With all prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints (Ephesians 6:18).The mother of one of my seminary students was a psychic. She said to him once, "Jim, have you...
"I love the Lord because He hears my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live," Psalm 116:1-2. As I read this verse this morning, I was reminded of what this verse has meant in my life…Several...
Reba Robinson lay awake night after night, tense and tired in her little room in Starkville, Mississippi.' Her imagination raced out of control as her fingers clung to an old T-shirt that had once belonged to her son and still carried the scent of his cologne. He was...
I heard a minister in Fort Worth, Texas tell the story of another pastor who years ago received divine protection as a result of prayer-building walls or boundaries of protection (paga). This pastor had developed the discipline of beginning every day with an hour of...
When the Communists overran China following the end of World War II, a thousand missionaries with China Inland Mission (CIM) were trapped behind the Bamboo Curtain. CIM ordered a total evacuation in January 1951, but was it too late? Communists were not averse to...
HTML clipboard Dayton Jones swayed in indecision as he studied the real estate office. The place looked nice enough-a tasteful black-and-white striped awning covered the wide picture window, and the bright red door beckoned amid a sea of faded storefronts. Through the...
My brother Kevin thinks God lives under his bed. At least that's what I heard him say one night. He was praying out loud in his dark bedroom, and I stopped outside his closed door to listen. "Are you there, God?" He said. "Where are you? Oh, I see. Under the bed."I...