Author Archives: mike

My Portion

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I hope in Him!” (Lamentations 3:24)

We can rest and be at peace when we are attacked in our health or in any other area knowing that the Lord is our portion. Sometimes God will allow things in our lives that are very unpleasant in order to bring
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Comforting Words

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
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Law And Love

for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven,whom he raised
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Jesus The Prize

For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then My faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the LORD, who has mercy on you. (Isaiah 54:10)

In 2008 the Lord put it on my heart that there would be an economic disaster coming in the
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The Power Of Praise

Suddenly there was a great earthquake,so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. (Acts 16:25)

When Paul and Silas were put in prison, they started singing hymns to God while they were in chains. It was the praises to God from their hearts that came from
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Continue In The Faith

 

now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless and above reproach in His sight, if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast,and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard,which was preached to every creature under heaven,of which
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Good And Faithful

The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit. (Psalm 34:18)

God is drawn and attracted to those whose hearts have been severed and mangled by the destruction that comes from trauma and the world. His arm and tender touch is ever present for those affected by
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Forgive Yourself

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. (Philippians 3:13)

How many times have you said to yourself, “I can never forget what I did”, or “how can I forget what was done to me?”  We need
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True Government

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things which you wish. (Galatians 5:17)

We can not win this battle between Spirit and flesh by your own strength, there is no way. Our own “self” will take us so
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His Great Family

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13)

When we were not in Christ Jesus, we were apart from God and lost. Being known by Jesus gives us access to the Father, there is no other way to the Father but through Jesus Christ,
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Every Promise

Then Elijah said to Ahab,”Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the abundance of rain.” (1 Kings 18:41)

At this time in history when the book of Kings was written, there was a famine in the land of Israel because of idol worship. The people’s hearts were turned back to God after Elijah
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Seed Time And Harvest

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. (Galatians 6:9)

We must know that even when we come to Jesus, the bad seeds that we have sown in the past are still reaped. If we sow corruption, we reap corruption. If we sow in
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What Does God Say?

Without holiness, no one will see God. (Hebrews 12:14)

Saying a prayer doesn’t automatically bring salvation. Countless people pray a prayer of salvation yet afterwards their lives are still filled with habitual sin. Long after they are still lying, committing adultery and living immorally, I know because I was one of them. We have walked so widely off the
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He Never Fails

You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word. (Psalm119:114)

There are so many times when we need a shelter,a place to go to for rest and to be embraced, that place is in God Himself. When God’s word becomes part of us and overtakes us, we are shielded from everything contrary to Him. It
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Fruit Of The Spirit

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.( Galatians 5:22)

If a tree is doing what it is intended to do, it will be known by the fruit that it grows. Jesus Himself cursed the fig tree and it died because it was
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