Messages and Teachings

Scripture encourages Christians to pray to God, and ask Him to do things for them. Therefore, we ask God for peace, prosperity, promotion, divine health, protection, guidance, security, deliverance and other blessings. After all, God is love, kind, gracious, merciful and compassionate, and if we ask of Him, it shall …

“It is through faith that a righteous person has life” (Romans 1:17, NLT). The patriarch Job said, “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman” (Job 31:1, NLT). Job couldn’t control his environment and its temptations then, any more than we can …

“God’s word judges…thoughts and intentions” (Hebrews 4:12, GWT). No matter what our age, there are temptations. We are all bombarded by imagery that confuses, seduces and erodes standards of decency and self-control. A wise and devoted eighty-year-old pastor was asked at what age sexual temptation was no longer an issue. …

There are only two Psalms in the Bible that explain what happens in Adullam, and that is Psalm 57 and Psalm 142. So when you get to Adullam the first thing you ask for is mercy. We don’t ask for mercy because we have sinned; mercy is not just a …