Articles
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How to Get Your Prayers Answered
You should pray to get results. Unfortunately, many people pray, but they don’t receive specific answers to their prayers. I’m going to show you how to pray to get answers. Once you know how to get answers to your prayers, you’ll never be in need. You’ll never have to stay sick, stay broke, or stay
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How to Cast Out Demons
…when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an evil spirit cried out, “What do you
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How to Be Led by the Spirit V
Peace is a spiritual fruit. As we saw in the previous lesson, peace is the voice of the Holy Spirit. When He speaks to you, peace comes. Peace becomes the guiding force of your life. You make decisions based on the peace you have. If you don’t have peace to go a certain direction, then
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How to Be Led by the Spirit IV
There is a great scripture that has meant a lot me when it comes to hearing from God, especially when it comes to recognizing the voice of the Holy Spirit. It’s 1 Kings 19:11-12: The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to
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How to Be Led by the Spirit III
Through the years people have tried many ways to find God’s will. Under the Old Covenant, the people tried a Urim and a Thummim (see Numbers 27:21), which was a device used, perhaps, like lots, to determine God’s response to a question answerable by “yes” or “no.” It reminds me of the Crazy Eight Ball. Do
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How to Be Led by the Spirit II
The soul and the spirit are not the same. This is why Hebrews 4:12 says, For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. The Word of God can divide soul
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How to Be Led by the Spirit
One of the greatest benefits of our redemption is the privilege of being led by the Spirit of God. Children of God can be expected to be led by the Spirit of God. One of the greatest needs is to have the wisdom of God to make the right decisions. This comes through being led
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How Should Christians Vote?
This article is very different from the ones I normally write; however it is the duty of ministers to teach on our moral duty to vote the Christian way. So with this I share my thoughts about voting and why I am voting a certain way. Let me be very clear: I will not be
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Homosexuality: Its Cause and Cure
The woman on the phone pleaded with me to do her brother’s funeral, “Pastor Brown, even though my brother Juan* did not live in El Paso, he loved your ministry. He listened to your tapes, read your books, and absolutely loved the way you preached the Word. He knew his funeral was going to be
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Healing in the Atonement III
We now direct our attention to the New Testament. First let us look at the famous passage about the crucifixion of Christ. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:
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Healing in the Atonement II
We are given many examples of healing being related to the atonement. First let us look at the Old Testament. The first major type of the atonement in the Old Testament is the original Passover. God instructed Israel to take the blood of the lambs and paint it on the doorframes of the houses. God
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Healing in the Atonement
There are three views of divine healing: first, that it past away; second, that it is a special grace; and third, that healing is in the atonement. The following is a short summary of the three views. How you view healing will determine the level of faith you have regarding divine healing. I believe it
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Growing Spiritually
The Bible equates spiritual growth with natural growth. Just like a person is born a baby, so we are born again a spiritual baby. For you have been born again (1 Pet 1:23). Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation (1 Pet 2:2). No one is born a full grown
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Go to the Church for the Truth
Oprah Winfrey asked Bishop TD Jakes his views on homosexuality and same-sex marriage. The Bishop wisely answered, “I’m not called to give my opinion. I’m called as a pastor to give the scriptural position on it.” His answer explains, in a nutshell, the role of the church: It is to speak the truth where
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God Can Heal You
Sounds like an incredible statement to make, but it’s true. And if you’ll read this article, you will be on your way to living in divine health. The key to receive your healing from God is to have FAITH! Jesus often said to those he healed, “Your faith has healed you.” I remember discussing divine
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God’s Timing
The person deeply in tuned to the Lord knows God’s timing. He understands that often the secret to success is in doing the right thing at the right time. Timing can be everything. An inventor may come out with a product that grabs the market, while another equally talented inventor can produce a product that is
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God’s Cure for the Transgender
Marcus was a few days from getting his sex change operation. He grew up in a loving Christian family, though without a father. From the time he could feel sexual attraction, he felt it for boys. As he grew older, he went into the homosexual lifestyle, even though he knew that the Word of
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Get Rid of Your Obstacles
Does the good life sound easy? Well, it’s not! There are obstacles to the good life. The Bible says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous” (Psalm 34:19a, KJV). This is part of the truth. The other side to this scripture is, “But the Lord delivers him out of them all” (v. 19b). Many get
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Fear in the Last Days
Shocked and stunned describes what I felt about the catastrophe in New York. The image of the World Trade twin towers collapsing are forever etched on my mind. I will never forget it, and neither will you. Jesus anticipated events such as these. He said, “When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be
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Fasting: The Secret to Greater Power
The Guillens were a bright, young, cheerful couple–cheerful despite the fact that their daughter was born with a large lump on the side of her neck. The child was beautiful, but the massive growth drew attention away from her pretty features. Along with our church, they prayed diligently for her healing. Yet their prayers, including
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Falling Forward
There was a pastor I know who became a great success in the ministry. He had won hundreds of souls, built a large congregation, and showed promise of doing even more. He was a great teacher and was personable, people liked him, his conduct was becoming of a minister, yet, like so many ministers in
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Faith Works by Love
“For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love” (Amplified Bible, Galatians 5:6). God has made numerous promises regarding the power of faith. Faith can move mountains. Faith can heal diseases. Faith can receive answers to prayers. Nothing is impossible with
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Dreams: God’s Neglected Means of Communication
God loves to communicate to His people. He uses various means including dreams. As Elihu said: For God does speak—now one way, now another—though man may not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds, (Job 33:14-15) What I find
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Do you believe in hell?
The History Channel interviewed Tom Brown about the subject of hell. The two hour documentary was aired on December 27, 2004. We thought you would like to know the questions they asked him and Tom’s answers. Click here to watch Tom’s part in the the documentary. HC: Talk about original sin and its importance to
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Don’t Let Others Control You
Do not allow other people to control you. Paul wrote, “You were running a good race. Who cut in on you from obeying the truth?” (Galatians 5:7). There could be no greater bondage than being under someone’s dominate control. People should respect authority—wife for husband, employee for boss, parents for children—yet even those in authority
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Did Jesus die on Good Friday?
It’s not necessary to know the exact day Jesus died in order to be saved; you just need to believe that He died for your sins. Knowing the day of His death is interesting, but not essential. There have been a few people who have doubted the veracity of the Bible because they misunderstand the
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Dealing with Transitions
Transitions are inevitable. To be successful and flourish you must embrace and work with the transition God brings into your life. Transition involves change. The change might be moving to a different city, joining a new church, getting a new job, being newly married, receiving a promotion, starting a new business, going into the mission
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Dating Versus Courting
Joshua Harris wrote a book with a provocative title, “I’ve kissed dating goodbye.” You need to kiss dating goodbye. I believe that dating is the world’s way to find a spouse. Many might be wondering, If I don’t date, how am I going to find a spouse? You should find a spouse through courting. Courtship is
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Dare to be a Disciple
“I dare you!” You’ve heard that before. Usually people say that to you when they want to challenge you to do something adventurous, like ride a roller coaster or ski dive. Well, I dare you to take the riskiest, and yet, most rewarding adventure that you can ever experience—and that is to be a disciple
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Conformity
Once at the end, I stepped outside to walk to the usual place that my mom picks me up. I decided to go with a new route this one time and pass through the massive crowds of teenagers underneath our skywalk. I couldn’t believe my eyes at first, yet as I looked again, I saw
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Choose Health and Blessings
In Deuteronomy 30:19 the Lord speaks: “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life.“ Choose life! He did not say, “Since I don’t like you, I think I’m going to give you death and curses. But you, good
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Chart Your Course by the Words of Your Mouth
Job 22:28 says in the Amplified version, “You shall also decide and DECREE a thing, and it shall be established for you, and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways.” God says, “Decide and decree a thing and you’ll get it.” We must do more than “decide”; we must “decree.” A decree
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Car Crash
Prov 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” If anyone knows a lot on how material things let you down, it is definitely me. I have lost my computer with thousands of songs
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Can Christians Lose Their Salvation?
This is the most important question Christians can ask, because their eternal soul may depend on it! The greatest deception which has been devised by Satan that has been accepted by a large number of Christians is the false doctrine of “once saved, always saved.” This doctrinal theory assumes once a person is saved that
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Boldness in Prayer
One of the greatest qualities necessary to get your prayers answered is “boldness.” Hebrews 4:16 affirms this: “Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help (us) in time of need” (Heb 4:16, ASV). Even Abraham was quite bold in talking with
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Be the One
Imagine if we all actually acted like Jesus? Imagine if we were nice and showed compassion to everyone? What could happen? We shouldn’t wait for others to do things; we should rise up and do whatever it is that needs to be done. I came upon this conclusion once as I was walking out of a meeting
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Believe You Receive
Faith is required to receive any benefit in this life. Hope is necessary to receive benefits in the life to come, yet when it comes to distinguishing the difference between faith and hope, few understand it. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (HEB 11:1, KJV). Often people
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Authority of the Believer
The devil is defeated as far as the believer is concerned. Jesus has already won the battle, and He simply calls upon us to occupy until He comes. Jesus said, “Occupy till I come” (Luke 19:13, KJV). The word “occupy” is a military term. You have heard of an occupational force, haven’t you? This is
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Atheism is a Lie
The Apostle’s Creed begins by saying, “I believe in God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth.” Everything about Christianity begins with belief in God. Without this foundational belief, no other beliefs are possible, especially pertaining to God sending His Son. Without God, there is no Son of God. This is why
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Ancient Priestly Blessing
Did you know that God gave a prayer of blessing to you so you can pray it over your life and others? He made it easy by giving you the exact words to say. If you will say it and understand what you say, then God will bring supernatural blessings in your life. You will
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America in Prophecy
What will happen to America according to Bible prophecy? Will it remain a world power or recede from world dominance? Will it be destroyed or continue to prosper? Your belief about this subject will affect the way you live and plan your life. If you think that America will be destroyed, then you are likely
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Alan Chambers Goes Back to Egypt
The headlines in the liberal media are gleefully trumpeting the demise of Exodus International, the leading icon of the ex-”gay” movement. “From ‘pray away the gay’ to acceptance,” chortles the LA Times. But this is not really a story about an organization, but only its leader Alan Chambers and his unfortunate capitulation to the world.
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A Crucified Life Leads to a Resurrected Life
There was good reason for the popularity of this message. It was hilarious, yet the message was poignant: despite the difficulties of life, just like Christ who experienced the awful suffering on Good Friday, we can expect God to turn things around just as He did in the resurrection; hence It’s Friday but Sunday is