Rick Joyner Rick Joyner has authored more than fifty books, including The Final Quest Trilogy, There Were Two Trees in the Garden, The Path, and Army of the Dawn. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of MorningStar Ministries, a multi-faceted mission organization which includes Heritage International Ministries, MorningStar University, MorningStar Fellowship of Churches and Ministries. Click here to take a look at Rick's latest Rant #ricksrants

Day 21 - The Test

       And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
       but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,
       for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:16-17).
 
The Lord did not place the forbidden tree in the Garden in order to cause man to fall.

Prepared for the Times, Part 4

The primary way we get to know the voice of the Lord is by being with Him, yet some principles we learn in our own personal relationship with Him can be helpful to others. He relates to each of His people in a unique and personal way. This is not because He is changing, but because we are all unique, an attribute He seems to especially love in His creation. This is why He gave a different word to each of the seven churches in the Book of Revelation. Even though they all existed at the same time and in the same region, they were all unique.

Discerning the Times, Part 20

The kingdom economy is built on trusting more in the principles of the kingdom of God as taught in the Scriptures than in the trends and principles of this world’s economy. Of course, there are many areas in which the principles of both overlap, or are at least similar, but there are many areas where they are diametrically opposed. We will examine a few of the most basic ones here.

   

Taking the Land, Part 109

As we close out 2007, many will certainly be saying “good riddance!” to it. As someone once said, “Life is hard, and then you die.” As we recently heard in our Disaster Response training, the mortality rate still hovers somewhere around 100 percent, so basically we are all terminally ill. It is true that life is hard for everyone, but what are the alternatives?

Taking the Land, Part 16

Last week we began discussing what the earth will be like when the kingdom has come and the earth has been restored. Certainly there is far more to this than we have covered, but since the Bible is quite general about this we will be the same. The Bible is general about such things because we do not need more information about this now. We only know that it will be fully restored to its original intended purpose and state—a paradise that man will rule over as he again walks daily with God.