Love Your Family Sacrificially
Love Your Family Sacrificially
Don MacLafferty · May 3 12 minute read

I was gathering my papers and briefcase so that I could run out the door to an important meeting to plan the building of a larger church. I was in a rush. My children, Jason and Julie, were 6 and 3 years old. They heard me getting ready to leave. They ran up to me, questioning, “Where are you going, Daddy?” “I am going to a meeting,” I replied factually. I had to gently pry their arms off my neck so I could go. They started...

God Who Cares
God Who Cares
Cindy Sitole · May 1 4 minute read

We were praying to God for Him to open a door for her. To us, it seemed impossible because many people were losing their jobs. It was as if we had forgotten that God can do anything regardless of the situation. One day, while I was at work, I received...

Faithfulness
Faithfulness
Time to Get Ready Team · Apr 23 1 minute read

We are flooded by daily media advertisements that scream for our attention, trying to get us to make decisions based on what we see and how we feel. How do you respond to these daily bombardments? Are you driven to make decisions by what you see and...

Michael’s War
Michael’s War
Eriston Eloi · Apr 19 4 minute read

The book of Revelation and its symbols, stories, and themes are the subject of many modern books, movies, and art. In the United States and worldwide, people have a general sense that we are living out the scenes written in the pages of Revelation. One survey reports that 41% of all U.S. adults, 54% of Protestants, and 77% of Evangelicals believe the world is now in the biblical end times. It makes sense, then, that interest in...

Faith Releases the Power of God
Faith Releases the Power of God
Lisa Lothian · Apr 17 4 minute read

As I enter the sixth decade of my life, I think that faith—true faith in God—is starting to set in for me. Finally, I, like many of you, have seen so much—so much sorrow, so much pain, so many...

Go Forward
Go Forward
Debi Tesser · Apr 12 4 minute read

Anita was returning to her much beloved Kenya in March 2023, twenty years after her first mission trip to the bitter...

Mustard Seed Faith
Mustard Seed Faith
Ruth Stewart · Mar 29 7 minute read

How many times have you beaten yourself up because you didn’t have perfect faith? How often have well-meaning friends or church members insinuated that your prayers will only be answered if you do not doubt? That night, God told me otherwise. For the first time in my life, I realized that I did not need to have faith big enough to move the mountain. I only needed to...

Receive a Fresh Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Receive a Fresh Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Don MacLafferty · Mar 22 6 minute read

Are you longing for a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit daily? Are you specifically asking for it? You can have it! We're going to explore what it means to ask for and receive the daily baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Who Has the Patience for That!
Who Has the Patience for That!
Melanie Muthiah · Mar 20 4 minute read

I desired to emigrate to a certain country of my choice and settle in my profession for life. This did not happen quickly or easily. All my efforts to achieve this goal were in vain. My prayers yielded no favorable answer. After three long years of waiting, I became impatient and...

The Final Test
The Final Test
Lisa Lothian · Mar 8 6 minute read

One day soon God’s people will face a very similar experience before the second coming of Christ. Our test at that time will not be on the issue of prayer as was Daniel’s, but on the issue of...

Preparation for Jesus’ Second Coming
Preparation for Jesus’ Second Coming
Helmut Haubeil · Mar 1 4 minute read

There is no substitute for intimate fellowship with Jesus through the Holy Spirit as preparation for the Second Coming. When Christ lives in me through the Holy Spirit, then I am...

Christ In Us
Christ In Us
Around-the-World Contributors · Feb 28 5 minute read

I'll never forget the story 15+ years ago in Pennsylvania where a shooter went into an Amish schoolhouse and killed several children and then turned the gun on himself. The Amish parents of the murdered children took up an offering for...