If you are slow to respond when confronted, you have the opportunity to control that devilish threat that tries to rise up in your flesh—to take offense. Proverbs 16:24 makes the point: “Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”...

Do any of these testimonials sound familiar? “My life is hectic! I’m running all day meetings, phone calls, paperwork, appointments. I push to the limit, fall into bed exhausted, and get up early the next morning to do it all again.” “I don’t feel in control of my...

The ability to manage our finances is critical to our Christian witness. God has given us an eternal mandate to be stewards of the resources He has placed in the earth. One of these resources is, of course, money. In the Garden of Eden, God commanded Adam to withhold...

We all begin each day with a finite number of hours, so we must have faith that God will help us use our time wisely. He's the one who designed the 24-hour period, but it's up to us to manage it properly with His help. During those 24 hours, we all need time to sleep,...

Who do you see when you look into a mirror? You see yourself! It doesn’t lie. In the same way, when we look in the Bible and see Jesus, we must realize that we are seeing ourselves. We are seeing what God has made us to be. Are you as free as you want to be? I can...

Vince Lombardi, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers, is famous for saying, “Winning isn’t everything— it’s the only thing.” That was definitely my philosophy when I was growing up. From the time I was a small boy, I loved to win and detested losing. I used to...

I believe God’s people should be the most influential and successful in every setting in which they find themselves. That was certainly true of Daniel in the court of Babylon. He was working in a pagan system surrounded by ungodly people, yet he prospered and was...

The earth is groaning for change from heaven. Conditions often appear overwhelming and even dangerous, but that doesn’t change the fact that prayer changes things. You and I have authority from above to take our stand and bring change to this earth! One type of prayer...

This is an unchanging spiritual truth set forth clearly in Scripture: Those who bless the nation of Israel will be blessed. Yet, I find as I travel and minister that a startling percentage of Christians aren’t doing anything about that truth. It’s not that they don’t...