Life At Its Best

We are all called to a deep level of intimate, loving, trusting, heartfelt communion with God, our Father. In the Old Testament worshippers entered the gates of the tabernacle, went into the Holy Place and the high priest went into the Most Holy Place to connect with...

The fundamental truth that should undergird our entire experience as believers is that we’re a new creation. I may be the same person, but now my spirit is alive to God. I have the constant witness of the Holy Spirit that I’m a child of God. This process begins when...

So much of our prayer time isn’t based on New Covenant truth; it focuses on the problem instead of the solution and it doesn’t influence our hearts. Making all of our prayers, confession and praise and worship present tense, positive and personal resolves all those...

Before Jesus taught us how to pray He taught us how not to pray! Despite these warnings, it seems that much of our prayer life involves doing the very things He said not to do. First, Jesus said not to pray to be seen by others. This doesn’t mean we can’t pray...

Our concept of asking God isn’t even close to what the biblical phrase means. We aren’t attempting to move God to action; He isn’t resistant to helping us. The person who asks without knowing the answer isn’t praying in faith. But in the context of prayer, the problem...

One of our self-imposed limitations to understanding and experiencing life in Jesus is the attempt to understand spiritual truth with carnal logic. We read God’s Word looking for formulas and rules completely missing the larger picture: the opportunity to see and know...

There are many differences between Old and New Covenant prayer, none of which can be understood unless we start by recognizing the difference in the covenants. The Old Covenant was made between God and Israel and the New Covenant is between God and Jesus. One had to...

The word “authority” means “the right” to do something. Power is the ability to do something. God gave the human race the authority to rule Planet Earth. Sin corrupted the use of authority and the wicked tended to use it more than the righteous; thus, the world became...

The Old Testament gives us a picture, example and model of how to and how not to do many things. We should certainly follow the example of setting ourselves apart during times of prayer and we should, be all means, expect miraculous results from our prayer, but we...

There are a couple of ways to overcome this confusion: follow what Jesus taught and find out what prayer is. The Hebrew word for prayer is a compound word that means “to judge and reconcile.” Because we only have a negative concept of the word “judge” we miss the...