Fears come in all shapes and sizes— you can fear failure and you can also fear success. The fear of success is called the fear of heights, and it is more common than you may think. The fear of failure is virtually universal. Athletes, pastors, business leaders, parents, and students face these fears continually.  Read More

The greatest need in your life today is to keep your heart in the love of God. As you face adversity, the promise of God’s indomitable love for you is the most important promise to take hold of.   Read More

God wants you to know that there is no holy angel in heaven nor fallen angel in hell that can separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus.   Read More

The shock and awe of an untimely death can rattle our faith in the promise of God’s love. The waves of grief that follow death can crash against us and erode our faith.  Read More

The promise that absolutely nothing can possibly separate you from the love of God in Christ is one of the most foundational, bedrock promises.  Read More

Today your prompt to praise the Lord is the solid rock promise of God’s faithfulness. “Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.” Psalm 100:4-5  Read More

As you learn to recognize the promises of God in the Bible, here is an insight: learn to mark every virtue of God. All God’s virtues are promises you can trust in because his character will never change.  Read More

Every virtue of God is a promise because God’s character will never change. His attributes are immutable, unchangeable. You can stand on the promises of God and you can stand on the virtues of God— they will never let you down.  Read More

The steadfast love of the Lord is invincible— and that’s a promise! If you have wandered into a dark night of the soul where you feel like life is not fair, like no one cares, like God has turned his back on you, that God no longer loves you, God hands you one of his bedrock promises that you can stand on even if you feel like you’re standing alone— the steadfast love of the Lord endures forever.  Read More

You may be living with disappointment with God— disappointment that he did not answer your prayers, that he left you hanging, that he didn’t do what you asked, that you deserved better. Disappointment with God is deadly to your spirit.  Read More

Don’t allow the month of February to simply degenerate into hearts, valentines, and wishful thinking. God wants to give you a love infusion that will last much longer than a dozen roses or a box of chocolates.  Read More

Waiting is normally annoying but in the kingdom of God, waiting is strategic. As a pregnant woman is enlarged while waiting, so we too are enlarged in waiting on the Lord. We are enlarged in faith, enlarged in desperation, enlarged in humility. It is obviously the will of God to baptize every believer with the Holy Spirit, and at times it is important to spend time waiting on God.  Read More

New clothes are nice, but power clothes are better. God wants to clothe you with power so that you can fulfill your calling with excellence. This power promise is another trinitarian promise. God the Son communicates the promise. God the Father fulfills the promise. God the Spirit is the promise.   Read More

We made it...21 days of fasting for, praying for, waiting for and receiving breakthrough! Fasting, in some ways, is like a marathon. You push forward in the first few days as your body begins to detox.  Read More

God is kind, but he is not a wimp. He is gentle, but he is no push-over. In fact, God is a warrior. He is mighty in battle. This means he never backs down from a fight, and he certainly never loses. Your God is ferociously loving. He fights to defend the widow, the orphan, the imprisoned, and the marginalized. He battles for truth, justice, righteousness, and peace. He will go to any length to protect you and those you love. The fact that God is mighty in battle is a promise you can bank on today.  Read More

Some of the biggest things God does during a fast are not done externally but internally. No matter how miraculous the answers to prayer you have received during this fast, don't underestimate the impact this fast has had within your own heart and body.  Read More

Glory is the name used to describe the sum total of God’s attributes. Glory is also the name used to describe God’s manifesting presence. King of glory indicates that Christ has the authority over the sum total of his attributes and over his manifest presence.  Read More

My mentor, Armin Gesswein, told the story about his mentor, Uncle Am, who would go to his barn to spend time alone with God with nothing more than his Bible.  Read More

If you are becoming a seeker I have good news— you are not alone. God is raising up a whole generation of seekers. You and I are living in a day of a mighty prayer movement. Genuine seekers are not seeking stuff from God, they are face-seekers— people who want to seek God’s manifest presence.  Read More

During an extended fast we are often attacked by our adversary, satan, and his demons. They are trying to contest the spiritual and physical ground that is rapidly being taken back in our lives through fasting.  Read More

As you develop an eye for the Bible promises of God, here is a secret: look for the word receive. Most of the promises of God expect you to receive, and many of the promises of God explicitly exhort you to receive.  Read More

The Bible is filled with literally thousands of promises for those who trust in God. I love to pray promises from Scripture because I know they are the prayers that God will answer.  Read More

Seekers aren’t sinless but they do sin less. The process of climbing the hill of God is a cleansing process. Psalm 24:4 gives four distinct parts of the cleansing process.   Read More

Waiting on the promises of God is a very difficult thing to do. One of the reasons is because of our own expectations about God keeping His promises, and there are two aspects of our expectations that make it difficult.  Read More