I’m sitting in my sunroom today looking through the windows. Birds are eating seeds from the feeder, deer are walking through the backyard, and the trees are swaying in the wind. We’ve had some very hot and humid weather this summer. But it sure is comfortable “inside” these glass walls in the sunroom. The reason...
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THE EXTRAORDINARY FATHER LIVES IN EXPECTANCY
“By faith Abraham…” (Hebrews 11:8). Faith is the only doorway for God to enter a human heart. The church is loaded with analysts, cynics, and skeptics; but God counts them special who believe Him. Many are experts in explaining away the possibility of divine intervention, but you should be a man who expects great things...
STRENGTH THROUGH THE SPOKEN WORD
“Stop using your tongue as a shovel to bury yourself and start using it as a sword against the enemy. Speak life, not death.” — Harold Vaughan “I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.” — Calvin Coolidge “We know metals by their tinkling and men by their talking.” — Thomas Brooks “And...
THE EXTRAORDINARY FATHER DARES TO DREAM
“And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me” (Genesis 37:9). A man with initiative dreams about something he can accomplish, something he can become, or some-thing he can...
The Faith Protocol
He that cometh to God must believe. Hebrews 11:6 Richard Alleine said, “The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.” The Bible is clear about the value of faith-filled praying. Moses turned God’s wrath from Israel through his intercession (see...
Strength Through Faith
“Our greatest problem in suffering is unbelief.”— Geoff Thomas “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away your ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”— Corrie ten Boom “Believe God’s Word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock...