Living a 5,000 Dollar Life
One day while we’re living in Detroit, we get this knock on the door. Turns out, it’s movie producers for S.W.A.T. II , and they say to us, “We’d like to put your house in the scene. The actors who are pretending to be the ‘owners’ of your house will be standing on the sidewalk.…
We Have Been Given a Word
We are living in a time of the greatest gospel revelation in history. There are more preachers, books and gospel-media than ever. Yet there has also never been more distress, affliction and troubled minds among God’s people. Pastors today design their sermons just to pick people up and help them deal with despair. There is…
Silencing the Accuser’s Voice
Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus brought the promise made in Genesis into a reality. He came to crush the head of the accuser. Many of you right now are being accused. Do you ever wake up at 3:00 in the morning and feel the weight of that accusation? It’s the strangest thing. I wake up…
Why Is My Soul Cast Down?
Over and over, the Psalmist asks, “Why is my soul cast down? I feel useless and forsaken. There’s such a restlessness inside me. Why, Lord? Why do I feel so helpless in my affliction?” (See Psalm 42:11 and Psalm 43:5.) These questions speak for multitudes who have loved and served God. Take godly Elijah, for…
My Promise Is All You Need
Sometimes the moments of our lives that seem like they should be our brightest can bring us the greatest tribulation and testing trials. Faith, especially at these times, is very demanding. It demands that once we hear God’s Word, we obey it. It doesn’t matter how big our obstacles may be, how impossible our circumstances.…
‘Tis the Season of Encouragement
During this season, we see so many people, young people especially, who have lost heart and lost hope. They don’t see any reason to go on living; they don’t see a purpose for the future, and it’s really one of the modern-day tragedies of our times. If you turn to the gospel of Luke, it…
The New Covenant Christmas
Restoring the true meaning of Christmas goes far beyond having Christian carols or manger scenes in public places. How many of you know you can have a manger in a courthouse or carols in a mall and still have a heathen nation? Something more has to change in our nation, and it’s not just the…
Our Savior Still Prays for Us
I don’t think any of us can comprehend the great conflict raging right now in the spiritual realm. Nor do we realize how determined Satan is to destroy all believers who have fixed their hungering hearts firmly on Christ. In our Christian walk, the moment we cross that line into a life of obedience to…
An Ever-Increasing Outpouring
In the last days, the church of Jesus Christ will be more glorious and victorious than in its entire history. The Lord’s true body isn’t going to weaken and sputter. No, his church will go out in a blaze of power and glory, and it will enjoy the fullest revelation of Jesus that anyone has…
Waiting for Promises by Faith
When God says to humankind, “Believe,” he demands something that’s wholly beyond reason. Faith is totally illogical. Its very definition has to do with something unreasonable. Scripture tells us, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1, NKJV). We’re being told in short, “There is no…