In the Bible, all four of the New Testament gospels talk of the arrest of Jesus and how He was in the Garden of Gethsemane praying with His disciples when Judas betrayed Jesus and brought an armed band of soldiers to take Jesus away. Now as this happened, Peter, one of the disciples, drew a sword …

He arrived at church this Sunday with his new set of clothes, his nice new shoes and a nice clean car. When the offering plate was passed he had several bills and gave one of them, a dollar, for God’s work to win the world for Christ. Why, only the day before when he went to wash his car, he spent …

If you want to grow, I mean really grow, in the things of God, then you must read and learn about how God has used men and women just like you to change the world. Here is a story from 1915, told by a great evangelist, John G. Lake: “One night a man came to where I was preaching. He was a coal …

The average person makes from 300-1,700 decisions each day. What opportunities for psychics! People don’t like to make decisions on their own. This is why, too many times, they don’t want to take responsibility for their decision. The Bible provides a guide to decision-making, but you have to want …

We realize that all of us have our days of challenges and also of victories. Today, the church in America is under many pressures. Know that regardless of the outlook of the day, God holds the day. He keeps the upper hand no matter what’s happening today or coming tomorrow. If we are a true …

No matter how you want to believe, you’re here by the choice of not just anyone, but God Himself. Not one person was ever an accident to be born into this world. You didn’t arrive on this earth by your choice. You had exactly nothing to do with it. Believe it or not, neither did your parents. You …

What is deception? It is when someone believes something is true or right, but in reality it is not. We now live in a great day of real, serious deception. More and more people are falling into this; good people or not, they are being deceived. Unless you know the real truth, you’ll let the forces …

We all know what it means when someone is being dishonest with money, and the term “cooking the books” lets us know that someone that oversees this area is arranging numbers to make it look like there’s money where there is not. Proverbs 20:10 talks about how God hates dishonest weights. That, too, …

A real life of prayer takes endurance. Don’t give up after a few half-hearted efforts. If we want God to meet our needs, it takes effort on our part. Personal confession of all known sin is vital to effective prayer. We need to identify and confess all grudges, resentment, and bitter thoughts. …

I don’t know that I am in any way an authority on prayer. I do know that because of the many things that have happened in my life since becoming a Christian, I have had to learn how to pray to just keep going. Sometimes, when I am alone, I am easily distracted with the list of what I have to do …