Daily Devotionals

And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it… It is the Lord’s Passover… Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and...

Be encouraged! You have passed through a wilderness which I'm sure has seen some great spiritual highs, but probably deeper valleys and dark moments. Isn’t that what the wilderness is about? But even a glimpse of heaven, or a phrase from God’s voice, or a...

Heroes will arise from the dust of obscure and despised circumstances, whose names will be in blazoned on heaven’s eternal page of fame. The spirit is brooding over our land again as at creations dawn, and the fiat of God goes forth. “Let there be...

"The first thing that was done, before the power ever fell on Azusa, was a united ten day season of fasting and prayer. If there was ever any sectarianism, fasting broke it down." - Mother CratonOn April 6, 1906, William Seymour and his small group of believers began...

In his excellent book, The Hidden Power of Prayer and Fasting, Mahesh Chavda tells one of the most moving stories about helping a broken child through prayer and fasting. This story is another example of the power of fasting and prayer to release captives from the...

"Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them--to the Israelites.” - Joshua 1:2I write this devotional in a prayer grotto at Every Home for Christ in Colorado Springs. The...

John G. Lake operated in one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring gifts of healing that the world has ever seen. In a single ten-year span, Lake saw over 250,000 confirmed physical healings. In 1918, Spokane, WA, was declared the healthiest city in the U.S. because...

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." - John 12:24, ESV“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.” - Tertullian, 197 A.D.After experiencing such an...

"Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God." - Ephesians 1:1"In weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness." - 2 Corinthians 11:27In the early 1970s, a young man attended a large gathering...

Unable to make it all the way to India due to financial constraints (see yesterday’s devotional), T.L. Osborn and his wife Daisy made it to their first stop along the route, Jamaica. Their lack of funds was no accident. God was divinely orchestrating their path....

T.L. Osborn and his wife Daisy were in their early twenties and were pastors of a Portland, Oregon, church when they invited a female missionary from India to speak at their church. As she spoke, the Osborn’s felt an instant calling to international outreach. They...

"First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word." - Smith WigglesworthFilled with compassion for the sick, Smith Wigglesworth gathered the sick week after week and transported...

As Gottliebin’s condition worsened, Blumhardt reached out to a friend in ministry (See yesterday’s devotional if you missed it). His friend pointed him to Matthew 17:21 where it says, “There is no means of casting out this sort but by prayer and fasting.” Awakened to...

At two o’clock in the morning, the demon shrieked its final, parting words, “Jesus is the victor! Jesus is the victor!” As it departed, for the first time in over two years, there was peace. Awakening soon followed.In 1838, a man by the name of Johann Christoph...

This excerpt is taken from Arthur Wallis’ book called God’s Chosen Fast: A Spiritual and Practical Guide to Fasting.“Pastor Hsi was surely one of the greatest saints that the land of China has produced. Delivered at the time of his conversion from the awful tyranny of...

"Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on...

In the 1990s, I began a ministry called “Pasadena For Christ”. In one of our earlier gatherings, we were privileged to have a mighty man of God from Argentina come and speak. His name was Omar Cabrera. He had experienced, similar to Argentina’s earlier revivalists, a...

"Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus." - Acts 4:13Heroes will arise from the dust of obscure and despised circumstances, whose...

"And the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you." So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the...

"Another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel." - Judges 2:10"We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wonderful works that...

Today is the third day of the Esther Fast. Thousands have been joining, humbling themselves, and consecrating their lives to God. And now, on this third day, we, like Esther, will clothe ourselves in the royal robes of Christ’s righteousness and come before the throne...

When there is no hope for a nation, when there is no remedy, God has a holy prescription."Blow the trumpet in Zion. Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly, gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders… Let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord.”...

 NOW ESTHER   A plague has broken out all over the earth. It’s called the Coronavirus. It is threatening to kill tens of thousands across the world and is shutting down global economies. Terror and panic have seized the nations. Something is going on...

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were." - JFK"And he said unto them, ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the...

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief… This kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” - Matthew 17:19-21In 2003, prior to TheCall at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, I...

“Adam was tempted with a full stomach in paradise, yet failed. Jesus was tempted while ravenously hungry, yet succeeded.” - The Jesus FastMany would think that when Jesus was driven into the wilderness to fast 40 days, the weakness of the fast would have made Him more...

"Only a united Church can heal a divided nation." - Lou Engle"I pray...that they all may be one, as you Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that You sent Me." - John 17:20-21, NKJV"And war broke out in heaven:...

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. Sunward I’ve climbed and enjoyed the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things you’ve not dreamed of…” - John Gillespie Magee Jr.John Gillespie Magee Jr....

“The number of missionaries on the field depends entirely on the extent to which someone obeys that command (Mt. 9:38) and prays out the laborers.” - Andrew MurrayI trust that you’ve watched the video for today. We are now launching into praying what I...

“Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” - Matthew 9:38, ESV This week we are shifting into a new prayer assignment, one that I have borne as a personal responsibility to fulfill for the past seven years. In...

As we’ve reached day 10 together on this fast, I want to give you eight pillars of intercession for this fast. I encourage you to write these down and begin to pray for them every day over these next 30 days. We will be discussing each of these pillars in-depth over...

"I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their...

Dean Briggs (the Dean from the prophet’s word) and I became friends at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOPKC). One day he asked me a question that shook me to the core and crystallized my life calling. He said, “Lou, if you could preach only one...

The night after I asked the Lord to give some prophet a dream about me, a man called me saying he had a dream in which I was flying a plane and dropping an atomic bomb. It was shock and awe. But I needed more confirmation. I heard that a well-known prophet was coming...

“As the Creator is greater than that which He has created, so is the power wielded by the Christian through fasting and prayer greater than that wielded by the atomic scientist.” - Franklin HallThe next three devotional days may be review for many of you, but these...

Passion is the north star compass for your calling.Yesterday we spoke concerning passion as the mainspring for the 40-day fast. Passion is the north star compass for your calling. It enables you to make sacrifices that otherwise would be unthinkable. Have you written...

“No one climbs Everest without a mesmerizing motivation of passion.” - Lou Engle"And the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you." So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in...

"Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but in the end, it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." - Habakkuk...

Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing. - Luke 4:1-2Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee,...

"The person who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history." - Andrew Murray"If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of...