As Christians, there are times and it may be current times that we are standing on a promise -- something know that God has promised us, a promise from the Word of God. Currently, you may be standing on a promise, waiting for God to fulfill that promise and you become hopeless in the midst of it. Or you become doubting in the midst of it and things begin to spin out of control. 

What is a promise? A promise is a declaration. It's something that's spoken to you. When God speaks a promise to you from the Word (His Spirit speaking to your spirit), it binds God to bring it about. Many times, there's a problem with the promise: and that's when we try to help God. We got the promise. We understand it, believe it, and we are on the mountaintop. We try to naturally bring about that promise. And when we start to help God, we mess it up, many times. 

Sometimes the problem in the midst of a promise is that we miss a lot of blessings while God is bringing about the promise. I want to recall a pr...

Jo: I've watched how God has gripped your heart -- not just to grip your heart, to fall more in love with Him, but how you've been so obedient to the Word that's been poured into you, the Word that God's spoken to you but also to take that Word and order your home. 

The home is so out of order. I truly believe that God is trying to fix it and it's by getting the home back in order because that's the foundation of everything. 

Sara: I've been passionate about our one and our family, being a wife. This is a huge part of my heart. This is my main ministry the Lord has called me to. Going through God of Order Discipleship Class was so meaningful to me and has made a huge impact on our family. There are a lot of different ways that it has transformed our family and has helped us just turn towards the Lord. Before this class, I had some things in practice, but it showed me the order and the why behind what I was doing. 

Jo: Tell us what that means -- the why and the order. 

Sara: Just in...

Jo: In preparation for the Montgomery Prayer Breakfast, God really revealed some things to you. God found you where you were listening to His voice, and He showed you what He was doing, and I want you to share that. 

Tracey: You have said, "Pay attention to what is going on in the physical because it can often by a sign of what's going on in the spiritual." That is exactly where the Lord found me. And He showed me that this rain -- it was a picture of cleansing, preparation, prayers being heard. For years, as the Watchmen have gathered and prayed across Alabama for an awakening in the state, in the capital for repentance, righteousness, restoring of a godly foundation in our homes because that's where it's got to start, in our schools, churches, communities. I watched and realized that those waters rushing through the streets were more. The Lord whispered, "See, I'm doing a new thing," which instantly took me to the Scripture -- Isaiah 43:18-19. That question hit me like a ton of bric...

Jo: People could see how God sees us (as the Shepherd and His sheep) how near God is to us.

Sydney: We are, in fact, weak little sheep -- to embrace that, there's freedom and also [it's] convicting, challenging. Picturing our identity as sheep, how can we take that into the summer?

Give thought to the season ahead. How can we make our seasons meaningful, purposeful to the Lord? Lord, I don't want to waste it doing meaningless things, for the wrong reasons. 

Jo: You don't want to miss what God has for you in this season. Stop and bring God into the matter because He may have a thought or idea that's really going to trigger something exciting -- excite your heart, your family and you don't want to miss that. 

Sydney: He is working all around us, and I don't want to miss that. Enjoying the Lord... How do we get there? How can we stay anchored this summer?

Jo: Even as a grandmother, there are all kind of scheduling for grandchildren. You do get stretched thin, making sure that's on yo...

Thursday is the National Day of Prayer and it is a sacred day and it's a day that has been set apart for all the people of the nation, particularly Christians to lift our voices together before the throne of God. 

Before that day arrives, let's prepare our hearts. It's so much more than another date. It's a gift, privilege, responsibility, a calling. 

In 1775, the Continental Congress opened their meeting with prayer. They understood that we cannot afford to forget one central thought: a nation cannot stand on its own wisdom, on the wisdom of man. It needed more. It was up to the people of the nation to pray. 

"It's impossible to rightly govern the world without God and your Bible." (attributed to George Washington)

The freedoms that you and I enjoy today -- to open our Bible, to walk the streets and pray aloud to gather in our churches, to declare the name of Jesus -- were prayed into being by men and women who refused to let go of God. Today, we refuse to let go of God. 

In 1952...

Tiffany: I'm so thankful for God and for His presence and I can honestly say that He has walked with me all of my life. And I am so very thankful for that. 

Jo: How firm your faith was planted in you during your early years in your home -- how the impact of your godly parents had on you...

Tiffany: I'm so thankful. I couldn't even express enough the gratitude that I have for my parents. I couldn't have prayed for better parents. Both of my parents are no longer here with us on earth but they live on through me and my brothers. And the one thing that was so vital was Christ in our home and a relationship with God. And they always stressed the importance of "studying to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." They stressed the foundation of the Word, of knowing the Word for myself, of spending time with God, of walking our life of faith out, of exemplifying faith so it's just been extremely foundational in who I am ...

Celebrating with you about what our recent legislature has done in Alabama in protecting some of our God-given rights

* It will be for null and naught unless we implement what they have legislated. 

What did they do? Three main acts of legislation that went through the Alabama Legislature. 

(1) The first one deals with the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments would be placed back in the public schools -- acknowledging that it was a foundational roll of our Christian moral principles and how they really played an important part in developing our Western civilization and really the American legal system. 

In all history classes, from grades 5 to 12, the Ten Commandments would be displayed as well as some public areas such as the libraries. They are not merely religious documents intended for persona convictions or direction, but they are historical artifacts and they shaped our common law, that is the underlying development of this country. 

This effort of trying to make a neutral...

Who does God say we are?

Psalm 23 in a self-reliant lens. We want to lift that burden today. Shift our eyes to the Shepherd. 

Sydney: I have a strong desire for God's people to feel the comfort and guidance and the covering of the Shepherd. Lean into our identity of being a sheep. 

Jo: Get your eyes off of your burden -- of the weight, the thing that's got you downtrodden and put your eyes on the Shepherd. Purpose that you're not just going to tack Him on your burden.

Sydney: Of all the animals that we could be compared to, it's the sheep.

1. Sheep are not load-bearing animals. They are only valuable for their wool, milk -- nothing that they could do. We're not meant to carry the weight.

Jo: He shows us how to handle those burdens -- pray into them, invite Him into, for Him to carry the burden.

Sydney: When we've hooked up with Jesus, He's our guide. We can follow Him with peace. That is available.

Jo: When we get our eyes off the Shepherd, we get our eyes on "me" and we try t...

Continuing the theme with the situation of our home 

Think about, search the Truth, pray earnestly as if your life depended upon it. Let the Holy Spirit speak to you, and implement it for your home. 

We are in a world where darkness has gained much temporary victory. The light in our home has been dimmed. 

God wants us to restore joy in our lives. 

Institutions like the President, Congress, political parties, economy are false hope. I believe the one institution that God is waiting to revive, to restore, to get back in order is the home. That's God's order. It was intended to be the place of peace and rest. 

If you're in the Word of God with the intent to hear the Holy Spirit -- the direction, the teaching, the guiding of the Holy Spirit -- you won't get lost in the darkness. 

The home is the institution that God wants us to get back to the foundation that everything will spring out of and that we will operate here on earth. Our goal is really to establish in our hearts with the ...

I have righteous indignation in my heart. I see on the horizon where the enemy has gotten a foothold inside of our homes. 

In the midst of the recent Spring Breaks, I saw something that really was alarming to me.

Spring Break and teenagers out of control at the beaches is not our problem. I saw a news article where a Sheriff in Florida was crying out for help because the beaches were being overrun by intruders/gangsters coming from other states to create havoc and chaos, destruction, violence on the beaches among the teenagers who were there wanting to have a good time. The look on his face was desperation. It's not the out-of-control Spring Break that's the problem. Then, I look at articles that are bombarding us in the State of Alabama that sports betting among teenagers is out of control. Sports betting is not our problem. And then, the lack of discipline among our children in the schools is out of hand. Teachers can't control it. That's not the problem. The lack of school discipl...