By Zac Poonen As we begin a new year, let us determine to run the race ahead of us with endurance, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our Faith. (Hebrews 12:1, 2). We look to Him and run. We don’t stand still. The race of faith...
By Zac Poonen As we come to the end of a year, perhaps there are some who feel that because they have sinned and failed God at some time in their past lives, therefore they cannot fulfill God’s perfect plan for their lives now. Let us look at what the...
By Zac Poonen In Numbers 22 to 24, we read the story of Balaam. There is an important passage here that concerns a number of matters. When King Balak invited Balaam the prophet to come and curse Israel, Balaam sought the will of God. And God clearly told Balaam not...
By Zac Poonen 1. Believing that God has a perfect plan for each of our lives: “We are created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Eph.2:10). Long ago, when God chose us in Christ, He also planned what we should...
By Zac Poonen 1. Jesus Became Sin in Order to Make Us Righteous: “God made Christ Who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21). Christ became sin for us so that we might become the...
By Zac Poonen In Numbers 13 we find that the Israelites came to Kadesh Barnea at the border of Canaan – the land that God had promised them. It was now two years since they left Egypt (Deut.2:14), and God told them to go in and posses the land. The...
By Zac Poonen The Holy Spirit has come to bring the atmosphere of heaven into our hearts. Under the old covenant, they could only have laws that enabled them to live a life that was very righteous compared to the life of the rest of humanity. But now, we have...
By Zac Poonen It is written in Jonah 3:1 “Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time”. Praise the Lord that when we fail once, the Lord gives us a second chance. That is one of the great messages that comes to us from the book...
By Zac Poonen In Ezekiel 7:9, we see a title of the Lord that many people may not like to hear: ‘The Lord the Smiter,’ the One who punishes with judgement. In Ezekiel 8, the Lord showed Ezekiel the idolatry that was going on inside the temple which was why...
By Zac Poonen In the book of Daniel, we see the beginning of the movement of God’s people from Babylon to Jerusalem. This is a type of what we see today of God-fearing people moving out from compromising Christendom to God’s new covenant church, responding to God’s call that says,...