Month: February 2023

Young people, as well as those in their middle years, are always looking forward to tomorrow, while old people live in yesterdays of the past. Can’t anyone ever live in the present? Paul said of David, “By the will of God he served his generation and slept with his fathers” (Acts 13:36). In other words,… Continue reading THE “NOW” REMNANT 1

When the spirit of discouragement and depression comes to harass the people of the Lord, they can become victims of it almost without realizing how much it is controlled by the spirit realm. If they realized the danger of it, they would rebuke it and not yield to it. He that is slow to anger… Continue reading GREATER THAN HE THAT TAKETH A CITY 1

Father, our hearts look to Thee. We know that when we started to walk with You, You brought us to set our hearts upon You and to say yes to Your will—but we never dreamed what Your will would mean! We pray that You will help us to have that discipleship without reservation. Amen. Think… Continue reading PROGRESSIVE DEMANDS OF DISCIPLESHIP 1

I do not know of anything that I have ever taught that God has not burned in my spirit first. When you hear it, you know that I have already experienced it deeply. I could not talk you into anything at all if I did not know the truth of it within the depths of… Continue reading WITHOUT RESERVATION 1

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is… Continue reading LET THY WORDS BE FEW 1

This probe message concerns two basic problems: presumption and drawing back from absolute obedience. Using the life of Saul in the Old Testament as an example, we see that certain things befell him which could easily overtake us in the same way. What was it that caused Saul to be exposed to his greatest defeats,… Continue reading THE PERILS OF PRESUMPTION
AND DISOBEDIENCE

The purpose of a probe is to dig down deep into our spirits to find the things that need to be uncovered and let the Spirit of the Lord deal with them. The difficulty with most of us is that we are too superficial in our understanding of ourselves or of the will of God.… Continue reading TRUTH OR DECEPTION? 1

There is a process by which you can get rid of resentment, rebellion and unsubmissiveness. One usually triggers off another until all three have run the complete cycle. When you have something like this that you battle continually, expect and believe for perfect deliverance. However, understand that the nature of your problem is so deep… Continue reading DYNAMITING THE STUMPS 1

Our focus is very much on the Lord, but because we are moving into days of restoration, many pressures are coming against the people of the Lord. For our survival, we have had to learn to deal with them and cope with them. We cannot judge anything on a human level. We cannot condemn anyone,… Continue reading TOTAL REPENTANCE 1

In a probe, we deal with the hidden motivations in people’s lives, the ulterior purposes that are concealed, sometimes even from their own thinking. The reasons we give for our actions are often quite plausible to others, but God who searches the heart knows how many times they are not true. Paul illustrates this when… Continue reading HIDDEN REBELLION AND PERVERSITY 1

God is bringing forth a people today who are embracing a walk with God rather than a theology or a doctrine. The study of doctrine differentiates between Calvinism and Arminianism. The Calvinist doctrine, originally based upon John Calvin’s teachings, claims that those who in the foreknowledge of God are predestined to be saved, will be… Continue reading GOING ON TO MATURITY 1

Some stories in the Bible are classic, inasmuch as they apply to so many areas of our life. As we pass through one phase after another, one of these classic stories will always give the answer we need. How many times have you felt that you were crossing over Jordan into Canaan? How many times… Continue reading THE HALF-BREEDS 1

Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. Psalm 118:27b. Exodus 29 tells how the priests would dip a finger in the blood of sacrifice and put it upon the horns which extended up on each side of the altar. The horns had a specific purpose. The animal world seems to… Continue reading MORE ON DEDICATION 1

In almost every area where the Lord is dealing with people or even just setting them aside for the moment, problems suddenly erupt which look like utter disaster. Yet people go along on their merry way thinking they will keep it covered. God will not allow it to remain covered. This is a day of… Continue reading THE DAY OF TRANSPARENCY 1

It is amazing to see how many things people can be dedicated to, without being really dedicated to doing the will of the Lord. They use a walk with God with its miracle deliverances, believing they can create for themselves a selfish and rewarding personal life. Peter asked the Lord Jesus, “We’ve left all to… Continue reading DEDICATED 1

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple… Then I said, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:… Continue reading A REVELATION OF OURSELVES 1

The self-knowledge behind psychoanalysis has been admittedly a defeat in probing to the depths of human problems. Very few psychiatrists engage in psychoanalysis now, but the need that they saw was very real. They saw that in some way every person with deep problems must discover both the conscious and unconscious basis for their problems.… Continue reading The only effective way of change 1