Touch three people and say, "I got a devil to fight". Now, you must understand that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but powers and principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places. You must understand, when I said thy kingdom [...]

I've been to the Sea of Galilee, it's big, but it's not like that big. It's big but it's just not that big, and I've seen fishing boats and they're not that big. And Jesus says to him, you're close to it but you've been casting your net on the wrong [...]

When his brothers came in after betraying and throwing him into a pit and allowing him to be sold by the Midianites into slavery and telling his father that he was dead and taking 20 pieces of silver, they sold their brother. They sold their [...]

I want to talk to you about trauma, triggers, and triumph. "Trauma, Triggers, and Triumph". The word "trauma" is often used in hospitals to describe the severity of an injury. When a psychologist uses the word "trauma," it is to describe an event, [...]

This is the seed of unselfishness that is planted in him from the earliest of his existence. Parents, hear me well. If you don't plant quality, don't plan to reap quality in adults. If you don't plant the seeds of unselfishness, if you don't plant [...]

When I read the text amidst the magnitude of powerful things, prolific things, that stood out to me, it was the one word "when" that captivated me the most. "When", the time capsule. "When", the ambiguity of it; "when", the uncertainty of it; [...]

They were captives, and they were bound. And when we step into our text, we step into the text of people who have carried their bloody, beaten body away from the holy city of Jerusalem and found themselves in a strange place called Babylon. Brothers [...]

When we go into the tent we've left the Altar of Sacrifice, we left the Laver, both of which were made out of bronze or brass. Remember that? The women's looking glasses making the Laver, both of them were made out of bronze. When we go in the tent [...]

What does it mean to be branded? I'm glad you asked me that. All kinds of soup is coming off of the shelves right now in the factories, they're passing down the line, but they'll never let 'em go out the door without putting a label on it, because [...]

He said, "When I went to Asia, I was pressured in a way like I have never experienced before". This is Paul, baby. He's been stoned. He's been left for dead. He's been shipwrecked. This isn't a wuss talking here. When he talks about pressure, we [...]

Paul says, I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound, everywhere and in all things. I am instructed. Oh, God. I am instructed, both to abound, we do good teaching that part, but I'm also instructed to suffer, need, loneliness, [...]

On one end of the story, we see fear, we see anxiety, we see pressure, we see humanity, which is very important for you and I. Because we don't need a God who cannot be touched by the feeling of our infirmity, and we don't need a God who doesn't [...]

God's promise is so strong that it doesn't matter how weak the circumstances are, that when God gets ready to make something happen, he can make that happen. Now, we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise. You've got it because [...]

When the ministrel began to play, the spirit of prophecy came into the atmosphere. The word of knowledge came into the atmosphere. An uplifting spirit came into the atmosphere. A prophetic utterance came into the atmosphere. And as the ministrel [...]

We have come down to the 13th chapter, and then the writer carefully notes to us that Jesus died without the camp. And I want you to take the time to understand that Jesus did not do all he did so that he could get into a building, he did everything [...]

House stands for God. He has just gotten through killing 450 prophets of Baal, slaughtering them. And then he tells Ahab, "Look at that". Now the prophet is bossing the king. And it was the king that was gonna kill him, but God has given him so much [...]

"It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'" Now, "Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God". One translation just says, "Every word of God," the other translations says, [...]

Let's take this in context. Whatever better is to you, you have to sow into it. Lord, I need the Lord to bless my marriage, I need the Lord, if I don't get a miracle in my marriage I'm gonna choke him. Did you sow into it? Because if you don't sow [...]

Now watch this. The paralysis has been there longer than the presence of God. So paradigm shifts, though desired, become difficult when the paralysis is more normal than the shift. This is one of the hardest miracles in the Bible, you got two [...]

He has spent years and years first in Potiphar's house, nothing that was his own, taking care of things that was not his, managing things that were not his, only to be tossed out and then thrown into prison. And there he is, running the prison, but [...]

Fear does stuff to the body. Living under constant fear, though it is an emotion, it actually takes toll on the body. It affects your physical health. It even weakens your immune system, affects your digestive tract, does damage to your [...]

He says, but through your seed with Sarah, not Hagar, shall all nations of the earth be blessed. The problem was, he conceived seed with Hagar, when the only problem that was against him in having a child was the barrenness of Sarah's womb. Sarah is [...]

A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell amongst thieves. And the thieves in turn stripped him, and wounded him, and left him half dead. At this point, Jesus has a man laying on the side of the road, his face down into the sandy [...]

Excellence doesn't start when the crowd gathers, excellence doesn't come when everybody's watching, excellence is nurtured in mediocrity, in ordinary days when you begin to appreciate the power of the Words before it. Nothing about this story [...]

Our text is really about being on the threshold, because at this point in the text, David has killed Goliath. He's killed the lion. He killed the bear. Theologians think that he's about 22 years of age. God didn't let the giant come when he was 15. [...]