“For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’”Isaiah 41:13This is not a metaphor. This is not poetry. This is not some high-sounding, hyper encouragement. This is the Almig...

The verdict was already sealed. The execution plan was underway. The gallows were prepared. Haman had secured the royal signature. The Jews were going to be slaughtered. There was no court of appeal. No political rescue in sight. Time was runni...

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee. Be not dismayed; for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” — Isaiah 41:10Strength and the help...

We’ve talked about women with all kinds of negative requests—selfish, emotional, manipulative, and destructive. But by the grace of God, we are concluding this subject with something higher: the kind of request your husband can trust and tha...

The wife of Zebedee came to the Lord Jesus with her two sons. She came with a very serious desire, but she coded it inside a powerful worship moment. She bowed, yes. She worshipped, yes. But behind the worship was ambition. And when the worship...

“So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth o...

Yesterday, we looked at two types of negative requests in our series on Helping Your Husband to Trust Your Request. The first was the self-centered request of Rachel who said, “Give me children, or I die” — a desperate, emotio...

Dear Sister, help your husband trust your request. Be the kind of woman whose words are not scattered, but carry weight. When you ask, let your request be rare, reasonable, and rooted in wisdom. Let him say, “My wife hardly asks f...

Complaining means expressing dissatisfaction, discomfort, or annoyance about something. At its core, it simply means you’re not happy about a situation. So, in itself, complaining is not a bad thing. It’s important to express discomfort or disp...

I’ve seen far too many men struggle with the voices, plans, opinions, and judgments of their wives. Why? Because the women have not helped their husbands to trust their voices, planning, their opinions, or their sense of judgment. Many of s...

Dear precious and virtuous woman, may I remind you that everything physical about you, no matter how fine or flawless, will fade with time. Beauty may open the door, but it is your spirit that will keep the house standing. That which is spiritu...

Let us speak the truth clearly. Many men did not fall because they lacked calling. They did not fail because they lacked anointing or fire. They fell because they were joined to women who could not be trusted. A man can carry the presence of Go...

I have seen many women claim to be the Proverbs 31 woman because of her wisdom, her strength, her capacity, her business acumen, her ability to wake up in the morning and do some terrific things. Such a powerful portrait of the godly woman.&nbs...

Luke 11:21-23 -  “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But when one stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoil...

1 Corinthians 9:27: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.When a man—a father—cannot keep his body under subjection, he intr...

Genesis 2:15: “Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it.”From the very beginning, God's assignment to man was simple: tend it and keep it. The word keep in Hebrew is shama...

When Jesus taught us to pray, He began by saying, “Our Father who art in Heaven...” (Matthew 6:9). Do you realize that we have prayed this prayer for over 2000 years and yet the location of our Father has never changed? His presence ...

“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit...

Nehemiah 2:5-6 – And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it. And the king said unto...

By the Spirit of God, we’ve established that one of the most powerful effects of the anointing on a person’s life is that it makes them a repairer, a rebuilder, and a restorer of desolate places. If the Spirit of God truly rests upon...

After receiving a word from the Lord and gathering the people, the next thing Elijah did was repair the broken altar. One of the key changes that happens in a person’s life when they receive the anointing is that they become a repairer.<...

The life of Elijah is such a blessing to me. We have explored the life of that great man of God. But to go beyond the realm of knowledge, we must pray the things we have learned of him into our lives. The things we learned are simply possibi...

Elijah was a mighty man of God who demonstrated rare dimensions of the Spirit. His approach to attracting the fire of God, rooted in the word of God, followed a clear pattern: He called the people to draw near, repaired the broken altar of the ...

Elijah put the wood in order before laying the sacrifice on it, as recorded in 1 Kings 18:33 — "And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, 'Fill four barrels with water, and pour it...

Elijah received God’s word and His promises. The Lord had already determined to send the rain and instructed Elijah to stand before Ahab because the rain was coming. But before the outpouring could take place, Elijah had to ascend Mo...