Victory Temple Chantilly's Podcast

OCT. 2, 2026 Healing in the New Testament church . " The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up." Jas 5:15 NKJV Let's look at some examples of healing in the New Testament church. In Acts chapter three, Peter and John were used by God to bring healing to a crippled man who sat begging each day at the temple gate (vv. 1-10).  In Acts 9:33-35, we read: &quo...

SEP. 30, 2026 Life is built on relationships, not things . "Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions." Lk 12:15 NIV Few people have undergone the trials and tribulations of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He suffered decades of horrendous hardship as a political exile in the Siberian prison system known as the Gulag, and through faith in God, he survived and impacted the world. We ca...

OCT. 1, 2026 The rewards of hard work . "Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth." Pr 10:4 NIV When David was twelve years old, he convinced a restaurant manager that he was actually sixteen and was hired as a lunch-counter waiter for twenty-five cents an hour. The place was owned by two Greek immigrant brothers, Frank and George, who had started their lives in Ameri...

SEP. 22, 2026 Seek to empower others . "When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power ...and he sent them out." Lk 9:1-2 NIV Secure people seek to empower others. Jesus was a master at it. By empowering His disciples, He ensured that His mission on earth would continue to be accomplished long after He was gone. To empower means to fill with power. Power is energy. When we...

SEP. 24, 2026 See your job as your calling . "If anyone serves, they should do so...so that in all things God may be praised." 1Pe 4:11 NIV Someone may have hired you to do your job, but they didn't call you. Only God can call you. You may have been elected to your position, but your constituents didn't call you. Only God can do that. No matter where you work or what you do, yo...

SEP. 25, 2026 Believe God for your healing. " Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distressesiỊi) . Isa 53:4 AMPC If you're dealing with sickness and believing God for healing, here's the most important thing you can do: get into God's Word and get His Word into you. " He sent his word, and healed them" (Ps 107:20 KJV). There's healing in t...

SEP. 16, 2026 God can set you free from perfectionism . "Why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?" Gal 3:3 NLT Do you beat yourself up when you fall short of your expectations? Or do you feel that what you accomplish is never good enough? Are you slow to make a decision because you must make sure it is just right? Is your quest to be blameless really an attempt...

SEP. 17, 2026 Rearrange your priorities at home. "They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept." SS 1:6 NKJV Bill Gaston was at the peak of his career when he resigned as a domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton to return to teaching at the University of Maryland. His reason was "to strike a new balance" between work and family. Galst...

SEP. 14, 2026 How to deal with temptation . " No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man." 1Co 10:13 NKJV You should deal with temptation in the same way you would deal with weeds in a garden. You can't just cut off the tops of the weeds, because in a few days, they'll be back. Similarly, saying, "I'll just stop sinning" addresses only the ex...

SEP. 9, 2026 Healing for shame and condemnation . "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2Co 5:21 NIV Shame and condemnation are two weapons Satan will use to torment you. They will steal your rest and sap the joy out of your life. What's the answer?  Begin to see yourself as God sees you. "God made him [Jesus] w...

SEP. 10, 2026 Recall your past victories . "Remember well what the Lord your God did." Dt 7:18 NIV The ability to recall the past is one of the most powerful functions of your brain. And when you recall past victories, you rekindle the courage, joy, and sense of accomplishment associated with the victory. You can never underestimate the power of an experience to re-inspire faith. From th...

AUG. 20, 2026 Put the past behind you . "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!” Isa 43:18-19 NIV After falling twice in the 1988 Olympic speed-skating races, Dan Jansen sought out sports psychologist Dr. Jim Loehr, who helped him find a new balance between sport and the rest of his life and to pay more attention to the mental aspects of skating. Pete...

AUG. 25, 2026 Always do the honorable thing . "We are careful to be honorable before the Lord, but we also want everyone else to see that we are honorable . 2Co 8:21 NLT In an extensive opinion survey called The Day America Told the Truth, James Patterson and Peter Kim reported these startling findings. Only 13 percent of those interviewed believed that all Ten Commandments are still binding...

SEP. 1, 2026 Priority giving . "Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all..." Pr 3:9 NIV Of all the items in your monthly budget, giving to God should be your top priority-not just a priority, but your first and highest one. The Israelites were largely an agricultural people. With that in mind, read this wonderful promise that God made to them and claim it: " Hono...

SEP. 2, 2026 Stand up to your giant . "As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran...to meet him." 1Sa 17:48 NIV Are you ready to grab your sword of faith and behead the giant in your life? Your best strategy will always be to attack a giant before it has a chance to get the best of you. Eleanor Roosevelt said, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experie...

SEP. 3, 2026 Has God given you a good idea? "I will...show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." Jer 33:3 NKJV Most success stories begin as an idea in someone's mind. And God is the giver of good ideas. " Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights" (Jas 1:17 NKJV). God imparts wisdom and knowledge to those...

SEP. 4, 2026 The whole world must hear God's Word . "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Mk 16:15 NKJV In 1993, a group called AD2000 United Prayer Track came up with an innovative idea. To help realize their goal of "a church for every people and the gospel for every person by AD2000," they established a program called "Praying through the...

SEP. 6, 2026 Lessons from James (1) "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." Jas 1:22 NKJV The book of James has 108 verses, and it outlines how we can put our faith into action. It was written by Jesus' half-brother, the natural-born son of Mary and Joseph. Apparently, James became a believer as a result of the resurrection. Paul said that after Jesus ros...

SEP. 7, 2026 Lessons from James (2) "A doer...will be blessed in what he does." Jas 1:25 NKJV North of Israel and teeming with aquatic life of many kinds, the Sea of Galilee is a beautiful blue. South of Israel is the Dead Sea, and it's called "Dead" for a good reason: There's no life in its stagnant water. What makes these two bodies of water so different? First, the...

AUG. 7, 2026 The rewards of vision and hard work. "Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper." Pr 13:4 NLT In the fall of 1894, Guglielmo retreated to his room on the third floor. All summer while on vacation, he read books and filled notebooks with squiggly diagrams. Now the time had come for him to work. Every day, he rose early.  He worked all day and...

JUL. 22, 2026 Talk back to your giant . "I come against you in the name of the Lord." 1Sa 17:45 NIV Goliath towered over David. But David looked at Goliath through the eyes of his omnipotent God who sits high, looks low, and conquers all. "You come against me with sword and spear...but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you hav...

JUL. 23, 2026 Always do a good job . "The Lord God put the man in the garden of Eden to care for it and work it." Ge 2:15 NCV The first thing God did when He made Adam was put him to work. That's because work gives us a sense of purpose, meaning, and dignity. "God put the man in the garden...to... work it."  So Adam was a gardener. But whether you count cash in a bank, tra...

JUL. 28, 2026 Study. Work. Hope. Perseverance . "Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings." Pr 22:29 NKJV Helping the deaf to communicate was what truly motivated Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Perhaps that's because his mother and his wife were both deaf. "If I can make a deaf-mute talk," Bell said, "I can make metal talk...

JUL. 29, 2026 God is working on your behalf . " We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him." Ro 8:28 NCV The Bible begins with these words: "In the beginning God created the sky and the earth. The earth was empty and had no form. Darkness covered the ocean, and God's Spirit was moving over the water. Then God said, 'Let there be light,' an...

JUL. 1, 2026 Keep on keeping on . "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Gal 6:9 NIV Some of the world's most successful people were told by so-called experts that they didn't have what it took to be a success in the professions they had chosen. In 1927, Lucille Ball was told by an instructor at the John Murr...