Posted on

Why Decisiveness Helps You to Live the Jesus Life

by

The Jesus Life Is a Life of Decisiveness

A farmer hired a man to work for him. He told him his first task would be to paint the barn and said it should take him about three days to complete. But the hired man was finished in one day. The farmer set him to cutting wood, telling him it would require about 4 days. The hired man finished in a day and a half, to the farmer’s amazement. The next task was to sort out a large pile of potatoes. He was to arrange them into three piles: seed potatoes, food for the hogs, and potatoes that were good enough to sell. The farmer said it was a small job and shouldn’t take long at all. At the end of the day, the farmer came back and found the hired man had barely started. “What’s the matter here,” the farmer asked. “I can work hard, but I can’t make decisions!”1 In today’s blog post, we are going to look into the issue of decision making and how decisiveness can help us in our everyday lives.

[Tweet “It’s can be painfulto make a choice for something that’s better in the place of something that’s good.”]

Posted on

#S4-037: Why God Ordained Authority and High Places Matter [Podcast]

by

Understanding High Places Helps You Understand Authority

Believers are at different levels in their spirit walk with God. Spiritual growth is a lot like physical growth. We are all in the process of becoming and growing. On many Bible subjects, believers differ on how they should live and act according to those scriptures.  There are believers who don’t believe you need to rebuke the devil. They think all I need to do is pray unto God about what the devils is doing  and that takes care of it. Is this true? Is this what the scriptures teach? In today’s podcast, we are going to look at the concept of ‘high places’ and endeavor to show you from the Word of God that you can and should rebuke demons in Jesus Name.

Listen to the Audio

Click Play to Listen | Right Click to Download | Subscribe in Stitcher Radio

[Tweet “The Word speaks of high places in many places. Why is heaven up but hell is down? High Places.”]

Posted on

Did You Know that A Good God Has A Good Plan For Your Life?

by

A Good God Has A Good Plan for Your Life

A good God has a good plan for your life. He works out portions of the plan getting them ready years in advance. But you have to choose to go God’s way. You have to be sold out to His way of thinking and choose to follow him. Author Max Lucado speaks honestly and to the point when he says, “If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.”1 More importantly show God your willingness to obey Him. When He knows that you love Him and that you will demonstrate that love by trusting Him enough to listen to what He, then, in due time, that plan that plan will unfold in your everyday life.

[Tweet “The greatest tragedy in life is not dying but living without a reason.”]

Posted on

#S4-036: Want Victory Look At Jesus Shocking Geographic Throwdown [Encore Podcast]

by

Jesus Issued Satan a Throw Down and So Can You

There was a show on the Food Network called ‘Throw Down’ where a renowned chef would travel and challenge the best cooks at their own favorite specialty. Jesus issued Satan His own version of a Throw Down. It was a geographic throw down and we are going to look at in this week’s Light on Life podcast as we continue to look at Jesus majestic victories over the host of darkness.

Listen to the Audio

Click Play to Listen | Right Click to Download | Subscribe in Stitcher Radio

[Tweet “One day in Jesus ministry, He became the instigator. He issued the devil a throw down.”]

Posted on

Developing Confidence in the Goodness of God

by

How confident Are You in the Goodness of God?

A.W. Tozer states the following concerning the goodness of God. “The fellowship of God is delightful beyond all telling. He communes with His redeemed ones in an easy, uninhibited fellowship that is restful and healing to the soul. He is not sensitive nor selfish nor temperamental. What He is today we shall find Him tomorrow and the next day and the next year. He is not hard to please, though He may be hard to satisfy. He expects of us only what He has Himself first supplied. He is quick to mark every simple effort to please Him, and just as quick to overlook imperfections when He knows we meant to do His will. He loves us for ourselves and values our love more than galaxies of new created worlds.”1 God is a good God, that’s a Bible fact. How confident are you in this? Are you secure in knowing that all of His dealings with you are fair, true and good?

[Tweet “Confidence in God’s goodness comes from knowing He loves, accepts, and approves of you.”]

Posted on

#S4-035: How Jesus Destroyed Demons One on One [Encore Podcast]

by

Jesus Destroyed Demons with the Power of His Words

A form of exorcism is a daily occurrence at a Miami hospital treating several hundred patients a month who ask to have evil spirits driven from their bodies. “Usually, we treat 600 to 700 a month,” says Dr. Hardat Sukhdeo, director of Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Crisis Intervention Center. “But last month we had 900 people come for help … we worked our tails off—maybe there was a strong pull from the moon or something.” The belief that demons can infiltrate a person’s body is old hat to the Jamaicans, Haitians, Bahamians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans who live in the Miami area, he said. The patients are given strong tranquilizers to calm them; then staff members try to soothe away their fears. 1. Tranquilizers and TLC are not how you deal with demons. It’s the Name of Jesus that get’s it done. What can we learn about the power of the Name by looking at how Jesus dealt with demons?

Listen to the Audio

Click Play to Listen | Right Click to Download | Subscribe in Stitcher Radio

[Tweet “The same demons Jesus cast out in His earth walk are still here on planet earth.”]

Posted on

Why Honesty Is Indeed The Best Policy

by

You Can Understand God When You Realize He Cannot Lie

Many people quote the ninth commandment as ‘Thou shalt not lie’ but that that is not what how the commandment reads. Three important words are tacked to the end of this commandment, the words ‘against thy neighbor’.  And so the question invariably arises today as it did in Jesus day, ‘who is my neighbor’?  Honesty is indeed the best policy as we will see in today’s post.

[Tweet “The 9th commandment was designed to protect family members from being falsely accused legally.”]

Posted on

#S4-034: Why You Can Absolutely Expect Powerful Healing Moves of God [Podcast]

by

You Can Expect Powerful Healing Moves of God

God is in the moving business. In the very first pages of Genesis where the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, you can see evidence that God is the God of the plan. He has one. He’s always had one. Not only does He have one but, He’s always working to bring His plan to fruition. Throughout the course of human history, God has been seen moving and stirring the hearts of His people. At times when His people have shut down and allowed themselves to be distracted from His first priority of establishing the Kingdom, in the midst of the distraction, God is still moving to work the plan. So don’t be afraid of the complacency you may see around you. It won’t stay that way for long. God is on the Throne and on the move. Do you think that everything that God has already executed in bringing Jesus into planet earth will fall flat because of few cold saints? The stirring, the reviving, the outpouring of God’s Presence, is on the horizon. Not only will God stir His people to a greater awareness of His purpose, but often times these moves are accompanied by spectacular signs, wonders, and dramatic miracles. Healing is a physical sign pointing to our Eternal on the move God. In today’s podcast, we are going to take a look at the healing connection to some of these revival type moves.

Listen to the Audio

Click to Listen | Right Click to Download | Subscribe in iTunes

[Tweet “Some of the most well-known believers, household names, were miraculously healed.”]

Posted on

Why You Should Clue Into Jesus Last Words

by

How Jesus Last Words Helps Us Live Our Lives Today

Famous last words: when the U. S. federal income tax was signed into law on Oct. 3, 1913, a senator speaking in opposition stated, “If we allow this 1 percent foot in the door, at some future date it might rise to 5 percent!”1 Last words are revealing and highly informative. What about Jesus last words? What can we learn from them?

[Tweet “Jesus spent His last two weeks talking about love and the Holy Spirit.”]

Posted on

Why It’s Important to Flow in Faith’s Domain

Podcast: Light on Life Season Four Episode Thirty-Three

by

Faith, Believe and Receive are All Part of Faith's Domain

Believe and receive are part of faith’s language. They are part of faith’s domain. It’s important to understand the domain of faith. People believe in miracles and that’s a good thing.  That’s what a recent poll by Newsweek revealed. Here are the percentages:

• Americans who believe in divine miracles: 84 percent
• the ones who believe in the reality of miracles described in the Bible: 79 percent
• those who have personal experiences with miracles: 48 percent
• the ones who know of people who have experienced miracles: 63 percent
• those who have prayed for a miracle: 67 percent
• the ones who believe God or the saints heal sick people who have been given no chance of survival by medical doctors: 77 percent1 Believing in miracles is good. Knowing how to receive them is even better.

This is Part Two of a Series entitled ‘Healing and Miracles.’ You can find part one of this series, ‘How to Minister Healing Like Jesus Did‘ here.

Listen to the Audio

Click to Listen | Right Click to Download | Subscribe in iTunes

Why You Don’t Have to Be Sick in Light of the Bible

[Tweet “Make sure the word ‘believe’ means the same in God’s domain as it does in yours.”]

Posted on

How to Keep from Being Sidetracked

by

You don't have to be sidetracked from God's purpose for your life.

Billy Graham referenced the idea of being sidetracked with the following words. “A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north. It seems that is a very narrow view, but a compass is not broad-minded. If it were, all the ships at sea and all the planes in the air would be in danger. We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course. To deviate is to sin.”1 These are sound words on how to keep from living a sidetracked life. The Word of God also helps us with sound words designed to help us run our race.

[Tweet “When it comes to Bible doctrine, major on the majors and minor on the minors.”]

Posted on

#S4-032: Lessons on Spirit Living from Powerful Moves of God [Podcast]

by

There are several lessons we can learn from powerful moves of God that will help us in our everyday lives.

It’s important that we learn the lessons of history. Not just natural history, but spiritual history. History of the moves of God. We’ve endeavored to go along this trail for several podcasts sprinkled throughout the course of this year speaking on the subject of revival. Today, we are going to look at two specific lessons we can learn about powerful revival type moves of God that will help us in our everyday lives.

Listen to the Audio

Click Play to Listen | Right Click to Download | Subscribe in Stitcher Radio

[Tweet “To every move of God, since the Creation, there is a God-ward side and a man-ward side.”]