Fear is one of the enemy’s oldest weapons. Whether it comes through cultural pressure, spiritual attacks or the weight of past failures, many believers find themselves living intimidated instead of walking in the authority Christ has already won for them. In a powerful sermon, #1 New York Times bestselling author and prophetic teacher Jonathan Cahn challenged Christians to reject that mindset, reminding them that their identity in Christ calls them to courage, not compromise.

James Lasher Many believers have asked the same question at one point or another: Is God trying to tell me something? The good news is that our heavenly Father is not distant, silent or unwilling to guide His children. Jesus said His sheep know His voice. The challenge is not that God has stopped speaking. The challenge is that we do not always recognize the ways He prepares our hearts to hear Him. In a recent teaching, evangelist David Diga Hernandez shared seven signs that

I want to share a funny, but powerful story with you today. It’s about a little girl and her chickens. As most of you know, my granddaughter, Brailee is a farm girl through and through. Her dream is to have her own horse that will do everything she wants it to do in horse shows. Other than her horses, she loves her cat and chickens. I have pictures of her carrying around baby chicks when she was barely old enough to walk. It’s just something she loves. Her mom took her a few

BY Kaitie Stoddard Running barefoot through soft, green grass was a quintessential part of my childhood summers. But when I moved to a desert climate as an adult, I learned that maintaining an inviting yard required a sprinkler system and a green thumb. Having neither, I struggled each summer to keep our landscape from turning dry and brown like the hills that surrounded us. My battle with the vegetation each year is a consistent reminder that we are not living in the garden

It's amazing how many twists and turns we travel in life searching for personal significance. We can accept occasional anonymity when giving to charity or in playing a behind-the-scenes role, but we do not want our entire lives to be anonymous. The idea that life, or precisely my life, never achieved anything of significance - that one's dreams, it turns out, were mostly unattainable illusions - is the closest thing to death we can experience while still appearing alive. In c

Soon after my wife and I purchased our first home, I tilled the entire backyard. It was a pretty good size. “You tilled the ENTIRE backyard,” my wife asked. “Well, yeah,” I said, “Now I won’t have to mow it.” “But you’ll have to weed it,” she quipped right back. And so amidst a lot of weeding over the years, I come to find there are quite a few parallels to taking care of a garden and life with God. When I was really young my dad had kept a garden, mostly to keep the grocery

With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said: ‘To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowerets tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end.’ Then came another master, Who did not love mankind , And planted on the pathway Gold flowers for them to find. And mankind saw the bright flowers, That, glitt’ri

On January 20, 1961, in his inaugural address, our 35th president, John F. Kennedy, delivered this unforgettable charge: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." The president's speech reminds us that we are to live as contributors to society, not just consumers. As Believers, one of the greatest things we can do for our country is to pray. Paul wrote to his spiritual son, Timothy: "I urge, then, first of al

This Fourth of July, America commemorates its “Supercentennial” anniversary—marking 250 years of being one nation under God. Throughout Scripture, the Lord often instructs His people to remember His acts of salvation, faithfulness, and provision (see Deuteronomy 4:9; Psalm 77:11). As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, I believe it is only fitting for us to reflect on the blessings of America’s legacy and the sacrifices that made those blessings possible. Two and a half ce

The Black Robed Regiment The Black Robed Regiment was the name that the British placed on the courageous and patriotic American clergy during the Founding Era (a backhanded reference to the black robes they wore).1 Significantly, the British blamed the Black Regiment for American Independence,2 and rightfully so, for modern historians have documented that: There is not a right asserted in the Declaration of Independence which had not been discussed by the New England clergy b