I (Rebecca) have had a struggle with fear my whole life. I was born to parents who were ruled by fear. I was raised in a legalistic church where every member was controlled by fear. Fear of the terrible consequences if we did not obey our leaders in everything. [Read more…]

The disciples had already been saved before the day or Pentecost.

“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” Luke 10:20

The resurrected Christ had breathed on them imparting the Holy Spirit into them, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” The words translated “receive ye” mean words spoken by one in authority, a command that is obeyed immediately. [Read more…]

I (Rebecca) get so many letters and requests for prayer from Christians who are struggling with repeated temptations. They find they fall over and over again. This is especially true with such things as sexual sin and pornography. The key to dealing with repeated sins is found in two scriptures: [Read more…]

Let’s face it – this is the side of Jesus that we love the most – the gentle healer who speaks a word of power to us and to our loved ones in the midst of our pain and suffering. We love to sing about our Good Shepherd Who leads us into green pastures and beside still waters. And I suppose the longer we live, the more we recognize our need of His healing touch, His guiding and protecting hand. [Read more…]

Do you ever feel like life is nothing but a roller coaster ride and everything within you just wants to get off? Your joy and peace can be stolen, within moments, by discouragement and despair. We find ourselves with fleeting faith, when the troubles of life come crashing in on us like relentless waves in a stormy sea. [Read more…]

Pain is a large part of everyone’s life. It comes in many forms – grief, depression, stress, anxiety, loss, trauma, sexual molestation, abuse (both physical and emotional), physical pain . . . the list goes on and on. Pain became a part of our world as soon as sin entered in. The question is how do we as Christians deal with it? This is an issue I (Rebecca) struggled with early in my walk with the Lord. In fact, almost immediately after I made the decision to make Jesus Christ the total Master over every area of my life. Psalm 91 was quickly pointed out to me as the solution. [Read more…]

Some of you are so discouraged by unfulfilled dreams that you actually wish you were dead. I want to share with you a message the Holy Spirit gave to me early this morning when I thought my dreams had died, too. [Read more…]

Drained. Sapped. Empty. Whatever adjective you’d like to use . . . the message is the same: we’re running on empty. We find ourselves depleted of hope because life just isn’t meeting our expectations. We’ve exhausted ourselves seemingly to the point of no return. In our efforts to “press in” and “press on,” we seek God, yet we find our faith is debilitated because we simply haven’t been filling our time with His presence. When we cry out, “Where is God?” we find that He is there . . . He’s been there all along . . . it’s where we’ve been that’s the big question. [Read more…]

Like an uninvited guest, Doubt shows up at the most inopportune times – usually it’s when life is “messy . . . we haven’t had time to get things in order and it appears that everything is falling apart at the seams. Just when we begin to grasp onto whatever is left of hope, Doubt comes knocking at the door. But, when we find doubt knocking, we should be sure and let Faith answer. [Read more…]

Did you realize that the harvest of your tomorrow depends on the seed you sow today? What you will be doing in the future depends on the type of seed you sow now.

In fact, what you are experiencing now is due to the kind of seed you sowed in the past. If you do not like your present harvest, and do not want more of the same this year, you will have to change your seed. [Read more…]