Rehearsing your hurts cultivates bitterness. Rehearsing negative experiences cultivates a critical spirit. Obsessing over negativity breeds cynicism. But rehearsing your blessings will cultivate a grateful heart. The importance of your meditations and conversations cannot be overstated. Your mind and your mouth affect you and those around you in profound ways. Your thoughts, or meditations, define...
“Revival is not when churches change members, but when the Holy Spirit changes lives.” —Author Unknown “Revival is that strange and sovereign work of God in which He visits His own people—restoring, reanimating and releasing them into the fullness of His blessing.” —Stephen Olford “Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power.”...
“Search me, O God…” (Psalm 139:23). We have the honor to pray and do impossible things for God. The number one hindrance to American revival is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer. God’s people have a responsibility to pray. We have the right as Americans to pray, and we need to take advantage of the...
“Every revival can be traced to a kneeling figure.” —D. L. Moody “From the day of Pentecost, there has been not one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer, though only among two or three. And no such outward, upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings...
“David encouraged himself in the Lord his God” (1 Samuel 30:6). The Bible speaks clearly to the issue of contentment. Paul said, “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content” (Philippians 4:11). He further instructed, “And having food and raiment let us be therewith content” (1 Timothy 6:8). The writer of...
“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings” (Ps. 40:2). It is a very rare Christian wife who does not experience an occasional “case of the blues.” Discouragement hits just about everyone at some point in life,...