Jun 19, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. – Psalm 37:4 If you don’t take delight in the Lord, you’ll have the wrong kind of desires. You can name it and claim it all day long, but you won’t have power in prayer, because you...
Jun 12, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God… Luke 6:12 Have you ever stayed up late doing something you like to do? Have you ever just lost track of time because you were so engrossed in something you were...
Jun 5, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
I’ve stated many times that it was difficult to step out and trust God’s leading when we moved to Tennessee to start the Ranch. But, we are so grateful for the privilege of moving here and watching what God has done. God is actively at work at Wears Valley Ranch....
May 29, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife...
May 22, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah ran away from the LORD… Jonah 1:1-3 Less than two years after my family began our ministry at...
May 15, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.Hebrews 11:6 Sometimes, God does impress something on our hearts that requires us to take action in faith....
May 8, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in...
May 1, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.” That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was...
Apr 24, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
I remember in the 1970’s when transcendental meditation made big inroads into our society. Christians were alarmed by this false eastern religion and began associating the idea of meditation with negative connotations. While eastern religion exhorts followers to empty...
Apr 17, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord…” Exodus 5:2 Learning to Listen Often, it’s easier to talk about prayer than it is to pray. The devil doesn’t mind nearly so much when...
Apr 10, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
The Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” Genesis 3:9 “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you...
Apr 3, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. Though I have been speaking...
Mar 27, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose…. What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him...
Mar 20, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
There is another aspect to prayer that is often misunderstood. It is described for us in the book of James, but the story behind it is in I Kings 17 and 18. In I Kings 17, Elijah prayed that is would not rain for three years; God answered and it didn’t rain. Then, he...
Mar 13, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. My brothers and sisters, if one of you...
