Prayer Choice And Prayer Conflict

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When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and pray to thy Father which is in secret. — Matthew 6:6 Jesus did not say – Dream about thy Father in secret, but pray to thy Father in secret. Prayer is an effort of will. After we have entered our secret place and have shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray; we cannot get our minds into working order, and the first thing that conflicts is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private prayer is the overcoming of mental wool-gathering. We have to discipline our minds and …

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Genesis Message 40 – Melchizedek

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Abram met with the new king of Sodom and a king named Melchizedek. This man has a Hebrew name, which is the combination of two names: Melech means King and Tzedick, which means righteous.So we have a righteous king identified in the eighteenth verse that goes out to meet Abram. He is further identified as the king of Salem, which is ancient Jerusalem (Psalm 76: 2). They meet in the vale of Shaveh, which is the valley of Jehoshaphat on the east side of the temple mount. On the east of that valley is the Mount of Olives. Melchizedek is …

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Make a Difference

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Esther 2:19-3:15 19 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate. 20 Esther had not yet made known her kindred or her people, even as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther did what Mordecai told her as she had done when under his care. 21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s officials from those who guarded the door, became angry and sought to [b]lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 22 But the plot became known to Mordecai and he told …

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Reasons to Surrender

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We know that everything must be put aside in order to make way for our King’s will. But why? 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. As we saw yesterday, God wants us to surrender our life to Him. This is no small task. All of our plans, every desire we feel, each …

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Ask and Trust

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Esther 2:12-18 12 Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;) 13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house. 14 In the evening she went, and …

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Prophecy – Signs Monday, August 21, 2017 Pete Garcia “The non-intervention of God bears very heavy interest, and He is greatly to be feared when He does nothing. He moves in long orbits, out of sight and sound. But He always arrives. Nothing can arrest the judgment of the Cross; nothing shake the judgment-seat of Christ” (PT Forsyth in The Justification of God) Convergence has been a popular buzz-word within prophecy circles over the past few years and rightly so. With so many prophetically-charged events now running simultaneously, it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of them all. You’d think with …

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Our Heart’s Desire

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“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” -Philippians 3:10-11 God has created us with the ability to love and express ourselves. We, having been created in the image of God, can truly have no fulfillment in our earthly pursuits apart from knowing Him. The Apostle Paul having lived a life of achievement, notoriety and wealth found himself emotionally and spiritually bankrupt. It wasn’t until he encountered Jesus Christ in a face-to-face meeting …

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I recall a time when I was so hopeless..

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Life just exsisted and I felt it was just as good as it was going to get.. I was SO shattered and full of no self worth.. I lived my daily life with regret and I wanted a way out.. Slowly God started revealing His amazing plan but I didn’t realize it was Him.. My dreams filled my heart but I was far from feeling they would ever come into play.. One step at a time I kept walking.. Though the road was dark and lonely it brought me to a point where the bottom hit. What seemed like the …

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The Trees that are Slow to Grow Bear the Best Fruit – Molière

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How patient should we be? To what extent is godly patience practiced? How many chances should we give to someone who knowingly has bad intentions and wants to harm us? Very often, we act hastily at the first hint of an offense, and we are quick to condemn. Is our patience contained in a shallow vase that needs only a few drops more to overflowing which then pulls the trigger of condemnation? To bring truth even closer to the surface, we need to question the extent to which partiality plays in our rush to rebuke one and not the other. …

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Building Muscles of Faith

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1 Kings 18:22-23 22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: “I wish I had great faith.” These are words that almost every Christian has said at one time or another. But faith is …

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Joseph, A Type of Christ

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from Care for God’s Fruit-trees and other Messages by H. A. Ironside The story of Joseph as given in Genesis (chapters 37 to 50) is perennially fresh and delightful. Young and old alike revel in it. Looked at as an old-world picture of customs and people long-since vanished, there is a freshness and charm about it that stirs the heart and holds our attention in a remarkable way. But in studying Scripture there is not only the literal application, which is always important, but every part of the Word of God has a spiritual, typical, and dispensational application as well, …

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Who Were The Magi?

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The Magi As part of the birth of Jesus we read an account in Matthew’s Gospel of Herod the king of Judea receiving some people from an eastern land who were alerted that the true “King of the Jews” had been born. As a result of their visit Herod and the general population of Jerusalem were threatened. Just who were these people and why was Herod threatened? God was bringing His long awaited Messiah to the earth and the ungodly were going to try but would not be able to stop His plan. Matthew 2:1–12 Now when Jesus was born …

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As in The Days of Noah Were -Corruption and Demonic Activity Part I

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The Demonic Interruption of The Messianic Seed Line Genesis 6: 1-8 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose. And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the …

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