Worry nullifies prayer, so over and over Jesus says, «Do not worry.» It’s not a request; it’s a command: Do not worry. Worry nullifies prayer. You can pray very well, but if you worry better than you pray, you nullify what you prayed for. Worry [...]

You can be complacent and not even know it. You don’t always have the benefit of having someone in your ear, raising you, developing you. Coming from a culture, an environment, or a family that lends itself to causing you to believe that there is [...]

My mother, when she was down with Alzheimer’s, was trying to prepare me for death. She said, «Every story doesn’t have a happy ending,» and I knew what that meant. I tried to act like I didn’t know what it meant, but I knew what it meant. She was [...]

After many days, I have been seeing entangled roots underground. For me, this message did not start with the text; it began with a vision of entangled roots underground. Regardless of the plant type at the top of the soil, the roots mesh together [...]

Have you noticed in the text that when Jesus talks about fatherhood, he doesn’t mention Joseph? Joseph is his earthly father and appears at the beginning of the story of Jesus, but he disappears early on. We don’t see Joseph after Jesus turns 12. [...]

Forbes, a women-focused platform, recently published an intriguing article on complacency in women’s careers. As I read the article, it emphasized that complacency can ruin your career. There are several points I want to share with you. Although the [...]

Watch out for people that nobody likes. Watch out for people who have been locked out of the clique, locked out of the group, and locked out of the club. Watch out for people who are misfits, misplaced people. I know they have some problems, but [...]

So believing is light; believing is light, and it is in the atmosphere of light that God creates. Isn’t it funny to think about? In the New Testament, the healing that perpetuates itself over and over again is not just the man with palsy, nor just [...]

When Adam was created and Eve was taken from him, he broke the divine order because men were designed to pour into women. When he started receiving from her, if Adam had not allowed Eve to pour into him, sin would have never entered the world. Sin [...]

Praise is a weapon; it’s a strategic attack on the enemy. When you praise God, praise becomes a weapon you can use for warfare. Israel used it when they said to send Judah first; Judah means praise. And when they started praising God, things began [...]

The reality of how it is, however, is that most people don’t know who they are. It is not that you meet people often who have a definitive description that accurately and profoundly defines who a person is; rather, in fact, most people possess a [...]

Watch this! I’m headed somewhere; I have to get there quickly. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. It only matters that you are a new creature. And as many as walk according to this [...]

The demons could talk, but they couldn’t stop him from running. You’ve got to run to Jesus while the devil is still talking in your head. I don’t care what he’s saying to you, what you cannot be, or what you cannot do. You see, let me show you [...]

They saw him when he came through the door. The Bible records vividly that he came through the door. Jesus appeared in the room; he came in the room. They saw him when he entered through the door, but knowing that he was there did not bring peace [...]

God is waiting on obedience. As soon as you stop playing pity-pat with God and break down to obedience by doing what He said, God’s got the fish on reserve, waiting on you. The money is not going to be a problem, the buildings are not going to be a [...]

Romans 6:1 says, «Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?» God forbid! How can we who are dead to sin continue in it? Today, nobody talks about sin, allowing it to drape itself in church clothes and finery while pointing fingers at others [...]

The younger of them said to his father, «How dare you say that to me? I’m your father! You’re going to run up on me? I’m your father; I spat you out!» Then the younger son said to his father, «Give me the portion of goods.» In other words, he [...]

We must understand that when we start thinking about the spirit, we also start to think about Him as «Numa,» which means «breath.» We begin to understand that He has given us the breath of life. If we surrender to the hovering of breath above us, [...]

I can see clearly now he came to himself and he said, «I got the plant, but I left the source. I got the plant, but I left the sauce. I got the fish, but I left the water. I got the blessing, but I left the Blesser. Absolutely, I got the healing, [...]

The Bible says the same Philistines who gave him land became envious over how God blessed him. You must understand that Isaac sowed a seed and received a hundredfold. Any farmer will tell you that every seed you plant doesn’t normally grow, but God [...]

Some of you heard me tell you about the time I walked into my house, and my lights were off, and my water was off, and they repossessed my car. I walked into the house, and nobody was there with me, so I started talking to the house. I told the [...]

And then it’s very difficult to deal with people who are frustrated. To lead people who are frustrated is quite challenging. Moses became exasperated with them; they were exasperated with him, and he cried out to God, «What am I to do with these [...]

When the Bible first says that the Lamb was slain from the foundations of the world, it was talking about Jesus all the way then, and yet we did not see Him born or even on the cross. Because eternity is not restricted to time, it doesn’t have to [...]

I want to spend a minute talking about the enemy of normal. Normal is an enemy every believer should flee from. Normal, because if you walk with God, your life should not be normal. When you walk with God, you should not be ordinary. When you walk [...]

I am honored that I am arrayed with a wonderful consortium of emotions. It makes me who I am; it gives me personality. It makes me human. It’s a wonderful thing that I can laugh, cry, and possess an array of emotions that God has decorated my soul [...]

I told a friend of mine they kept talking about how old they were. I said, «You aren’t that old.» Stop! You’re only old because you think you’re old. The president doesn’t think he’s old; the last president didn’t think he was old. Hillary doesn’t [...]

Somebody throw your hands up and say, «Protect my seed! Protect my seed! Protect my seed! Protect my son! Protect my daughter! Protect my seed! Protect my resources! Protect my finances! Everything I commit into your hands, I commit into your hands [...]

Isn’t it funny how one thing I know is that y’all don’t know what I’m talking about, so you sit there looking really confused? Nobody knows that you have a thing that affects every other aspect of your life, whether it’s a mouth, a temper, a doubt, [...]

Now, what is happening here is that Moses is leading people with motion sickness. I don’t have much motion sickness, but my wife has a lot of it. She can ride in a car most of the time, but maybe not in the back seat. She doesn’t do well on a boat, [...]

Jesus has declared, «Peter, thou art the rock.» Now, when Jesus calls you a rock, baby, you’re a rock. Jesus said, «Peter, thou art the rock, and upon this rock, I will build my church.» But it can get heavy when people build on you. I want to talk [...]

You see, the church exists within two different sociological constructs: while it is not of the world, it is in the world. The fact that it is in the world means it is affected by the world. We cannot claim autonomy for the church to the degree that [...]

We were young then, and I would have thought that we were living together. You came to preach for me, and I came to preach for you. Your anniversary and my anniversary—we were living together, not in the sense of sharing the same house, but living [...]

And tonight, we’re going to talk about that struggle—the struggle that there is a struggle and a God-intended struggle. God did not intend for us to live completely free from struggle. Think of this: when He put Adam and Eve in the garden, He placed [...]

Because Jacob’s fight didn’t start on the mountaintop in the dark—no, no, no, no—Jacob’s fight did not start there. Jacob’s fight started in the womb. When his mother birthed him into the world, he was in a fight; even when she was pregnant, there [...]

These are times of confusion; these are times of perplexity, even beyond that which the writer wrote about at the time he wrote it. Yet the days we are facing today would rival those faced back then with plagues, diseases, torment, political mayhem, [...]

I want you to look at the contrast and strength between the younger and older generations. The young man can leap out of bed; he can hear what the Spirit is saying, but he cannot understand how to act on what he hears. The old man can no longer hear [...]

I got all caught up in this noise, and the noise drew my attention—the loudness of the scene. Let me set it up a little bit: the loudness of the scene between the disciples screaming «Hosanna» and later the enemies screaming «Crucify!» The doubting [...]

We are living in such a «me» society—it’s me, it’s all about me, selfies, thousands of pictures of me. Everything is about me: my feelings, my needs, what I want, what I feel. You didn’t treat me right. Every, every, everything is about me. And when [...]

By the time we get to John chapter 2, which is where we’re going to focus tonight, I have always found it extremely fascinating that in chapter 1, he shows us the very divinity of Christ—that Christ is God incarnate, made flesh—God made human. [...]

I said there is not a person under the sound of my voice who does not have something in their life that they would not want to read about on the front page of a paper. Immediately, people responded to that. I’m going to say it again: there’s not a [...]

He’s now showing you the advantage that we, who have had the first fruits of the Spirit, possess. It’s not that we don’t groan; it’s that we’ve grown inwardly while they’ve grown outwardly. We’ve grown inwardly. But he goes on to tell us, in the [...]

It is utterly amazing, when you read the previous chapter, how dynamic Elijah was—how he faced Ahab, how he faced the prophets of Baal, and how he destroyed the 450 prophets of Baal with great courage and tenacity. He went back and threw himself on [...]

When the Bible first says that the Lamb was slain from the foundations of the world, it was talking about Jesus all the way then, and yet we did not see him born or even on the cross yet. Because eternity is not restricted to time, it doesn’t have [...]

We are eavesdropping on a personal conversation between the mentor and the mentee regarding quite a relationship—it’s almost like a father and son. It’s a very intimate relationship; you can’t mentor anyone without becoming involved with them, [...]

I have a problem with the old church. I grew up in the old church. I love the music, the dancing, the clapping, the guitar playing, the tambourines, the washboards, the bass drums, the church mothers, the lit scarves, and the big hats with fruit [...]

In 539 BC, God said enough, and all of a sudden, everything began to change. God used a young man who was the son of a princess. This young man was Lebasha Marbuk. He came in, and God used him to wreak havoc on the Babylonians, who thought they [...]

Because he knew three things, and there are three things I want you to understand and remember: they are very important. Number one: taking me to Babylon doesn’t make me a Babylonian. You can take me to Babylon, but you can’t make me a Babylonian. I [...]

You know, when we think of abandonment, let me just talk about abandonment for a few minutes. Let us suppose that he was, in fact, abandoned. But let us talk about abandonment. If you have a house and don’t do anything to demolish, destroy, or in [...]

So it was with the feast of the Passover; it had become a tradition, and every year they gathered together with all their families and friends. It was time for them to convene, socialize, interact, and meet other people in Jerusalem to have a [...]

The problem is our minds are the place where we struggle. You see, when God made man, He made him in His likeness and in His image. The book of Genesis says, «Let us make man in our likeness, and in our image, and after our kind.» Let us make man. [...]