A Life Transformed by a Facebook Video!

Richard was one of thousands of people in Ghana who prayed last year to make Jesus their Lord and Savior through our evangelistic outreaches. Richard is a young secondary school graduate in Ghana who follows Inspiration Ministries on social media. Life had been difficult for him in recent years, causing him to become frustrated and desperate for a change. One day, Richard happened to see…

New Beginnings

"In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord."—Leviticus 23:24–25 NASB Today at sundown begins the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish year. This inaugurates a 10-day period that ends with the Day of…

Give Your Heart to Jesus

Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life (Proverbs 4:23). We guard what is valued. Obviously, God wants us to realize the most important part of the body. He mentions the heart over 826 times, with 205 specific verses about the heart. Everything we do flows from the heart! It is for that reason that God wants us to pay special attention to matters concerning our…

My Lessons from Heaven: Angels and Miracles

Welcome to episode nine of Strengthen Your Walk™. I’m Dr. Mary Neal, author of the best-selling books To Heaven and Back and 7 Lessons from Heaven. In my last episode of Strengthen Your Walk™, I ended with my return to my broken body that was lying on the side of a South American river. My friends who had resuscitated me were both shocked and elated when I regained consciousness because I’d…

Trusting a Faithful God

Let’s face it: Sometimes life is hard. Often our circumstances are bewildering as we face challenges in our health, finances, emotions, relationships, or some other area of our lives. Even when we’ve faithfully obeyed God and Sown financial Seeds into His Kingdom, we often must wait for our Harvest to come. And even when we are walking in the favor of God, we sometimes undergo difficult…

‘God Healed My Husband’s Stroke!’

Rebecca, an Inspiration Partner in Phoenix, Arizona, heard a speaker teach about sowing seeds into God’s Kingdom with a “specific assignment,” or prayer request. She had never heard this Biblical teaching before. About a month later, she had an opportunity to put this principle into action when her husband, Brent, suffered a near-fatal stroke. “The doctors said Brent was unlikely to survive…

Growing a Mother’s Heart: Part 1

Rhonda Robinson: Karen, you are an author of 30 books, what inspired you to write Growing a Mother's Heart? Karen Whiting: Well, my children have become parents. That makes a big difference in looking back on what I've done, and seeing what they're doing. Also hearing all the time when people feel I'm not measuring up, I can't do this. It's not working. And that whole idea, I'm not always…

5 Simple Ways to Teach Kids About Money

I was blessed to grow up in a home where my siblings and I were taught wise money habits (would you really expect anything else from Dave Ramsey’s family?). And even though I didn’t always love the lessons on saving and budgeting as a kid, that knowledge set me up for success as an adult. Sadly, way too many kids today miss out on the value of financial education, and way too many adults still…

The Call That Saved Sylvia’s Life

Pregnant and suffering with mental illness, a young single mom wrote a suicide note to David Cerullo. Here’s how God used one phone call to save Sylvia’s life and her unborn baby. Sylvia, a young woman from Mississippi, had become a single mother at age 24 and suffered emotional pain from a life of much adversity. Then she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and began to rely on medication. But…

Patient, Not Arguing

"Anyone who teaches anything different … is simply ignorant … with a craze for questioning everything and arguing about words. All that can come of this is jealousy, contention, abuse, and wicked mistrust of one another; and unending disputes."—1 Timothy 6:3–5 TJB Paul warned Timothy to be aware of problems he might encounter in his ministry and interpersonal relationships. He would discover…