What happens when we start out trusting God, but not with our whole heart? What happens when we begin to think that the marvelous help we get from God is coming from ourselves? And what happens when we push against the tide and set roots deep into the Lord to hold us steady?

You may feel like you don\'t deserve God\'s love. You may have walked away from Him or have areas of your life that you don\'t want Him to see. Today\'s study should be a huge encouragement to you to seek out the One who is willing to touch you just the way you are and cleanse you!

We\'re all followers, but how you follow is very important. Joash didn\'t follow Jehoiada in a way that made him a follower of Yahweh, instead of Jehoiada. It became crucial in his later life, and in ours.

Who you listen to matters. It determines who you belong to - who owns you. We can choose the easy road or the hard one, depending on who we listen to. Does it really matter what road we take. Absolutely!

The enemy will try relentlessly to introduce or maintain dysfunction in your life, just as he tried to wipe out the line of the Messiah using the dysfunctions of Jezebel and Athaliah. But you can have victory.

Pretty much everyone under the right circumstances prays. The key question is are you praying to the right person in a way that they will hear you and respond? Learn some important key ingredients to powerful prayer.

Jehoshaphat may have thought he was done with problems after God disciplined him. But God was about to bring the big battle to him so he and his nation would fall on their knees then raise their voices. It is an awesome lesson for us when trouble strikes.

This portion of Matthew is one of the most misquoted and misunderstood parts of the Bible. Jesus isn\'t talking about political correctness but about correctly presenting the story of sin and salvation.

Jehoshaphat was a good king who dedicated his heart to serve Yahweh. But a couple of major mistakes led to near disaster. Learn how God was faithful to help, but also to teach and discipline.

Did you know that this age seeks to distract you from becoming like the Lord and serving in His story? Plenty and want are two sides of the same coin and they seek to keep us from freely loving and being used by God. Find out how to beat them at their own game!

Sometimes when we look around us all we see are our mistakes. But God encourages us to focus and rely on Him - then He wins victories for us!

There is a way to do wonderful things for God and fade into the background. Our human nature wants to get the credit and be the focus. Our godly nature tells us otherwise. Learn how to be an active part of God\'s plan by disappearing.

Rehoboam had plenty of opportunities to listen to godly counsel, listen to the word of God, and listen to God\'s discipline. When faced with a choice, who influences you?

If you think you do pretty well with relationships, you might want to take a listen at Jesus\' words in this portion of the Sermon on the Mount. We think it is about lust and divorce and promises - but it\'s really about making, keeping, and fixing broken relationships.

Jesus, in his first words at length in Matthew\'s gospel, tells us how we can make a difference in the world around us, and how impossible it is to please God on our own.

Just as the Israelis were in the midst of a deep struggle to rebuild the temple at the writing of 2 Chronicles, so too we benefit from the promise of God\'s victory.

The Beatitudes (it means \'blessing\') are probably the most famous words Jesus uttered. They are also among the most mis-understood. To understand the Beatitudes we need to know Jesus person and His mission.

Solomon dedicates the temple, which turns into a celebration of God\'s love and the acknowledgment that it is through repentance, forgiveness, and restoration that we have a relationship with God.

One of the most difficult things for a Christian is to resist temptation. Satan brings temptations to us and tries to make it easy and logical for us to fulfill legitimate needs. Jesus shows us just how crafty he is, and how to resist.

In the temple we have a wonderful picture of how Jesus Christ won our salvation, from being washed for service as a priest to coming back out from the Holy of Holies to bring about our renewed fellowship with God.