The river of prophecy is filled with rapids, obstacles, eddies, and undercurrents. This often has more to do with the milestones we will see along the way than it does in the details of bringing about something that was foretold. Events tend to collide and conflict in...

Years ago, God called me to a season of repentance.  When I started, I felt pretty good about myself.  I didn't think I needed to do much repenting.  God broke my pride and self-reliance.  After a week in the presence of a high and holy God, I cried out to Him in...

David was a nobody in the world's eyes.  He was born on the wrong side of the tracks.  He had no idea that the black hole he lived in would be transformed into a holy hill.  David was held in such low regard by his own father that when Samuel came and told Jesse that...

Nebuchadnezzar was the most powerful man on the face of the earth, as the unrivaled leader of the massive Babylonian Empire.  His military victories had expanded his kingdom beyond anything the world had seen before.  Built on the site where the Tower of Babel had...

I was in Caesarea in Israel at the home of my attorneys, a husband and wife team.  We were having lunch one day, and they had three Israeli generals there for lunch.  (These are very famous attorneys in Israel.)  And as we sat down to have lunch, the wife knew that I...

Without humility and repentance, prayer has no power.  There will be no healing of a nation from division, there will be no healing of a nation from a plague, there will be no healing of a nation from economic collapse until God's people seek His face as He has...