We are halfway there; this is day number 20 of our 40 Days of Power. We’ve come this far by grace, and all of you who said, «Oh, I’m going to wait,» this is a good time to join, and let’s finish strong to the glory of God. We’re looking at building [...]

Well, we’ve had a great week, looking at building capacity. We’ve looked at how God wants us to stretch what we have, how God wants us to open our minds, and how God is able to take us from one place to another. He is able to transform our skills [...]

Welcome to day number 17 of our 40 Days of Power. We are talking about overcoming limitations this week, and we’re in 1 John 5:4 — 5: «For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world-our faith.» Who [...]

2 Corinthians 5:16: Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh, even though we have known Christ according to the flesh. Yet now we know Him thus no longer. This is a very important statement from the Apostle Paul, and in the [...]

Well, it’s been a great time this week talking about faith and how faith works and what it is, and all of that. We’re concluding by talking about faith in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts chapter 3, verse 16: «And His name, through faith in [...]

1 John chap 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have heard from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. So the Apostle John is reminding the Christians, and by [...]

God is interested in our attitudes, the attitudes we have when we’re waiting for something good to happen to us, when we’re going through a difficulty, when life is hard. God pays attention to how we should behave because the way we behave in those [...]

Welcome to day number 27 of our 40 days of power. We’re looking at Genesis chapter 13:16 and 17: «And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be [...]

We’ve been looking at John chapter 9, the encounter between Jesus and the blind man. The man was blind from birth. The disciples of Jesus asked him, «Whose fault is it? Is it the man’s sin or his parents'?» Jesus said, «Neither of them, but [...]

God blesses us in many ways, and in Ezekiel 34:26, He says, «I’ll make them and the places all around My hill a blessing, and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.» Many of us are familiar with the [...]

This is day number three of our 40 days of power. We begin our third day of our time of consecration, prayer, and fasting, and I trust that you are partaking. We are still focusing on the Book of Joel, so we go back to Joel chapter 2, verse 19. The [...]

Day number 22 of our 40 days of power. We’ve done more in the days of prayer and fasting than what is left ahead of us. 1 Kings chapter 3, verse 9: «Therefore give to your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern [...]

John 9:10 and 11. Therefore, they said to him, «How were your eyes opened?» He answered and said, «A man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.' So I went, washed, and I received [...]

This is day number seven of our 40 days of power, and the Spirit of God is moving strong, powerful, and mighty in our lives. The Lord will perfect his will in your life. We’re talking about the leading of the Holy Spirit, and we look at Acts 13:2: [...]

This is the 40th Day of our 40 Days of Power. To God be the glory; great things He has done! We started 40 days ago trusting the Lord, and He has led us as we’ve prayed. We’ve sought His face every day in the last 40 days. So, we look at Psalm 67, [...]

Welcome to a brand new week, in our 40 Days of Power. This week we’re going to look at overcoming limitations. Many times, when God wants us to do something, we feel inadequate, and we have to trust the Lord to break the barriers that stand between [...]

The Lord wants us to live our lives positively. He wants us to enjoy our lives. He wants us to have a positive attitude every day, as we face the day, or every week, as we face the week. As we’re still thinking about this year, it’s important for us [...]

This week we are looking at the things we need to do to fulfill God’s purpose for our lives and how God sees His purpose for our lives and how it works out. We look at James chapter 5, verse 7: «Therefore be patient, brethren, unto the coming of the [...]

Well, we are in Psalm 40, and we’re looking at verse three. It says, «He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many will see it and fear and will trust in the Lord.» God puts a new song in our mouth when He delivers us from the miry [...]

We’ve been looking at the story of Jesus’s encounter with a blind man. Jesus went to him and then began to apply a solution to his problem. His disciples were wondering what was wrong: did this man commit a sin, or did his father? Jesus said this is [...]

Matthew 5: 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. We can recognize these words of Jesus Christ as the opening of His Sermon on the Mount or the introduction to the Beatitudes, where He taught [...]

1 John chapter 2, verses 3 and 4: By this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, «I know Him,» and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. As I’ve been saying from the beginning, John the [...]

Amos 8:1 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, that I send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of God. God uses the metaphor of extreme hunger to describe the way people are going to [...]

Welcome to a brand new week, and this week we’re going to look at some important ideas that affect the way we live our lives and the way we respond to God. We start with Romans chapter 8, verse 28: «And we know that all things work together for good [...]

And so we go back to our readings from the Book of Joel, chapter 2, verse 20. But I’ll remove far from you the northern army and will drive it away into a barren and desolate land, with its face toward the Eastern Sea and its back toward the Western [...]

This is day number 33 of our 40 days of power. It is the beginning of the final stretch in our 40 days of prayer and fasting, and I trust that you’ve been part of this and that you are receiving renewal from the Lord. Our theme for the week is going [...]

Psalm 2, verse 8: «Ask of me, and I’ll give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.» In the previous verse, the Lord affirmed the Anointed One and called Him, «My Son; this day I have begotten You.» The [...]

Well, we’ll bring our study of Psalm 4 to an end today, and we read verse number eight: «I will both lie down in peace and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.» David ends Psalm 4 on the notes of peace, rest, and safety in the [...]

Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel. We see the journey from where the nations are raging against the Lord’s anointed. They can’t stand what God is doing, and God affirms what He’s [...]

We’re still looking at Jesus preparing to go to Jerusalem for the triumphant entry on Palm Sunday. Luke 18:32 — 33: «For he will be delivered to the Gentiles, and will be mocked, insulted, and spit upon. They will scourge him and kill him, and the [...]

We’re still talking about our Christian life and what the life it entails and what we have come into. In Hebrews 12:18 — 19, it says, «For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness [...]

Exodus 4:1 Then Moses said to the Lord, «Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.» Moses had doubts about himself and the mission that God had called him to. [...]

Exodus 4:2 and 3. So the Lord said to him, «What is in your hand?» And he said, «A rod.» And He said, «Cast it on the ground.» So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it. God responded to Moses, saying, «Listen to [...]

We’re still at John chapter 4. We’re looking at Jesus’s conversation with a Samaritan woman by Jacob’s well. The conversation has been proceeding so well; now we’re getting to the heart of it. It starts with Jesus talking about water, and then it [...]

We’re still looking at the story of the woman at the well and her conversation with Jesus. They’ve made some progress from the time Jesus asked for water, and a debate has been going on between Jesus and this woman. For the first time, the woman [...]

Welcome to a brand new week, and this week we are going back to the story of Moses. We’re going to track his calling and how he responds to God. So, we will be in Exodus chapter 4 throughout the week, and as we normally do, we will go verse by [...]

Yesterday we talked about the wise Builder; today we’re looking at the opposite of the wise Builder: unfortunately, the foolish Builder. So we look at Matthew 7:26 and 27: «But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them will be [...]

Welcome to a brand new week, and today we start a new study from the book of First John. The book of First John is very important to the New Testament because it was written at a time when many people had come to the Christian faith, and after [...]

We’re starting a study of Psalm 2, the second Psalm, and we’ll do a verse-by-verse study of the Psalm. So, we start with verse one: «Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?» Psalm 2 is what is called a royal Psalm or a Messianic [...]

We’re still in Exodus chapter 4, and we’re looking at Moses’s response to God’s call. Now, he’s about to go into Egypt to pursue God’s purpose for his life. So, let’s look at Exodus chapter 4: 24 and 25: «And it came to pass on the way at the [...]

We are looking at the final installment of what we have examined this week about Moses and his response to the call of God. So now we are in Exodus 4:29 — 30: Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel, [...]

We’re still in John chapter 4, looking at the woman at the well, the woman of Samaria who came to know Jesus Christ as Lord. We’ve covered her story extensively and how she arrived at personal faith in Christ Jesus. Then she goes back to the city to [...]

Luke Chapter 22: While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude; and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus to kiss him. But Jesus said to him, «Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?» [...]

Exodus 3, verse 17: «And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; to a land flowing with milk and honey.» That’s a lot [...]

Exodus chapter 3, verse 4: And God said to Moses, «I am who I am.» And He said, «Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you.'» This is the moment of revelation. Moses had asked God, «What’s your name? What am I [...]

Today is Good Friday. We remember the death of our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 23:46–47). And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, «Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.» Having said this, He breathed His last. So when the [...]

Yesterday we talked about the mountain we have not come to, and today we’re looking at the mountain we have come to: Mount Zion. Hebrews 12: 22 — 23 states, «But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to [...]

Welcome to a brand new week. Today we are starting a new study. We go back to the Book of Psalms, Psalm 3, verse number one: «Lord, how have they increased who trouble me? Many are they who rise up against me.» It doesn’t sound like a good way to [...]

Yesterday, we looked at Moses and how he responded to the call of God. He sought permission from Jethro, and Jethro blessed him. Now we look at the next thing that happens in Exodus 4:19 — 20. Now, the Lord said to Moses in Midian, «Go, return to [...]

We’re looking at the Christian life as a race. It’s a race we must run, and we must run it to the glory of God. Hebrews 12:2 says, «Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, [...]