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

Discerning the Times, Part 18

    The church is moving toward unity like I have not seen before in my lifetime. What is happening is more than a reaction to the elections, though that may have contributed to it. The economic shaking is a factor also. Even so, just as the Apostle Paul rejoiced that the gospel was being preached regardless of what the motives were for those doing it, we can rejoice in this tremendous thrust toward unity. There is an increasing revelation that we simply cannot make it in these times without each other.

Taking the Land, Part 15

As we see in the Book of Hebrews and other places in the Bible, many things in Scripture are a prophetic type of other, greater things. The Promised Land of Israel was to be a prophetic type of the establishing of the kingdom of God on earth. Joshua is the Hebrew name for Jesus, the Messiah who will return to set up His kingdom on the earth. If we are to understand this rightly, we must begin by understanding that no prophetic type is a perfect model of what is to come, but is a "shadow." The shadow is usually just the barest hint of what it is a shadow of.

Day 48 - The Judgement

Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.


"Make for yourself an ark....

"And behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh....

A New Commandment- The Greatest Christian Life, Part 16

       As The Great Commission specifies that disciples are taught “all that He has commanded,” we must understand there are New Testament commandments. They are simple and basic, but they are commandments nonetheless. The most basic commandment the Lord gave us is recorded in John 13:34-35:

       A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Todd Bentley Restoration, Part 3

The following are some of the most common questions we continue to receive concerning Todd Bentley’s restoration. It is my intent to be as straightforward and comprehensive as possible. However, some of the answers may be a little lengthy, so you may want to skip over the ones that are not important to you personally. Thank you again for the great interest and the many helpful comments and questions that you have sent concerning this issue. I pray this will be helpful to you. RJ.

Work Out Your Salvation - The Great Commission, Part 27

        A biblical worldview begins with knowing God, and God is love. Our highest purpose as human beings is to love God above all else, which is the easiest thing for us to do because we were made for this. Since God is love, we cannot see Him or learn anything about Him without loving Him more. This must be our chief pursuit and the most basic paradigm through which we see the world. It is also the path to the most wonderful, fulfilling life possible.

A True Saint

The passing of Pope John Paul II is a major event because we have all lost one of the most remarkable leaders of our time. I am not a papist and do not believe that any man on earth should be called “the head of the church,” which is the rightful place of Christ alone. However, I do not doubt that John Paul II was a man of God that all Christians should be thankful for and should rightly mourn.

A Dangerous Threat - The Great Commission, Part 41

         In 1988 Paul Cain said, “Communism is going to become commu-wasim.” This was the first prophetic indication I heard that there was about to be a collapse of the Iron Curtain and freedom from the stranglehold that Marxism had on almost half of humanity at that time. Paul also said that the remnants of Marxism would merge with radical Islam and become the most dangerous threat the world had ever known. This has now come to pass.