Mar 1, 2019 | Spiritual Growth
I believe one of the most essential parts of Christian discipleship is teaching people how to have a time with God daily. When my sons were elementary age boys, I taught them these things. If we can teach our son to throw a football or our daughter gymnastics, we can...
Mar 1, 2019 | Prophetic Words
Just as the Lord has raised up watchmen and watchwomen in this hour to pray for this nation and report what they see in the distance, so are there secular prophets and watchmen who are broadcasting false information and biased predictions aimed at undermining the...
Mar 1, 2019 | Holy Spirit
Having a relationship with God in this life is an extraordinary thing. It changes how we see the world and see ourselves. Comedian Michael Ray Kingsbury had this life-changing revelation recently. Michael is a self-described “Comedic Storyteller” from Vermont. If you...
Feb 28, 2019 | Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
I'll never forget where I was sitting in the Orlando airport in Florida several years ago when I heard an unusual announcement on the public-address system. A male voice said: “George Mueller. George Mueller. Please contact a service desk for a message.”...
Feb 27, 2019 | Spiritual Growth
Someone once told me, “The sharper the ax, the bigger the blow!”Therefore, sharpening our leadership can increase the influence we have in the lives of other people. Each of us can grow in our leadership. Some would say that you have it or you don’t. I disagree. Each...
Feb 27, 2019 | Spiritual Growth
Dr Charles Stanley, the founder of InTouch Ministries and New York Times best-selling author, has a practical, divinely-inspired message for everyone who struggles to make decisions. (And who doesn’t?) This plan has worked over the past 50 years of Dr. Stanley’s own...
Feb 27, 2019 | Missions
Often in church you hear some pretty bizarre things. For the sake of learning I am going to share one with you. Unfortunately this statement came from supposedly mature believers or even “on fire young people.” Here, a filthy lie is about to be uprooted, so put your...
Feb 27, 2019 | Faith that Overcomes
When my husband Terry and I got married, May 10, 1969, we had so many things that looked like they were working against us. The doctor had told me for years that I’d never be able to have a baby at all — that I couldn’t carry one. He said, “If by some slim chance you...
Feb 27, 2019 | Holy Spirit
In this powerful interview, author and worship leader, Jenny Weaver talks about the miraculous restoration that is possible through the Lord. She shares the story of her journey from a broken home, drug addiction, violence, and witchcraft to a completely renewed life....
Feb 27, 2019 | Culture & Society
Brian ‘Head’ Welch, guitarist and founding member for the nu-metal band Korn, attended Tim and Robby Tebow’s movie premier of ‘Run the Race.’ Before watching the movie, in an interview with Jeannie Law of Christian Post, he said, “This generation can smell a phony a...
Feb 26, 2019 | Prophetic Insight
God has destined us for victory. He has created us to be overcomers in this life. He who is born of God overcomes the world and our victory is intimately connected with our faith. (1 John 5:4) We realize that God has already given every man the measure of faith. (Rom....
Feb 26, 2019 | Prophetic Words
Recently, I had a vision where I saw lots of things coming at many people in the Body of Christ, from various different directions. I saw there were those in the Body of Christ who feel like they are “juggling” so much right now with issues and different...
Feb 26, 2019 | Prophetic Insight
Writing down 100 dreams is a well-known discipline, championed by many, including my hero Danny Silk. (Great listen here: http://podcasts.ibethel.org/en/podcasts/living-the-dream). But why write them down? Why should I bother? The power of written dreams (and...
Feb 25, 2019 | Culture & Society
On Saturday, February 23, two major events took place, one in Orlando, Florida, and the other in Albany, New York. Both were sponsored and led by evangelical Christians, both events drew thousands, but the fact they took place on the same day was entirely...
Feb 25, 2019 | Prophetic Insight
I have been meditating on the changing role of the prophetic office in light of the reformation of the Church. I have been equipping prophetic people for 18 years, and suddenly I found myself reevaluating all that the Lord has so graciously entrusted me to do. It was...
Feb 25, 2019 | Culture & Society
Talking about their struggles with a stressful life someone said to me, ‘My problem is that I’ve got too many tabs open in my brain.’ At the time, I thought it was just another example of the increasing habit of using computer terms for ordinary life as when you hear...
Feb 25, 2019 | Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
God wants you to hear clearly and declare the Word of the Lord freely. But there are forces of darkness that you must confront in order to be effective in your mission. Jesus told His disciples as recorded in Matthew 13:43, “Then the righteous will shine forth as the...
Feb 25, 2019 | Faith that Overcomes
Have you ever asked yourself why you should tithe? Is there a need for us to tithe? What does the Bible say about tithing? The road to prosperity was a rough one for couple Vivian and James Drakeford who were both laid off from their jobs at a local industrial plant...
Feb 25, 2019 | Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
I hear God's call this year to abide in His secret place. Our abiding place of intimacy with Him will also be our place of covering. This is God's wisdom being revealed to deliver us from evil. One of the Scriptures the Lord gave me for this year was Psalm 91. From...
Feb 24, 2019 | Faith that Overcomes
Children are the best happy pills in the world. Their contagious laughter and precious innocence can uplift anyone’s soul. So when one of these little ones is struck by a terminal disease it’s more devastating than anything. When the child you used to see happy,...
Feb 24, 2019 | Holy Spirit
As My children, there are desires, there are passions that are yet to be realized as a sure and manifested part of who you are in Me. These desires, these passions spring up in you from knowing Me, spending time in My Presence and being saturated with Me in the glory...
Feb 23, 2019 | Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
Satan isn’t creative, but he is predictable. He operates from a playbook of strategies, which he launches systematically on person after person. But don’t mistake predictability for stupidity: He’s certainly cunning and knows just when to attack. Many of his plays are...
Feb 22, 2019 | Culture & Society
Nowadays, people tend to enter in a relationship without a purpose. Often times they enter because of what they feel is right especially when they’re madly in love. However, did you know that there are things you need to consider before entering into a relationship?...
Feb 22, 2019 | Spiritual Growth
“For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”(Hebrews 4:12) Have you ever been reading the...
Feb 22, 2019 | Prophetic Insight
We are in a Last Days battle for the true and pure prophetic to come forth. It is a battle between the demonic powers of Jezebel’s influence and the promised restoration of the spirit of Elijah. In the natural, Biblical setting, Queen Jezebel manipulated King Ahab and...
Feb 21, 2019 | Prophetic Words
This month I received an update on the prophetic word and encounter I had last year on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It was September 19, 2018, and I had a very powerful prophetic dream and spiritual encounter with the Lord. I released this...
Feb 21, 2019 | Awakening & Revival
While in prayer earlier this week, I was reminded of a quote by Edward Payson (1787-1823), known as “Praying Payson of Portland.” He said, “I do not believe that my desires for revival were ever half so strong as they ought to be; nor do I see how a minister can help...
Feb 21, 2019 | Awakening & Revival
Era: A period of time marked by distinctive character or events; a point in time from which succeeding years are numbered. We, the church, have entered a new era that will be the most exciting and fruitful season in church history. Our best days are ahead, not behind....
Feb 20, 2019 | Supernatural
For God may speak in one way, or in another, yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds, when He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction. In order to turn man from his...
Feb 20, 2019 | Marketplace Ministry
“Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.” (Isaiah 2:2) In 1975, Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade,...
Feb 19, 2019 | Spiritual Growth
John Wesley followed a time-tested approach: “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity.” Wesley believed that the spirit of charity needs to take into consideration the limits of human understanding. He observed, “To be ignorant of...
Feb 19, 2019 | Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
My husband, Al, was climbing the ladder of success in the oil and gas industry in his new position with exploration and development. The company was drilling several new wells across southern Kansas, and Al was supervising each of them. One of the rigs was drilling a...