Confront People With the Gospel
There is a war for people’s souls, and wherever there is war, we have a confrontation.
There is a war for people’s souls, and wherever there is war, we have a confrontation.
Our regular meetings must allow all to speak and should be focused on communion, not centered around a sermon.
The problem we often face today is that rather than recognizing a Biblical plurality of elders and pastors, we have one pastor who gives a monologue.
Stop thinking you can do church without the Holy Spirit’s help.
Many churches give more money in one night to a visiting preacher than in a year to help the poor.
Many people get bored with prayer because they’ve learned to pray religiously in unbelief.
Let’s consider if our programs are quenching the Holy Spirit and dishonoring Jesus.
Those who are so proud that they are full of the fear of man and concern about other people’s opinions will never have revival.
God created us in His image and likeness to have communion with Him, and He invites us to be united with Him.
A person who uses a question about tithing to evaluate others’ character is in sin for multiple reasons.
Why would I call someone “a pastor” much less “my pastor” unless I see something in their life that I want to imitate and learn from?
Religiosity defines church by labels and control, but God builds up His church by relationship and the bond of the Holy Spirit.
You’re at the highest level when you know that you deserve nothing but Jesus gave you everything.
It’s important to deal with this issue of religiosity so that the church can be restored to unity and to God’s purposes.
Any so-called “prosperity message” that replaces Jesus’ redemptive work with “miracle offerings” leads people into spiritual poverty.
When the other men felt God’s power and saw what happened, everybody wanted prayer.
Religiosity kills expectation. It’s like hard ground that the water rolls off of. It is not moved by the gospel message.
There was no place for a spiritual hierarchy between the individual leader and God in Jesus’ teaching.
Many Christians today are still following blind guides.
God’s word must grip my soul until I’m deaf to the voices of accusation, fear, anxiety, and unbelief.
There have always been scoundrels, wolves, false workers, and pastors who feed only themselves.
Paul talks in several passages about his infirmities, such as sleepless nights, shipwrecks, beatings, and going hungry.
Of all those who cried out to him for mercy, Jesus didn’t turn a single one of them down.
The gospel is about people meeting Jesus, not just assenting to a doctrine that is presented to them!
When I am ministering healing to people. I command “May God’s will be done in your body right now in Jesus’ name!”
Love the people and share the gospel and let the gospel break the vicious cycle passed down from generation to generation.
Fervent, effectual prayer is joining your will to God’s will with force.
Knowing your need for the Lord is humility, and God gives grace, meaning power, to the humble.
Helping people in need is an expression of love and worship to God.
God’s favor was bringing him to share the gospel before governors and kings!
If you try to obtain the promise by your works rather than through Jesus’ works, you nullify faith and cancel God’s promises for yourself.
It’s pretty simple to see that healing the sick was urgent to Jesus.
The reality in your heart will manifest around you.
When our version of Christianity becomes only about receiving God’s blessings but not about participating in His love, that is when evil advances.
Judgment is painful for people with wrong foundations, who have believed lies, and who have been living lies.
God’s favor puts us in places where things are difficult and people need help.
God gives us a part in His work not because He lacks power, but because He desires communion with us.
When we truly understand God’s favor which rests on us when we are in Christ, it leaves no place for self-pity.
I honor the grace of God manifested through the various members of Christ’s body.
I have never liked when people told me I have a “gift of healing” because healing is about who Jesus is.
Jesus taught that doing mighty works, healing the sick, and speaking in tongues is for all who believe.
Jesus never expected his disciples to have to try to share the gospel without healing the sick!
I felt like the Lord said, “Let my presence in your heart challenge the unbelief in your mind!”
Paul told them, “the secret power of lawlessness is already at work” and “you know what holds it back.”
I am convinced that some prophecies which are clearly talking about past events have been confused with prophecies about Jesus’ final return.
I realize that people through all of church history have made many false predictions when they tried to apply the current news headlines to Bible prophecy.
When we walk into trouble with the reality of God’s peace dominating our hearts, we end up changing circumstances and bringing God’s peace into them.
Of all those who cried out to him for mercy, Jesus didn’t turn a single one of them down.
Will you see all that Jesus has made possible for you and respond with excellence?
God calls us to be yoked with him, to partner with Him in his work, and says it’s easy!
We have to die to the law to live by the empowerment of the spirit.
Are we always trying to measure up, or are we enjoying life in Christ?
I am constantly aware of how much more is possible. I’ve just tasted enough to know.
As we hold fast to truth, that truth continues to bear fruit and grow in manifestation in our life.
I’m much more excited when I see someone else experience God doing a miracle through THEIR hands than when I myself pray and someone is healed.
Our main message isn’t “The Power of Faith.” It’s “Look at who Jesus is and what he’s done for us!”
Jesus emphasized his disciple’s believing when they ministered healing, rather than focusing on the faith of the people they would minister to.
“Faith” can become a religious dogma that we believe in but don’t really know how to exercise.
We have everything in Christ, and there is more. Both are true.
In my daily life, supernatural ministry became more and more firmly based on the nature of Jesus and the promises of scripture that anybody can grab a hold of.
He is my wisdom, so I can expect wisdom and knowledge from heaven in abundance as I walk in communion with Him.
When it becomes about only “following principles” instead of knowing God, we end up giving out of compulsion.
If we are giving because someone told us to instead of giving according to what we have desired in our heart, we are violating Paul’s New Testament command on giving.
Unlike the burdens of manmade religion, the pure and undefiled religion of caring for the orphan and widow comes with a reward!
When we know we carry God’s favor and act on it, miracles happen!
Every single offering initiated by the apostles in scripture was taken to help people in need.
If we can’t see who God is or what His will is, we limit His power at work within us.
Giving as lead by the Spirit of God is giving as you have decided in the secret place of your heart, to be seen by God and not by men.
The nature of God’s invisible Spirit is never self-centered. His nature is love.
The name “Jesus” means “God saves” and “Christ” means “anointed one.”
God’s protection and deliverance can extend beyond believers to cover people close to them, including unbelieving members of their families.
Knowing the generosity of our Heavenly Father empowers us to be generous.
John would get up in the morning, look at himself in the mirror, and say “God lives in this suit.”
When you have unspeakable joy in Christ and nobody can steal it, you are more than a conqueror.
Satan will lose his foothold in that area when the person stops identifying with the problem and starts identifying with Christ.
There’s something very healing and comforting that God knows all your secrets and He loves you.
Nobody was able to obtain the blessing based on the law, and everybody who relies on it is under a curse.
I’m learning to stand fast in the truth that Christ lives in me and he is able to manifest his nature through me.
Instead of focusing on your failures, keep focusing on what God has done in you.
The reborn spirit of Man, created in the likeness of God, connects to the charge from heaven through communion with the Holy Spirit.
The old lady started to realize that Jesus had healed her and she became very happy and started chattering joyfully.
Too many Christians evaluate God’s goodness through their experiences, including their disappointments.
Grandpa was so cynical and critical towards Christianity that it seemed impossible he would ever give his life to Jesus.
As Kathryn talked about salvation she said “Don’t put it off! Don’t put it off ’till tomorrow!
Grandpa prayed in desperation “God if you get me out of this, I’ll give you my life.”
Sometimes we make faith about overcoming a problem rather than about seeing and knowing Jesus,
Some can see 9 out of 10 in a group of people healed, and they will only talk about the one who wasn’t.
I’m happy to look like a fool and be misunderstood for the sake of my friend Jesus.
People are searching for water, but some have a hard time finding streams with pure water.
Many people have all kinds of problems that they think are purely natural and they have no idea of what is happening spiritually.
I think of newspapers and TV stations reporting God’s miracles, of Jesus becoming the center of attention within entire cultures.
Is your theology leading you into an encounter with Jesus?
He offends religious pride and nobody is able to receive him without humbling himself.
In a Biblical mindset, the first answer that comes to mind for the question “Who is your pastor?” is “My pastor is Jesus.”
A look at tithing in history should provide some serious food for thought to anybody who assumes that opposition to tithing is rooted in stinginess, half-hearted faith, or lack of Christian commitment.
When the basis for Christians’ doctrine becomes submission to a leader rather than persuasion, the church always is divided and falls into doctrinal error.
It starts with receiving God`s love, but it is perfected when we become love as he is love.
Scripture says to “strive to excel” in spiritual gifts. How are we going to do that without ever missing it?
Even when you’ve had experience after experience with God, when Jesus Christ
is the most real person in the world to you, you will always have to live by faith.
I had an assurance of salvation. I loved Jesus. But I felt like I had barely known him until now!