Daily Encouragement

I can just hear some of you saying in your mind; “Come on John … do I really need to be praying for purity every single day?”  My short answer is; “Well, yeah!!!”  There are many things we do on [...]

Yesterday we looked at the bad news about praying for purity and what might be blocking those prayers.  If we are cherishing sexual sin in our hearts God will not hear our prayers because we are [...]

I see in the Scriptures an invaluable truth when it comes to knowing what to pray in regard to our sexual brokenness and an insight that we need to take very seriously.  So, which do you want [...]

Have you lost hope in your battle for purity against porn and sex?  Have you thought; “God must not be hearing my prayers or is not answering me because of my sin. Perhaps He has abandoned me [...]

Have you ever heard of a “White Glove Inspection?”  It is when someone comes to the place that you are responsible for cleaning and meticulously and painstakingly inspects your place down to the [...]

I do not understand why the next few verses are in this Psalm, yet they are there nonetheless.  David has told us great things about our Good Father.  He is always with us. He knows everything [...]

In 1967 Frankie Valli put out the song “Can’t take my Eyes off You.”  It was a huge hit and became a gold record. It’s about a boy who is in love and he cannot stop looking at this girl he loves. [...]

When I was around the age of 9, some strange things began to happen to my body.  I noticed that I kept feeling a compulsion to jerk my head.  It was kind of like a quick nod that was a jerk or a [...]

I remember the time when my older brother and his friends tried to “ditch” me.  I was the dumb little brother, and he did not want me hanging around with him so they outran me in the neighborhood [...]

I can remember the first time I read Psalm 139. I was a new Christian and was sitting in my car in a parking lot in Washington DC. One assignment you were asked to do was to read this Psalm.  It [...]