30 Oct

Posted at 08:00h in Joy Church, Prayer

  The Bible tells us in John 16:23-24: “And in that day ye shall ask me nothing, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.  Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name; ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” What a promise!  It sounds too good to be true, but Jesus either meant what He said or the whole Bible is a throw-away!  I believe He meant what He said!  In essence, Jesus is giving you and me the power of attorney through His name! Over...

23 Oct

Posted at 08:00h in Joy Church, Prayer

  Many times when God wanted to change the destiny of a man, he first had to change the identity of that man.  He would start by changing his name.  In the Old Covenant, God changed Abram’s name to Abraham (which means “father of many nations”).  He changed Sarai (which means “contentious”) to Sarah (which means “princess”).  He changed Jacob (which means “deceive”) to Israel (which means “peace”).  He even changed Simon Barjona’s name to Peter (which means “rock”). At the time in which Jesus called Simon “rock”, he was anything but a stable rock!  Peter had invented “foot in mouth” disease! ...

16 Oct

Posted at 08:00h in Joy Church, Prayer

  My son, Johnathan, just turned 10 years old.  We love him dearly and therefore we chose his name wisely.  My favorite New Testament character is John.  I have always desired to emulate his intimacy with the Lord.  One of my favorite Old Testament characters is Johnathan.  I have always desired to emulate his loyalty.  Intimacy and loyalty are the characteristics I wanted deeply embedded into the fiber of my son, Johnathan’s “chemistry”.  This is why we named him Johnathan!   The Bible tells us that a good name is rather to be chosen than silver or gold (Prov. 22:1).  There is something significant...

09 Oct

Posted at 08:00h in Joy Church, Prayer

  Names are extremely important!  For example, I recall a young single mother who had identical twins.  Because she was young, single and impoverished she reluctantly gave her identical twins up for adoption.  One of the twins was adopted by a lovely couple in Spain and was named “Juan”.  The other twin was adopted by a kind couple in Egypt who named him “Ahmal.”  About twenty years later, Juan found his birth mother’s address and sent her a touching note.  Juan also included a picture of himself.  The birth mother, now happily married, was so excited to finally see one of...