Can you believe it? We’re already on lesson six! I mean, we’re flying through this and having a good time, but now we’re coming to the fun ones. All right, we’re going to talk about how to stir up the gift of God. Let’s read that scripture: «For God [...]

All right, welcome to session three of Driven by Eternity. Now, that last session was really tough, wasn’t it? But here’s the thing: I would rather have a healthy fear and understanding to avoid trouble. I mean, if somebody’s walking toward a cliff, [...]

I am going to ask you: do you want a message from me today, or do you want your life to change forever? That’s a good response, but the Bible says we do not have because we do not ask. I do not dare come here thinking that because I can speak a [...]

I just can’t believe we’re already on session five—it’s just flying by! Can I say again that you guys are the most amazing friends who could come together for this? I thank you so much for your hunger and your love for God. This session, I’m going [...]

What I want to share with you is quite unusual. I’m really speaking all over the United States and around the world on a particular subject right now, but as I prayed and prayed and prayed for this conference—and believe me, I did—I kept feeling the [...]

Tonight, I want to open by reading a quote from C.S. Lewis out of «Mere Christianity». Have you ever heard of C.S. Lewis? He said, «If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were precisely those [...]

If you’re going through a wilderness, you need to thank God that He cares enough about you to allow this dross to be exposed so you can remove it from your life, because that is what will ultimately destroy you. Do you want to know how gold is [...]

Welcome to the Wilderness course! I have some great friends sitting around me today, and we’re going to discuss this very important aspect of our Christian walk. First, let me introduce our guests with me. First, we have Choice over here to my left. [...]

All right, welcome to session five. Let me preface this session with when God first really spoke to me to write this book. I’ll never forget; I was actually walking on the golf course at about five in the morning, and the Lord just said, «I want you [...]

Hey, welcome to the second lesson of Breaking Intimidation. For years, I battled the spirit of intimidation, but the problem was I didn’t know what I was fighting. I was addressing the symptoms instead of the problem. When God exposed it, this book [...]

Hey everybody, welcome to lesson seven of Breaking Intimidation. We are going to talk about the root of intimidation in this lesson. Let’s read our scripture: «For God has not given us the spirit of intimidation, but of power,» which we talked about [...]

So this is what I want to ask you: What is guiding and motivating your life on this Earth? Is it the Eternal, or is it our cultural thinking? Is it our own opinions? Is it based on Divine wisdom, or are we comparing ourselves to one another? Welcome [...]

Welcome to another lesson on hearing God. I love this course because I see in my heart that God is going to open up a whole world of communication between you and Him. He’s the one who wants to speak; He’s the one who is speaking. We just need to [...]

Hey everybody! Welcome to lesson three. It’s so exciting; we’re talking about breaking intimidation. Now, to really set this message up, I need to spend a little time talking about gifts. God has gifted every single one of us supernaturally. It’s [...]

Hey everyone, welcome to lesson five. Now we’re talking about breaking intimidation. Remember there’s a book, and as much fun as it is teaching these eight lessons, I can’t cover comprehensively everything that’s in this book. Now I want to make [...]

All right, welcome to session six. I can’t believe we’re in our final section; I want to just keep going. None of you do. All right. I want to open up with this amazing scripture we’re talking аbout: the Believers. What are the two areas we’re going [...]

All right, so we’re already on lesson seven, talking about the wilderness. Didn’t know there was so much to discuss about the desert, did you? But I want to stay in the vein of developing a strong spirit. Let’s review the scripture again about John [...]

Do well! Welcome to this week’s session. The title is «The Baptism of the Holy Spirit.» Oh my goodness, I’m excited about this! Acts chapter 1, verses 4-6: «And being assembled together with them, He commanded"—it does not say He suggested; it [...]

I’ve been around the church, and I’ve traveled all over the world, so I see things from a bird’s-eye view. I have seen leaders and people in the church who remain teachable and humble, and you know what? They continue to grow. But I’ve also observed [...]

All right, all right, so welcome to the final session. The title of this session is «The Spirit’s Language.» In this session, I want to answer the question: Why has God given us a language that is different from what we can understand? Don’t you [...]

Would you be seated and watch this? You want to know how gold is purified? It’s ground down and thrown into a furnace down by a 2,000-degree fire. As the heat increases, impurities begin to surface that you never saw before; they appear so you can [...]

We're going to talk now about what I consider to be the most important reason for fulfilling your calling, so let's put it back up. Why is it important to live in your calling? Watch this, guys: you will be rewarded eternally. This is so [...]

All right, guys, we're on lesson number five, and guess what? We're now getting into the meat and potatoes of this whole thing. The next six lessons are the meat and potatoes. Now we can finally turn to the question: How do I discover what [...]

If you look at the Bible, it says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning; it's the starting place of wisdom and knowledge. Now, why is that important? Because the Bible says getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do. The Bible [...]

You know we've been talking over and over again about discovering your specific calling and that if you seek God diligently in faith, what's God going to do? He's going to give you a glimpse. Yeah, remember a glimpse? I was just [...]

I started thinking about this, and I don't know if it was the Holy Spirit or me. How many pastors began their ministry so excited, so in love with Jesus, yet did not endure forever? Paul the Apostle makes this statement in 2 Thessalonians 2:3: [...]

Okay, we're on Lesson Four. Are you having fun? Yes, I am too! I'm getting so pumped! You know, last session we said that the reason it's important that we walk in our calling is that we'll be eternally rewarded for it. So, what [...]

We are here in our offices in Palmer Lake, Colorado, and I am so delighted to have some of our closest partners, friends, and staff here. I can sense the hunger. I mean, I feel like this passion is emerging from me right now—it's kind of [...]

Solomon writes that the fear of the Lord is the key to all of life. He learned this the hard way. As you saw in chapter one, he started out on fire for God—wise, the wisest King that had ever ruled Israel, and the wisest King on Earth at the time. [...]

The next morning, I'm playing basketball with the Bible school students in Malaysia. As I put on my gym shorts in the hotel room, the Holy Spirit speaks to me and says, "Read Psalm 19." I have no idea what's in Psalm 19, so I go [...]

You will never find God's presence in an atmosphere where He is not held with the utmost respect. In Leviticus chapter 10, verse 1, God says, "By those who come near Me, I must be regarded as holy, and before all the people, I must be [...]

There is virtually no Christian life without the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, Christianity becomes dry, monotonous, and mundane. Remove the Holy Spirit from the church, and it will morph into a social club or become a religious institution. [...]

Guys, we are in lesson seven. I mean, are you getting something out of this? Yes, I'm having so much fun; I'm learning so much. Isn't the Holy Spirit wonderful, Chris? Isn't He wonderful? All right, so now we're going to [...]

Hey, I am so excited about what the Lord has put in my heart to share with you this weekend. It's actually a message that I wrote a book on almost 30 years ago, and I feel that today it is more of a prophetic word for right now than it was 30 [...]

Guys, here we are in the next lesson, talking about our callings. You know, our specific callings. There's a general, and we're talking about specific. And, uh, before we really get into how we discover our calling, I think we've got [...]

How important it is to walk in obedience to God's Word. Now, I don't want that to scare you because God never asks anything of us in the New Testament that He doesn't give us the power to do. So, that's the great news: you have [...]

I'm going to open up tonight with a question that the disciples asked Jesus in Matthew chapter 24. They were at the temple and said, "Lord, look at these beautiful buildings! What are going to be some of the things that are going to happen [...]

Hey, welcome to a new session, kind of continuing from what we talked about. Let me just review some of what we said. Jesus said it's to our advantage that he went away. Why? Because if he didn't, he wouldn't send the Holy Spirit. If [...]

If you honor the Holy Spirit, talk to Him, and spend time with Him, He will be closely associated with you. I find that when you talk about Him, He manifests. I remember one time speaking in a very large church, a five-thousand-member congregation, [...]

You can do something. You can put all offended Christians into two categories. Did you know that? Category number one: those who have been genuinely mistreated. Category number two: those who think they've been mistreated. Now, I'm not [...]

It is wonderful to sear a steak. As a matter of fact, the best steaks I've ever had, I have said to the chef, I have asked the guy who was grilling it, "How in the world did you make this so juicy?" He shared how he seared it on both [...]

Well, guys, we're here at the final lesson, and you know I think I could do ten more, but what I'm really hoping is that by the time we're done with this one—and we pray—that you guys have the tools to know why you're called to [...]

Here we are in lesson six. Are you guys getting something out of this? Now we're getting into the meat and potatoes, right? We're getting into the nuts and bolts of this. There's so much to talk about, and I know I could probably just [...]

My heart is deeply burdened for the church in America. Barna has done a study, and in the last 23 years, over 40 million Americans have walked away from the faith. Half of those 40 million are now professing agnostics, atheists, and spiritualists. [...]

I want to make a very important statement: our holy fear grows proportionally to our comprehension of God's greatness. The antithesis is also true; we'll dumb down God's greatness even to the point of human limitations the less we [...]

So, we're discussing in this session something that is crucial to fulfilling your calling. We're asking, "How do I now fulfill my calling?" In this session, we will look at Romans 8:14. I cannot stress enough how important this [...]

I look at how important the Bible is, and yet it has been used in such destructive ways throughout history. I mean, the Pharisees could quote the first five books of the Bible from memory, and yet they resisted what God was doing. What changes that [...]

Welcome to session two. The title of this session is "The Personality of the Holy Spirit." All right, just to review, Jesus made the most startling statement. He said, "I'm telling you the truth; it is best for you that I go [...]

Now, in all my years of traveling, I have discovered something while ministering: the person who can hurt you the deepest is the person who is closest to you. Why is that? You know, David said it like this: "It wasn't an enemy that [...]

Now, the first question we've got to ask is this: What is the fear of the Lord? Let me say this, students, and I want you to hear me before you automatically shut me down: The fear of the Lord is not being scared of God. Okay, when Israel came [...]