If you are having trouble loving someone, the problem may be more of a spiritual issue than a relational issue....

There are not many times in the Gospels where we find Jesus this impressed with someone’s faith....

God loves faith. He looks for faith. When Christ was physically here on earth, He was able to spot faith a mile away. It was as if He had a faith-Geiger counter inside His chest that would start to vibrate whenever He got close to faith....

Faith is not self generated; it is God-given. Most of us have faced dark moments when we have beaten ourselves up for having weak faith. We reason that since faith is required in order to get anything from God, when we are desperate for a miracle, we think we need to pump up our faith into a heightened state of optimism....

As you grow in Christ, you grow in faith and as you grow in faith, you grow in Christ. It’s not one without the other, but it is one in front of the other. When it comes to faith-building, you want Jesus to go first....

There is nothing more robust than new faith, and there is nothing more faith-building than the promises of God....

On this day, March 22, in the year of our Lord 1758, Jonathan Edwards died. He has been called by many the greatest American theologian who ever lived....

God wants to grow your faith. During Jesus’ discipleship ministry, He did not rebuke His disciples often. In fact, there is only one reason for which He ever rebuked His disciples—because of their unbelief. He rebuked them three times for being, “an unbelieving, sinful generation.”...

On this day, March 20, in the year of our Lord 1858, Burton’s Theater in New York City, New York, was filled with the manifest presence of Christ. Three thousand people were miraculously converted in a single service. What a day!...

That short prayer is a good one for all of us to use periodically. “Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief!” Jesus must have liked it—look at how quickly He responded!...

The impact of your prayers does not depend on the size of your faith, but on the size of your God....

It is unfortunate Saint Patrick is known only for shamrocks, leprechauns and tall drafts of beer. While history has forgotten the important facts, it is time for us to recover the real story....

Some people pray with a whimper. Some casually knock. Some seek if they have nothing better to do. Others, however, ask as if their life depended on it; they strain every nerve as they are seeking, and they knock until their knuckles are raw....

Everyone prays, but not everyone is devoted to prayer. A person who dabbles in prayer dabbles in the manifest presence of Christ. Anyone who dabbles in God’s presence has obviously missed the point. Those who are devoted to prayer are normally those who are devoted to God’s presence....

God wants to build your faith muscle. He not only wants you to want what He wants, He wants you to go after it with all your heart. There is nothing more relevant to muscle-building faith than asking for the nations. Asking for the nations is part of the maturing process of prayer....

When God’s manifest presence came to Jonathan Edwards church in North Hampton, Massachusetts, in 1734, the move of God started with young people. Many revivals throughout history stirred among young adults....

Do not sell your children short when it comes to their ability to know God and to encounter His manifest presence. More than simply raising good kids, we want to raise godly kids—champions who forcefully advance Christ’s Kingdom....

Control central in the entire universe is not in Washington, D.C. -- nor is it in the Oval Office nor on Capitol Hill. It is not the Ayatollah in Iran, nor the Kremlin in Russia, nor the Parliament in England, nor the European Union. The New Testament shows us that control central in the entire universe is the upper room in heaven from which God carries out His will through the upper room on earth...

On this day, March 10, in the year of our Lord 2001, Armin Gesswein died. Today we honor the one whom many people called, “the apostle of the modern prayer movement.” ...

The fear of a church split has stood like a curse over too many pastors and their people. It’s time to break the curse....