Power
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Holy Spirit Power
So many things promise so much. You can’t spend even five minutes ...
Day Before
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Power from Above
It absolutely flicks my switch when the unlikeliest person does ...
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Holy Spirit Power
As you and I simply get on with life, it’s kind of easy to drift ...
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Upside Down, Inside Out
We each have to make sacrifices along the way. But have you ever ...
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Shaken by God
Today we’re finishing up our wee mini-series on persecution – not ...
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A Prayer for Boldness
For most of us, persecution isn’t something that we think about all ...
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Power in the Face of Persecution
Let’s be honest, it’s not a whole lot of fun when people disagree ...
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Do Not Fear or be Dismayed
Courage can be a confusing concept. It’s certainly an attribute ...
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End Generational Curses
Have you ever felt as though your past has dealt you a bad hand? ...
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When Self-Help Fails You
Yesterday we saw that the global self-help industry is worth over $US ...
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Realising Your Full Potential
I wonder… right in this moment, what do you perceive, what do you ...
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Defeating Giants
Success is a fickle thing. You can look like a stunning success to ...
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Your Source of Strength
I heard an eminent psychologist talk recently about the power of food ...
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Stumble But Don’t Fall
Anyone who’s ever set out to lose weight (I think that’s about ...
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Patience and Devotion to God
With just one life to live here on this earth, a life that seems to ...
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Self Control and Patience
You know what it’s like when your patience is running thin – ...
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Knowledge and Self-Control
We each have triggers that’ll set us off quicker than just about ...
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Goodness and Knowledge
Most of us just want to do good. We want to be decent and kind. We ...
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Faith and Goodness
So let me ask you, how do you set about building a good life; one ...
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Self Assembly Not Required
These days when you buy a new piece of furniture, it typically comes ...
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Out of the Ashes
The aloe vera plant is said to have a good many restorative powers. ...
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A Powerful Partnership
Teamwork – people with different perspectives, skills sets and ...
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Power from On High
They say that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ...
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The Power of God’s Grace
Can I ask you … what exactly is grace? For some it’s a religious ...
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The Power of God
Christmas Eve. It can be a confronting time if we’ll allow it to ...
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The Multiplication Factor
According to the press, the church is dying. That has many a vested ...
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A Floodtide of Blessing
Have you ever been so full of joy – the sort that remains with you, ...
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More than Sufficient
Have you ever jammed your finger in a door? Your day was just going ...
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The Rulers Losing Their Power
If you look around the world, there are more than a few despots ...
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In High Demand
It’s all too easy to fool ourselves into thinking that we’re ...
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The Power of His Word
Evil is something that we see all around us, if only we’ll look. ...
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Empowerment 101
Many a time we know all too well that we’re falling short – that ...
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When Problems Become Miracles
Life is mostly just about doing the same things day after day. As a ...
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Is the Bible a Fairy Tale?
Let’s be honest, this thing those Christians call “the Bible” ...
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When Brokenness becomes Blessing
Do you mind if I ask you today, have you ever felt broken? Have you ...
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Your Strength Comes from God
There are times in life when no matter how hard we try, how much ...
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The Foolishness of the Cross
Can I ask you today, how smart are you? As you look back on your ...
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A Greeting from Sosthenes
We live in a world that focuses on the superstars … on the ...
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How You Travel Through Life
How far do you travel each day? Perhaps you commute to and from work. ...
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A New Way of Thinking
Might I ask you, what’s dominating your thoughts? What do you tend ...
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Controlling Thoughts
Fear isn’t an emotion that we enjoy. Not at all! In fact, if it ...
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When It’s Time to Act
When the going gets tough, emotions like fear and dismay have a nasty ...
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How to Overcome Dismay
When circumstances conspire against us to produce one of those ...
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More Than You Can Imagine
With all that’s going on in your heart and mind, with all that’s ...
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Something to Remember
It’s almost a given that when we’re facing adversity, fighting ...
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The Perfect Landing
I wonder, when you pray – and the research tells us that most ...
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The Wealth Snare
Is it reasonable or unreasonable for a professing Christian to save ...
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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the ...
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A Gospel of Contradictions?
There are times, to be honest, when this good news of Jesus doesn’t ...
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The Power of Life
There’s absolutely no doubt that Jesus performed some amazing ...
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How Not to Fail
Have you ever stepped out to do something for God in faith, all brave ...
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The Simple Power of Love
With so much bad stuff going on around us you have to ask yourself, ...
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There’s Power in that Promise
What purpose has God set before you, between today and the day when ...
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Grumpy Me, Grumpy You
Some days, I’m grumpy. Some days, you’re grumpy. Grumpy me, ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. ...
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The Great Works of God
Have you ever yearned to achieve something “great” for God? Have ...
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The Lord Gives You Power
Have you ever noticed how some people seem to have a spiritual ...
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Your Power to Overcome Fear
Faith, true faith, in Jesus is a good thing – a very good thing. ...
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Great Expectations
So what in the blazes do the events of two thousand years ago, the ...
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Double Edged Sword
It’s one of those strange paradoxes of life, almost to the point of ...
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Easily Deceived
Let me throw something at you and see what you think: Any Christian ...
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God Will Stop at Nothing
Have you ever found yourself wallowing in the consequences of your ...
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When You Have Nothing to Give
Have you ever felt even just a bit embarrassed at how little you have ...
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A Powerful Partnership
Who doesn’t want a more fulfilling life – one that’s free of ...
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If You Believe, Then …
Can I ask you to think back over this last week and ask yourself, ...
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The Power of Good Habits
One most powerful forces in our lives – a force either for good or ...
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Weak, Stumbling, Humble Faith
A dear friend of mine, Lowell Wertz, is a 40 plus year missionary to ...
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Your Superpower
I was blown away recently by something a man, Des Ong, said to me. He ...
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Blocking Satan
Satan has a burning desire to play merry hell with your heart and ...
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When I Think
So, a question for you today: how often do you think about how ...
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Are You Crazy Too?
Some people I know think that I’m crazy. Perhaps they’re right. ...
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Transformative Power
Have you ever felt inadequate to be a follower of Jesus Christ’s? ...
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Your Danger Signal
Here’s a question for you today. Do you believe in “hell”? Do ...
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There is But One Way
Why is society so down on Christianity these days? What is it that ...
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I Have Only You
So let me ask you today, what’s at the top of your prayer list? ...
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Facing Storms Alone
None of us likes it when those inevitable life storms come our way, ...
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Keep Going
Sin is a fact of life. I know that’s not such a popular concept in ...
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Your Protector
Personal safety is one of our highest order needs. It follows on ...
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Wise Up!
One of the things that I find intensely annoying about my parents is ...
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Don’t Panic
Every now and then, to use a sporting analogy, life throws you a ...
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Praying Without Ceasing
So, the question for you today is … in your prayer time, whatever ...
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Whom Does Jesus Serve?
If only God would do what we want Him to do. If only Jesus would just ...
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God is in Control, But …
When we’re confronted with some daunting task, something that we ...
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Power for the Present
The Good News of Jesus comes in two parts: forgiveness of our sins ...
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The Right Way to Defend Rights
Without a doubt, Christians these days are suffering more persecution ...
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It is Well With My Soul (6)
There’s something about the hymns of old that reaches deep into our ...
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Resurrection Power
We’ve been reading over the last few days about overcoming sin – ...
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Making Jesus Your All
Can I ask you today, have you made Jesus your all? What I mean by ...
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A God We Can’t Contain
So, what’s your concept of God? From everlasting to everlasting? ...
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How to be Holy
Obedience. Now there’s a double-edged sword if ever there was one. ...
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Delusions of Grandeur
We’ve all sat on the couch, dreaming big dreams. Thinking about the ...
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The Power You Need
Whenever I’ve set about trying to fix something in my life that’s ...
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The Multiplier Effect
One of the big mistakes that you and I are prone to making, is ...
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Way, Way Too Small
The more I read Scripture, the more I listen to God speak, the more I ...
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The Heavens Shall Declare
One of the great tragedies playing itself out here in the 21st ...
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More Power Than You’ll Ever Need
Confronted as we are on a daily basis, by the evil that seems to be ...
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The Power to Save Your Soul
To be sure, some of the things that God has to say are at the very ...
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Your Power to Change the World
To some degree, we all harbour a secret desire to impact this world; ...
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Slipping on the Banana Peel
Sin. The same one seems to trip us up over and over again. It’s ...
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The Desires of Your Heart
Right now, right in this moment, perhaps you’re going through some ...