Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. Hebrews 3:12 (NLT) God wants you to do more than settle in life. He wants you to believe for His best—what He’s promised you. He doesn’t want unbelief to limit you, as it did with the Israelites on their way to their Promised Land (Hebrews 3:19). God wanted the Israelites to have a place they could call home—a place where they could rise to become a tremendous nation. The desert wasn’t His best for them, yet they camped there for forty years. The Israelites didn’t experience God’s promise because they didn’t believe they could. God wants more for you. He …

“How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye” Matthew 7:4 (NLT) If you had a board sticking out of your eye, how effective would you be at removing a speck of dust from a friend’s eye? Crazy thought, but that’s the image Jesus paints in our verse today. Actually, we do this all the time when it comes to helping others with issues of the heart. We like to think that we can help people fix their flaws, but we’re completely unequipped to do so. In fact, some people seem to think that fixing others is their God-given calling and they’re …

“Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.” Matthew 16:18 (NLT) Wherever you are today is probably a result of your upbringing and surroundings. But where you go from here is up to you and the words you speak. As you pray and declare God’s promises, you begin to push off negative situations and bring the miraculous into your world. Every day, you need to declare who and what you are in Christ. Another area to speak the Word is your mission in life. According to the Word, you are to… Seek first the Kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33). Go into the …

For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17 (NKJV) You’re designed to reign in life through Jesus. To reign is to rule like a king—and what does a king do? He makes decrees. Whatever he says is law. As a believer, your words hold the power to cause change in the physical, spiritual, mental and emotional realms. This is why it’s crucial that you confess God’s Word over your life. Yesterday we looked at the importance of declaring who you are in Christ. Now let’s take a look at what you are. There’s some overlap between the two, but I want …

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. Romans 8:16-17 (NKJV) The words you speak hold power. And according to God’s Word, there are three things you need to confess every day.  Who you are, what you are, and your mission in life. Let’s tackle the first one today. Your sense of identity determines what you put up with and where you go in life. But many believers are in an identity crisis. They don’t know or believe what God’s Word says about them, so their words are full of defeat and failure—and soon their lives follow suit. You see, the enemy is shooting “fiery darts” at …