When God’s people persist in sin, God will temporarily remove his blessing and protection from them. This is not an act of cruelty but an act of mercy, in the hopes that as we taste the barrenness of life without him… we would repent and return to Him.

1 Samuel 2 contrasts the wicked household of Eli and the righteous household of Samuel. In this text we learn a fixed principle of God's kingdom: Those who honor God will be honored by God but those who despise Him will be despised by him. We see...

God permits his people to endure hardships and difficulties, so that they will see their need for a Savior and cry out to Him who alone is mighty to save. God is always behind the scenes working, but he usually doesn’t work in the way we expect Him...

In James 5:15-16 James seems to say that the prayer of faith guarantees physical healing? But what is the "prayer of faith?" Can God bring good out of our sickness?