Praying Away the Spirit of Fear

Living with anxiety? Fear? Insecurity? The power of prayer can set you free from life-crippling fear and worry. Not too long ago, I was struggling so desperately with fear and insecurity, I thought I had lost my mind and was about to lose my ministry. Opportunities to speak and share were abounding, but for some reason I felt utterly paralyzed, immobilized, demoralized by a cloaking sense of…

The Key to an Artist’s Booming Sales

After hitting a difficult financial season, Christopher’s life changed when he took a step of faith while watching Inspiration Campmeeting. Christopher lives in the beautiful back roads of North Carolina, where he’s made a living selling incredible original paintings. But, as the winter approached, he knew his sales would drop to almost nothing. To make ends meet, he took care of his…

Love So Abundant

"The grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus."—1 Timothy 1:14 Like many Americans in the nineteenth century, Grant Colfax Tullar’s life was impacted by the American Civil War. His father was wounded in the Battle of Antietam and was unable to work. While Tullar was a child, his mother died, leading to the split-up of the family. In his youth, he…

The Favor Factor

Excerpt taken from The Favor Factor by David Cerullo A Life Without Fear In order to experience the fullness of God’s favor, you need to discover the “secret place” of intimacy with Him. In Psalm 91, the psalmist describes this amazing place and some of the benefits you’ll find when you learn to abide there: “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of…

My Lessons from Heaven: Everyone Has a Story

Hello, and welcome to episode three of Strengthen Your Walk. I’m Dr. Mary Neal, and today I’m going to talk about grace. In the last episode, I told you about my drowning death, and my decision to ask that God’s will be done. After my initial surprise at being held by Christ, I was taken through a life review that had nothing to do with judgment, but everything to do with grace. I watched as…

Hope for the Future

Hope is not just wishful thinking. Hope is a confident expectation in God and His Word. Hope is a beacon of light, a source of comfort, and endless inspiration. We’re told over and over again in the Bible to have hope and to place our hope in God, yet where do we get this elusive hope? We can’t just manufacture it ourselves. Divine hope is a gift of the Holy Spirit. He is the One who enables…

God-Shaped Hole

“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.” — Pascal Nobel prize winner in Literature Winston Churchill, was a connoisseur of fine words of the English language. His carefully selected words breathed beauty, and life, into his stories, a mosaic of experiences built on bravado…

God’s Word Changes Everything

Every victory and breakthrough in life begins with a word from the Lord. When He speaks, the power to fulfill His promise travels along with His words. His Word is never void of life-changing power, as we’re told in Isaiah 55:10-11 (NIV): As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for…

God’s Amazing Timing!

Do you trust in God’s perfect timing? Sometimes His timing involves patiently waiting, yet other times He meets our needs the same day we ask Him to! Susan, a partner of Inspiration Ministries, felt God nudge her to pledge a $58 seed for God to bring a harvest in her life. One harvest she needed was financial provision.  “I was short on money, but I knew I was supposed to pledge.”…

Our Past

"I thank Christ Jesus our Lord … He considered me faithful, putting me into service, even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief."—1 Timothy 1:12–13 NASB Paul was a model believer: devout, zealous, and a defender of the faith. Yet looking back, Paul realized he had been a “blasphemer,” and before…