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The Fallacy of Full-Time Christian Work
- by: Os Hillman
- March 19, 2024
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” – Colossians 3:23-24 “I didn’t know you were in full-time Christian work,” said my
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Discerning the Work of God
- by: Os Hillman
- March 18, 2024
“Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who have been trying to intimidate me.” – Nehemiah 6:14 Nehemiah set out to rebuild the wall at Jerusalem that had been destroyed. Nehemiah held a position in the Persian Empire
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A Refiner’s Fire
- by: Os Hillman
- March 17, 2024
“For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.” – Malachi 3:2b The Lord has a specific manner of preparing His people for useful service. God desires to turn His children from rough, hard-edged stones into gems of gold and silver. “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He
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Death and Birth of a Vision
- by: Os Hillman
- March 16, 2024
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” – John 12:24 Almost every significant thing God births He allows to die before the vision is fulfilled in His own way. -Abraham had a
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Following Only the Father’s Commands
- by: Os Hillman
- March 15, 2024
“Jesus gave them this answer: ‘I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.’” – John 5:19 Have you ever thought about a typical day in Jesus’ life? Perhaps He might have had
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The First Requirement of Ministry
- by: Os Hillman
- March 14, 2024
“The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the Lord.” – Joel 1:9b The first requirement for being used by God in the life of others is to mourn on their behalf. We must identify with their pain and suffering. Each of us must be broken for others first. In order to be fully
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Obeying the Spirit of God
- by: Os Hillman
- March 13, 2024
“Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Go south to the road – the desert road – that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’” – Acts 8:26 Philip was conducting what we might today call a revival meeting. God was blessing the meeting, and many were being healed and delivered from demonic influence.
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Understanding the Source of Anger
- by: Os Hillman
- March 12, 2024
“A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.” – Proverbs 29:11 The workplace can be a pressure-packed world. The demands that are often put on us can bring out things that we never knew were there. Sometimes we begin to think that the source of that pressure
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Suffering for the Salvation of Another
- by: Os Hillman
- March 11, 2024
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.” – Matthew 5:11 Recently, a friend told a true story about one of his closest friends who experienced great suffering for the soul of his persecutor. This man worked on a cargo ship. His
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When God Restores What the Locusts Eat
- by: Os Hillman
- March 10, 2024
“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten – the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm – My great army that I sent among you.” – Joel 2:25 There are seasons in our lives that involve times of famine and times of restoration. Solomon tells
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Confidence in Numbers
- by: Os Hillman
- March 9, 2024
“David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the Lord, ‘I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O Lord, I beg You, take away the guilt of Your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.’” – 2 Samuel 24:10 It just seems to be human
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Faith Versus Presumption
- by: Os Hillman
- March 8, 2024
“So she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.’ Abram agreed to what Sarai said.” – Genesis 16:2 Presumption is based on our own reasoning. Abraham and Sarah fell into presumption when they got too old to have
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Living for a Cause Greater Than Yourself
- by: Os Hillman
- March 7, 2024
“I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.” – Philippians 4:13 In the thirteenth century a man named William Wallace became the instrument of freedom from England’s tyranny over Scotland. A very wicked king ruled England. A tragedy in the life of William Wallace launched him into living for this cause. Initially his
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The Depth and Width of Your Calling
- by: Os Hillman
- March 6, 2024
“If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.” – 2 Corinthians 1:6 “God must love you a lot! He doesn’t allow someone to go through the kinds of adversity you have
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Striving Versus Abiding
- by: Os Hillman
- March 5, 2024
“Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain.” – Psalm 127:1a What does it mean for the Lord to build the house? It almost seems a contradiction when we consider that we might be the builders in this passage. God wants us to allow Him to build the house. He explains further:
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Knowledge + Action = Faith
- by: Os Hillman
- March 4, 2024
“For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.” – Hebrews 4:2 The people of Israel were called out of the bondage of Egyptian slavery. God said they would
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Forgiveness Ensures Freedom
- by: Os Hillman
- March 3, 2024
“See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.” – Hebrews 12:15 In business and life the opportunity to harbor bitterness for a wrong suffered is great. We are given plenty of opportunities to grow bitter from relationships that bring
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Tapping Into Our Secret Weapon
- by: Os Hillman
- March 2, 2024
“He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.” – Colossians 4:12b “Good morning. Before we begin our staff business meeting I wish to ask John to give us the intercessors’ report regarding the direction of our new business development program.”
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Developing Our Heart for God
- by: Os Hillman
- March 1, 2024
“I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword.” – Zechariah 9:13b In the third and fourth centuries followers of Socratic teaching and other Greek scholars began to influence the Church in ways that were different from the Hebraic roots of the early Church. The
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Coming Out of Babylon
- by: Os Hillman
- February 28, 2024
…”Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.” Revelation 18:4 There is a day when God is going to judge the system of Babylon
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Knowing Versus Doing
- by: Os Hillman
- February 27, 2024
“I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection….” – Philippians 3:10 If I asked you the purpose for which God made you, what might you say? You might give a lot of answers that required some action on your part. However, the simplest answer to that question relates to one primary thing:
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Spiritual Warfare
- by: Os Hillman
- February 26, 2024
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood….” – Ephesians 6:12 Have you ever heard someone say, “I will never do business with another Christian”? I hear this comment quite often in my dealings with Christian workplace believers. This comment represents the battle that rages against us by the enemy of our soul to
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Fruitful Suffering
- by: Os Hillman
- February 25, 2024
…”It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”– Genesis 41:52 Joseph named his second son Ephraim. Ephraim was given to him after he had been delivered from his suffering of 13 years. Joseph said that he named him this because God had made him fruitful in the land of
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Godly Rewards
- by: Os Hillman
- February 24, 2024
“You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out His requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.’” – Malachi 3:14-15 Have you ever felt that serving God
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A Man Who Has God’s Favor
- by: Os Hillman
- February 23, 2024
“…Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.” – Zechariah 8:23 Few men of God have become extraordinary people of faith without the influence of mentors. A mentor is one who takes responsibility for the spiritual and, sometimes, physical care of another. It requires a commitment from the teacher
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Paneled Houses
- by: Os Hillman
- February 22, 2024
“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” – Haggai 1:4 There is a crisis of grand proportions in the spiritual house of God today. The moral fiber of our world has eroded. Greed, idolatry, and pleasure are the gods of our day.
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Seeing Through God’s Eyes
- by: Os Hillman
- February 20, 2024
“They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.” – 2 Samuel 1:12 How would you respond if you heard something bad happened to someone who had been trying to cut
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Saved From Such Men
- by: Os Hillman
- February 19, 2024
“O Lord, by Your hand save me from such men, from men of this world whose reward is in this life….” – Psalm 17:14 Whenever I travel over the ocean, I am always reminded of the seemingly insignificant time we have on this earth. I often imagine dropping a glass of water out the window
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Weapons of Warfare
- by: Os Hillman
- February 18, 2024
“Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears.” – Joel 3:10a In this third chapter of Joel, we hear the prophet describe a time yet to come. It will be a time of great harvest on the earth, and this verse describes the catalyst. A plowshare is an agricultural instrument used to
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Unexplainable Power
- by: Os Hillman
- February 17, 2024
“I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.” – John 3:11 When is the last time God did something in your work life that can only be explained as God? Was it yesterday? Was it
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Spiritual Strongholds
- by: Os Hillman
- February 16, 2024
“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” – 2 Corinthians 10:4 One of the great discoveries I made in later years in my walk with God has to do with living in victory over generational strongholds. The Bible speaks of