"For with God nothing shall be impossible." Now I want to emphasize that, because there are a group of people who’ve taken that today, twisted it, and distorted it out of all proportion in the way in which it is given. There’s nothing impossible with God when He says He’s going to do it. But it’s not necessarily so when you and I say it. A man said to me the other day, “The Lord told me to do this.” I think a lot of people use that cliché today to cover up the fact they want their own selfish desire. Nothing’s impossible with God, but there sure is a whole lot that’s impossible with you and with me.
May 3, 2023
Now, there are several things I’d like to say. One is that the tendency among us Protestants is to play down the role of Mary. But remember she was “highly favored.” But also, with the same breath, let me say that she was “blessed art thou” not above women, but “among women.” She is not lifted up above women; she lifted womanhood up. That is the role that she played, because, you see, it’s so easy to say that a woman brought sin into the world, but also—let’s also say that a man did not bring the Savior into the world, but a woman did.
May 2, 2023
Do you know today that you’re a child of God through faith in Christ? Do you know this is the Word of God? I feel sorry for the Christian today that has to wobble back and forth and say, “Well, I do not know. I’m not sure. I don’t guess I have enough faith.” No, that’s not your problem. Your problem is you don’t know enough. I hate to say that, but that’s our problem—if we knew enough. You see, “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” If you really knew the Word of God, you'd believe it. The problem is with those who are ignorant of the Word of God. Oh, if we only knew the book and only knew the Lord, we’d believe Him.
May 1, 2023
“Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.” Now when He comes again, He’s coming in judgment, and there’s nothing wrong with this. The whole tenor of Scripture, including the New Testament, is that He’s coming in judgment. And we have no more vivid and dramatic picture than you have in the nineteenth chapter of the book of Revelation when John said he saw a door open in heaven and One on a white horse coming forth. He’s coming forth conquering and to conquer, my friend. Now that is the picture that the Word of God presents. Maybe you don’t like it, but it’s in the Word of God.
April 28, 2023
And how this man Nehemiah was raised up of God to encourage God’s people. You see, he just didn’t stay down yonder and pray. He did something about it. Fact of the matter is, you’ll find that he’ll encourage the people to pray and work at the same time. And how we need that today, my beloved. We need prayer, real prayer. Prayer that comes from a burdened heart. And then, my beloved, a prayer that will lead out into action, demonstrating by the life today that we have submitted to our own prayers, that we mean business with God. God hears and answers prayer like that.
April 27, 2023
Now we come to another marvelous prayer of David in Psalm 143 here. And here you have an urgent appeal of this man for help. And this is a very wonderful—oh, this is a marvelous psalm, and you see David again, no inhibitions; just opens up his heart to God. “Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.” It’s a great prayer, and it’s one that can fit into your experience and my experience today. And it’s a prayer that we can rest upon the faithfulness of God and the righteousness of God to forgive our sin.
April 26, 2023
“I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.” And this is Psalm 142:2 that I’ve just read. In other words, he laid before God everything that was in his heart and in his life. And I think that’s the way that we should pray today. This idea today we’re to pray around something or we’re to rationalize in our prayer or we are to pray all the way around Robin’s barn, I think we ought to just come right down to it and get right down to the nitty gritty and tell God everything in our lives. You can tell Him about your temptations. You can tell Him about everything.
April 25, 2023
Prayer should have some background to it. It should be backed up by a life. The Lord Jesus has made it very clear that today if we expect God to hear and answer our prayers, that there must be in our lives that obedience to Him. This idea today that we can just live any way and expect God to answer prayer is a big mistake. He says, “If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.” Then He didn’t stop there. He says, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” if you expect Him to answer prayer.
April 24, 2023
The question is why should anyone want to get away from God? You can’t. No matter where you go, He’s there. “Whither shall I go from thy spirit?” Now this is verse 7 of Psalm 139. "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in sheol, behold, thou art there." Friends, you can’t get away from Him. “If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost part of the sea.” You won’t get away from God. You could go to the moon—you don’t get away Him. Do you think we ought to confess our sins in detail unto God? Of course, spell them out. He already knows about it anyway And let Him know that you know it, too, and that you recognize it as sin.”
April 21, 2023
“Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.” Now somebody asked the question, “How can God do that?” Well, I don’t know. Because the psalmist here said he didn’t know. “Such knowledge is too wonderful” for us, but it doesn’t keep God from knowing everything. And, actually, the omniscience of God is not an occasion for terror, but actually for comfort. You know, He saved me and yet He knew me. That’s the amazing thing about it. God knows us, and yet He’ll save us. How wonderful He is.
April 20, 2023