Christianity
164 Articles & Excerpts
Rejection and the Cross
Root of Rejection: Escape the Bondage of Rejection and Experience the Freedom of God's Acceptance by Joyce Meyer Jesus was rejected and despised, a man who understood sorrow and pain. When you experience the pain of rejection, you can identify with Jesus and draw strength and healing from Him. Rejection is one of Satan's favorite tools to use against people.
You Are As Close To God As You Want To Be
Knowing God Intimately: Being as Close to Him As You Want to Be by Joyce Meyer It's obvious that some people are closer to God than others. Some people have a reverent familiarity with God that seems foreign to other Christians. These close friends of God share stories of talking to Him as if they know Him personally.
Rediscovering Lost Values
A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. by Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran I want you to think with me this morning from the subject: Rediscovering Lost Values. There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we have to look too far to see that.
Develop Your Potential: Nobody Starts at the Finish Line
A Leader in the Making: Essentials to Being a Leader After God's Own Heart by Joyce Meyer That person is a born leader. We hear this statement often. Are leaders born or are they made? It is true that some people do seem to be born with an abundance of leadership gifts and qualities. But it is also true that some of the best leaders
Wait On the Lord for the Due Season
Weary Warriors, Fainting Saints: How You Can Outlast Every Attack of the Enemy by Joyce Meyer The King James Version of Galatians 6:9 says, And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. The Lord promises to bring the harvest, the answers we are waiting for, in due season.
Trust Completely In God
Knowing God Intimately: Being as Close to Him As You Want to Be by Joyce Meyer I remember when the Lord told me to quit my fulltime job where I was making as much money as my husband. In addition, I was the boss, so I enjoyed many benefits because of my high position. But the Lord began to deal with me
Who Is Jesus
How to Be Like Jesus: Lessons on Following in His Footsteps by Pat Williams, Jim Denney It was just before dawn in Jerusalem. Inside a stone-walled house, in the pre-dawn darkness, a man and a woman lay together. The man was married, but not to this woman. What they did was a violation of the Law. If anyone caught them together . . .
God's Word For You
Celebration of Simplicity: Loving God and Enjoying Life by Joyce Meyer I believe that life should be a celebration. Far too many believers don't even enjoy lite, let alone celebrate it. Many people truly love Jesus Christ and are on their way to heaven, but very few are enjoying the trip.
Making Room for Miracles
The Book of Miracles by Kenneth L. Woodward A miracle is an unusual or extraordinary event that is in principle perceivable by others, that finds no reasonable explanation in ordinary human abilities or in other known forces that operate in the world of time and space
God Is Never Late, And He Usually Isn't Early!
Weary Warriors, Fainting Saints: How You Can Outlast Every Attack of the Enemy by Joyce Meyer When we ask people how they are these days, usually the answer is, Tired! or, Busy! When I asked what the lifestyle was like in one city, the answer was, Fast! The word weary means faint, worn out, 1. Tired: fatigued.
God's Word For You
Never Lose Heart: Encouragement for the Journey by Joyce Meyer WHEN YOU FEEL STRESSED. A few years ago, I went to a doctor because I was constantly sick. He told me the symptoms were the result of being under stress. I was sleeping wrong, eating improperly, and pushing myself harder and harder--all in the name
In the Eye of the Prophetic Storm
The American Prophecies : Ancient Scriptures Reveal Our Nation's Future by Michael D. Evans There's a reason for the hostility of Islamic fundamentalists toward America. It is rooted in bigotry, the ancient prejudice against Jews. From the time George Washington placed his hand upon a Bible and swore the oath to become the first president
Something Seems to Be Missing
Knowing God Intimately: Being as Close to Him As You Want to Be by Joyce Meyer I remember the emptiness I felt in 1976 when, as a young Christian, I realized that doing the right things brought temporary happiness but not deep, satisfying joy. In those early days of my friendship with God, I could only see Him from a distance
Two Choices: Works or Grace?
Seven Things That Steal Your Joy: Overcoming the Obstacles to Your Happiness by Joyce Meyer You have only one life to live, and you have a right to enjoy it. But one of the main things that will keep you from enjoying your life is works of the flesh. Works of the flesh are attempts to accomplish through your own energy things that are God's job.
Time with God Is a Vital Necessity
Knowing God Intimately: Being as Close to Him As You Want to Be by Joyce Meyer We may have to deal sternly with our flesh to resist the spirit of passivity that tries to keep us from growing in the knowledge of God. A commitment to spend time with God is as serious as any commitment that we could ever make.
The Source of My Vocation
Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way by Pope John Paul II I set off in search of the source of my vocation. It is beating there … in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. I thank God that during the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 I was able to pray-precisely there-in the Upper Room (Mark 14:15)
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Jesus: Name Above All Names: Releasing His Anointing in Your Life by Joyce Meyer Imagine what it would be like to have so much power that your circumstances could not defeat you-power so great that its strength, its force cannot even be measured. In this passage, the apostle Paul tells us that is exactly what is available to us
Why We Must Forgive
The Power of Forgiveness: Keep Your Heart Free by Joyce Meyer Have you been hurt? Misused? Abused? Treated wrongly or improperly? Rejected? Has it affected your emotional state? Do you really want to be healed? Do you really want to get well? Will you forgive? I believe that most people are abused in one way
Expect Him to Speak To You
How to Hear From God: Learn to Know His Voice and Make the Right Decisions by Joyce Meyer Jesus told His disciples, I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now. But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth
What You Need Going In
World Wide Search : The Savvy Christian's Guide to Online Dating by Cheryl Green Let's get real about online dating right from the start. It won't solve all of your dating problems, and it sure isn't the easy way to find a date. In the interest of full disclosure, I feel compelled to bring up two basic caveats.
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