I’ll Forgive You This Time, But You Owe Me

How many times have you heard someone say, “I’ll forgive you this time, but you owe me?” The reason they feel the person owes them is that in reality, they haven’t forgiven him or her. If they would have truly forgiven them, then they would have “canceled the debt” and nothing would have been owed.

The Healed Heart

Unforgiveness is like a cancer that grows deep within the heart. It can remain undetected to the outside world, but it brings destruction. It is impossible to walk in the joy and freshness that hope brings when the poison of unforgiveness is sheltered beneath the surface. There is only one solution to eliminating this hindrance

Help for a Broken Heart

When it comes to hope, not understanding the biblical principle of sowing and reaping can bring self‑deception. If you want hope, you must sow hope into others. In your friendships and associations, be the person who encourages and brings light into dark situations. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man

Ways You May be Deceiving Yourself

When you hear a promise in the Word and think that simply knowing the promise will change things, you can deceive yourself and hope can be stolen. You have to put action with it. Doing the Word means to act on what it says. You must believe what it promises to such a great depth

Self-Deception

Deception is the enemy’s greatest weapon in keeping a broken heart broken. Truth is God’s weapon for healing a broken heart. Deception binds, blinds, and destroys. Truth frees, illuminates, and releases the captive from bondage. Deception by its very nature is deceptive but those who are deceived rarely recognize it. Why? They are deceived! Only

Is It God or the Devil?

How can we tell if something is the result of the work of God or the work of the devil? As a pastor, I hear this question on a regular basis. However, all we have to do is look at the mission statement of God and the mission statement of the devil and then we

God is Your Source of Freedom from a Broken Heart

If Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted (which He did), and if He completed everything He came to do (which He did), then why is your heart still broken? There might be many reasons that you are holding on to your broken heart. You may think God allowed your broken heart for a greater purpose

Healing Your Broken Heart

The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted (Luke 4:18). God understands what it’s like to have a broken heart. In the beginning, God created the angels, but they were not like Him. Although they

The Word is Profitable when Mixed with Faith

People came to Jesus hungry, and they left fed. People came to Jesus sick and deformed and they left healed. People came to Jesus deep in sin and bondage and they left totally set free. We also know, however, that not everyone who lived in Israel at the time of Jesus was healed. There were

Faith Isn’t Surprised

As the early church was growing in the first century, Herod Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great, harassed many of the early church leaders. He killed James, the brother of John. He arrested Peter just because he knew it would please the Jews. After Peter was arrested, Herod the king put him in prison