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Our people defeated Satan because of the blood of the Lamb and the message of God. They were willing to give up their lives.
Petra lead singer, John Schlitt, shares his favorite life verse and various stories in the Bible that inspire him on a daily basis.
The LORD God gives me the right words to encourage the weary. Each morning he awakens me eager to learn his teaching;
Multiple Dove Award Winner and Christian songwriter/singer, Brandon Heath talks about how he often digs into God’s Word through various tools and with support from friends.
We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Singer/Songwriter Francesca Batistelli shares an experience that inspired a song she wrote and how His Word continues to inspire her.
Our LORD and our God, you are my mighty rock, my fortress, my protector.
Aggie writes:
I was adopted when I was six and raised in a Christian home. I started to stray from the Lord little by little.
I had a lot happen to me through out my life. I will be 28 in just a couple of months. I have been married now for the third time, been through all of abuse you could think of, recovered as an alcoholic, was raped. One lie led to another. I passed bad checks (and was caught after running for about one year), stole (and was caught after awhile), the list was endless.
I then re-married in September 2008. Then my husband was not brought up as a Christian; but was a Christian when I had met him. We started to go to Church the last Sunday in November 2008.
During that time I was asking why am I going to church, I have done so much wrong in my life and don’t deserve to be here. I kept asking myself this, but by the third time we had visited the church I had left all of my sins at the alter. I asked God, “please Lord if you are still there for me and forgive me prove it to me.” I needed comforting and reassuring.
I waited and waited. On January 22, 2009 around, my family and I came around a bin. The road was clear up to that point-but then snow covered with no warning of ice underneath. The front was fine at first but the back went spinning around like lighting. I tried to bring it out of the first spin; but then I heard a voice take hold of the wheel and hold tight.
I closed my eyes after seeing my three children. The kids and I had our seatbelts on, but my husband did not. There is a creek on one side with less trees and then the other side. Praise the Lord He protected us all. We should have all been dead in that wreck.
God put us in the deepest and widest part of the creek with less trees. We were upside down in a cold icey creek. We lost the back window and both the driver windows. The windshield my husband hit with his head.
I had not realized there was a guy out on the road ready to help. I shoved my husband out of the car, then I got the kids and handed them to him. We had a 2ton floor jack in the back, a gallon of milk, a 24 pack of soda, some food, bunch of tools–which all of this missed us.
When I had opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was my wedding band and knew right then all was ok. That night I began to hear the Lord. I fought with Satan up to March 29, 2009. That was the test the Lord gave me.
The Lord never left me, but got me through the time of being tested by Satan. On March 29, 2009 at church that part of the verse just glued to me and it is the first time in my life that I remember a verse!! I am now laid my life back at the alter that Sunday at Church and said Lord–take me and use me for I am ready for what ever comes my way.
I treasure your word above all else; it keeps me from sinning against you.
Christian music artist and The Bible is My Guide spokesperson, Kirk Franklin shares why the Bible continues to guide his path.
I was terrified and thought, “They’ve chased me far away from you!” But you answered my prayer when I shouted for help.
Elizabeth writes:
In 2005 I went through a deliverance process that was life changing. I had been diagnosed BiPolar-schyzo affective rapid cycling 2, and I was on 17 to 22 medications at a time, for years.
My life had spiraled into the psych wards, street drugs, mental anguish, to suicide. I began to cry out to Jesus after trying all the different earthly avenues, such as crisis centers, counselors, medications, etc.
I was in the hospital for the 6th time in two weeks attempting to take my own life, I could not go on, and I could not feel God.
The next day was Easter. When I woke up that morning,everything was different, clearer, the veil was off. When I went to my Bible, I found this verse underlined, and I never remembered doing that. It spoke volumes to me from Father, that the night before was the darkest before the dawn, and that He was there, and that He DID hear me.
Praise God for his love.
To this day I take no medications, and have had a complete healing of my mind, body, soul and spirit, through the love of Jesus Christ, and in the washing of His word.
My relationship with Him is intimate, and I live only to serve my Savior, Healer and counselor. I live to share the truth with anyone who listens, or who the Spirit prompts me to. I strive to walk as Jesus did and in obedience to his call to help set the captives free.
I am a free woman in Christ, and “He whom the Son sets free is free indeed.” John 8:36
And so my life is safe, and I will live to tell what the LORD has done.
Katrena writes:
In March of 2008 I was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 Ovraian cancer, I was given less than a week to live as it had matastized onto my colon and flattened it.
God told me though the Holy Spirit that his word was true and that I was not going to die. Then if felt like he wrapped me into his arms and carried me though everything that followed.
He provided me with an amazing surgeon, only 2 in the state I live in that would even attempt this type of surgery. After the surgery, my lungs quit working properly and filled up with fluids, my husband laid hands on me and they started draining.
I was told later that they were within 24 hours of putting a permanent trach in me. My kidneys quit working and my pastor laid hands on me and they started again. After a month in the hospital I got out and another Oncologist told me I was still going to die from this.
God said all you have to do is believe my word is true and live. I am now cancer free and able to spread the word that Jesus died for us, we do not have to die for something that the devil is the creator of. I shall live and tell anyone who will listen and believe that you do not have to die from any illness.
Jesus paid the price for us.
Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons.
Cathy writes:
I have always understood the importance of prayer and it’s effect it can have in our lives. I also understand the concept of asking amiss for those petitions that may or may not be God’s will for us. This portion of scripture has always stood out to me. It seemingly opens the door to endless possibilities in our prayer life.
It is simple, we do not have because we do not ask.
We should be bold when we approach God’s throne. We should never be timid when asking for the desires of our heart. In my heart I feel God is waiting to answer our prayers.
The Word also states ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE. That is a biblical promise.
So, be bold and direct when you pray. Be thankful for answered prayers and continue to pray daily for all your needs. Pray for emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial assistance. Pray for divine guidance, mercy, love, and forgiveness. The possibilities are endless.
Remember, YE HAVE NOT BECAUSE YE ASK NOT.
At that moment Jesus felt power go out from him. He turned to the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” Jesus said to the woman, “You are now well because of your faith. May God give you peace! You are healed, and you will no longer be in pain.”
Linda writes:
As I meditate on this verse and its value it holds, I sense the power of faith rising as I take a deep look beholding him, a believer drawing the healing out of Jesus through his virtues he holds as our God. These virtues bringing healing, powers of resurrections phyically and spiritually giving everlasting life for those like me who choose to believe in the risen Lord and the power of prayer to him.
This scripture has impacted my life to be drawn in deeper in faith,When you walk with the Lord, talk with him and listen to what he is telling you, you realize that he really does care and wants to love me if I allow him to.
My walk with the Lord has always been my earnest prayer as I’ve traveled the highway of Life, where discouragement begins the virtues of Christ meets the world head on by the statement of his word every knee shall bow,every tongue confess,those who have yet to come to know the light of life will come to know him in truth when face to face,those who love him and believe are blessed with graces of his love daily.
Every day I make it a goal to give an hour of my time to Jesus in my garden of grace outdoors where I have come to familiarize my self with Godly love with my personal Savior. A place where I meet him daily in quiet solitude where he opens up to me his word and the powers of his virtues he holds.
As my soul longs to know more I sit here and share my longings with you to know him I know somewhere out in the world I may touch someone else faith who has the same longing and they to will receive healing from the worlds sorrows we face day by day,for Christ says in the world you will have tribulations,but be of good cheer I have overcome the world.
Obtain the virtues of Christ by faith and you to will be healed of the worlds sorrows as I myself have learned all the days of my life. No matter what happens his virtue and love will heal all things. I’ve come to realize in my 38 year walk with the Lord life is the greatest gift of all spiritually and physically and I shall dwell in the house of my Lord forever.
“The LORD says:
Don’t brag about your wisdom
or strength or wealth.
24If you feel you must brag,
then have enough sense
to brag about worshiping me,
the LORD.
What I like best
is showing kindness,
justice, and mercy
to everyone on earth. “
Joanna writes:
Quite a few years ago, I set out to discover God. Believe it or not Jonah inspired me to know God. Jonah, a flawed man with an obvious distaste for the citizens of Nineveh, knew God.
Even though Jonah had been endowed with God’s prophetic warning against the citizen’s of Nineveh, Jonah chose to be disobedient to God because he knew how God would react to repentance. He knew God was merciful. He knew God was forgiving. He knew the character of God. He did not want the citizens of Nineveh to be saved from punishment. He was afraid that if they turned to God that God would save them. He was right they repented and were saved from certain death.
I felt that I did not know God very well. I was not sure how He would react to situations in my life. I did not understand God. I started reading the Bible daily in order to really know God. My faith, personal relationship, and spiritual life has grown by leaps and bounds through the love of God and the reading of His word. God in His faithfulness has cemented in my life a hunger and thirst for His righteousness that cannot be quenched or extinguished.
I seek His face daily through the reading of His word. I find Him because when I seek with all my heart, mind, body and soul He makes himself known to me. He has graciously given me an overwhelming, uncontrollable, furious appetite for the word of God.
By worldly standards, I could be considered wise due to my educational background and mental capacity. I could be thought of as strong due to my military training and expertise. Also, I could be labeled rich by the fact in which I lack nothing. But if I boast of anything on this earth, I boast about this: that I understand and know God.
I know that God delights in exercising kindness, justice and righteousness on earth. I can boast that God is my God forever and always to the glory and honor of His name and by His power and might.
