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Worship in Spirit and in Truth
We live in a world that is besieged with unrestrained deception of every kind. But it is within the Church, that the enemy actively works to inject deceptions that produce impurity, bondage, and self-promotion. There are churches that have become entertainment...
What Are We Storing?
One Sunday morning as Michael and I were driving to church, I commented that just in the first mile, I had counted three self-storage businesses. I laughed and said that we had paid our fair share to store things, until we eventually sold what we could and then gave...
The Promise of Answered Prayer
I grew up hearing Jeremiah 33:11 preached. I can remember being a small boy and my pastor, Johnny Gibson, saying Jeremiah 33:11 was God’s telephone number. “Call to me and I will answer you…” I look back over my childhood and I am so thankful for a pastor who taught...
Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice
The sovereign, infinite and eternal God has purposes that are often beyond our understanding, for His thoughts are higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9). His commands and instructions are not without purpose, for His will is to spare us from unwanted consequences, as...
I Call Them By Name
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours.Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and You are exalted as head above all. (I Chronicles 29:11) I was reading Psalm 147 when...
“I AM HE”
“I AM He; I AM the First, and I AM the Last. My hand laid the foundation of the earth and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together” (Isaiah 48:12-13). As I pondered this scripture, I became even more awed by our Creator’s...
Be Still
“Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). Every Tuesday night, our church has prayer service, followed by a short teaching from our pastor or a guest. Recently, our pastor taught on the above verse, and as he was teaching, the Lord told me to look up the word...
Setting Goals
My mother always stressed the importance of setting goals, aiming high for desired results, and then striving to achieve them. As I was praying and asking God to help me set goals to think on those things that are pure and righteous; speak what edifies; do those...
Roots that Run Deep
On February 13, 2019, the sound of chain saws and wood chippers awakened me out of a much-needed sleep. The snowstorm of December 9, 2018, had deposited as much as nine inches of heavy, wet snow on parts of East Tennessee and various parts of the Carolinas....
Powerful and Effective Prayers
When studying (James 5:13-17), the last line stood out like a flashing, neon sign: "The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." The Holy Spirit then directed me to focus on one word—righteous. We all want our prayers to be powerful and effective. What...
A Faith that Takes Risks
By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith, he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob,...
HIDDEN IDOLS
God loves us so much that He will show us those things that take first place in our hearts, if we are open to His revelations. Several years ago, He led me on a journey of self-discovery—one that revealed a startling truth about hidden idols that control and...