When Angie and I first moved into our home in West Monroe more than 22 years ago Luke was 2, Miracle & Mariah were only 4 months old and requiring a lot of medical attention. (Mikalen was in the oven and we didn’t even know it!) Great care was taken to situate the furniture, place family pictures on the walls, and decorate each room. A house becomes a home with time and love poured into establishing a pleasant environment.
Does being a Christian mean your home will automatically be blessed and protected? Absolutely not! What should you do to be certain your home is a spiritually safe place for your family? You go to the Master Builder, Jesus Christ, and see what He has promised in the Bible.
God’s Word is filled with promises of protection abound, but there is one place where they are all jam-packed in a single chapter: Psalm 91. Psalm 91 is the Lord’s covenant for divine protection. It covers every danger—sickness, disease, assault, crime, tornadoes, fire and any other threat to your safety and well-being.
It’s exciting to have the assurance that you can live in the shelter of Psalm 91 with safety and build an environment in your home that forces Satan to get out and stay out! But like any of the Lord’s promises, you have a responsibility to receive the promises of Psalm 91 by faith.
Here are some FAITH BUILDING TOOLS that will help you build a Psalm 91 house.
“Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.” –Psalm 91:1
You exist in two atmospheres, one is physical and the other spiritual. An atmosphere is defined as “a pervading or surrounding influence or spirit, general mood or environment.” In Genesis 1, the earth’s atmosphere was dark and empty—until God spoke. The spiritual atmosphere of God didn’t just all of the sudden happen to appear. God filled the atmosphere with what He wanted to take up that space.
We to have a spiritual atmosphere in our homes that we can ignite with the power of the Holy Spirit, or leave blank for anything or anyone to move into. The latter is devastating ! If we fail to keep our spiritual guard up, then we wear ourselves out continuously fighting unnecessary battles.
How can you flood your atmosphere? Try these simple, but powerful, ideas at home:
- Download the entire Bible on an MP3 player or your smartphone. Hook it up to small desktop speakers and put it in the main living space of your home. Set it to play continuously and let it run on low volume 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No matter where you are or what you’re doing, God’s Word is being spoken into the atmosphere of your home!
- Listen to or watch one of my messages in your home. You can order a DVD/CD combo set of my message, RECEIVING A MIRACLE IN THE MIDST OF YOUR STORM, that will help build your faith level to receive the miracle you need! To order, click here.
- Play worship music softly throughout the day.
- Speak the Word of God out loud throughout your day.
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“He is my refuge and my fortress….” –Psalm 91:2, NKJV
Romans 12:2 tells us not to be conformed to this world and its ways. Media choices like television shows, movies, and music that promote fear, worry, infidelity, divorce, anger, and sexual immorality are in opposition to God’s Word and weaken the protection around you, your home, and your family.
When you take refuge in God, you remove yourself from those ungodly influences. Ask God, according to Psalm 119:37, to turn your eyes from worthless distractions and help you clean your atmosphere of all that is not pleasing to Him.
Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him…” Psalm 91:14, NKJV
Have you ever walked into a room and felt tension so thick, you could almost cut it with a knife wanted to run? The wrong spirit was most certainly to blame. James 3:16 says, “For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there” (NKJV).
When you love God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength, you will desire to love others as He loves them. However, if you don’t walk in love, you are walking into the devil’s territory. Strife, unforgiveness, rebellion, and pride are all the devil’s tools used to come into your home and stir up strife. Satan’s goal is to divide and destroy your home.
It is extremely expensive to allow the “luxury” of a few quarrels or to permit your children to rebel and talk back to you. When you do, you are inviting an ungodly spirit to operate in your home. On the other hand, the power of agreement is a supernatural, miracle-working power!
So, make up your mind to stop any attitudes or situations that cause destruction. When any ungodly spirit tries to raise its nasty head in your home, deal with it immediately. Say, “Spirit of strife, unforgiveness, pride and rebellion, get out of my home in the Name of Jesus!”
“A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.” –Psalm 91:7, NKJV
The world around you—even other Christians —seem to struggle with continuous sickness and tragedy. But under God’s promise of protection, those evils will not harm you. When you stand in faith for Psalm 91 protection, you will see those around you falling, but that evil won’t come near you.
One way to appropriate your faith for supernatural protection is to anoint your home with oil. Oil represents the power of the Holy Spirit and is a symbol of faith in God’s ability to purify and make holy. It is an act of dedicating your home to Jesus.
Anoint the frame of every door in your home. As you do, pray and invite the Holy Spirit to fill every inch of your home in every room. Pray that only His will be done and that everything that is said and done in your home will be pleasing to Him.
“And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.” –Isaiah 10:27, NKJV
“No evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home.” –Psalm 91:10
There is power in the blood of Jesus! In 1 Peter 1:18-19, we find that we were redeemed from the curse with the precious blood of Christ. So, when the devil tries to reek havoc in our lives, we overcome him by the blood of the Lamb (Revelation 12:11).
In Luke 10:19, Jesus shows us how to appropriate His blood, “I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy.” So, we plead Jesus’ precious blood over our families, our property, and our possessions.
Shortly after Angie and I moved to West Monroe we quickly realized that the T-intersection where we lived was very dangerous. In a short period of time, 14 vehicles had crashed in our front yard. With small children, these wrecks on our property were not acceptable! One crash at 4 AM resulted in the driver unconscious with his gas pedal pressed to the floor close to our front porch. God and the fact that the tire of the car was propped off the ground are the two things that kept them from ending up in our living room!
I said, “Enough devil! You can’t kill my family!” I walked our property line, pleading the blood of Jesus. By faith I drew a blood line of protection around our property.
There has not been one single accident that resulted in a vehicle landing in our yard since I pled Jesus blood over our land 22 years ago!
In prayer and faith, you can plead the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and draw a blood line around your property, your vehicles, your children’s schools and your workplace.
“He will order His angels to protect you wherever you go.” –Psalm 91:11
One way God carries out your deliverance and your protection is through angels. You have angels at your service. You could employ a hundred natural men for your security, but they would be limited by natural circumstances. However, angels operate under the direction of Jesus (1 Peter 3:22), and one of their duties is working on behalf of the children of God. Angels are real and powerful! As a Christian they are an important part of your life.
Let me encourage you to dispatch angels around you, your family members, your home, your vehicles, and any building you walk into. Say, “Ministering angels, I send you forth to protect my family according to Psalm 91.” Believe God that it will happen!
His truth shall be your shield….” Psalm 91:4, NKJV
The Word of God is ammunition, a sharp sword (Hebrews 4:12), so when we pray the Word, we pray, expecting to hit the bulls-eye!
Pray Psalm 91 for protection over your home and family. Commit it to memory, and make it a part of your heart and spirit. Put a copy somewhere in your home as a reminder of God’s commitment of protection. You can even pray something as simple as, “I pray Psalm 91 protection over my home and family today.”
Put these faith building tools to work in your life and home, and watch the dynamic power of Psalm 91 build a hedge of spiritual thorns and a wall of fire around your family that cannot be touched! The Word of God cannot be penetrated and Satan cannot stand against it!!! The Bible always produces fruit and accomplishes all it says it will do (Isaiah 55:11). Have faith in God and relax in the protection and provision that only Jesus can accomplish!!!
YOUR GIFT WILL MAKE AN ETERNAL SPIRITUAL IMPACT IN THE LIFE OF A PRISONER
When you partner with Revival Fires, you are providing Bibles for, and helping to lead, incarcerated men and women on a journey toward freedom in Christ.
I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. (Matthew 25:36)
Let me introduce you to Eric…
Eric’s story is one of redemption through the tool of our popular Truth for Youth Bible. After being sentenced to a Youth Denton center for armed robbery, Eric felt hopeless―as if his life had no meaning. Until one day, he received a copy of the Truth for Youth Bible and made the decision to choose God’s plan for his life over his own. He contacted us and we have been providing him with discipleship materials that are helping him learn about the Lord and how to be successful in all areas of his life. Now released from prison, Eric is living out his new life purpose. He is a loving husband, a businessman, and an active member of his church.
Through your support of Revival Fires, you can help transform the lives of men and women behind bars―just like Eric. You can give them a second chance and help them find true freedom in Christ by providing them a copy of the Truth for Youth Bible.
Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them. (Hebrews 13:3)
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- Our revival services and upcoming evangelistic crusades. We are witnessing more people give their hearts to Christ, get filled with the Spirit, healed, delivered and set on fire for God than in the history of the ministry God has called us to!
- Truth for Youth Bible distribution to America’s young people that commit to give them to their unsaved friends in school.
- Bible distribution to the adults and youth of Cuba that have never had a Bible.
- Bible distribution and ministry in the men, women and youth incarcerated in America’s prisons.
- Bible distribution to our US soldiers defending America in the war on terror.
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With God’s leading, we plan to bring The Truth for Youth Bible distribution among young people and adults that are incarcerated in America’s juvenile detention centers, prisons and jails to a higher level than ever before. Over the past 20 years we have received more than 8000 requests for Truth for Youth Bibles from incarnated young people and adults, or requests from their family members for the Bibles to be sent to them in prison. We have NEVER turned down a request!!! We always send them Bibles and thankfully we have special permission to distribute Truth for Youth Bibles in America’s correctional facilities. There is a desperate need for Bibles among inmates and yet there are not a lot of churches that are effectively reaching into the prisons.
However, many pastors have little contact with those who have been incarcerated. Half of pastors say no one from their congregation has been jailed in the past three years. A third have seen one or two people from their church go to jail. One in six say three or more attendees have been jailed at that time. About a third of pastors say no former inmates attend their church, one or two former inmates attend, or three or more former inmates attend.
We include the plan of salvation in each of the comic stories in the Truth for Youth Bible so that not only with the prison inmates find out the truth about the moral issues we deal with in the stories, but they will also find out how to give their life to Jesus Christ! Thankfully, we receive decision cards on a daily basis from incarcerated young people and adults. When these inmates make Jesus the Lord of their life while they are in prison it makes the difference with regard to keeping them from returning to prison and living a productive and fruitful life!
Incarceration rates in the United States remain at record levels. More than 2.2 million Americans are held in state and federal prisons or local jails, according to the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. That’s more than any other nation in the world!
These are messy, long-term ministries. You really have to demonstrate biblical faithfulness to be involved with them. It’s a lot easier to pick a ministry where there are quick rewards, but you miss out on the opportunity to impact families and communities.
Jesus said in Matthew 25:36, “I was in prison, and you came to me.” Let me encourage you to prayerfully consider getting involved financially with helping us provide the Truth for Youth Bibles we will give away to incarcerated youth and adults in America’s youth detention centers, jails, and prisons. The Truth for Youth cost our ministry only $2 each to print and we will give away at least 25,000 Truth for Youth Bibles, ($50,000) in our prisons. Your prayerful consideration is greatly appreciated!
Yes, Jesus came to be a glorious light in a darkened world; He came to bring hope to everyone. Jesus is the light of the world and a gift to us from God. He was sent to the world to save us from sin and eternal damnation. He was sent to us, as the most amazing gift from God. “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
If you have family members that have never trusted in Christ as their Savior, they are in darkness and the shadow of death. The good news, however, is that God is merciful to all sinners. That is why Jesus came to earth as a baby. Continually pray for your unsaved family and friends to ask Him to guide them into the way of peace. Pray fervently, believing God for them to repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. As they submit to Christ they will know His tender mercy that forgives them of all their sins just as He has forgiven you of your sins. Then, they will know the real meaning of Christmas.
In 2018 we were blessed with the privilege to preach in 321 services in 47 churches here in the United States in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas resulting in hundreds of people being saved, filled with the Spirit, healed, delivered and SET ON FIRE FOR GOD!!!
So thankful for all of the young people who are giving their hearts to the Lord as a result of receiving the Truth for Youth Bible. We were so blessed to give away thousands of TFY Bibles again this year during our 18th Annual National Truth for Youth Bible Week on American Family Radio and in revival services across the nation.
We have been providing Truth for Youth Bibles for prison inmates across America at a higher level in 2018 than in any previous year. There are approximately 6.6 million inmates in adult correctional facilities and more than 70,800 young people incarcerated in juvenile facilities. Each year there are approximately 500,000 youth brought to detention centers! The Lord has given us an inroad to provide a Truth for Youth Bible for the youth that are coming in and out of these juvenile detention centers across America!
What an awesome move of the Holy Spirit took place during our third evangelistic crusade in Cuba. With the permission of the Cuban government, we were honored to give away thousands of full Bibles to the people of Cuba who have never had a Bible and witness thousands come to the Lord.
In another service, a teenage young man trapped in the bondage of homosexuality was saved and gloriously set free by the power of the Holy Spirit!!! I was so thankful to be able to present him with a copy of the Truth for Youth Bible. As you may know, the Truth for Youth Bible consists of the entire New Testament along with 100 pages of full color graphic novels in the front section that deal with the truth about things that young people are facing every day. One of the graphic novels deals with the truth about homosexual perversion. This was very helpful to this young man coming out of the perverted lifestyle of homosexuality.
Cuba’s Department of Religious Affairs, the Cuban Bible Council and the Cuban Council of Churches have all given their approval for Revival Fires to distribute one million FULL Bibles to the people in Cuba that have never had a Bible! In addition, we have also been given permission to give away our BRAND NEW CUBAN SPANISH Truth for Youth Bible to the 1.4 million teenagers in Cuba! Please continue to pray that God will give us wisdom as He strategically positions us to complete this vitally important mission as we will be back in Cuba for evangelistic crusades and Bible distribution in 2019!
In January 2019, the Lord willing, we will be privileged to preach the Gospel in an evangelistic crusade just outside of Melbourne, Australia for the third time. In our two previous Australia Crusades, we have witnessed a tremendous outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The altars have been full in every service as people gave their hearts to Christ and receiving victory in every way possible. We distributed Truth for Youth Bibles to all young people in attendance.
In just a few short days we will celebrate Thanksgiving. It is a shame that we have only one day set aside each year to give thanks to God as a nation. We should have some time set aside each day, to give our praise to Him who has blessed us so richly.
As God’s people, we should focus our thoughts, not only now but often, on the goodness of God and offer our gratitude to Him for who He is and for all He has done for us.
This is a prayer of nothing but praise to God. There is no supplication, no request, no petition or plea in this prayer. It is pure unadulterated praise to God. David was awestruck with God’s blessings. We are not told the circumstances in which David received this Psalm, but it is not difficult to imagine how it happened. Looking at his life, counting his blessings instead of complaining about his burdens, it dawned on David just how much God had done for him. He realized how good God had been and how undeserving he was of all these blessings. Springing up from the depths of his heart and gushing out onto his parchment came this prayer of praise, expressing his gratitude toward the Lord.
These words were not dry and stale when David sang them. They were full of life and energy. They were part of his worship. You remember that David danced when he worshiped God. Remember that one of his wives, Michal, did not approve and criticized him, and God made her barren for her criticism. Now a guy who dances when he worships God, would not be dry as he sang this song. It would not be sung like he was at a funeral. This was a song of praise. David sang it with joy and with a deep desire to let God and everyone who could hear, know just how much he really wanted God to receive praise and glory. The psalms are filled with these kinds of praise songs.
Psalm 66:1 – 4: “Shout joyfully to God, all the earth! Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious. Say to God, ‘How awe-inspiring are Your works! Your enemies will cringe before you because of your great strength. All the earth will worship You and sing praise to You. They will sing praise to Your name.'”
One of the names of the devil is the accuser of the brethren. In Job we see him going before God to accuse Job. We have every reason to believe that he goes before God even now to accuse us. He says, “Look at what he said. Look at what she did. These people of yours are sinners. How can they say they really love you and continue to act like they do?” He does not have to lie about us when he comes before the Lord, for God would not permit it. No, there are enough faults in all of our lives that the devil simply has to point out the obvious.
Verse 3b – who heals all your diseases – remember that he is addressing his soul. So what kind of healing is he speaking of here?
How many people waste the years of their lives on things that, in the long run, really don’t count? They spend their days in pursuit of the temporal passing things, and wake up one day, empty, tired and feeling like there is no use going on. In fact, they end up feeling betrayed because the things they worked so hard to obtain failed to bring them the satisfaction for which they longed. The world does not offer any hope for meaningful living. Money, material, power, position, things, won’t do it.
Clearly, the need of the hour is Holy Ghost Revival Fire! We need the real thing – a spiritual awakening to sweep through our slumbering congregations and put us back on our knees before the living Lord. The word revival conjures up different pictures to different people. If you have lived in the South as I do, a revival means a week-long series of meetings at the church held by a powerful evangelist wearing a three-piece suit. Each of these “revival” meetings is primarily designed to reach unbelievers for Christ. I personally have been on the evangelistic field preach revival services for over 31 years and we have witnessed thousands of people surrender their heart and life to Christ.
Charles Finney, the revivalist of the early nineteenth century, defined revival as “a new beginning of obedience.” Simply put, it is a new humility. A new closeness to God. A new passion for Christ. A new love for God. A new desire for holiness. A fresh new baptism in the Holy Ghost! That’s what real revival is! It is a sovereign and mysterious work of God, just as the new birth is. It cannot be coerced, nor manipulated. It is a supernatural work of God in His church that restores her lost purity, devotion, and power. Revival restores to full health the spiritual life that is already present in the church. It is the renewing, purifying, replenishing work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church.
How can we wake up? How can we have revival in the church and in our lives? How can we stop playing church and have the real thing? Revival begins with the ministry of the Word of God. It begins with the preaching of the Word of God to the church under the anointing of the Holy Ghost! Why is that so important? Because the Scriptures are full of the life of God (! Peter 1:23; John 6:63). And if we are to have God’s life within the church revived, then God’s Word – which is “living” and “active” (Hebrews 4:12) – must invade our lives. Like produces like. The Word of God revives the life of God in His people.
It is the Word of God – preached, heard, applied, and obeyed – that brings Revival Fire to the hearts of God’s people. That’s exactly what Psalm 119 tells us. Revival comes when the Word of God invades our lives, searches our hearts, and produces holiness. The psalmist says, “Revive me according to Thy word” (verse 25). He pleaded, “Revival me in Thy ways” (verse 37). “Thy ways” is a synonym for the Word of God because it points out the way we are to take. Again he says, “Revive me through Thy righteousness” (verse 40). “Thy righteousness” is another synonym for God’s Word because it defines right and wrong. Also, “I will never forget Thy precepts, for by them Thou hast revived me” (verse 93). Finally, “Revive me according to Thy word” (verse 154).
Many things today have been offered to replace biblical preaching. Some of them – musicals, Christian talk shows, movies, and drama – have a place in the church. But they should never be allowed to replace the preaching of the Word of God. The need of the hour is for the powerful, Holy Ghost anointed preaching of the Word of God! Think about this, God only had one son, and He made Him a preacher (Mark 1:14).
Cuba’s churches may still be restricted, but that’s not stopping a spiritual Revival Fire in the communist nation. The churches in Cuba are thriving right now. All of them are growing, not just in the number of members but in their capacity to lead and act in society.
For many years the Cuban government has not allowed churches or other religious groups to build houses of worship or other structures. This has inadvertently sparked the growth of house churches which Cuban believers have multiplied with great success. However, recently, because of a close connection with Pastor Hernandez Salazar in Havana, Cuba, Revival Fires has been granted permission to help build large facilities for the purpose of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ all over the country of Cuba!
Pastor Salazar now oversees more than 250 on fire for God churches that are making an eternal, spiritual impact in the entire nation of Cuba! We have already helped Pastor Salazar build a church in Santa Clara and a church in Cein Fuegos.
Across the country, we have experienced, and are currently experiencing, miraculous moves of God. Currently, revival fires are sweeping across America in our revival services!
We are seeing more miracles happen by accident than we ever used to have on purpose. When the glory of God begins to come into the room, I’m not going to stop that to preach. I don’t have anything that important to say. The preaching of the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Ghost is extremely important, however, to me, it’s all about His presence.