By Zac Poonen The root cause of all our spiritual problems lies in our not knowing God as our Almighty Loving Father. One truth that has revolutionized my Christian life is the glorious revelation that Jesus gave us that the Father loves Jesus’ disciples just as He loved Jesus. Jesus...
By Zac Poonen In Deuteronomy 6:4-5, we read, “The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!” And Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all you might. We don’t worship three Gods. God is one in three Persons....
By Zac Poonen It is written in Exodus 12:40, “The time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.” However when God spoke to Abraham, He had told him that his descendants would be in another land for just 400 years (Genesis 15:13). But here we read...
By Zac Poonen In 2 Corinthians 9:6, Apostle Paul talks about the subject of giving. He says that if we are miserly in our giving, we will reap proportionately too. If you sow just a little bit of seed, you will get only a small harvest. If you sow plenty...
By Zac Poonen The thirtieth year seems to be a very significant time in people’s lives – both in the Old and New Testaments. Joseph was 30 when he became ruler in Egypt. By the time Joseph was 17, God had already revealed to Joseph in dreams that he had...
By Zac Poonen 1. Have a Large Heart Two expressions that never occur in the book of Amos are ‘the God of Israel’ and ‘the Holy One of Israel.’ This was because Amos saw God as the God of all nations, and not just the God of Israel. He quotes...
By Zac Poonen 2 Corinthians 3:18 is the one verse that best describes the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the entire New Testament. When the Holy Spirit becomes Lord in our lives, He brings liberty. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (verse 17). He frees...
By Zac Poonen In John’s gospel, Jesus used the symbol of water to describe three levels of spiritual development possible through the Holy Spirit: Level 1: In John 3:5, He spoke of being “born of water and the Spirit”. This is “the cup of salvation” (Psa.116:13), with which we begin...
By Zac Poonen In Revelation 2 and 3, when we look at the five messengers and churches that are rebuked by the Lord we see in them a definite downward trend: (1) In Ephesus, we see the loss of first love for the Lord. When we lose our devotion for...
By Zac Poonen “I came down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me” (John.6:38). Jesus tells us here in His own words what He came on earth to do. And in this one sentence we have a description of how Jesus...