John 8:32 says,"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Knowing the truth is not about bending the truth to what we think God should be saying His actual truth sets us free. We can be free even amid affliction, even if it doesn't go away, or even if we must

The only way to face the storm in this nation is with the power of God. We are not going to be able to face it in our strength. It won't be by our might or power but only by the Spirit of God. We won't overcome the storm with our youth, experience, or abilities.

Psalm 68, beginning at verse 7, says,"O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, the earth shook. The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God. Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. You, O God, sent a plentiful rain whereby

Psalm 68, beginning at verse 5, says,"A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy habitation. God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound into prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land." In Job 21:3, a godly man said,"Bear with me that I

If ever there was someone's prayer that you think God would hear and answer, it would be the Apostle Paul because he could hear the voice of God. Paul surrendered to the work of God, even to the loss of his physical health, safety, and comfort. Paul was a man that God could entrust to

We cannot trust our power, thoughts, or direction, but we must hope in the Word of God. We must build our lives on what the Bible says. We don't have to add to it, and we don't have to take away from it. What God says is what we need to believe. The Bible must

The Apostle Peter once thought he would never betray or deny Jesus. All it took for him to cower in front of a little girl was to ask if he was one of the disciples. He responded that he didn't even know Jesus. However, after Peter was touched by the power of God in the

Psalm 12, a Psalm of David, beginning at verse one, says,"Help, Lord, for the Godly man ceases, for the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. They speak idly everyone with his neighbor, with flattering lips and a double heart, they speak." We're not the only ones who have endured seasons where evil speech

Joshua 24, beginning at verse 15, says, And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. Whether the gods, which your father served, that were on the other side of the river or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as

In Psalm 119, verses 67, 71, and 75, the Psalmist says,"Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep your word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes. I know, oh Lord, that your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted