Praying with Results

Daniel 10.12 encourages, don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to imageyour prayer.

Imagine praying and an angel or Jesus Himself showing up to say your prayers have been heard and I have come in response. That would be pretty incredible. That was Daniel’s experience.

Why did God listen to Daniel? Daniel did two things any of us can do and if we do them we can be confident that our prayers too will be heard. (more…)

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How Do You Decide Right From Wrong?

Deuteronomy 7.26 commands, do not bring any detestable objects into your home, for then you will be destroyed, just like them. You must utterly detest such things, for they are set apart for destruction.image

The people of God are to reflect the character and nature of God. The Bible puts it this way, we are to be holy as God is holy.

Often the attempt to be like God has resulted in a stiff religion, a legalism, that makes experiencing God or attracting others to Him all but impossible. (more…)

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The Church is the Hope of the World

Isaiah 1.4 describes, Oh, what a sinful nation they are—loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are imageevil people, corrupt children who have rejected the Lord.

The book of Isaiah could be describing the current Church and culture in America today. The description of course is general but so much is apropos to our nation that it bears reading, praying and pondering over.  (more…)

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Fear of Giving

Matthew 25:24 confesses I was afraid You would rob me of what I earned. Giving is a sensitive subject in the Church. Why is it sensitive? Because like the man…

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The Truth about God

Matthew 24:10 promises many of you shall fall back into sin and betray and hate each other. Sometimes its really hard to see Jesus in the lives of Christians. I…

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The problem of Kwanza

Kwanza begins today and it represents the failing of the black church in America. What is Kwanza? From Wikipedia, it was "Maulana Karenga who created Kwanzaa in 1966 as the…

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Wickedness in the world

Proverbs 29.16 promises when the wicked increase transgression increases. How do the wicked increase? They increase when the Church fails to disciple its followers who are responsible for winning the…

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