By Zac Poonen We read in Judges chapter 6, that God raised up Gideon to be the deliverer for Israel. “The Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon” (Judges 6:34 margin). The Holy Spirit came on Gideon like the clothes he wore. Then Gideon was empowered and he blew the trumpet...
By Zac Poonen ‘Deuteronomy’ means ‘a second law.’ This is because there is a repetition here of many important aspects of the law. There is also a repetition of many matters that were already written in the earlier books of Moses. We should not be disturbed by repetition. Repetition is...
By Zac Poonen It is written about Jesus that He kept His Father always before Him, and therefore His heart was always glad. He had “fullness of joy”, and the Father was always at Jesus’ right hand to support Him (Acts 2:25, 26, quoting Psa.16:10,11). So, keep the Lord in front of you at...
By Zac Poonen Let me share with you concerning the divine exchange that took place on Calvary’s cross in three areas – What Jesus became for us and what we can now become in Him as a result. (1) Christ became sin for us that we might become the righteousness...
By Zac Poonen Discernment As we approach the end of time, there will be more and more of the operation of the Holy Spirit in the church. Deceiving spirits also will operate more and more in the world. So we must watch out for the following, if we are to...
By Zac Poonen The great commission the Lord gave us was “to evangelise” (Mark 16:15) and then “to make them into disciples and teach them to do everything He commanded” (Matthew 28:19, 20). Consider an illustration: If you saw 100 people carrying a log of wood, with 99 of them...
By Zac Poonen Deuteronomy means ‘a second law.’ This is because there is a repetition here of many important aspects of the law. We can divide this book in two ways. We can divide it first of all, as three speeches that Moses gave: 1. First speech (Chapters 1 to...
By Zac Poonen In Luke 2:40,52, we read that Jesus grew in wisdom from His childhood. Even though we expect young people to do foolish things, because they are young, yet Jesus never did anything foolish, when he was young. Let us make Jesus our example and we will be...
By Zac Poonen The distinguishing feature of God’s house is self-judgment (1 Pet.4:17) – a self-judgment that is the result of living before God’s face. Isaiah, Job and John all saw their own nothingness and sin when they saw God (See Isa.6:5; Job 42:5,6; Rev.1:17). When Adam and Eve violated...
By Zac Poonen Let us look at four characteristics of the Spirit-filled life from the life of the Apostle Paul. 1. Perfect Contentment: The Spirit-filled life is, first of all, a life of perfect contentment. In Philippians 4:11, Paul says, “In whatever state I am, I am content.” And such...