Life-Giving Words of Hope & Encouragement

To receive God’s best requires that we have to do things God’s way.  Being a stubborn person, this was a hard lesson for me to learn, but it was one in which I learned that through our failures, His love and forgiveness are unconditional.  I also learned that it is…

When God works in us, it is normally from the inside out and the transformation that occurs is in our heart.  What we must realize is everyone’s heart is thirsty for something, so we must guard what and who we thirst for.   To do this, we must maintain a repentant…

Our next step of faith could be the turning point we are looking for and it could break the chains that have held us in bondage for far too long.  I find it very interesting that Paul never prayed for anyone to be delivered from their problems.  He would pray…

The Lord has laid a couple of things on my heart.  The first is that when we enlarge our vision of what God is capable of, we take the limits off of what God can do.  The second is when the enemy seems to be fighting us the hardest, it…

Every day is truly a gift from God; what we do with it is our gift to Him.  Last night I came to the realization that I had almost been killed, that I almost made my wife a widow and that I almost left my unborn daughter without a father. …

Ultimately, sin is the rejection of God in our hearts; it’s the denial of His authority over our lives.  This may sound harsh, but we all are sinners.  Sin denies the very nature of God and even though at the time it may be pleasurable or fun, in the long…

It’s hard to have any vision for the future when you are haunted by the mistakes in your past.  As followers of Christ, we are in luck though, because our God is all about reconciliation.  We fail and He restores; we confess and He forgives.  It is through our faith…

Our prayer life and our spiritual health are in direct correlation to each other.  Anything worth worrying about is worth praying about.  This means when you don’t know what to do, you should pray and even when you do know what to do, you still should pray.  So what happens…

What is God looking for in us?  Micah 6:8 tells us, “He has showed you, O man what is good.  And what does the LORD require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”  Our generation has slowly become numb to an…

Our prayers are powerful and effective and each one of us is called to be an intercessor.  When we intercede for others, we are showing our true dependence upon God.  Intercessors do many things, but one of the most important things they do is break chains.  One of the saddest…