Rick Joyner Rick Joyner has authored more than fifty books, including The Final Quest Trilogy, There Were Two Trees in the Garden, The Path, and Army of the Dawn. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of MorningStar Ministries, a multi-faceted mission organization which includes Heritage International Ministries, MorningStar University, MorningStar Fellowship of Churches and Ministries. Click here to take a look at Rick's latest Rant #ricksrants

Putting the Ax to the Root of the Tree

 The word for the hour in American politics has become “change.” There is a saying, “If you do not change your direction, you will end up where you are headed.” In many areas, we do need a change in our trajectory or we will end up where we do not want to be. Even so, before we start ran-domly changing our direction, we need to carefully determine where we want to be headed. Change can bring great rejuvenation if it is managed right, but it can bring devastation if it is not.

Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 00:00

Taking the Land, Part 109

As we close out 2007, many will certainly be saying “good riddance!” to it. As someone once said, “Life is hard, and then you die.” As we recently heard in our Disaster Response training, the mortality rate still hovers somewhere around 100 percent, so basically we are all terminally ill. It is...
12-23-07

Taking the Land, Part 108

The first principle in bearing fruit that remains, or building that which will remain, is in the Scripture we quoted last week from Ecclesiastes 3:14, “...everything God does will remain forever.... ” The Lord Jesus elaborated on this in John 15:1-5: "I am the true vine, and My Father is the...
12-16-07

Taking the Land, Part 107

We have briefly studied three phases of development, maturity, and operations in the church. For the purpose of this study, “Taking the Land,” I would categorize them: 1) Taking the land 2) Occupying the land 3) Making the land fruitful As the Coalition nations have found in Iraq, taking the land...
12-9-07

Taking the Land, Part 106

We can and will spend eternity getting to know the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and I don't think we will ever exhaust what can be learned. For all of the increase of knowledge that we have experienced on earth in the last century, one doctor told me that the most we know about the human...
12-2-07