Be Ruled by the Word of GodThe first key that will keep you out of the grasp of the enemy is to be ruled by the Word. The Word of God-the Bible-is our final authority. Make the Word of God your rule and your authority, and live in obedience to all it says.We teach this every week at the church I pastor-Dwelling Place Church International. We teach that, if you're not under the authority of the Wo...  Read More

Type your new text here.  The Prerequisite for Spiritual SafetyOne of the greatest promises in all of Scripture is that the devil will flee from us. When James 4:7-8 says that the devil will run away from you when you resist him, it means he will scoot away like a dog with his tail between his legs.When the enemy runs, he runs in terror. When you resist him, he flees from you and runs away in abje...  Read More

Imagine a large room, beautifully decorated and spotless. A King makes His home in this room and is pleased with the perfection of His surroundings. Around the perimeter of the room are a number of doors. Beyond the doors are dirt, debris, and pollutants that would defile this space if the doors were opened. You are called to be the doorkeeper to this room.This picture illustrates the life of ever...  Read More

2 Chronicles 2:5-9"The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods.  But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him?  So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him?  Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver, brass and iron, and in purple, crimson and viol...  Read More

1 Kings 3:6-9Then Solomon said, "You have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.  Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my fath...  Read More

1 Corinthians 4:1-5Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.  In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.  But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.  For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acqui...  Read More

1 Corinthians 4:14-21I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.  For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.  Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.  For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, an...  Read More

The ministry of Jesus was full of surprises. Jesus is constantly calling you to go deeper in your life with him. He wants to surprise you in new ways.John 2:1-21Surprising abundanceSome might be surprised that not only were Jesus and his disciples invited to parties (like this wedding banquet), they actually accepted and went along. At that time, wedding feasts lasted about a week. They were times...  Read More

1 Corinthians 13:8-13Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.  When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man,...  Read More

It happened in a large, seventy-five-year-old stone house on the west side of Houston. A massive stairway led up to several bedrooms. The den down below was done in rough-hewn boards with soft leather chairs and a couple of matching sofas. The wet bar had been converted into a small library, including a shelf of tape recordings and a multiple-speaker sound system. The ideal place to spend a weeken...  Read More

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, bu...  Read More

1 Corinthians 3:10-15 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.  For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.  Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's ...  Read More