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Psalm 138, verse seven: "Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand will save me." I'm continuing to quote from an article by Oliver Price on the Welsh revival. On November 7, 1904, Moriah Chapel was filled to capacity for a prayer meeting that lasted until 3:00 in the morning. Soul winning spread t...

A lot of churches in America today are fleeing from the presence of God, because where the presence of God is, there is a conviction of sin. Where God's presence is, we can hear God's calling. He calls us into something maybe we're reluctant to do or even think that we're capable of doing. You have a unique calling on your life, tailored just for you from the hand and the heart of God. You'll neve...

Psalms 85, verses six and seven: "Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You? Show us your mercy, Lord, and grant us Your salvation." I love studying what God has done in the past. I suppose, mainly because Hebrews, chapter 13, verse eight says, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever." We have the account of one of the greatest social transformations of all tim...

You probably view yourself a certain way or believe things about yourself, but what does God have to say about you? Is His opinion of you exactly what yours is of yourself? Maybe He has something for you that you haven't considered yet. Is His voice speaking condemnation to you and your captivity, or is He calling you into something that only He can do in your life? Something that He's willing to...

The words of King David in Psalm 12: "Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart, they speak. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things, who have said, 'With our tongue, we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is Lord over...

As the people of God, you and I aren't called to escape trouble. We aren't called to live to focus on our own safety or security, happiness, or even on our own way of doing things. We are called for a divine purpose. As the church of Jesus Christ, we're called to be salt, and we're called to be light. We are defined this way by Jesus Christ himself. We are to bring healing and the preservation of...

If today you're feeling captivated, lost, or hopeless, if you don't see any way out of your situation or ever amounted to anything in the Kingdom of God, I want to suggest to you that God is actually speaking to you whether you hear Him or not. He's speaking to you about things you may not have considered yet for your own life and future. Remember, God doesn't call things the way they are, He call...

Luke, chapter 18, beginning at verse 5: "Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. Then the Lord said, 'Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he really...

This generation is fragmented and falling apart at the seams. Nations are rising against nations. It's truly a sign of the last days. The only power that can counter this gauntlet of division will be unity found in Jesus Christ and in His church. So, the question is, are we willing to let our grievances be dissolved? Now, you and I know this can only occur by our willingness to forgive, so that th...

The Gospel of John, chapter 7, verse 37: "On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, 'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" A great missionary, Hudson Taylor, once famously stated, "Work done God's way will never lack God's supply." How true that i...

I want to remind you today that in church, we sing about the goodness of God, the holiness of God, and the majesty of God. We pray and we believe God for miracles. But I want to challenge you today to believe in the God that we sing about and pray to, for a miracle in your life. God wants to bring you out of the place that you find yourself in today and bring you into a place where you can experie...

If you follow the Word of God and what the Spirit of God speaks to you, you will become everything that God promised you. We all count, and every one of us can make a difference. If we follow Him, there will be ministries born such as evangelists, pastors, teachers, leaders, church planters, civic leaders, and godly people even in our school system. All who follow Him will be given wisdom and bold...

Psalms 119, verse 67, says, "Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word." Verse 71 says, "It is good for me that I've been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes." And in verse 75, "I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me." Affliction is a topic seldom taught on these days, but it is necessary for us to understand the wa...

Matthew 21:21: "So Jesus answered and said to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea," it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.'" Now, Jesus had just cursed a deceptive and a fruitless tree. He was te...

I want to remind you that this is a momentous day you and I are living in. It's a time when we anticipate the soon return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It's a time when God is calling you, me and others in His church to rise up and make a difference in our generation. This is a dark hour we're living in, and the Lord Jesus Christ has prepared us for this very day. I'm praying that God will...

In the book of Romans, chapter 8, verse 28, Paul, the apostle, said, "We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." Paul wrote these words, not after living a cozy life, but after suffering shipwreck, imprisonment, perils among false brethren, and those who hated him. There are very few people alive today that can say t...

2 Chronicles, chapter 5, beginning at verse 13: "Indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals, and instruments of music, and praised the Lord saying: 'For He is good, for His mercy endures forever,' that the house, the house of the Lord, was fil...

The gospel of John, chapter 21, verse 15 says, "After they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?'" Is there something of this world or in your life that you might think would bring you happiness apart from Jesus? Oftentimes the "these things" in our lives stand in the way of the very purpose that God has for us. The purpose of loving...

Psalm 44, beginning at verse 1: "We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, the deeds You did in their days, in days of old…They did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of your countenance, because You favored them." In Psalms, chapter 77, verse 5 the writer says, "I have conside...

There's a huge storm today in our society. People are despairing. Suicide is on the rise. Opioid addiction is reaching epidemic proportions and abortions are increasing in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Evil is now on steroids in our society. The question today is, where is the church? Where are the people who are called to make a difference in our society? It's time for the church to get...

I want to remind you of what prayer is really all about. It's not about having a big vocabulary, having the right posture, or even crying in agony. I'm not against those things if that's how the Lord is moving you to pray, but realistically, He just wants to hear your voice. He wants to hear a heart that believes Him, even if it's a feeble heart. That's why Jesus said a mustard seed of faith is al...

I want to take this moment to wish you a Happy New Year. If you are a brand-new believer in Christ, I promise you this will be a new year like none other ever in your lifetime. Jesus Himself promised that if you turn to Him that you would be born again, which means a brand-new year, a brand-new life. The old things in your life would all pass away and all things would become new. That means that y...

Philippians, chapter two, verses five to eight: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men." God has all power and all glory. And we ask ourselves the question, how did Jesus Christ show us this power?...

First Corinthians, chapter one, beginning at verse 26: For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things whic...

I want to remind you today that you are called with a holy calling. As a matter of fact, you and I are called with a very unique calling. There are no exceptions to this. You are called into something that will require the help of God, and you and I can't go there in our own strength. If we try, we will fail. We need God in our lives to accomplish what God has called us to do and what God wants us...