Just a Guy and his Journey Back to God

Send us Fan Mail “I, Daniel, was troubled in spirit, and the visions that passed through my mind disturbed me." Daniel 7:15 As I was preparing for this chapter, I was struggling to find a message that hit my heart. Then I read this from Kent Hughes and it struck home, "Many people love the book of Daniel, but few venture into these last six chapters. In Sunday school we learned the stori...

Send us Fan Mail Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:11-12 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and req...

Send us Fan Mail The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den. Daniel 6:7 AW Tozer hits the nail on the head once again! He writes, "I can see how a right...

Send us Fan Mail David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, LORD, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. 1 Chronicles 29:10-11 Miguel de Molinos writes in The Spiritual Guide Which Disentangles...

Send us Fan Mail and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the LORD and seek the LORD Almighty. Zechariah 8:21 G. Campbell Morgan preached a sermon entitled, "The Holy Spirit Through Christ, In the Church, For The World" and said, "No man can pray for the world unless the Spirit interpret to him the world’s agony, and the Spirit cannot...

Send us Fan Mail Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7 As I'm reading some of the works from past saints, men and women of God, that AW Tozer read, I'm finding insigh...

Send us Fan Mail  Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. Daniel 5:27 “‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’ Luke 19:17 Which do you want to hear, well done or you've been found wanting? I know what I want, but at times, I'm not willing to work for it. At times, I&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 Prayer. Being faithful in prayer. It's such a critical element of our relationship with God and is often the first to be given up when we start to fall away from Him. As St Teresa of Avila wrote, "So, then, going on from pastime to pastime, from vanity to vanity, from one occasion of sin to anothe...

Send us Fan Mail At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. Daniel 4:34 Pride! The sin that trips up so many. God gave Nebuchadnezzar 12 months to change his ways, but he couldn't and I can relate! Nebuchadnezzar gave all credit for his blessings to himself,...

Send us Fan Mail You who answer prayer, to you all people will come. Psalms 65:2 All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord; they will bring glory to your name. Psalms 86:9 In St. Francis de Sales introduction to his work, The Devout Life, he writes, "Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will to the warmth of Heavenly Love—nothing...

Send us Fan Mail If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. 18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. Daniel 3:17-18 The world is a fickle place. One minute Daniel and his friends are praised and promote...

Send us Fan Mail Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. Isaiah 58:9 In his work, Does Prayer Change Things, RC Sproul writes, "Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself. There, in the act and dynamic of praying, I bring my...

Send us Fan Mail Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Daniel 2:17-19 This chapter emphasizes Go...

Send us Fan Mail Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision Daniel 2:17-19 Daniel and his friends had...

Send us Fan Mail But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. Daniel 1:8 Despite being in the heart of the enemy, Daniel knew who he was and what he stood for. As a result, it didn't matter if he was in Jerusalem or Babylon. Charles Spurgeon shared in 1893 with his congregation, "But...

Send us Fan Mail In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “ni...

Send us Fan Mail Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Mark 1:35 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Matthew 14:23 As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Luke 9:29 Let's pray daily for...

Send us Fan Mail Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11 The beauty and humaneness of the culture described here by Paul—rejoicing, restoration of relationships, mutual comfort, unity and peace, heartfelt physical affection—is the culture the gospel...

Send us Fan Mail But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Matthew 6:6 AW Tozer says about the state of prayer in today's world, "Praying itself must be the work of the individual. That it is the one religious work which gets done with the least enthusiasm cannot but be...

Send us Fan Mail But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, 1 Peter 2:9 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God....

Send us Fan Mail “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” 2 Corinthians 12:9 As I was thinking about the chapter, I started looking into Grace. I first began by searching for a definition. It turns out that Grace has many meanings and can be explained/defined in many ways. For our discussion today, here are some definitions from the Webster dictionary: unmerited...

Send us Fan Mail “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” 2 Corinthians 12:9 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. 2 Corinthians 11:4 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masq...

Send us Fan Mail if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read...

Send us Fan Mail We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5 AW Tozer writes, "Anyone who wishes to check on his true spiritual condition may do so by noting what his voluntary thoughts have been over the last hours or days. What has he thought about when free t...