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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.
Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.
Christian singer Vlada shares his passion for wanting the church to have more freedom in their praise.
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ
Jars of Clay frontman, Dan Haseltine, shares how he is learning to let God not only defend their ministry, but also let him carry all of his burdens.
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.
You died, which means that your life is hidden with Christ, who sits beside God.
Christian band Bluetree frontman Aaron Boyd, shares how the Bible helped him to realize how we become aligned with God when we understand His Word.
I will never give up hope or stop praising you. All day long I will tell the wonderful things you do to save your people. But you have done much more than I could possibly know. I will praise you, LORD God, for your mighty deeds and your power to save.
Mia Nayeli writes:
It has been a long road for my husband and me. We have been married for 4 years and for 2 of those years we have been trying to have a baby. We love each other madly, but love God even more and have been desiring to be parents since the moment we knew we were made for one another.
Recently a few friends of mine (both who had been trying to get pregnant) got pregnant, one unfortunately lost her baby and it brought so many things into perspective. Not that she lost her child, but her reaction to this. She mourned her loss, but continued to give God all the glory. It baffled me a little bit. Even as a Christian and believer, I couldn’t fathom loosing a child and still remaining hopeful in the midst of it.
It brought His word to life… the stories of Sarah and Rebekah, Hannah and even Samson’s mother who is not named, but is known to not have had children until God said she would. I have come to realize that nothing that happens is just coincidence, nor are we put on Earth to try and decipher His will, but to follow it.
I know our time will come one day, and when it does we will be over the moon. But until that time no matter what comes I still must rejoice in Him. Doesn’t mean that we wont have moments of sadness or of hurt, but that we trust that He will see us through them.
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 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.
