“Jesus first! This faithful servant of God will be most remembered as a beloved husband, father, grandfather, pastor, and educator.” – Thomas Road Baptist Church home page
“Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments” (Deuteronomy 7:9)
What will be your spiritual legacy?
Today is Day #2 (“Increasing in UNITED PRAYER”) of the 10 days of prayer leading up to the Global Day of Prayer on Pentecost Sunday (May 27). …

You can’t plan Pentecost. But if you seek God for ten days in an upper room, Pentecost is bound to happen.
and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; (Acts 1:3b-4)
How will you and your church be involved with the Global Day of Prayer (GDOP) in 2007?
Today on Ascension Day, millions of Christians will find ways to …

The foundation for healing is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. – Griefshare.org
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. (Psalm 118:1)
What people or things does your life revolve around?
Around 6 AM yesterday morning as I was looking for a Link of the Day to complete my devotional titled “Hunter Payne Dies Tragically,” I visited the website for Spiritual Care Support Ministries (SCSM) to see what information they had about Grief Share. In the process of viewing the different web pages at www.scsm.tv, …

Our seemingly small choices have a much greater ripple effect that we can ever imagine!
LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? (Psalm 144:3)
Death can strike at any time! Are you prepared to die?
What will be your legacy?
The “Butterfly Effect” states that small variations of the initial condition of a nonlinear dynamic system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This principle can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a …

Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you never have been. – Oswald Chambers
Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. (Isaiah 60:1)
How will you multiply this message through the web to bless Teen Mania?
On May 11-12, 2007, the same weekend America’s 400th Anniversary celebration was taking place in Jamestown Virginia, Battle Cry 2007 took place at the Nissan Pavilion in northern Virginia. About 15,000-20,000 youth and youth …

“How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of your God could smash your small cosmos.” – G. K. Chesterton
And David appointed him (Benaiah) over his guard. (2 Samuel 23:23)
How big is your God?
What odds maker would have bet on Benaiah being able to kill a lion in the pit on a snowy day? But Benaiah did what lion chasers do. He defied the odds. He didn’t focus on his disadvantages. Lion chasers know that God is bigger and more powerful …

“You are responsible forever for what you have tamed.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He had killed two lion-like heroes of Moab. He also had gone down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day. And he killed an Egyptian, a spectacular man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand; so he went down to him with a staff, wrested the spear out of the Egyptian’s …

“When we don’t have the guts to step out in faith and chase lions, then God is robbed of the glory that rightfully belongs to Him.” – Mark Batterson
Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He had killed two lion-like heroes of Moab. He also had gone down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day. (2 Samuel 23:20)
Do you feel like you’re in a pit with a lion on a snowy …

“400 years ago Jesus began this nation. Only Jesus can end it.” – Ken Copeland
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” (Revelations 22:13)
If you knew five minutes a day could impact and change America, would you be willing to set aside time in your car, during your coffee break or before bedtime to make that happen? See the Freedom Five! [www.pray4va.org/content.cfm?id=2016]
This weekend is the big, big, big commemoration of the 400th birthday of Jamestown, where the settlers established the first …

God blesses generous people!
But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. (2 Corinthians 9:6)
Who do you know who might benefit from going to Battle Cry this weekend?
How can you multiply this Battle Cry miracle through the web?
Battle Cry 2007 takes place this weekend at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia. This huge Christian youth rally was originally scheduled to take place at the Baltimore Ravens football stadium, but God miraculously moved it to Virginia. God’s timing is …