leadership

Thanking God in advance is faith at its strongest and most glorious point. Jehoshaphat put the choir in front of his men and sang praises to God when the army from Edom was marching toward him from beyond the Dead Sea (2 Chronicles).    He was not intimidated; he was motivated to pray and seek God […]

We are living today on the front-lines of a dangerous battlefield that compels us to PRAY and call on God’s power to unleash the ultimate WEAPON—his Word. That’s why we desperately need to connect with God’s Command Central Headquarters through prayer so he can arm us with the power of his Word. Doing that makes

When I hit the bumpy parts of life and start veering off the road, I immediately turn to Psalm 37:4.  Of course I love the notion of God giving me the desires of my heart, but I always remember that his promise is conditional on me delighting in him.    The way to delight in

Early in my faith walk I took responsibility for every battle myself with a perfunctory and shallow prayer to God through in for “insurance.” Ridiculous. Looking back on the countless battlefields of my defeats drives home God’s immutable truth that the battles of life are not mine to fight. Never. (See below 2 Chronicles 20:17.)

Living in the now has always been tough. It was tough when Jesus walked the earth and it’s certainly tough today as we absorb myriad assaults of sound and sight. This thought hit me hard yesterday when I was looking at family videos from the now-distant past. Those images captured every moment of extreme bliss

The predilection to be selfish, seemingly hard-wired into us, makes us vulnerable to slip into that state at any time. Our degree of selfishness is determined by the underlying beliefs and attitudes that determine our behavior across the myriad roles we play in life–parent, spouse, sibling, son or daughter, worker…all of them.    Our degree

Most believers have felt God’s warm and soothing rays of light as they wash our life with joy. Of course that coin has a flip side when an ominous darkness envelopes our soul and blows a fierce wind through our hopes and dreams. All of God’s saints have been, and will always be, led into

The express elevator promises to zoom us to the 50th floor in seconds and we think: “Stairs or Elevator?” “Stairs? Are you kidding me!? That’s an easy answer—I’m taking the ELEVATOR.”    If you connect this metaphor with our Christian life, taking spiritual stairs is often the only way to reach our full potential in Christ.

The exact moment we start praying, God answers because he loves us very much. Daniel gives us that incredible promise…       “…Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for God loves you very

Most believers claim that their faith is ACTIVATED and evident in how they live. But a large percentage of Christians on the planet are moving their faith car on but a fraction of the power God makes available. Indeed, there is a GAP between their salvation gift and living their life.    Imagine what those