"A gift is a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth." (Proverbs 17:8). Extremely Blessed. The Truth of God's Word never quits--and it will get you out of situations a million dollars can't get you out of. Ordinary people who latch onto God's Word become out of the ordinary. Nothing that happens to you has happened because of you. It happened because of God's Word. In fact, I don't even have to know you to promise you this: If you'll give God's Word your full attention--and not be afraid of His will for your life--your going to be happier and more prosperous than anything you could ever dream up. Of course, if you do that, people may call you extreme. Set your faith on the Word of God to remain extreme. Extremely well. Extremely prospersous. And Extremely Blessed. In Jesus Name. Amen.

"With long life will I satisfy (you) and show (you) my Salvation." (Psalm 91:16). Go When You're Ready. Did you know that its not God's will for you or anyone to die young? His will for you is to live the full number of your days. You ought to live 70 or 80 years, and if you are not satisfied, live a while longer! The Bible says that when Abraham died, he died at a good old age, full of years. That's the way it ought to be with all of us. Some belieers don't realize that and they've gotten themselves in a mess. When they get sick instead of just believing for healing, they start wondering if it's God's will for them to die. "Maybe He's ready to call me home," they think. Don't ever entertain thoughts like that. If God has His way, He won't call you home until you're good and ready to come. The Apostle Paul understood that. In II Timothy 4:6-7, he said, "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." Paul didn't die until He and Jesus were ready for him to go. Regardless of your age, if the devil is telling you God isn't going to heal you because it's time for you to go home, he is lying to you. God promises in Psalm 91:16 that if you are living under the shadow of the most High, He will satisfy you with long life. If you're not satisfied that you have finished your course yet on this earth, it's not time for you to die. So ignore the devil and keep right on living. Resist sickness and disease in the Name of Jesus. Stand on God's Promise. Then when you're ready to go to heaven, go! But go satisfied, healed and ready! Go in victory, shouting the words of that old joy-filled song--"Heaven is near and I can't stay here. Good-bye world, good-bye." In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

"For (the spirit which) you have now received (is) not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption--the spirit producing sonship--in (the bliss of) which, we cry. Abba! (Romans 8:15 The Amplified Bible). One night after a worship service a friend of mine and I stepped outside and were suddenly awed by the beauty around us. It was one of those crisp, clear winter nights when the brillance of the moon and stars nearly takes your breath away. I said to my friend, Jonathon, "will you look at that!" Then he looked up with one of those Holy Ghost whole face smiles and with a voice full of ternderness said, "My Daddy made that!" "My Daddy......." I'll never forget the way he said that. Some people might think he shouldn't have been talking in such familiar terms about God, but they'd be wrong. It's scriptural to talk that way about Him. In the New Testament there's a Greek word for Father--Abba. the most accurate translation for that word in English is Daddy. It's a word that signifies closeness. It speaks of a relationship that's been developed through time spent together. Father is one thing. Daddy is another. Growing up, my father was sometimes my father and sometimes my Daddy. When we were out fishing, he was Daddy. When he gave commands he meant to be obeyed instantly, he was father. God is like that too. He's your Father and He's your Daddy. There are times you'll be very serious and down to business with one another. But either way, once you fellowship with Him eonough to get to know HIm, I gurantee, you'll want to get close to Him all the time. Abba Father. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

"I beseech thee, show me thy glory." (Exodus 33:18). Major on Mercy. What would you say is the single most outstanding thing about God? What's His most important characteristic? Some people would say it's His Power. Others, His Holiness. But God Himself would give a different answer. You can fine that answer in Exodus 33. There Moses is asking God to show him His glory. Now the word "glory" could literally be translated "heavy weight." It refers to the heaviest, biggest, grandest thing about someone. It's the sum total of their worth. So what Moses was actually saying was, "Lord, I want to see the weightiest thing about You. I want to know Your grandest attributes." What did God say to him in response? Chapter 34:6-7 tells us, "The Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord god, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin." Just think about that! When Moses asked God to show him the most important thing about Himself, God showed him His Mercy. That means if you and I are to imitate God(Eph 5:1) we must Major In Mercy too. Mercy, goodness, forgiveness and compassion must mark our behavior above all else. Major On Mercy and others will see the glory of God in you. In Jesus Name. Amen.

"I have told you these things so that in Me you may have perfect peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer.....I have overcome the world." (John 16:33 The Amplified Bible). Born To Victory. Jesus said as long as you live in the world, you're going to have trouble. (I can vouch for that!). But you're not just in the world, and that makes all the difference. You're in Him and He's overcome every kind of trouble there is. As God's child, you're not the defeated trying to get victory. You're the overcomer and Satan's trying to rob you of the victory that already belongs to you. When you made Jesus the Lord of your life, you were Born To Victory.....because the Victor came to live in you. Think about it. The Victorious Jesus. The Anointed One. The Glorified and Resurrected Lord. The Ruler of the Universe. Cheer up my friend. Have "Perfect Peace and Confidence." That's the Jesus who lives in you! In His Name. Amen.

"....not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith." (Phil. 3:9). You are Righteous. I don't care how badly you may have messed things up yesterday or how many mistakes you have made, I want you to begin this day knowing You are Righteous! Not because you've received by faith in Jesus, the very Righteousness of God. Just look at the kinds of benefits the Word of God says that righteousness will bring: "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree" (Ps. 92:12). "When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth" (Prov. 11:10). "The seed of the righteous shall be delivered" (Prov. 11:21). "For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers" (I Pet. 3:12). "For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield" (Ps. 5:12). "The righteous cry and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles" (Ps. 34:17). "I have been young and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread" (Ps. 37:25). "The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever" (Ps. 37:29). "The Lord loveth the righteous" (Ps. 146:8). Don't let the devil rob you of even one of these Blessings by telling you you're unworthy of them. Run him off. Shout out loud, "I am the righteousness of God!" Then step out in faith and enjoy the privileges God has prepared for you! In Jesus Name. Amen.

"Because he hath set His love upon me, therefore I will deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him." (Psalm 91:14-15). In Good Times and Bad. God is called by many names. He is the Lord our healer, our Provider, our Banner, and our Righteouness. He also promises to be our Deliverer. In this troubled world that may wery well be what we need Him to be most often. But there are many believers who never experience God's mighty delivering power because, instead of walking closely with Him day by day, they wait until danger strikes to call upon Him. That just doesn't work. If you want God to rescue you in the bad times, you have to fellowship with Him in the good times. Why? Because God responds to faith. Our faith, not our need, is what causes Him to act on our behalf. And we'll never be able to develop that kind of faith, that kind of trust and confidence in Him, if we don't spend enough time with Him to get to know Him. First John 3:20-22 tells us that we have confidence toward God when we do the things that are pleasing in His sight. If we only serve God half-heartedly, then we will not have confidence in Him to deliver us from trouble. When danger surrounds us, instead of being filled with faith, we'll find ourselves paralyzed with fear. Love and serve God with your whole heart. Walk closely with Him in the good times. Then, when you need Him to be your Deliverer, you'll know without a doubt you can trust Him to care for you! In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

"And as ye go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." (Matt. 10:7-8). Jesus Can Set Them Free. There are those who've said that some of the diseases that are on the rampage right now, diseases such as AIDS, are God's way of punishing immoral people today. There is absolutely no scriptural basis for that! God does not bring disease on the human race. In fact, if there's anybody in heaven and earth who hates it, it's Jesus. The devil is the one who's trying to tell us otherwise. He's promoting a lie, trying to get us to believe God is the one who's inflicting these diseases on people because he knows that if the victims believe that, it will drive them further from God than ever. And that's his aim. It's time you and I as believers put a stop to that lie. Some time ago the Lord spoke to my heart and told me so. He said, "Reach out to those who are suffering. Let them know I didn't to this to them. Let them know I'm their Deliverer." That Word was not just for me, it was for the whole Body of Christ. We need to tell people who've been afflicted with AIDS or any such disease that Jesus is Lord over it. We need to tell them that God loves them dearly, and He has the desire and the power to heal them. God is not responsible for the suffering we're seeing around us. That's just a nasty lie the devil is passing around. And if you and I do our job right, very soon another word is going to start spreading through the streets. The news is going to get out that Jesus Christ is not their captor, He's the One who can set them free! In Jesus Name. Amen.

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassion fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." (Lam. 3:21-23). Recall God's Mercies. God is faithful. He's full of compassion. As a believer you know all that. But simply knowing it is not enough. For it to do any good, you have to recall it. You have to rememver it again and again in order to rekindle your hope and stir your faith. So make it a point to remind yourself of God's faithfulness every mourning. Remind yourself of the benefits that are yours in Jesus. What are those benefits? Psalm 103 spells them out: 1. He forgives all your sins. 2. He heals all your diseases. 3. He redeems your life from destruction. 4. He crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies. 5. He satisfied your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. 6. He executes righteousness and judgment for you against oppression. He sets you free. 7. He makes known His ways to you. 8. He gives you His grace and mercy in times of need. Make it a point every morning this year to say those things out loud to the Lord. Stand before Him in prayer and recall His mercies to you. Keep it up and by the end of this year you'll be stronger in faith and more confident of God's love than you've ever been before. Don't settle for knowing God's blessings. Remember them every day and watch them come alive in you. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

"Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean. But Naaman was angry." (II Kings 5:10-11. The Amplified Bible). Let God Do it His Way. So often we miss out on what God wants to do for us because He doesn't do it the way we think He should. We work up an idea in our minds about how He's going to heal us, for instance. We think He's going to send some famous preacher to lay hands on us or that He's going to knock us off our feet with a blast of His Power. When He doesn't, we let our faith drop and foul up what He had actually planned to do. That's what Naaman did. He went to Elisha expecting to be healed in a particualar way. When it didn't happen that way, the Bible says, he went away in a rage. What Elisha told him to do was simple. Dip seven times in the Jordan. Naaman could do that. But it didn't fit his idea of how his healing should take place. He thought Elisha would heal him by waving his hands around calling on the Name of the Lord. Naaman stormed away and he would have missed out on his healing if one of his servants hadn't talked him into giving Elisha's instructions a try. I used to be like that. I wanted spectacular experiences from God so badly I was missing out on the experiences God had planned for me. Once I realized that, I quit looking for feelings and spectacular manifestations and just started expecting God to keep His Word. I remember I went to a meeting one night with my ankle messed up terribly. The pain was so severe it went from my foot all the way up to my shoulder blades. But I went into that meeting expecting God to heal me................................................................................................................

During the praise service, I ignored the pain in my foot and just sang and worshipped with everyone else. When the preaching started, I got my Bible and got involved in the Word. Sure enough, sometime during the service I was healed. I don't know when it was. I didn't see any sparklers go off. I didn't even realize I'd been healed until after the service. I got about halfway to the door and thought, "Glory to God, my foot's well." Don't let your own ideas of how God's going to work rob you of your healing or your deliverance or you prosperity. Just trust Him and let Him do things His way. He "will" work mightily in you. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

"A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul." (Proverbs 18:7). From Messes to Miracles. We have what we say. As believers, we know that's a vital biblical truth. We can see it in Mark 11:23, Matthew 21:21, James 3:2, and many other verses. Yet we often let it slip. We allow ourselves to begin talking like the world instead of talking the Word. And eventually we get what we've been asking for--a big Mess. If that's happened to you, remember, whatever you have in your life is a product of what you been saying. In order to change what you have, you must change what's coming out of your mouth. To head your life in a different direction--from death to life, sickness to health, failure to success--you must take charge of your words. That's a lot easier said than done. But that's the key: It must be said in order to be done! How do you start? First realize that it can't be done in the natural. This is a spiritual law, so it must be handled with Spiritual Power. James 3:7-8 says the tongue can't be tamed with the same power with which man tames animals. It takes God's wisdom from above. God's Word is His Wisdom (Pro. 2:6). He also said His Words are Spirit and life. That means it takes God's words to tame our tongues. Second, repent before God forever allowing your tongue to be used by anyone except the Holy Spirit. Then give Jesus your tongue. Be determined to speak His Words of Love, Faith, Joy, Peace, and Grace. Words of faith stop the fiery darts of hell. The third thing to do is what Jesus said in Mark 4:24: Take heed, or listen, to what you hear. Listen to yourself! Think, "Do I want what I just said to come to pass?" If the answer is no, then stop and correct yourself right then. Replace those negative words with praise(Eph. 5:14). If you've gotten sloppy about what you say, change your course today to help you set a watch over your mouth(Ps. 141:3). Put the Power that's in your tongue to work for you instead of against you. Stop using it to make Messes, and start using it to make Miracles. There is a Miracle in your mouth! In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

"Giving thanks unto the Father.........who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear son." (Colossians 1:12-13). Heavon's Economy. If, in spite of all the Bible's promises about prosperity...in spite of all the prayers you've prayed....your are still struggling financially, consider this question: "Where do you thing God is going to get the resources to meet your needs?" Many believers limit God without even realizing it by training their eyes on the limited resources of this world rather than the unlimited riches of God's Kingdom. Their faith fails when they think of the troubled Economy on the earth, of the shortages and scarcity that surrounds thme. They wonder, "How is God going to bless me in the middle of all this?" If that's what you've been thinking here's some news that will turn those thoughts around! The Bible says God has delivered us from the power of darkness and hath "translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son." To be translated means to be taken out of one place and put into another. In other words, your citizenship is not primarily of this earth. You are not primarily American or Canadian or Australian--you are first and foremost a citizen of the Kingdom of God. That means this planet doesn't have any right to dictate you whether your needs are met or not. The Bible says God will meet your needs according to His riches in glory! (Phil 4:19). You can live by Heavon's Economy, not earth's economy--and in Heaven there is always more than enough. Wake up to the abundance of heaven that's been made yours through Jesus. Wake up to the fact that you've been translated out of a world of poverty into a Kingdom of abundance. Rejoice. Heavon's unlimited Resources have been made available for you! In Jesus Name. Amen.

"Like newborn babies you should crave--thirst for, earnestly desire--the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nutured and grow unto (completed) salvation." (I Peter 2:2 The Amplified Bible). Grow Up. Have you ever been in a room full of babies? Infants crying. Crawlers holering for certain toys. Toddlers pushing and whining to get their way. It can be quite a handful, can't it? When a bunch of spiritual babies get together, it's about the same way! Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a spiritual baby. All of us start out that way. When we were first born into the Kingdom of God, we're much like physical newborns. We're not very strong or well-developed. We blunder around trying to learn how to operate in our new enveronment. That's how we all have to begin. But God never meant for us to stay that way. That's why in I Peter 2:2 He says we should desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow.... He intends for us to feed on His Word, moving from the milk of the Word to the meat of the Word until we Grow Up into mature sons and daughters. Begin now finding your nourishment in His Word and enjoy the reward of Growing up in Him! In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

"I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them....they are fallen under my feet." (Psalm 18:37,38). You Hold the Keys. If you've been standing around wringing your hands and worrying about what the devil is doing, it's time you made a switch. It's time you put that devil under your feet. Jesus has already given you all the Power and Authority you need to do it. He's given you the Keys of the Kingdom. He's promised you that whatever you declare locked on earth is locked in heaven and whatever you declare unlocked on earth is unlocked in the heavenlies (Matt. 16:19). That means you can speak the Word and bind wicked spirits. You can speak the Word and loose the angelic forces of God to work in your behalf. What's more, you've been given the Power of Attorney that enables you to use the Mighty Name of Jesus. A Name that's above every other name. A Name which will cause every knee to bow--in heaven, in earth and under the earth! (Phil. 2:9,10). So don't waste your time worrying about the devil. Take Authority over him. Bind the evil spirits that try to destroy your home, your church, and your nation. Loose God's Word in the earth and enforce it with the Name of Jesus. You Hold the Keys. Learn to use them and before long the devil will be wringing his hands worrying about "you!" In the Name of Jesus. Amen.