While a mother’s instruction is invaluable, it can never replace the intended and expected instruction of a father.

in Psalm 75 God clearly wants to be known as the Judge of all judges (see vs. 2, 7) and as the One who raises up one and puts down another.

God has always hated self reliance and pride in man’s accomplishments and men putting their security in their buildings and fortresses....

He (Jesus) stayed the course and remained steadfast in His obedience to the full and complete will of God in the midst of such madness

Steadfastness… is a crucial quality for those who would be mercifully used by God to see revival and awakening break out across the nations

Just as widespread steadfastness would revolutionize our cities, widespread lack of steadfastness has devastating consequences.. on a people

Every believer has a God ordained garden or lane or sphere that He expects us to discern or discover and to steward

the key to overcoming worry is praying about what we are worrying about

Prayer lists can help us define and clarify what God is after with a person or an organization or a town or with yourself

"...He gave us the gifts of prophecy and tongues and interpretation of tongues so that He could break in and get our full attention."

if you are a father of children ..., please know they need you to be focused on the right things. Many people in the church world are not

We believers are .. in danger of losing our passion and becoming more ...Pharisaaic in our treatment of and attitude towards His word/the Scriptures

A prophetic word in a gathering of believers should be enthusiastically embraced because it “speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation”

"....when the Holy Spirit chooses to remind you of some aspect of the sin and rebellion and debauchery of your past, please know He has every right to do that. He will never do it to condemn you..."

But it is the Spirit who reveals this abundance of supernatural life and who gives us thirst for it and who helps us learn to walk in it

In our experience many worshipping communities are the weakest in their knowledge of and experience of the Holy Spirit for a variety of reasons.

Does it not stand to reason that if the “voice out of the heavens” declared God was well pleased with Jesus before He ever started His ministry (see Matthew 3:17) that Jesus lived His life up to that point by the Spirit?

The more David saw God’s glory and majesty and goodness and greatness the more he wanted everyone on the planet to see it and experience it. And he apparently had faith that that could happen.

"It is imperative that earthly fathers give more time to knowing their God and passing that experiential and theological knowledge down to their children. This will always by far be their children’s greatest need."

Compromising with our idolatrous fathers may keep some kind of peace in the family, but it will not bring them into the peace they need with God.