Reading the Instructions

Would you rather sit for a few hours and read the book on your new vehicle, or drive now and get the answers to questions as they arise? Would you rather sit and read the opinions of other owners, or take a trip and send some pictures to your friends? You may find useful information in the others’ testimonies. You […]

Careers in Sales

I have been trained by several organizations as a salesman. The various plans had differing strategies for securing a sale, but a common denominator was to convince the subject that they needed my product. I might be instructed to use evidence that they lacked something, or threat of a disaster, but the hoped-for end was always a signed agreement and […]

Righteousness: Seeking, Sowing

And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these! If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t […]

Access to Healing

Unbelief. Hardness of heart. To people Jesus was rebuking for displaying these qualities, He gave charge of the invasion of the earth with dissemination of good news. He told them to preach that good news to every creature. Later, He appeared to the Eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table. He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, […]

Making Jesus Known

They started laughing at Him, but He put them all outside. He took the child’s father, mother, and those who were with Him, and entered the place where the child was. Then He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). Immediately the girl got […]

Grace and Strength

You, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.(2 Timothy 2:1 HCSB ©®) For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more […]

Laburnum Seeds

One day Amy Carmichael was told that the seeds of a nearby tree were poisonous. Intrigued, she exclaimed to her little brothers, “Let’s count how many we can eat before we die!” When her stomach began to suffer much pain, she was given a strong laxative. Fierce Irish girl. She died in India many years later. There, she saved the […]

Surrounded, Therefore Effective

Your circumstances, in home or work or neighborhood or nation, may be that you are completely surrounded by death and destruction and hopelessness. Ask the Spirit to give you authority to change what He has allowed or caused you to be troubled by. The dead don’t even need to be able to hear what you prophesy over them as you […]

Delicious Dirt

I had some delicious dirt at lunch yesterday. It was converted dirt. Though it was once just dirt, and on good days wet dirt, a kernel of corn was dropped in it. The kernel of corn converted the dirt into a root on one end and a plant on the other end. The root took dirt and made it into […]

Standing Well

But Paul was greatly aggravated, and turning to the spirit, said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out right away.When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. And bringing them before the […]