Supercharge Your Prayer Life
Posted on March 9, 2016 9 Comments
Do you want to pray with greater confidence? Would you like to exercise greater authority when you confront demonic powers? Are your doubts undermining your spiritual life and your prayers? Then you may need to supercharge your prayer life with fasting.
“Why could we not cast it out?” the disciples asked Jesus. “Because of Read More
Where there Is a Man to Pray, there Is a God to Answer
Posted on March 2, 2016 12 Comments
How much confidence do you have in your prayers? When you pray, do you really expect an answer? You should. God really hears and answers prayer.
Just last week my wife and I received a very specific answer to our prayers. She noticed a Read More
Fight the Good Fight of Faith and Win!
Posted on February 25, 2016 10 Comments
Are you fighting for your life, your health, your family? How well are you doing? Are you winning? The only fight I consider good is the one I win.
In 1 Timothy 6:12, Paul exhorts Timothy to “fight the good fight of faith.” Why? Because when we fight the fight of faith we always win! Faith is the Read More
How to Bear Much Fruit
Posted on February 18, 2016 4 Comments
If you are a Christian, you desire to be fruitful. You want to please God, you want to be productive, you want to be a blessing. But what does it take? Jesus tells us what.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (John 15:5 NKJV)
Making up your mind that you are going to be Read More
Trust God’s Faithfulness
Posted on February 11, 2016 10 Comments
We want quick answers to our prayers. And thank God, from time to time, we get them–we experience immediate manifestations! Often, however, we pray and then we wait. “You have need of patience,” the Bible says, “that after you’ve done the will of God you may receive the promise.” (Heb. 10:35)
So what should you do while you wait for the manifestation of the promises of God in your life? Read More
The Power in Your Mouth
Posted on February 3, 2016 8 Comments
Your world can become chaotic. Your life can lose its familiar form. Emptiness can appear and darkness surround you. What should you do at such times? Follow God’s example.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.” (Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV)
The Message Bible says, “Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness.”
What did God do to fix this black bottomless problem He was looking at? He envisioned light, something different from what He was seeing, and then He began to speak. “Then God said, ‘Let there be light.’ Eight other times in Genesis 1, we find these words, “Then God said.” And each time God spoke, it was so. And in this manner, God removed the darkness and replaced the chaos with light, order, and beauty. “And God said it was good.”
Do you know this is exactly what God wants you to do when the enemy causes chaos in your health, family, or finances, and darkness hovers around you? He does not want you to become alarmed or discouraged. Instead, He wants you to envision something different from what you are experiencing, His will for your life being done, His promises being fulfilled, and then to begin opening your mouth and calmly to start speaking His will for you into existence.
You say, how can this be? I am not God. You are right, you are not God and it is obvious! But you do not need to be God to do what God says you should do and get the results God promised you would get if you speak in accordance to His will.
Listen to what God said:
“You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways.” (Job 22:28 NKJV)
“So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” (Mark 11:22-23 NKJV)
“And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also believe and therefore speak,” (II Corinthians 4:13 NKJV)
Can you see there is power in your mouth to change circumstances? You do not have to be God for this to happen. You don’t even have to be more special than others. You just need to be a believer in whom God’s Spirit dwells, to have God backing you when you speak! And this is exactly what He has promised to do.
God speaks and we are to speak. It is written, “For he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, ‘The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me,‘ “(Heb 13:5-6). Notice, God hath said in order that we may say-not that we may know, not that we may write, not even that we may pray-but that we may say.
Child of God, start speaking!
Stop Saying, “If Only I Had Enough Faith”
Posted on January 28, 2016 7 Comments
Have you ever said, “If only I had enough faith?” Or, perhaps, you may have thought concerning something you were praying about, “My faith is just not enough for God to hear me?” If so, you are making a mistake. Here’s why.
Watching Jesus and seeing Him work all types of miracles, the disciples approached Jesus with a request. His answer must have astounded them.
“The apostles said to the Lord, “Give us more faith!” The Lord said, “If your faith were the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Dig yourself up and plant yourself in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” (Luke 17:5-6 NCV)
They thought they needed more faith than they already had. But Jesus disagreed. He answered by showing them what faith, even as small as a mustard seed, could accomplish. It could even make a mulberry tree uproot itself and throw itself in the sea. The mustard seed is one of the tiniest seeds in existence.
In essence, Jesus said to them, “You think the size of your faith is a problem. It is not. You’ve got it wrong. You don’t need more faith. Because, even if the faith you have is as tiny as a very tiny seed, it is more than enough to cause the miracles you need to happen for you.”
The disciples wanted Jesus to increase their faith, but He wanted them to unleash their faith. When they said, “Enlarge our faith,” Jesus said, “Express your faith.”
And that is what you need to do too. Your faith does not need to be increased. It needs to be unleashed. It needs to be expressed.
How? With your words. “Say to the mulberry tree, dig yourself up. Plant yourself in the sea.” And, “Speak to the mountain, tell it to move.” (Mark 11:23) Faith comes by hearing with your ears; it is released by speaking with your mouth. Don’t only pray to God, release your faith the same way Jesus did. The same way God did.
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. (Psa 33:6, Psa 33:9)
Made in the image of God, you too can shape your world, with words of faith
Child of God, Jesus does not want you to be concerned about the size of your faith. Neither does He want you to think your faith is too small to experience miracles. It is not. He wants you to know, even if your faith is only the size of a mustard seed, it is enough to remove any mountain of impossibility that is separating you from God’s best and uproot any tree of failure that stands in your way. So, stop fretting about the size of your faith and start shaping your world with faith-filled words.
The Name Behind the Miracle
Posted on January 20, 2016 6 Comments
What will cause God to work miracles for you? And what will qualify you to be a channel for God’s miracles to flow through? The answer is found in the healing of the lame man in Acts 3. And it’s not your own holiness or power.
While entering the temple grounds for prayer, Peter and John met a man begging for alms who had been crippled from birth. On other occasions, no doubt, Peter had given him money. But not this day. Prompted by the Spirit, Peter Read More
The Power of Faith
Posted on January 13, 2016 10 Comments
“And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith”. (I John 5:4)
Storms happen. Troubles arise. Trials come. This world comes with tribulations. The Bible says it. Experience confirms it. Life proves it. And this is because the fallen world we live in is suffering the effects of sin and the decisions of sinful people!
But God created us to be victors, not victims. We are Read More
Making Miracles Happen
Posted on January 6, 2016 7 Comments
After 12 years of suffering, of continuous bleeding, going from doctor to doctor, hospital to hospital, spending all her money and only getting worse, she had had enough. So when she heard Jesus was going to be passing through her town, she made up her mind she was not going to just hope and pray for a miracle. She was going to make a miracle happen for her. And she did! (Matthew 9:20-22)
Are you saying Bishop we can just Read More
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