Many Christians are like poor photographs they are over exposed and under developed. Ezra wanted to study God's Word -- but also had an equal desire to practice God's Word.To the Jews only Moses eclipses Ezra in Jewish history. Why? Because...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Let’s analyze the world each of us live in. It is busy, right? More to do than time permits each day. It is also distracting. Many things draw and tug at our minds trying to get our attention. It is also evil. There is darkness pressing in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jesus cultivated the discipline of solitude. He perfected the art of getting alone with God. He learned the secret of waiting on God. And as our perfect example, He calls each of us to do the same. We must learn to seek and find a solitary...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When you and I pray we always go through the One and ONLY OPERATOR. He always answers the call, but doesn’t always put that call through for us. This morning we need to consider why our Operator Jesus Christ the Son of God would ever...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
To exercise the discipline of supplication we should pray like Jesus taught us by His life and words. The posture, place, time or circumstance is not the issue of prayer. Prayer is to be a total way of life – an open communication with...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Discipline of Supplication. All of us need to exercise ourselves in ceaseless prayer. As Jesus told His disciples in Mark 9:29, there is territory we will never enter for Him without learning the secret of Supplication, which is fasting...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
To help us settle in on what the Lord desires for each of us, we need to refresh our minds with God's plan. One key passage is 1st Timothy 4:7.Paul says we are to discipline our selves towards godliness. What are the disciplines that encourage...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The 71st Psalm deals with some of the troubles common to living on planet Earth. For troubles are always with us—as Job said almost 5,000 years ago. Either we are just getting through some, in the middle of some, or headed into some. Life...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Lessons learned in the furnace of affliction often get etched deeply into our hearts and lives.David learned a lesson in his hard times. That lesson was that life must be lived on purpose for God. Coasting, going along with the flow and living...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When God describes a person's life, He usually does so very succinctly and measures whether or not they served Him well. As we open to Acts 13, we are opening to God's assessment that David lived life deliberately for what pleased God. David...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
