In Matt 17:20-21, Matt 21:21-22, and Mk 11:22-24 Jesus mentioned three elements of what I’m calling “mountain moving prayer”. Though you don’t read about someone in the Bible moving mountains by prayer, you have certainly seen some miraculous things God did in answer to prayer. The principles he wanted us...
Fight the Good Fight On Memorial Day, the flag is first raised to full-staff and then slowly lowered to half-staff where it remains until noon. At noon, it is raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day. When the flag is at half-staff, we commemorate the sacrifice of the...
How to Live in Perilous Times Hab. 3:18 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO There is no question that the world is in perilous times. And the topic among Christians often concerns how to live in perilous times. Some want to hunker down and await the coming “storm,” some want all the...
What the disciples lacked Jesus had just come down from the mount of Transfiguration with Peter, John, and James. Awaiting him were a multitude of people. One man among them cried out to Jesus to cast the devil out of his son. The surprising thing is that he had brought...
Acknowledge Every Good Thing In Phile 6, Paul wrote Philemon “That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus”. In this text, we will learn to acknowledge every good thing that’s in us in Christ Jesus....
1 Sam 12:23 Intercessory Prayer III CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Intercessory prayer can be very difficult because it is for others and not for ourselves and so we don’t have the same urgency when we approach the throne of grace on their behalf. Furthermore, there are some other problems: Forgetfulness –...
Believing to See Psalm 27:13 ; Hebrews 11:27 In the two passages above we see that both David and Moses endured hardship and exercised faith in some things that they could not see. David, believed to see and Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible. Faith to see the...
What is Prayer? (Luke 18:1-8) Here we will look at a parable given by Jesus regarding the subject of prayer. When we simplify prayer using this parable we will see that prayer is an exercise in faith. Jesus makes a direct connection between faith and prayer in this parable. I...
Blessings of Obedience An obedient person is a blessed person, Lk 11:28. Jesus said, “Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it”. Jas 1:25 says, “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but...
A Forgiven Sinner In Lk 7:36-50, we’re studying about Jesus’s conversations with a Pharisee and a woman who was a sinner. To better understand what’s going on in this passage, we should look not only at the immediate context but also at what has transpired in the prior chapters. Up...
