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Zac Poonen · Feb 5, 2024 · 9m · CFC Daily Devotions
The central message emphasizes that all actions must be performed in love, citing 1 Corinthians 16:14. The speaker argues that true faith requires living under the fear of God, which supersedes fear of man or worldly authorities. He stresses that enduring hardship and giving counsel must always be rooted in love, drawing parallels to Jesus' ministry which aimed at salvation through both grace and necessary correction.
Zac Poonen · Jul 11, 2024 · 10m · CFC Daily Devotions
The central message revolves around the necessity of taking up the cross, which the speaker clarifies means putting one's 'soul life' to death, rather than merely understanding the concept. He argues that a failure to hate one's soul life leads to constant offense, susceptibility to praise, and spiritual stagnation, keeping believers in a 'kindergarten' phase of faith. True spiritual growth and freedom come from accepting that only God's opinion matters.
Zac Poonen · Jul 4, 2025 · 8m · CFC Daily Devotions
The message distinguishes between mercy, which covers past sins, and grace, which provides help for future situations. The central theme is that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble, a truth emphasized in Proverbs, James, and 1 Peter. Understanding this principle is vital because God resists the proud, while the humble are supported and lifted up by grace, even when facing constant struggles like Paul's 'thorn in the flesh.'
Zac Poonen · Mar 22, 2025 · 12m · CFC Daily Devotions
Hebrews 11 now what what did Noah do what did when he was building the ark it says here by faith Noah verse 7 being w warned by God about things that had not
Zac Poonen · Sep 10, 2024 · 6m · CFC Daily Devotions
utterly faithful in their home maybe some sister who's God-fearing and really seeking to pray for her children and bring up her children in the fear of God who's submissive to a hard-hearted husband or whatever it is and God sees
Zac Poonen · Jan 8, 2024 · 14m · CFC Daily Devotions
The central message is that believers should never fear God's provision because they are deeply loved by a Father who cares for them as much as He cared for Jesus. The speaker emphasizes trusting in God's security over worldly provisions, asserting that knowing one's immense value to God brings rest and peace regardless of external circumstances or accusations. He encourages believers to pass this assurance of divine care to their children.
Zac Poonen · Mar 9, 2026 · 10m · CFC Daily Devotions
By faith that means by a total commitment to God Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain. He offered the best. He didn't offer a cheap offering. There was a better sacrifice.
Zac Poonen · Jan 2, 2024 · 14m · CFC Daily Devotions
The central message emphasizes that the New Covenant focuses on the inner life, which is revealed by the Holy Spirit, rather than mere human understanding or adherence to external doctrines. The speaker argues that possessing knowledge without revelation leads to a life that cannot overcome sin, contrasting this with the experiential faith of the early church. Ultimately, salvation depends on cleaning the heart and inner life, as God looks at the heart, not just outward appearance.
Zac Poonen · May 24, 2026 · 9m · CFC Daily Devotions
That's Remember God is on your side. That's what I want to say. God is on your side against the devil. And he is more interested in your building a home, a godly home than you are yourself. You must believe that. To me faith is faith for anything is
Zac Poonen · Jun 23, 2024 · 9m · CFC Daily Devotions
God's ultimate goal is to keep believers humble, as pride is what God opposes. The speaker emphasizes that trials, like being put through fire or cold water, are God's method of refining us, much like refining silver. By enduring these hardships, God ultimately leads us to a place of abundance, which is likened to the overflowing cup described in Psalm 23.
Zac Poonen · Jun 24, 2025 · 11m · CFC Daily Devotions
life. You your faith disappears because there's corporate faith. You know if you have sudden financial need, you don't have to worry. This wonderful church takes care of your financial need. But if you're out in the middle of the jungle, you can only trust
Zac Poonen · Jan 2, 2026 · 12m · CFC Daily Devotions
The central message is that God desires a believer's entire body, not just financial offerings or tithes. The speaker draws parallels between Old Testament rituals (like the lamb and the Red Sea crossing) and Christ's life and sacrifice, arguing that the ultimate offering required is self-surrender to God's will. Believers must understand that their physical actions and choices—how they use their eyes, tongue, and body—will be accounted for at the judgment seat of Christ.
Zac Poonen · May 25, 2024 · 13m · CFC Daily Devotions
And you look in our in your own life. I mean, if I confess my sin today, this moment, my sin is forgiven immediately. There's not a slightest doubt about it. If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
Zac Poonen · May 13, 2026 · 8m · CFC Daily Devotions
What is the crown that I'm going to get? If I'm faithful, to me the crown will be that along with others, one day I'll be able to say, "Thou art worthy, oh Lamb of God. Thou
Zac Poonen · Jan 20, 2026 · 8m · CFC Daily Devotions
11. If you are not faithful in the use of unrighteous money, now money is not all. If you have earned your money honestly, it's not unrighteous. But you know Jesus had the habit of
Zac Poonen · Jul 13, 2026 · 9m · CFC Daily Devotions
I felt a burden to speak about it again. Without faith, verse six, it is impossible to please God. For he who comes to God must believe that he exists and that he's a rewarder of those who
Zac Poonen · Dec 29, 2025 · 12m · CFC Daily Devotions
prostitution or spiritual harlotry. That means they were faithful to their divine bridegroom as the bride of Christ and they follow the lamb wherever he goes. Now that's not true of the great multitude which we saw earlier. They
Zac Poonen · Sep 30, 2025 · 11m · CFC Daily Devotions
disappears from your life, which will not disappear from the life of a man who's living in a jungle cuz he doesn't have anyone to teach him. So many other things disappear from your life. You Your faith disappears because
Zac Poonen · May 15, 2026 · 9m · CFC Daily Devotions
Zac Poonen teaches that true grace, revealed through Jesus Christ, enables believers to live in complete honesty where their inner life corresponds with their outer life, rejecting pretense and hypocrisy. Living the truth means being honest about oneself before God—not confessing sins publicly, but never pretending to be something you're not—which requires both grace and the humility to admit failure rather than maintain a false reputation.
Zac Poonen · Oct 1, 2024 · 9m · CFC Daily Devotions
were gripped by the word of God and with tremendous joy we received it or some moment when Faith was born in our heart or we got filled with the Holy Spirit some wonderful experience or some amazing answer to prayers and we
Zac Poonen · Mar 27, 2024 · 10m · CFC Daily Devotions
The speaker emphasizes that God desires an offering that is pure, not merely ritualistic or cheap. He uses biblical examples, such as the blood on the door and the Red Sea crossing, to illustrate that true spiritual life requires a complete break from old ways, symbolized by obedience. The core message is that genuine spiritual growth comes from obedience to scripture, not from maintaining traditions or pleasing people, especially when it means confronting established norms.
Zac Poonen · Apr 15, 2024 · 9m · CFC Daily Devotions
The central message is the necessity of loving the truth in both self-examination and scripture to avoid deception. The speaker warns that God may allow deception for those who do not love the truth and do not desire to be saved from sin. To remain vigilant, one must honestly acknowledge wrong attitudes to God and must consistently adhere to what the Word of God teaches, even if it contradicts past beliefs.
Zac Poonen · Oct 30, 2025 · 11m · CFC Daily Devotions
out. And Jesus said, "That's how we got to go to God and ask him." And at the end of it, he says, "When the son of man comes, will he find people like this who got this type of faith, who will believe that the devil's got no
Zac Poonen · Jun 6, 2025 · 10m · CFC Daily Devotions
faith for anything. We keep praying in faith. We don't pray in unbelief. We don't say, "Oh, it's hopeless case. I don't care the doctor say it's a hopeless case. That's not what I should pray for. I pray for in faith and encouragement law. I don't