James W. Goll

Fatherhood determines identity and identity releases security. Security produces a culture where it is safe to be unique, an environment where dreaming is the norm, and an expectation that dreams really do come true! Well, that is my perspective from the chair I sit in today. I did not always know or experience these principles, as

We need to be anchored by the Word of God! In today’s increase of supernatural activity, we need to make certain our foundation is sure and that the plumb line of God’s Word is our standard. With this in mind, here is a list of nine scriptural tests by which we can test every revelation

IT IS FINISHED! There are seven statements of Jesus on the cross. Perhaps the most important one of all is when He declared, “It is finished!” (John 19:30). Nothing else needed to be done because He had done it all. The work of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ is perfectly complete! I am

Clearly, the prophetic anointing manifests in diverse ways. All arise from the same Holy Spirit, who gives as He wills. With this in mind, a warning is in order. There is a deadly poison that can kill our ministry and our ability to walk in our anointing: the poison of covetousness. Comparing ourselves to someone

Contemplative prayer often has been relegated to ancient church history. But God is restoring it as a means to develop intimacy with Him. I have found that the most direct road to greater intimacy with God has come through the practice or discipline of an almost lost art in the fast-paced church of today—something called

One of the first great intercessors in the Bible was Abraham, and his most famous intercessory prayer was for one of the most sinful places in the ancient world. Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous with sin, sexual debauchery and sodomy, yet the great Patriarch of Israel, the “father of faith,” interceded passionately that those

The Jesus People Movement was a wave of Christianity that began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spread primarily through North America and Europe, before subsiding by the early 1980s. It was the major evangelical Christian element within the hippie counterculture, or, conversely, the major

“The great serpent has coiled himself around the globe, and who shall set the world free from him?” This was the message from the “prince of preachers,” Charles Spurgeon. If the serpent had a strong grip in Spurgeon’s day, what can be said about our own? Is the grip of the enemy the reason a

You hear a lot these days in the church about “soaking.” Some people object to it because that term is not in the Bible (Of course, a lot of things we do are not directly stated in the Bible. Sunday school, bus ministry and electric guitar music among others are some examples). But the soaking

We will be looking at the subject of opening the gates in the realm of the spirit. In the natural, gates are used for two primary purposes: To keep things or persons out by being closed. To let things or persons in by being open. As it is in the natural, so it is as

Whereas we can view hope as a mental expectation of something good, faith arises in our hearts. And it grows as we follow Jesus. How can we encourage the growth of faith in our own hearts and in others’? Let me give you some scriptural examples of what causes faith to arise. By the grace

When traveling by train from the Frankfurt, Germany region to Rossenheim in southern Bavaria in the middle of the night, I kept hearing the Holy Spirit speak to me over and over, “Where are the Daniels, the Josephs and the Esthers?”  As I have pondered deeply on this word for years, I believe the Holy

Religious people think extravagant worship is a waste of time. But Mary of Bethany taught us that Jesus deserves only the best praise. Do you want to be a passionate worshipper of Jesus the Messiah? Although we may sincerely desire to worship our Savior with abandonment, many of us have grown up in a religious

The Beauty of the Lord I sense the intense desire of the Holy Spirit to take a whisk broom and dust off some of The Lost Treasures of the Body of Christ and present them as brilliant gems to gaze upon. Like a spiritual archaeologist or perhaps something like a modern-day Indiana Jones of the

Are there any absolutes? Any standards or parts of the moral code that do not change? Most of the world seems to think that we are becoming more enlightened as time goes on, and that this means we must leave old standards behind. In the Western world, “inclusiveness” reigns supreme. If you stand for absolutes,