God sometimes uses us most powerfully when we feel the least adequate.
God may not always will for us to be physically healed in these earthly bodies or tangibly prosperous, but He always wills for us to be free from strongholds.
God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too la...
For the most part we’ve dumbed-down New Testament Christianity and accepted our reality as theology rather than biblical theology as our reality. We’ve reversed the standard, walking by sight and not...
Every time God delivers us, the point is ultimately to draw us closer to Himself. Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're d...
Every human being longs for unfailing love. Lavish love. Focused love. Radical love. Love we can count on.
Agape is an obedient response of availability to God, not a feeling. But, although it is not a feeling, its ultimate end is a feeling.
We have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionab...
Powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He’s worked in our past.
You, my Lord, are the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. You will not grow tired or weary, and Your understanding no one can fathom. You give strength to the weary and increase the...
We’re often intimidated in battle because we are uncertain of our faith. We must remember we don’t stand in victory because of our faith. We stand in victory because of our God. Faith in faith is poin...
We’re getting by but getting by, was never our destiny. We were meant to be profoundly effective. Why have we accepted average? Are the few effects most of us see and experience all Christianity has t...
We stand in victory because of our God. Faith in faith is pointless. Faith in a living, active God moves mountains.
We live sacrificially when we’re outside the will of God, giving up all sorts of things that were meant to be ours in Christ. We want to claim those things back, but in the process we’re going to be p...
The woman at the well, I believe, represents women everywhere— women who are forgiven sinners and women who are unforgiven sinners. Which describes you? The Samaritan woman was unforgiven, just like a...
Of all the commandments, which is the most important? The most important one, answered Jesus, is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart an...
My soul needed a place it could live. I longed for my defeats to be infrequent visitations, not my victories. Beloved, our personalized lands of earthly promise are places we’re invited by God to dwel...
Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (It’s not fair!), turn us on others (It’s their fault!), or turn us on ourselves (I’m so stupid!), we won’t turn o...
Lord, You tell me to forgive others in the sight of Christ in order that Satan might not outwit me. Help me never to be unaware of his schemes (2 Cor. 2:11). Please help me to see how much the enemy t...
Lord, You know me. You know my natural personality is given to fear. You know all my insecurities. You know that I have a need to be loved and to feel significant and to feel affirmed. And Father, I’m...