by Bill Elliff
April 06, 2020
All of us are distressed. All know times of grief. But are you discharging your burden in the one place that will make a difference? To the Omnipotent One who rules heaven and earth? The Promise-Keeper and Way-Maker? The Creator of all of life?
He is a merciful God and will hear your prayer. And, you can trust Him to answer your desperation in the way that is right, regardless of when and what you think that answer should be. He knows what He’s about.
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by Bill Elliff
March 31, 2020
If you believe God answers prayer, you will pray often and experience all the benefits of that arrangement with Him. But, if for some reason you think that prayer is meaningless—a mere shout into the wind—you will never communicate with God. And, in so doing, you will miss everything that matters and lasts.
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by Bill Elliff
March 30, 2020
God is waiting on us to come to our senses and cry out to Him. If we will turn in humble repentance, He will hear our cry and send the deliverance we need. If we continue to look to ourselves with prideful self-sufficiency, He will let us go on in our feeble self-help program to bring us to the end of ourselves. We are made to live on God and in His perfect love for us, He will use whatever means necessary to remind us.
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by Bill Elliff
February 05, 2020
This is God. He hears, He listens, He is aware, He responds to those who call upon Him. The reason this account is here is to remind you of who God is—to build your faith to believe that the God who heard and answered the Israelite’s cries will hear and answer yours. He's done it for millions, and He will hear your cry right now.
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by Bill Elliff
January 10, 2020
God’s hearing is impeccable. Perfect in fact. He will hear you if you will cry to Him. And, He will answer. God heard Hagar’s affliction and told her to return to her home (which was the opposite direction). He promised to take care of her in the midst of her persecution and to bless her son.
When God responds to our affliction and answers, it may not be the answer we desire, but His directions in the midst of the problem are always right. That is why, when He speaks, we must instantly obey the promptings of His Spirit and the illumination of His Word.
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by Bill Elliff
December 02, 2019
What do you do when you are in crisis? When the people around you are suffering? Or rebelling? When the nation you live in is spiraling downward spiritually and under the righteous judgment of God?
If you scan the Bible, you will discover that the men God used had an immediate and singular response.
They prayed.
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by Bill Elliff
August 13, 2019
If you are a follower of Christ, God has called you to a great work. He has more to accomplish through you than you can possibly imagine. Your enemy knows this and is in the business of throwing thousands of distractions in your path over and over again to detour you so God’s work will be delayed and ultimately thwarted. Remember, he is not after you, but the work of God (which he hates) through you. Understand the power of an undistracted life.
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by Bill Elliff
August 09, 2019
We are in an unbelievably precarious position as a nation. The recent mass shoots are the rumblings of the volcano before the eruption. They are warnings of revolt. We have been here before, but we are now reaching a political and ideological division that could easily and quickly lead into civil war that could ravage our nation and cause irreparable damage across the world.
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by Bill Elliff
August 06, 2019
We can know the mind of God because He now lives in us! And we can speak the truths of God to others because He can speak through us! This is being “conformed to the image of His Son” and the greatest joy of the Christian life!
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by Bill Elliff
July 24, 2019
Just think of glorious mercy of this! We are burdened and humanly incapable of knowing how to even pray. The Spirit picks up that burden, takes it to the Father on our behalf and the Spirit prays that prayer perfectly because He is going to bring it in accordance with God’s will.
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by Bill Elliff
June 03, 2019
These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer (Acts 1:14)
Prayer is the foundation for all of life. Imagine the emotions and sense of fear and expectancy when Christ had been resurrected, appeared to His disciples, and then ascended. They were instructed to merely wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit who would endue them with power to be witnesses to Christ all across the world (Acts 1:8).
So, what did they do?
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by Bill Elliff
April 01, 2019
Jesus was always going "up on the mountain" or "away into the wilderness" to pray. Don’t try to convince God of your busy-ness as an excuse for prayerlessness. Time was no obstacle to Jesus’ prayer life. It was always the priority.
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