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Blessings and Curses

by Dr. Mike Evans | Aug 14, 2026 | Uncategorized

“The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.” —PSALM 128:5

In Zechariah 2:8, God warns of the danger of offending Israel: For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.” Earlier in Genesis 12:1-3, God had assured Abraham that those who blessed Israel would be blessed, and that anyone who cursed Israel would be cursed. These three verses alone should be sufficient warning as to why we are called to support Israel: The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. ‘I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.’”

We have only to examine history to ascertain that the remnants of those once-great empires are now dust and ashes. Time after time since the beginning of her existence, nations have come against Israel. Yet, like the Phoenix, she has risen from the ashes each time. Not one ruler who ordered the destruction of Jerusalem long survived. Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem in 586 BC then was doomed to live as a beast of the field for seven terrifying years. He was restored to sanity only after he recognized the God of the Israelites. (See Daniel 4.) His kingdom of Babylon was conquered by Cyrus the Great. In 332 BC, Alexander the Great captured Jerusalem. His empire fragmented after his death, and the followers of Ptolemy in Egypt and then the Seleucids of Syria ruled over Jerusalem.

The Jews, horrified by the desecration of the Temple under the Seleucid ruler, Antiochus IV, staged a revolt and regained independence under the Hasmonean Dynasty. That independence lasted 100 years, until Pompey established Roman rule in the city. The Roman Empire collapsed after the Temple was destroyed and Jerusalem was leveled. The British, who ruled over Palestine and Jerusalem following World War I, could once boast that the sun never set on the British Empire. Indeed, one-fifth of the world’s population was then under its rule. However, after turning away Jews from both Britain and Palestine when they fled Hitler’s gas chambers, and after arming Arabs to fight against them in Palestine, the empire quickly began to disintegrate. Great Britain today is comprised of just 14 territories, mostly a number of islands. Gone are the days when that empire stretched from India to Canada and from Australia to Africa.

Little has changed; there are still many whose only agenda is to force the Jews from Israel—or annihilate them, if at all possible. Yet, Jerusalem and Israel remain standing as an unquestioned testimony to the determination and courage of the Jewish people. The two burning questions today are: Does America stand with or against Jerusalem and the nation of Israel? And, will Believers defend Israel with prayer and spiritual warfare?

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For Such a Time as This

by Dr. Mike Evans | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized

When the Jewish people were facing the threat of mass extinction, a courageous young woman named Esther answered the call and stepped forward to save them. Esther had been chosen as queen over the Persian empire to replace Vashti. While no one knew that Esther was Jewish, the identity of her cousin Mordecai was known. He earned the enmity of a powerful official named Haman. Ahasuerus had promoted Haman and ordered everyone to bow when he passed by, but Mordecai refused. In keeping with his Jewish faith, he would bow to no one but God.

This infuriated Haman, and instead of taking revenge on Mordecai alone, he decided to annihilate the entire Jewish race. “And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai” (Esther 3:6). Haman cast lots (pur in Hebrew) to determine the most auspicious day to carry out his attack, and when he had selected a day, he went to Ahasuerus and put his evil plan in motion. After falsely accusing the Jews of disloyalty to the king, he received permission to have them killed.

Once this news became known, there was sorrow and mourning among the Jewish people across the Persian empire. They were not certain what to do. The decree had been sealed with the king’s signet ring, and thus it had the full authority of the throne behind it. And under Persian law, such a decree once issued could not be altered or amended.

Mordecai sent a message to Esther in the palace instructing her to go to the king and reveal her secret, asking for some means of deliverance for her people. Recognizing the danger of his plan to her personally, Esther refused, pointing out that anyone who entered the king’s presence without permission was in danger of immediate death, and that it had been a month since she had last seen the king. Mordecai then issued the famous challenge, reminding Esther that God had placed her in her position “for such a time as this.”

In her response, we see Esther’s faith in action demonstrated. She told Mordecai to gather the Jews together and fast and pray for a period of three days. She and her royal household did the same. Esther believed that God would work in response to the serious, urgent intercession of His people. She was willing to risk her very life on her belief in the power of the God of Israel. As a result of her faith in action, Israel was spared. Today it is our turn to answer the call and take our stand for God’s Chosen People.

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Divine Disappointments

by Dr. Mike Evans | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized

“Hold your head straight, Mr. Evans,” the optometrist said as he examined my eyes. The more I tried, the more difficult it became. I realized my head was shaking uncontrollably because of neck tremors. Finally, the optometrist said, “Mr. Evans, you need to go to a neurologist to find out what is wrong with your neck.” Little did I know that I had a strange neurological ailment called spasmodic torticollis dystonia—a rare genetic disease.

The harder I tried to hold my head straight, the more difficult it became. The muscles pulled my neck and twisted my head. The only way I could hold my head erect was to press my chin down with my hand. As months and years passed, it grew worse and worse. At first, I tried denial, assuming it would get better after a few weeks. When that did not happen, depression followed as I realized the disease could result in total disability. It was, at the very least, humiliating, especially for a public speaker.

No matter what I did, tremors were my constant companion. I was told that I must have an emotional problem, or perhaps was headed for a breakdown. While in the pulpit, a panic attack would hit like an electrical shock. It was humiliating and depressing. I became so discouraged that I stopped preaching for fourteen months. I was thirty-two years old, and it looked like my ministry was over.

The more I looked in the mirror, the more distressed I became. I questioned why I couldn’t be strong like other preachers. Little did I know that God wasn’t asking me to be strong; He was asking me to allow Him to be the strength in my life. Ultimately, I realized I needed to turn the entire situation over to Jesus. I got on my face in prayer and sobbed as I poured my heart out to God.

The reality is this: During that period of time, I produced more award-winning specials and wrote more books than at any other time in my life. As a matter of fact, it seemed that supernatural doors were opening for me to be a confidant to world leaders more than at any other time in my life. I truly understood what it meant to know Christ “in the fellowship of His suffering, and in the power of His resurrection” (Philippians 3:10). I had to reach out to Christ to complete me in areas that were lacking. He made me become what I was not. As Paul said, “When I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10).

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Dreams, God, and You

by Dr. Mike Evans | Jun 19, 2026 | Uncategorized

God invented dreaming, and we are created in His image, so what does that tell us about how we’re designed to live? You and I are designed to dream. In fact, dreaming and doing are the only ways to a truly fulfilling life. Your life is part of God’s dream. As recorded in Genesis, God had His dream of creation—the heavens, the earth, and you. And then He spoke it to ignite the dream into reality: “Let there be light!” And think about it, one of the most amazing truths about this wonderful dream of God is that He was delighted. He called it good.

A big reason why people don’t dream is that they don’t realize they are God’s dream. Many don’t know why they were born. Most people have never asked God, the Creator, why they were born, so they’re not dreaming the dreams He has for them. They’re merely dreaming human dreams. Jeremiah 1:4-5 declares: “Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’”

Not only are you His dream, He sees plans and potential for you, which the prophet also wrote in Jeremiah 29:11. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

The first mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, knew I liked the book of Jeremiah because I used to quote verses to him. So, he asked me if I had ever visited Jeremiah’s Grotto. I told him no. He pulled out the plans and took me in his car to Jeremiah’s Cave. This was the spot where Jeremiah lived and prophesied from.

Jeremiah had a very difficult assignment. He was criticized and mocked. and yet he stayed faithful to his call. When I saw the cave, tears streamed down my face, because it has a new name now, it’s called Golgotha. That was the spot where Jeremiah was assigned—and where heaven and earth met.

You never know the significance of the call of God in your life and the fruit of what you’re doing, but you’ve got to be faithful. God is a good God. This was difficult for me to understand because my father was not good. The only thing I knew about my earthly father was judgment. He only cursed me. He never blessed me, so it took me a long time before I could see God as a good father and understand grace, His unconditional love. When I did, everything changed.

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How Is Your Angel Doing Today?

by Dr. Mike Evans | Jun 5, 2026 | Uncategorized

A number of years ago on my birthday, a terrorist attempted to kill me. I am certain that had the angels of the Lord not protected me, he would have succeeded. He had already killed two people, a state trooper and a Jewish pawn shop owner. When I was informed of his arrest, a spirit of fear hit me. When he was finally caught, he had my address and my unlisted phone number on the front seat of his car.

When I went to the Lord in prayer, God spoke to me to confront that spirit. God gave me an assignment to go to what was then the most dangerous place on the planet: Lebanon. I had the opportunity to minister to Palestinians who hated Jews. I brought them food and medicine. I was warned by Israeli intelligence not to go because of a terrorist attack.

I took a trunk full of Gideon Bibles to give to the Marines who were stationed in Beirut. The next morning, I heard the explosion as a Hezbollah terrorist blew up the Marine barracks and killed more than 240 of them. I was driving a rented car with Israeli license plates in the middle of a war zone. In trying to get out of the country and back to Israel, I got lost. I ended up turned around and headed toward Damascus.

We ran out of gas, and the two other members of my team said, “We’re dead!” I said, “No we’re not; you’re still talking.” A young Arab, who looked to be around 18 or 19, stuck his head in the window of the car. My first thought was, “He’s going to shoot us.” He smiled and held up a can of gasoline. After he put it in the car, he pointed at the door lock. I unlocked the door, and he got in.

For 32 minutes, he never said a single word. He pointed to where we needed to go. Just as we arrived at the border, he put his hand up. We stopped the car, and he got out. The colonel at the border checkpoint told me he had informed the Prime Minister’s office that my team and I had been killed in Lebanon. They thought there was no way I could survive. He said, “How did you make it?” I started to point toward our guide, but he was gone. I believe it was an angel of the Lord who delivered us from death that day.

Angels are not mythical beings. They are real and active in the world today on our behalf. They are messengers from God sent to help, protect, defend, and deliver us from evil. We need our angels to be active because we are part of a crucial and mighty spiritual battle for the future of Israel and our world.

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Responding to Rejection

by Dr. Mike Evans | May 8, 2026 | Uncategorized

Rejection is never easy, but rejection from people we care about really hurts. Maybe it’s the rejection of losing your job or having a spouse walk out on you. Sometimes rejection can be so devastating we are not sure we are going to recover. The devil will try to destroy a child of God with rejection by using deception and distraction. Here are five ways you can prevent rejection from gaining a stronghold in your life:

1. Jesus understands. On the cross, He faced the rejection of the whole world. Be honest with God about your feelings. He understands.

2. Don’t seek revenge. Trust God to bring about ultimate justice. Ask God to help you forgive. After all, Jesus forgave us for rejecting Him on the cross.

3. Develop a Conquering Mentality. Filling your mind with God’s Word will develop positive thoughts, causing you to see things from His perspective.

4. Don’t confuse forgiveness with a lack of accountability. Holding wrongdoers accountable is good—for them, for us, and for others.

5. Choose to get better, not bitter. The best way to get even in a good way is to get better. remember, “Bitterness is the poison we swallow while hoping the other person dies.”

By implementing these five preventive life-applications for rejection, you can take authority over the spirit of fear and rejection and decree God’s Word in your life. Life is not for the weak, but for the strong in God! There will be battles, but they provide opportunities to grow. A battle is often seen as opposition, but the truth is that it is an essential part of the journey.

You may be in a major battle, but you are on the road to a miracle! No one alive today ever experienced a miracle or a great victory in his life without going through battles. Struggle is proof that you have not been left alone. If you are still fighting, at least you know you have not been beaten! Say what God says and move from rejection to God’s acceptance!

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