is still God. His Word is still true, and every one of us is accountable to Him.

The fear of the Lord is not about running away from God because we are scared of Him. It is knowing who He is, reverencing Him, loving what He loves, hating what He hates, and wanting to please Him.

The Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Without it, we are left with foolishness,...

Jesus talked a lot about what we can look forward to. Paul and Isaiah gave us a glimpse of the future for those who love and look for the Lord's return. "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former thing shall not be remembered or come to mind, but be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;" (Is 65:17)
Jesus teaches us that those who mourn, ...

The people of Jeremiah's day considered the word of the Lord to be a reproach. They were given to greed, and everyone dealt falsely with their neighbor. No one was radical for the truth, or, as we would say in our time, no one was radical for Jesus, who is the truth.

We contrast that with the conversion of the Apostle Paul, who was not lukewarm, but already radical for the religious self-righteous version of God's law. He had everything going for him in his religious zeal but was not passionate...

They'd never lie to me. Or would they? How gullible to think people would never lie to me.

We grant blanket immunity and undeserved credibility to trust certain people because of their position. We must look at character, integrity, and the fruit of the Spirit in discerning the safety of the people we are trusting. But telling lies is not as dangerous as believing those lies.

We are to be His witnesses. We have been trained to have to go to some intermediary to figure out what is going on with...

Jabez was named Pain Maker by his mother! Some of us have had similar words spoken over us: trouble maker, you are never going to amount to anything, you are worthless, and

I'm so ashamed of you! How did Jabez handle the curse attached to his name? He cried out to God and said he did not want to be under the curse of those words anymore. He wanted to be blessed and not be shaped by the negative words that hid his identity and blocked his destiny.

So many of us try to change and cannot sustain ...

How many times do we panic or worry, forgetting about the faithfulness of God, who is committed to keeping us in every situation? He said, "I will never leave you or forsake you. He is faithful to complete the work He has begun in us." The problem is not in God's faithfulness; the problem is in us.

We judge God by the things He must permit. Because He honors us in the use of our free will, even though we have chosen to take the bait Satan has set before us and use our free will to bite the hook...

Why is it so hard to admit we have been lied to? When Jeshurun grew fat, he kicked. (Deut. 32:13) When we become well fed, we begin to take our opulence for granted. God's people had been blessed, but their hearts toward God had become hardened. Stiffness of neck, stubbornness, and the blind leading the blind led to spiritual blindness. The ability to repent and admit we have sinned and been deceived moves out of our reach.

What is the key to keeping our hearts open to wisdom and our lives on t...

Where do apathy, indifference, and spiritual lethargy come from? We have been enchanted, sidelined in our lives, and struck down with the deaf and dumb spirits.

These spirits make it hard for us to hear and dull our understanding even in normal conversations. The ears are the receptor sites for Words and sounds. If they are blocked or plugged up, the power of the words is lost.

Jesus cast a spirit of Deaf and Dumb out of the child who was plagued with a spirit that overtook him, casting him in...

Jesus' command is simple: "Come, follow me." "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." Mt. 16:25

Simple but not easy because the bottom line on following Jesus is death to the old, carnal man, the reconstructed man, adapted and modified to live in the paradigm of the Snake Pit with its new goals and expectations.

We are tempted to leave the path of following Jesus to fit in and submit to a different set of expectations and act...

Jesus said, "If the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness." Mt.6:23
Deception is one of the Enemy's greatest assets in the war against Truth. He dresses up the lie to look like the truth and the truth to look like the lie. He baits the hook with what we are hungry for.

The Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. The Light exposes the hidden works of darkness and the evil deeds of those deceived by the Evil...

Jesus told us He is coming as the Son of Man, to gather us up unto Himself. He tells us about the "catching away" we call the Rapture. He tells us that the day of His return will come as a thief in the night. He tells us about the Great Tribulation and that Babylon would fall. He tells us about the judgment of the world system that corrupted the whole earth and the avenging of the blood of the martyrs.

Jude connects with the book of Enoch by telling us, "Behold, the Lord comes with 10,000 of Hi...

There are many biblical events set in stone for the days ahead. Jesus told us ahead of time what would happen. He said He was leaving to go and prepare a place for us. He explains to us that there are many mansions in His Father's House.

This is a real promise and will happen, but before the mansions get assigned, things will get turbulent, even to the boiling point of melting the elements with fervent heat, and the stars falling out of the sky.

Jesus tells us about His Wedding, the Marriage S...

Jesus invites us to come unto Him and let Him carry all of our heavy burdens, the cares of this life, and the torment of the irresolvable problems that so easily beset us.

He invites us to recognize who we are and the deceptiveness of sin that hardens our hearts. Sin separates us from the love and revelation of God's presence and peace.

Our life becomes a heavy burden we end up carrying ourselves. Hopelessness, despair, and unbelief are lifted off of us when we surrender to the will of God. We...

Believers are being attacked by a new emotional psy-op. The Enemy is using our emotions to drive us to discouragement, depression, and loneliness to make us feel abandoned by God.

Those attacks can come from anywhere, from physical illness, emotional exhaustion, religious fatigue from trying to be good, feeling to blame for something we think we did wrong, or condemned by internal thoughts we do not realize are not our own.

This is a strategy of the Evil One to test our faith, our reliance upo...

Jesus’ finished work frees us from condemnation, religious confusion, and fear. Paul’s letters explain the law’s purpose as a tutor and how grace brings true transformation

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How do we see ourselves? As worthy, precious, and priceless? Or as the product of what has happened to us and how other people have treated us?

We have been programmed by the Evil One to not value ourselves or the precious lives of our children. And we continue to allow guilt and shame to defile us.

We define what something's worth by what someone is willing to pay for it. God was willing to pay the highest price He could pay for the redemption of His lost creation, which included us.

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"God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind."
We are caught in a world of hostility, where fear paralyzes us. We are challenged to not believe in the goodness of God and are afraid to use our powers to bind (forbid) and loose (permit) the will of God into the difficult situations we find ourselves in.

We wait for God to do something when God has directed us to take action to declare His will be done instead of falling for the dictates of fear. So many times, we a...

We are caught in a world of hostility, where fear paralyzes us. We are challenged to not believe in the goodness of God and are afraid to use our powers to bind (forbid) and loose (permit) the will of God into the difficult situations we find ourselves in.

We wait for God to do something when God has directed us to take action to declare His will be done instead of falling for the dictates of fear. So many times, we are making a passive agreement with fear instead of "submitting to God and resi...

What does it mean to not lag in our diligence, to remain fervent in spirit while serving the Lord? Many are tempted to grow weary in well doing, overwhelmed, defeated, and giving up.

Fervent in spirit is the call to discipleship. When it is easy and when it is impossible, I will still follow. The challenge is to see beyond the present and follow no matter what it feels like.

Always rejoicing in hope and patient in tribulation and remaining steadfast in prayer. Join us for the discussion.

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