Ronnie Floyd makes a great short statement about the power of Prayer and fasting. I trust it will encourage you in your journey with the Lord. God’s gateway to spiritual breakthrough is praying and fasting. The walls will be crushed, destroyed, and removed, and the power of God will fall. You can know the power [...]
Ronnie Floyd asks some tough questions about our willingness to fast and pray. read his thoughts and then consider the passage of Scripture from Joel When was the last time we fasted and prayed over our own spiritual plights, the spiritual conditions of our churches, and the spiritual health of our country? When was the [...]
To begin 2016, I was compelled by the Holy Spirit to read several books about inner disciplines. One of the books I had recently purchased pertained to this. Soul Keeping by John Ortberg, Senior Pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian in CA. In a couple of chapters Ortberg addresses the tension that sin creates for the [...]
We have been going through Faith Under Fire in small groups and recently the topic of the validity of the Bible came up. It produced great discussion and made me think about a 6 volume work by Carl Henry that is in my library. I thought it would be a great topic to blog on [...]
God's universal presence surrounds us as the air surrounds the soaring eagle or the Pacific engulfs the dolphin as it dives, "for in him we live and move and have our being." (Acts 17:28). Whitney Experiencing the presence of God is something that we ought to grow more familiar with each day as mature in [...]
I am still working through Holiness by Grace by Bryan Chapell. He was talking about mercy in the chapter I am in, and interjected a unique experience that reminded me of the values of relationships in the church, especially personal relationships that may know the intimate details of our lives. He writes (referring to a conversation [...]
I was reading a devotion by C.H. Spurgeon and was reminded of the phrase, "I only have eyes for you.". You might have heard some young man say that to the girl he is courting or to his wife. I have been around a few people in my life who live in such a way [...]