Words are powerful and that goes for the words we say to ourselves all the time. Do an online search for "affirmations" and in 30 seconds, you'll have 245 million results. We have ourselves convinced that speaking positive words to ourselves or over ourselves will...
How often do you find yourself saying "I can't wait until…" I can't wait until I graduate. I can't wait until I get married. I can't wait until I get a raise! Anticipating the future and looking forward to achieving goals is exciting. But, constantly pinning all our...
Do you ever feel like giving up? One of our listeners wrote saying that he had prayed about something and that God did not answer his prayer, so he was just giving up on the idea. Perhaps you, too, are wondering about the validity of God's promises. Everyone at some...
With all the turmoil across our nation and around the globe, you and I need to shine the bright light of the Gospel more than ever before. CBN’s guiding mandate is from Matthew 24:14, to preach the Gospel in all the world—and that includes the world’s children. We can...
A young man who grabbed a watch in the open market and stuffed it in his jeans was arrested and taken before a judge and charged with theft. “How do you plead?” asked the judge. “Innocent,” replied the young man. But because of some confusion resulting from the...
In Russia and Slovak countries, when someone is converted, he doesn’t speak of being saved or even born again. He says, “I repented!” And that act of repentance has both a public and a private side. Publicly the individual has to acknowledge his sin and wrongdoing,...
If you had been falsely accused of a sex crime you didn't commit and had been thrown in prison with no real hope for release, and you could have three wishes, what would you ask for? I suspect you would ask for: 1) Your freedom, 2) Your identity as a person, as...
“Is there a way to get more faith? I don’t seem to be able to get all the answers I need. I feel like I don’t have enough power. My Christian life seems weak.” Does that describe your life? Jesus often spoke of faith. One day the apostles said to Him, “Increase our...
When difficulties come, on what do you focus? Some look back. They are the ones who try to drive looking in the rearview mirror. Their thoughts are consumed with two questions which, like a broken record, play over and over again: “What if?” or “If only?” “What if I...
Charles Spurgeon called him "The Iron Prophet!" Ahab, the king of Israel, called him "the troubler of Israel" (1 Kings 18:17). His contemporaries called him things even a great deal less complimentary. His name, Elijah, meant "Yahweh is God," or "Jehovah is God," and...