Standing Against The Enemy
by Jim Durkin -- Edited by David Sczepanski "For the weapons of our warfare are . . . mighty through God .. " --2 Cor. 10:5 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of the darkness of this world"--Eph. 6:12 THE SPIRITUAL REALM The Bible says that the last days will be peculiar, evil, and perilous times. Spiritual
YOUR MOMENT IN HISTORY
by Jim Durkin Over many years of serving the Lord, I have seen high times and low times. To keep from riding through life on a roller coaster, though, I have had to ask myself this important question: "What is it that keeps us moving forward and in the right direction when life seems to go wrong?" Many of us have had
THE BREEZE, BALMY CHRISTIAN LIFE
I have often thought how easy it would be to make the message of God's Word to Christians appealing to the natural man. There's just one thing you'd have to do to have a breezy, balmy Christian experience: keep yourself away from the "forward edge." Don't get too involved in witnessing to people; don't get overly involved in church life
1. THE BOLD CONFESSION: INTRO
"You are coming against me with sword and spear, but I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of Hosts, whom you have defied. For the battle is the Lord’s --- and it is He who will deliver you into our hand !!” Jim Durkin of Eureka, California was well-known for his work with young people, particularly those
2. WHAT IS THE BOLD CONFESSION?
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21). It is evident from this Scripture portion and many others like it that what we say by means of the tongue has great power to affect life. These Scriptures show us that it means even death or life. It is little understood how very important are the things
3. THE BOLD CONFESSION CHANGES EVERYTHING
When you make the bold confession that you are a son of God, you are like a child who hears his name is John. He doesn't know what that means. He simply believes his father and mother when they say, "Your name is John". So he says, "My name is John" because he trusts the ones that told him so. You
4. ABRAHAM’S bold confession
God came to Abraham one day and said, "I have made you a father of many nations" (Romans 4:17). Notice God didn't say, "som eday I will make you a father." He said, " I have made you a father of many nations". Abraham had no son, and as far as he knew, he could not have one, naturally speaking, yet God spoke in the past
5. MAKE THE RIGHT CONFESSION
If I could sit down with many of you who are reading this right now, you'd say to me, "Jim, I have big problems in my life. It seems as if God is a million miles away from me. I pray, but He doesn't seem to hear my prayers. When I ask Him to lift my heavy burden, it gets
6. CONFESS YOU ARE THE BLESSED MAN
When I was a little boy, we lived in Chicago. In the summer we would go out to what was called a forest preserve where a lazy, slow old river flowed through the woods. Weeping willow trees grew on the river banks and spread over the water. Though it was very warm in Chicago at that time of the year, when
God’s Purpose for Your Life: Chapter 1
One weekend, many years ago, my wife and I were visiting her family. We were sitting together in their living room, engaged in a fairly casual conversation. It was obvious that my wife's sister was irritated by something. During a lull in the conversation, she finally turned to me and said in a puzzled. voice, "Jim, why don't you just
