Storing up food, having a place for your family to shelter, and being able to defend yourself can help you prepare, but it is not enough. It is like having really great equipment but never being trained to face the reality of war.  We have to learn to face our spiritual battles now and learn how the enemy manipulates our emotions if we hope to overcome as things speed up. 

Have you ever wondered why it doesn't go well for people when they mock God? Mocking God is a sensitive issue that people are doing more and more. How can God be completely loving, yet people's lives end so badly when they mock Him?

What does Jesus say the End will look like? There will be an increase of knowledge but a decrease in peace. There will be wars and rumors of wars. Ethnic groups will rise against other ethnic groups. These will be the birth pains of the end-times. 

Fasting is the thing that no one's flesh wants to do, but it is the thing that gives you the most breakthrough. Fasting is not just not eating. It is spending the time you would be feeding your flesh seeking God. The tide of history has been turned when God’s people fast and pray.

Being able to manage your feelings is what separates the men from the boys. Feelings are a fickle master and everyone can be overwhelmed by their emotions. It is those that learn to manage their feelings and get into the Lord’s joy that make it in life. 

The devil attacks you on your worst day. Your family, your friends, the people that you are leading can all turn on you when things start going bad. The day before David became king was utter chaos and ruin. His family had been taken from him, his men turned on him to kill him-- but David turned and strengthened himself in the Lord.

We are living in surreal times. People are becoming more and more desperate. Are we living in the end-times and if so, where are we on the timeline? What exactly is going on and what do we need to be doing?

The story behind the Isaiah's prophecy about Jesus being born... We live increasingly in a time when believers who do not stand firm in their faith will not stand at all. The world is searching for what a man fully committed to God looks like when most people have pushed God into the background of their lives.

God starts and moves things with His wind. His wind is the transportation department of Heaven coming from the north, south, east and west, each wind having a distinct purpose on the earth. What is the wind doing? What direction is it blowing from? How is God moving His people in the times we are living in?

The world as we have known it is not the same and the needs of this hour should be pulling on every believer. There is a contention happening over our nation and we have a part to play. The devil has tried to make it look as if there are only bad options. What kind of action does the Lord want from us in this season?