To be free in Christ, our high places will have to fall. We must be willing to take a stand against idolatry.
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’ says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them. Jeremiah 33:9 God does not minimize the things that break our hearts. He is not looking down on us, th...
The tongues of God’s people are meant to be set ablaze by the holy fire of heaven, achieving that which glorifies God. But a sanctified mouth is too unnatural to ever be coincidental. If we want it, w...
The message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may follow it. Deuteronomy 30:14
The great dragon was thrown out— the ancient serpent … the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9
The goal of life is not the absence of pain. It's the presence of glory. God's glory. And sometimes that comes most vividly with pain. Not only have I learned that pain doesn't kill; I have learned th...
The enemy's hope for Christians is that we will either be so ineffective we have no testimony, or we’ll ruin the one we have.
The earth is Yours, O Lord, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it. (Ps. 24:1) For You, my Lord, are a great God, the great King above all gods. In Your hand are the depths of the eart...
The Lord will not abandon His people, because of His great name and because He has determined to make you His own people. 1 Samuel 12:22
The LORD your God is bringing you into a good land … where you will eat food with-out shortage, where you will lack nothing.Deuteronomy 8:7, 9
The LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you (1 Chron. 28:9). In her bitterness she sought her Lord.
Stick with me here, because this is important: Virtually nothing we come up against in our individual Christian lives is more formidable than a stronghold. The very nature of the term tells us that wh...
Sometimes God demands radical measures when He wants to bring about radical results.
Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord comforts His people and will have compassion on His afflicted ones (Isa. 49:13).
Satan so vehemently despises what Christ has done for mortals that one of his chief objectives is to make the clean feel unclean. Oh, how he desires to stain the beautiful bride of Christ. Satan can't...
Satan loves isolation. He wants to draw the believer out of healthy relationships into isolated relationships and out of healthy practices into secretive, unhealthy practices. He purposely woos us awa...
Psalm 31:19 reads, How great is Your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, . . . those who take refuge in you. . . . That is what God does for those who fear him. He sets aside an...
Promised Land theology becomes an earthbound reality only to those who cash in their fear and complacency for the one ticket out of their long-inhabited wilderness.
Peace is the fruit of righteousness which, in essence, is obedience to God's commands—the product of abiding in the vine. The wine which flows from the ripened fruit is joy!