“Oh that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at Thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make Thy name known to Thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Thy presence!” (Isa. 64:1-2). The Prophet Isaiah lived...
“And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor…” ~Isaiah 59:16 A bold translation of Isaiah 59:16 is that God was appalled that there was none to intercede! The boldness of this idea demands the attention of every Christian, regardless of their stage in life. An astonished God, a...
Many Bible characters had a fantastic and supernatural beginning, but only a select number had a strong ending. Seventy percent of leaders in Scripture did not finish well (more than half). Robert Clinton list six reasons why so many failed to finish well… Reason #1. They stopped learning and growing. All religion has a proneness...
Some people fast to burn calories. Others fast to break chains. Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Andrew Murray put it like this, “Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the Invisible; fasting the other, with which we let loose and cast...
“We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God’s reluctance, but as laying hold of His highest willingness.” ~Richard Trench Mr. Moody was once addressing a crowded meeting of children in Edinburgh. To get their attention, he began by asking a question that he was prepared to answer himself, “What is prayer?” Before he could...
“And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2). “In the springtime of 1855, an Irish Presbyterian minister addressed the young men of his congregation in the village of Connor, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland, with the words, ‘Do...