Well, before we start today’s teaching, I’m personally inviting you to this year’s Love Life Women’s Conference. My special guests and I will share God’s word and help you experience His presence and love in a life-changing way. I will show you what [...]

Well, thank you for joining me today in enjoying everyday life. How many of us don’t want to do that? We all want to enjoy every single day of our lives because I was abused in my childhood. I never really got to be a child, and I really didn’t even [...]

Do you realize that Adam and Eve gave up paradise for an apple? Wow. I wonder what we give up paradise for sometimes. Yeah. Elijah was not a perfect man, yet he prayed and had dramatic results. He prayed, and it didn’t rain for six months, and then [...]

Well, thank you for joining me today on «Enjoying Everyday Life,» where we teach the word of God. It’s the truth, the only truth that we really have, and it’s the only way that we can truly enjoy our lives. You might have fun doing some other [...]

Every time you thank God for something, you’re praying. That’s prayer. That’s what I mean when I say that sometimes you may be praying more than you think you are. Then there are prayers of petition, and probably that is the prayer that is prayed [...]

Well, thank you for joining me today on Enjoying Everyday Life. I pray that because you watched the program today, you will enjoy your day better than you would have if you hadn’t watched. I’m going to talk about prayer today. It’s what I talked [...]

You might think, well, if it’s what God wants you to do, won’t He give you the strength and energy? Well, you have not because you ask not. And I think that the more people who ask, the more powerful that prayer becomes because the Bible talks about [...]

Well, welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life. Thank you for joining us. I always appreciate it when I’m sharing the word if there’s somebody on the other end listening. I’m going to talk today about something that is important to all of us and something [...]

What you need to know is that nothing really happens in your life until you pray. In Psalm 18, David is giving God not only praise for giving him victory over his enemies, but he’s also giving us the memoir of how he was successful in 18 major wars [...]

Freedom isn’t free. Fifty-six men gathered in the Pennsylvania State House to draw up the Declaration of Independence. It was a fortunate hour in our nation’s history, one of those rare occasions when we had greatness to spare. These 56 men had [...]

I have to tell you I am ready to preach. I have come prepared. I'm ready to start a brand-new series titled "Communicating with God." Communicating with God because we need to grow in hearing the Father's voice right now more [...]

Well, good morning, everybody. How are you doing today? Is anyone glad to be in church? Is anyone glad to be in church today? Woo. I am too. It’s so good to see you all. Welcome to week number one of a brand new series called Higher Heights. We’ll [...]

Almost 100 years ago, a young missionary in Ecuador named Raymond Edman staggered in the jungle, desperately ill. «He be dead by morning,» the doctor said, and his wife dyed her wedding dress black, readying it for the funeral which, in the tropics, [...]

In the Old Testament, Habakkuk the prophet struggled and he said, «O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear me»? And Job wrestled with it. Job said, «Oh, that I had one to hear me! Oh, that the Almighty would answer me». And David said [...]

The daughter of an atheist once told a friend that she had been raised without any religion. «I don’t believe in God, » she said. And then a little wistfully she added, «But the other day I came across an old German book that contained a prayer, and [...]

«Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you». These three instructions, ask, seek, and knock, are in the imperative mood. Now, I’m an old English major, so that means something to me, but let me [...]

We are pretty self-sufficient people, but that has caused us to make prayer our last resort when we’re in trouble. We make prayer so difficult. Prayer may be mysterious, but it’s not complicated. It’s simple. And in this series, I’m going to teach [...]

Take your Bibles and go back to the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapter 6 and in a moment we’re going to begin reading in verse 5. The passage that we have before us today deals with the subject of prayer. There is nothing more important to the [...]

Be finding Matthew chapter 6 and we’re going to begin reading in a moment at verse 9 and read right on through verse 13. That prayer that we call the model prayer, the disciple’s prayer sometimes called the Lord’s Prayer. You can do nothing better [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come to this 17 Sunday, of the ordinary time, and we have a great privilege, because we’re reading in our gospel Luke’s account of Jesus' great prayer. The disciples say, «Lord, teach us how to pray,» and so Jesus [...]

The Bible says the entrance of God’s words give light, amen? Regardless of what we are faced with, sometimes the Word might not speak specifically to the area or situation that we are having battle with, but the entrance of God’s words give light. [...]

The Lord spoke to me and the Lord said to me to tell all of us to pray in the Spirit regularly, at least every day. Spend some time, at least half an hour to one hour. Set aside time, and it doesn’t mean that you must observe it legalistically every [...]

You know, we want to help people. As believers in Christ, we want to help people. And I remember one young man that we worked with for four years. I mean, we gave him a lot of time, spent money to help him get healthy and good, and when we felt like [...]

Well, thank you for joining me today on «Enjoying Everyday Life». Today, I wanna teach you about prayer that resists satan. You know, we have an enemy and he’s always scheming, trying to come up with some new way to torment us or keep us from going [...]

We call it in theology a doxology taken from two Greek words. One is doxe, which means praise, and then logos, which means a word or an expression. So, a doxology is an expression of praise. There are many doxologies in the Bible, but there are many [...]

We are in Psalm number five, and I start from verses one and two. Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my meditation. Give heed to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I will pray. I like the way this psalm begins because it starts [...]

Welcome to a brand new week, and we are going to continue our study of the Psalms. As you know, we’ve done Psalm 1, 2, and 3, and today we do the fourth Psalm, Psalm number 4, and we’ll be studying it throughout this week. Psalm 4, verse 1: «Hear me [...]

Well, we’ve had a great week looking at Paul’s instructions to us in 1 Timothy chapter 2, and we are focused on the aspects that relate to prayer. He starts by telling us to pray for all men and to pray for civil authority. Then he tells us who [...]

We’ve been talking about prayer from 1 Timothy chapter 2, and Paul’s instruction to the church tells them what to pray for, whom to pray for, and how we should pray to one God as Jesus, the mediator. Now he talks about the attitude of prayer in [...]

We’re still learning about prayer from First Timothy Chapter 2. Paul the Apostle is writing to Timothy, who was the pastor of the Church of Ephesus, and he tells him how to conduct the church. There are several instructions he gives him, and we are [...]

We’re in 1 Timothy Chapter 2, and we are learning about prayer as Paul leads us through the things we should pray for and why we should be praying. Now we’re in verses five and six: «For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man [...]

1 Timothy 2:3 and 4: For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. So, if you remember in verse one, Paul says we should pray for all men. Verse two [...]

We are in the New Testament, in First Timothy Chapter 2, and we’re talking about prayer. So let’s hear the reading: «Therefore I exhort, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings [...]

Welcome to a brand new week. This week, we’re going to the New Testament, and we’ll be looking at 1 Timothy Chapter 2. We’ll be focusing on prayer; the whole week will teach on prayer because that is what 1 Timothy Chapter 2 focuses on. We will do a [...]

We are still in Psalm 22, and we are looking at verse 20 and verse 21. Deliver me from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth and from the horns of the wild oxen; you have answered me. There are two very [...]

We’re still learning about prayer from 1 Timothy chapter 2. Paul the Apostle is writing to Timothy, who was pastor of the church in Ephesus, and he’s telling him how to conduct the church. There are several instructions he’s given to him, and we’re [...]

Well, we’ve had a great week looking at Paul’s instructions to us in First Timothy, chapter two. We are focused on the aspects that relate to prayer. He starts by telling us to pray for all men and to pray for civil authority. Then he tells us who [...]

We’re in the New Testament, specifically in 1 Timothy, chapter 2, discussing prayer. So let’s hear the reading: «Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and [...]

First Timothy, chapter 2, verses 3 and 4: For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. So, if you remember in verse 1, Paul says we should pray for all [...]

Welcome to a brand new week. This week, we’re going to the New Testament, and we’ll be looking at First Timothy chapter 2. We’ve already done First Timothy chapter 1 earlier, and we’ll be focusing on prayer. The whole teaching will be on prayer [...]

We are in Psalm 5, and we are learning about prayer from a prayer of David. The Psalms were central to the Old Testament people and even to the early church; they were very important to their prayer and worship life. The words we are studying are [...]

Well, this is a final day—the last day. Forty days of power begins tomorrow, and I trust that your heart is ready, your body is ready, and you are ready to have an adventure with God in the next forty days as we serve the Lord with prayer and [...]

These talks are in a collection called «God of the Impossible,» and I want to ask again today that God would plant a seed in all of our hearts, our minds, and our souls that He is able. Can I get an amen? Maybe just to kind of get us going in the [...]

We’re talking about a shift in our lives, specifically about prayer. I just want to say today that I know we’ve got intercessors in this house. You know what an intercessor is; they wake up praying, they go to sleep praying, they have a prayer [...]

We’re launching this collection with a very practical message for those who haven’t yet started praying. It would be tragic if we went through the entire collection and someone still wasn’t praying at the end of it. Maybe you’re not praying because, [...]

Well, does anybody at Passion City Church today need a shift to make changes in our own lives, in our thinking, in our hearts, in our attitudes, in our emotions, in our relationships, in our families, in our businesses, in our futures, and in the [...]

Here’s the title of the message: «Prayer with a Dagger and a Sword.» There are certain battles where your prayer can be your weapon; whatever you pray about, God is causing your prayers to be victorious and effective. Whatever one thing you are [...]

Hey everyone, welcome to Lesson 9 of «Drawing Near: A Life of Intimacy with God.» Now, I will say this: this was supposed to be an eight-lesson course; however, there was no way I could leave out touching on this final point. So, this will be a [...]

It truly is an amazing event. This rite of passage is something I had never seen before until last year, and the impact was just out of this world. We really want to encourage you; in fact, you don’t even need to pray about it—just do it. I heard [...]

Thank you, thank you, beautiful! Thanks, please be seated. Good evening, nice to see you. Well, I just showed up. If you see me talking to myself, please go your way. I’m self-employed and having a staff meeting. This is dumb. Imagine this one: [...]