- Give Me The Feet – June 2023
GIVE ME THE FEET When you bow before God, where are you? At His feet! A.W. Tozer said that “our great weakness is that not only are we not going on to know Christ in rich intimacy of acquaintance but we’re not even talking about it. We don’t even hear about it. It doesn’t get into our magazines …
Restore Worship – On Earth As It Is In Heaven – May 2023ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN Bowing is the revelation of glory. Worship is the revelation of love. How magnificent that our God is so glorious, we bow, and is so lovely, we worship! I want to be in a church, among people, where God is big. He is so big that small men kneel in love and reverence of th …
Restore Worship – David’s Amen – April 2023DAVID’S AMEN In the Psalms, the singer repeatedly prepares his heart for the Lord. For example, the Psalmist prays for God to enlarge his heart, strengthen his heart, create within him a clean heart, fix his heart, and break his heart. We should do likewise. We should be in the altars before, during …
Restoring Worship – The Heart of Worship – March 2023THE HEART OF WORSHIP How does God measure a man? Does He take a poll for the most popular candidate? Does the Lord file through the leading theologians of the day? Does He search the pool of intelligent, influential, and prominent men? What would constitute a real man? Would God take the meas …
The Perils of the Religious System – February, 2023THE PERILS OF THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM “And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them” (John 8:2). Jesus sat and talked to the crowds! Wow. Jesus would be hard-pressed to make it in today’s high-powered show of preachers. He …
Restoring Worship – Make Jesus Happy – January, 2023MAKE JESUS HAPPY Love is of God, and only lovers can know God, for everyone that loves is born of God, and knoweth God (1 John 4:7). God is love. Love makes the ultimate sacrifice to win those who would destroy themselves. Love gives and sacrifices so others can live. God loves when He is not …
Restoring Worship – Just One Look Changed Everything – December, 2022JUST ONE LOOK CHANGED EVERYTHING Many years ago, a minister was intent on worshipping God with his whole life. He suffered greatly from his failure and the constant distractions that he battled as he pursued God in worship. Hearing of an aged minister who enjoyed joyful intimacy with God, he sough …
Restoring Worship – He is With Us – November, 2022HE IS WITH US And to us who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us in the gospel, how unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No tale bearer can inform on us, no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can com …
Restoring Worship – The Burning Heart and the God of Fire – October, 2022THE BURNING HEART AND THE GOD OF FIRE History has recorded the power of those who were living sacrifices, who gave God their worship, and God gave them His fire. They were persecuted and threatened. They held prayer meetings and attended. They prayed for the courage to continue to preach and …
Why is the Culture not Impacted by the Christian God – September, 2022WHY IS THE CULTURE NOT IMPACTED BY THE CHRISTIAN GOD In his epistle to the Romans, Paul attributes the moral collapse of humanity to their refusal to worship God. Paul opens his letter to the Romans with a warning about neglecting God’s worship. He concludes the same letter with the call to w …
A Man to be Envied – August, 2022A MAN TO BE ENVIED Two thousand years of church history has produced a full spectrum of personalities and particular religious camps. Today there is an array of doctrinal beliefs from holiness to “greasy grace” and from “name it and claim it” prosperity to poverty is godliness. It …
Deployment – July, 2022DEPLOYMENT On any given day and throughout the day, my spirit has the most unusual stirrings. There is an actual fear, not anxiety. There is a stirring, a happening within my spirit. Something is going on, not just inside of me, but in the world. My spirit begins to pray, but I am extremely d …
The Pathway to the Father – Part 2 – June 2022THE PATHWAY TO THE FATHER Part 2 You have to go through the Son if you want to get to the Father. There is no other way. The only way to know the Father is for the Son to reveal Him. You cannot love the Father and not love the Son. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Fat …
The Pathway to the Father – Part 1 – May, 2022THE PATHWAY TO THE FATHER Part 1 The Father: by love, through love, and for love gives. He gives His greatest. He gives His heart. He does not give His least. He does not give merely enough. He gives gratuitously. He gives without regard to the receivers’ appreciation. He gives because of His …
Restoring Worship – What is Jesus like? – April, 2022WHAT IS JESUS LIKE? Look up into the heavens and behold who has created these things. Gaze into the cosmos, the unsearchable and insatiable powers of the ether, and behold the power of Him who created it all. The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth. He is n …
The Deceitfulness of Sin – March, 2022THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN “But exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13). The battle against sin is daily! The need for believers is daily! Sin is never our friend. It is our greatest enemy. Sin is ferociou …
How Does Faith Work? – February, 2022HOW DOES FAITH WORK? What makes faith work? You have believed God for things that you did not receive. You have experienced unanswered prayers. Certainly, you have heard many ask, “Why don’t we see the kind of miracles like they saw in the bible?” Today, many claim to believe in God but you cannot s …
Leave it in Gethsemane – January, 2022LEAVE IT IN GETHSEMANE Jesus took His disciples over the brook Kedron, to the mount of Olives, to a garden He frequently retired to called Gethsemane. He told His disciples to sit there and pray lest they enter into temptation; saying to them, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death, …
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