“Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.Continue reading
9 October 2014 
The Backward Glance
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If a farmer is plowing his field and looks to the right or to the left or anywhere but straight ahead of him even while his feet are still following the plow, his furrow will go crooked. In the same way, when we look backwards at our past, our furrow goes crooked.
The Devil knows the peril that lies in that backward glance, so he’s constantly tries to persuade us to look back, engage our thoughts in ourselves, our sins, our worthlessness, and our failures. Looking at those things—the backward glance—causes our furrow to go crooked at once, and it greatly hinders our straight path of walking with the Lord.
I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead…. –Phil. 3:13
24 September 2014 
God Can Change Impossible Things
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But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (Matthew 19:26)
Do you have something you want the Lord to do that seems impossible—something that makes you ask, “How will that ever happen?” A good thing to do is write down those impossible things you are believing the Lord will bring to pass.
That’s what I did with my relatives who didn’t know the Lord. Continue reading
9 September 2014 
Stop Being Stuck in the Mud
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One of my favorite praying people in the whole world was an elderly Pentecostal lady named Mamma Lena Cain. Before she went home to be with the Lord at 96 years of age, I asked her what the difference was between pray-ers in this generation and pray-ers in her generation. She said, “Well, we had the victory before we ever prayed, so we never prayed long.”
Pray-ers in her generation spent time in the Word. They spent time meditating on and talking about the promises and power of God. When they made their petition to God, they were already rejoicing. They knew the answer was theirs. They were laughing, shouting, and running when they came to the prayer room because they were already seeing and saying the outcome, which was good!
Most people these days don’t do that. In fact, they do the exact opposite.
