Discover The Book MinistriesWFP-34 021208AM Open with me this morning to one of the truly great prayers of a father for his son. This prayer is in 1st Chronicles 28.9. 1 Chronicles 28:9 “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all […]
WFP-33 – Learning Life Long Commitment
WFP-33 021201AM Our text is Luke 9.57-62 What I am about to say to you is common knowledge. In fact all of us who ever traveled on a highway have learned exactly what I am about to share. But to underline our text in your minds, I’ll remind you of an old truth most of […]
Laying Hold on Eternal Life – By Consecration
WFP-32 021124AM Well let’s find out. Turn to Luke 9.23. What does Jesus say? He says that what we lose for Him we get to keep forever. What we find and keep for self we lose forever. So in reality Losers are Keepers and Keepers are the Weepers! One of the best illustrations of […]
Contented Living
WFP-31 021117AM Then the details listed and counted around that clock are overwhelming: I was watching the World Population Clock again this week. If you want to get a feel for the immensity of the world — just watch it and see that 3 new souls are arriving and surviving every seconds 24 hours […]
Beware of Affluenza
WFP-30 021110AM This week many major world newspapers began to examine what is being called the “Super-Flu”. Here is what they are saying: Overdue attack Some[1] experts have been looking at the genetic structure of the virus which caused the 1918 pandemic, as well as a serious outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997 for clues which […]
Is Marriage Your Priority?
WFP-29 021014PM But later as he came to me he had something on his mind, so he wanted to pray again. His prayer was short and simple. “Dear God, help me NEVER become an ak-o-holie (not sure where he heard about that) and NEVER walk around with a bottle (possibly from a John Wayne […]
No Greater Power than Praying Marriages
WFP-28 021013AM Parenting is life long. Praying keeps us on the front lines of our children’s lives – all through our lives. Successful parenting of a godly family only has two requirements: get started in prayer and never quit that praying. Before we are parents we are praying, while we are up to our ears […]
Women and Wives God will Bless
WFP-27 020922AM A godly woman and a godly young lady learn their manners from the Word of God. They look like Proverbs 31. Sounds like a good idea. This morning join me as we look over the shoulders of the great Biblical women of the faith. Throughout the centuries they have poured over the Scriptures […]
How to Be God’s Man and Husband
WFP-26 020915AM From this time onward may your thoughts be for each other father than for your individual selves; may your plans be mutual, your joys and sorrows shared. Wow, every time I say that it gives me shivers of joy to think that is what our marriages are all about. The Lord has […]
Marriage Divine Style
WFP-25 020908AM THE CHOICE IS YOURS! If you are married as you listen to me this morning, then what I am about to say is what you should BE. If you are young and at home as you listen to me, then what I am sharing from God’s Word is what you should BECOME. […]
Masculinity and Femininity
WFP-24 020901PM Now comes the challenge. Parents, do you know what God wants from your sons as men and from your daughters as women? In some areas the Lord wants similar character for boys and girls, but in most areas, His plan for a young lady GREATLY DIFFERS from His plans for young men. […]
Loving the Way God Made You
WFP-23 020901AM So each one of us was perfectly designed by God for His glory. Who we are, where we were born, how we look, all of our imperfections and weaknesses, and countless other details are all part of God’s marvelous design. Each of us are the handiwork of God, like spiritual snowflakes, no […]
Learning to Always be Submissive to God
WFP-22 020901AM Each of us was built to a perfect and intricate set of plans, engineered by God Himself. Within every cell of our body is a set of those Divine Fingerprints called our DNA. The Human Genome is a wonder of precise engineering that laid down everything about your physical body. So each one […]
How to Really Love Someone
WFP-21 020818AM Young Gandhi with a Christian Family[1] While attending a university in London, Mahatma Gandhi the future leader who would sway the hearts of hundreds of millions of his own people in India, became almost convinced that the Christian religion was the one true, supernatural religion in the world. Upon graduation, and still […]
How to Avoid Bitterness in Your Life
WFP-20 020804AM Will you be taken off guard when troubles hit home? When unexpectedly you loose your health, loose your wealth, loose a family member, loose your mobility, loose your independence…or any other of a million unexpected losses we all face each day. This morning God’s Word challenges each of us to get ready […]
How to be a Servant at Heart
WFP-19 020728AM The greatest goal we have spiritually as parents is to raise children that are useful to God. Usefulness in Christ’s kingdom is defined by one very precious quality – SERVANTHOOD. The words servants and servants and bondservants are used over 1000 times in the New Testament, that is about once every seven verses. […]
How to Pray for Purity
WFP-18 020721AM Jesus prayed for holy living in us who would live in the future. He knew how bad it would be. Jesus spoke of terrible days ahead for this world. He sent His beloved John on a journey ahead in time to see that Tribulation. The character of that world is stated in Revelation […]
What Happens When Couples Pray
WFP-17 020707AM To learn the secret of his life as a pioneer missionary is to learn of the power of his parent’s prayers for him. Remember that prayer catapults us to the frontiers of what ever God is doing around the earth, and that is exactly what John Paton had been taught by example. […]
Powerful Prayers from Men and Women
WFP-16 020630AM The keys to prayer: express deepest thoughts to God, trust no matter what, influence others for God; What kind of father prepared John G. Paton for that kind of perseverance[1] — another fifty years of rugged, faithful missionary labor? Paton’s father, James, was converted at seventeen and immediately convinced his mother and father […]
Marriages Empowered by Prayer
WFP-15 020623PM By now we are all asking the same thing aren’t we? How could we ever do anything of this magnitude? How can we penetrate the lives of our children with these truths? How can we see God unleashed in their lives? How can we every day be actively using God’s Word and seeing […]
Psalm 119 – Praying to Word-Filled Life
WFP-14 030713AM Yet His words often scare us. We think He must have meant something other than what He said, right? What verses do I mean? These. Listen to Jesus speak about prayer: Matthew 18:19 “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be […]
Prayer – Roadblocks to Answered Prayers
WFP-13 030427AM And this morning, one person has more to say about Christ’s praying than any other. One person, more than any other in God’s Word, was an eyewitness to Christ’s praying – his name is Peter. Peter was the leader of the disciples, the chief of the Apostles, and the man out front at […]
Prayer – What Stops My Prayers
WFP-12 030406AM How much money would $111,600,000 be to you? I would assume it is a huge sum to any of us? Perhaps the most remarkable testimony of modern times to the power of prayer may be seen in the life of a quiet man from Bristol, England. Born in the early 19th Century and […]
Prayer – When Prayers Don’t Get Through
WFP-11 030330AM No one else but Jesus can put through our prayers to be heard by our Father in Heaven. Jesus is the intercessor, the operator that connects us, and puts our calls through. This morning Jesus warns us that there are some prayers He can’t put through for us. Please open with me […]
Prayer – With Jesus in the School of Prayer
WFP-10 030316AM And if you read Hebrews carefully — Jesus is still praying. That is an awfully great emphasis on prayer if we stop to notice it! Jesus prayed no matter what was ahead or behind Him. He lived in a whirlwind of activity. He was constantly eating, walking, talking, and sleeping with twelve […]
Prayer – Learning to Pray Like Jesus Prayed
WFP-09 030309AM All of those combine to cause us to feel danger and uncertainty, and to feel distraction, and if we are not guarded to feel discouragement! So what is the best way to live in a time of great danger, immense distraction, and constant uncertainty? I think we have the answer in a similar […]
Prayer – Talking to God All the Time
WFP-08 030302AM One of the 1st lessons we need to learn from our Heavenly Father is His ‘how to talk to Me’ lesson. These lessons are what the Bible teaches on prayer. If you have never done so, you would be enriched beyond measure to go from cover to cover in this book and personally find […]
Lord, Teach ME to Pray
WFP-07 020714AM Prayer is one to the few things we are asked to unceasingly be involved with. If prayer is something we are to do unceasingly, then we better know how to do it properly! When God’s Word teaches us how to pray, it is very profitable to notice what God doesn’t teach us […]
Daniel – The Habit of Prayer
WFP-06 990307AM Over the past ten years this book has seen phenomenal sales. The title is what attracted me. This morning as a disciple of Jesus Christ, we should each be learning the SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE CHRISTIANS. The life of a 7th Century BC. teenager named Daniel offers us the clearest example of […]
Praying When Busy Like Daniel
WFP-05 990228AM Daniel we know as a great man of God. He was in the Word of God. He was also a man of unusual power in prayer. But have you ever considered what it must have been like for Daniel to maintain such a godly life while he was also Prime Minister to the […]
Praying When Down Like Elijah
WFP-04 990221AM That is just what God wants us to know this morning. Let God’s power be withdrawn, even for a moment, and we immediately see that we are only earthen vessels—absolutely valueless and useless in ourselves. This is why the psalmist said, “Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity” (Psalm 39:5). […]
WFP-03 – Praying in the Spirit
WFP-03 990214AM Our third challenge to prayer is Praying in the Spirit like Elijah did! Elijah was an incredible man, so much so that many Christians are inclined to look upon him as a kind of spiritual superhero. He was called, chosen and used by God. He lived a very full and fruitful life of […]
Praying Like Jesus Said
WFP-02 990131AM When the disciples watched Jesus pray, they felt He was getting through. They were so moved by His prayer habits they asked Him to teach them. What Jesus gave them was a model to steer us into prayers that God hears. When we follow Christ’s words we are praying in the Spirit. And […]
Praying Like Jesus Did
WFP-01 990124AM We are standing in the freshness of a new year. Have you pondered what would be the best investment of your spiritual capital in 1999? In other words, where are you going to focus your time in pursuit of Christ Jesus this year? To help you with that choice we are going to […]