Rev. Robert S.Williams, Jr.

Philippians 2:13 asserts:  For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.  (TLRB).  God is forever seeking expression through you.  God speaks to man through desire.  If you are sick, you desire health; if poor, you desire wealth; if in prison you desire freedom.  Desire is basic in life. Desire is!  It is impossible to get rid of desire.  If you are hungry, you want food; if thirsty, you want water.  Your real innermost desire is to…

Mark 1:40-41--And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, saying unto him, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.  And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.  In studying the words of Jesus we find he never talked much about the negative conditions he  wished to change.  He took an opposite position.  Instead of telling God how sick and poor…

Mark 9:23--Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

We as saints of God have been hearing this scripture for a long time until it seems elementary.  We

also wonder why the things we are praying for are not objectified or manifested.  This is attributed to what the Philosopher Hegel asserted as "sense-certainty"; analysis, he argues, shows…

Psalm 84:11 teaches: For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Spirit withholds nothing from you. To believe that God refuses the good you desire is to deny the goodness of God. It is a refusal to accept the profound conclusion of the one who said, "It is done unto you as you believe." Often you may find that even though you start with an enthusiatic conviction, you become stranded on…