Even though i am a little older than than you, it is like hearing from a loving father every time i listen to you.Keep on inviting us to join you in your study and we will keep on listening. You are such a blessing to countless millions of people.

We all need to be reminded of this, slow down and breathe and remember who should have our focus, thank you Max 😊

I would greatly appreciate prayers for the healing of my liver, pancreas and esophagus. I have precancerous conditions and will be seeing specialists and biopsies done. I’ve had cancer five years ago but it was caught early. I know I’m right in the palms of Jesus’s hands, I must trust in Him. Please also pray my faith will be strengthened as I’m feeling quite vulnerable. Thank you very much.

Just hearing you speack the word of God goes a long way too calming stress .😀

Thank you, Sir for this awesome reminder. Sometimes we can hold our happiness hostage in a heart filled with pettiness, stress and judgment. I pray that we all seek after the joy of Jesus like we look for the next news headline.

O call me Martha! With 5 boys and a large extended family I’m afraid I have to admit I’ve done the same exact thing! Thanks for calling me out in such loving way! Amen!

The timing of this video is a true blessing - thank you Max for sharing this message with us all today. I’ve had a challenging day, full of stress, worry and doubt over my own future - as I faced a rejection in my field of work... This is a great spiritual reminder that I should be focussing and relying on Him rather than my own strength, attitudes of self-promotion and limited human perspective. If I can ask for prayer for guidance and trust in the Lord during the uncertain times that I’m facing - that would be much appreciated.

And yet again what an inspiring message! "For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it." Romans 7:18

Pray for my health my partner and my family, kidney health heart and vision is going bad all the sudden , names austin been through alot septic twice in a year pray for me please

You give me so much hope please pray for my healing of health

Please pray for my panic disorder. I’ve had it for a long time, and am blessed to be on great medications. But I’m feeling it today. My name is David.

Please pray for my health to be strengthened and to be delivered from doubt.

Thank you for this message ! Have a good nite! Sir Blessings 🙏

Thank you for the beautiful reminder.

In the hospital ER with my husband.... listening to your talks just calms my soul. Thank you so much.❤️

Martha here. Thank you for this needed talk.

Plz pray for health, financial blessings and for my calling to be revealed to me. I just want to find something I can delight in and isn't so intolerable. Thanks max and fam God bless 🙌

I love this story. Following and trusting Jesus is all it takes to reduce your stress. He is in control. We are to honor Him, not seek validation from people. It says in the Bible, "do not trust people, put your faith in the Lord."

No one likes stress but we can always learn to manage it. Keep it up!

Such a good reminder! Thank you!!

Please pray for me, that The Lord take away all hurts and pains in me. Thank you

Thank you my friend. You always have a great way of representing my Jesus

I needed this reminder so badly! I’ve let my problems become bigger than my Jesus. Thanks for the reminder to make him the weightiest thing in my world.

Yes, keeping focus on the real one ☝️ Jesus ❤️🙏

Thank you for the word of encouragement.

A beautiful message, thank you

Praying blessings for you and your family everyday.

Such a blessing to receive this Devotional Message today. To pause and think and reflect on our lives and behaviors, working and social priorities. Being subjected to fifteen months in Global Pandemic Conditions has caused many of us to seek a "closer walk with God", desperate and eager for more intimacy with our Savior and Lord Jesus. Taking a look into "The Perfect Mirror"; and, it ain't pretty, when we compare ourselves to "The Law Of Christ". My prayer, going forward, is that we make a sincere effort to spend time In God's Holy Word on a daily basis. Jesus Will Meet each one of us -wherever we are. He Is All-Present. He Is All-Knowing. Jesus Loves And Cares For YOU! ✝ Amen 🕊💙

Amen!!!

Thank you Pastor, I needed this sermon.🙏

Always blessed 🙌🙌 of all your teachings

Thank you Max. After coming out of the Jehovah's Witnesses after 40 years and not one of our children will speak to us and we are not allowed to see our grandchildren. It is their doctrine. Please pray for us.

Thank you for sharing this. Your messages are so helpful.

God bless you for this wonderful talk amidst this stressful time. I'm asking for you prayers for our family and for my uncle who passed away due covid. I'm asking you to pray with me during our time of grief, that God may grant comfort for my aunt and cousins.

Thank you Max. I love the spiritual messages and learning. God Bless us all!

This speaker is short and solid 👍🙏

So very true our dear Max! Thank you for the reminder

Please pray for me, the devil is trying to use depression to keep me from God's work. Thanks love yall

Thank you so much for these videos!! It seems God sends you the perfect words to help me for whatever moments I’m having!!! I want to be ever Focused on Jesus!

Thank you Sir for this very timely message.

Thanks so much for reading this! I read that same bible verses when I was going through my mail and it had the same bible verse and talking about Martha and Mary. 🙏🙌

Excellent video! Thanks Pastor Max! I have been in Martha's shoes, but I will work on changing.

Good message ..it touched me ,especially on the topic of self promotion ...it should make us reflect on what is the motivation behind everything we do for others !!?? true love or ...self promotion!!? Lord help us to watch our heart . Thanks Max ... God bless you.

Good lesson thanks Max

TY Pastor Max, great lesson as always!

Prayers for a negative covud test and safe traveling. Amen

Please pray for my sister Renzi with stage 4 brain cancer. Please pray for a new job for me. God bless you all!

My mother is a Martha. One time, I was in the hospital for a week. My room-mate was an elderly lady. She had been missing for 3 days (Silver Alert, in the news, etc.). She had been robbed, beaten, bruises all over, no memory (concussions) and thrown in the bushes. Left for dead at a local park. One day, mom came for a visit when her fam was also visiting the victim. Before my mom left, she made a spectacle of herself - a repeat offender - by tooting her own horn about her age, her beauty, her kids, her parents, her accomplishments, blah, blah, blah. After mom left, I had to apologize for her to the fam. It was the least that I could do. When we serve others, we do it for the Lord and His Glory alone. Just zip it (MOM!, lol). Keep your mouth shut and your eye on the prize. His approval alone, and He will some day say... Well done, My good and faithful servant. Much love and prayers to you and yours, from your eternal sister in Christ somewhere near Seattle. ⚘🙏❤🙏⚘

GOD'S Blessing to all of the Jesus feet 🙏Max Lucado 🙌

That's beautiful 🙂👍🏼

thank you 🙏 please pray for stomach reflux and stress for me🙇‍♀️

AMEN

It is with sadness that the people of Ukraine have to go through this hardship. My wife and I pray for them to our dear father in heaven to give them strengh to come out of this with your help.

This message is soooo for me.😥😥

Dear pastor ,i ask for prayer for me. I came across your sermons. Today .

I commend Pastor Lucado for providing a site where those who prefer a Mr. Rogers kind of religion over Biblical Christianity can come and play church. ♫ Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. ♫

"There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her."" - Luke 10:42 NLT

Thanks for the insight. I didn’t realize until after seeing this, that’s I had become a Martha

"For through the law I have died to the law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing." Galatians 2:19‭-‬21

Please pray for my 14 yr old special needs Grandson Matthew he has verbal Apraxia and cannot speak.Pray that God will give him a voice

Good evening all

Prayer for a friend who is not saved

Please pray that I will have greater usefulness in ministry.

If grandpa! Please just keep me in your prayers?

God bless you sir Please pray for me,I need a new and better job and to receive goodnews from where I applied

I need a job but I'm struggling to understand the idea of having to take a job of little pay when I used to make good money with my artistic talent. I can't fathom abandoning my God given ability just for food and clothing but it's also wrong to live on government help. Please pray for me.

Hi guys I'm Kristy by name I live in New Jersey United States I'm 30years old I do house cleaning as my job I'm looking forward to meet someone here❤️❤️

I'm so anxious all the time.I pray and read the Bible every day.Im also 63 and can't work.What should I do?

Please pray for me.judy floyd and august floyd have covid its been 9 days im still weakdd

Mary

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This isn't for people who don't like to read. I apologize for making it so long, one thought led to another and so on. Sorry about that. There are three main sources of religious energy which are the Holy Spirit, kingdom of darkness religious spirits, and human soul power. During times of no outpouring of the Holy Spirit (as in this day and time) it is extremely rare and difficult to find someone speaking by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, but it is commonplace for religious people to have the anointing of a religious spirit, and/or to run on soul power. The religious spirits are the highest echelon of warrior demons in the kingdom of darkness hierarchy who are carefully groomed by kingdom of darkness overlords (aka fallen angels/principalities) to know how to mimic the Holy Spirit. Religious spirits and religious soul power seek to mimic the Holy Spirit, and sometimes they can be very convincing with their 'Do-Gooder' persona, their sanctimonious posture of perfection, their mock authority, and their busy 'good works' agendas. The ploy has mostly to do with manipulation and control of the humans who allow themselves to be used by religious spirits as human mouthpieces, and manipulation and control of their followers (especially that). Sometimes soul power can be a good thing, as in construction trades, mechanical trades, sports, music, art, chess, math, science, engineering, higher learning, anything that requires special talent and ability. But religious soul power is pretty much always exploited by kingdom of darkness religious spirits, the reason being that the Lord requires for Christians to wait for him to give them the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and if he doesn't give it to them, for them to do nothing ministry-wise until he does. But if they go ahead anyway and launch out in presumption and start relying on soul power, they give automatic rights to the kingdom of darkness overlords to lade them with a religious spirit, which is what is going on with practically all of these KZfaq religionists who are being driven by the religious spirits operating through them to be obsessed to post their spiritually worthless videos. One thing these KZfaq religionists fail to consider is that because they refused to wait on the Lord to give them the anointing of the Holy Spirit, but went ahead doing their own thing in his name anyway, that when the end-time outpouring of the Holy Spirit comes they'll be left out of it because they have their reward now with their fifteen minutes of fame. That's exactly what happened to the televangelists and the system church priestclass who emulated them (so-called 'pastors') during the mid-90's outpouring of the Holy Spirit (what became known as "The Toronto Outpouring of the Holy Spirit" that lasted from 1991 - 1996). Then when they realized that they were left out of it they got jealous and bitter and vilified it, with many of them blaspheming the Holy Spirit by saying the outpouring was "Of the devil." KZfaq was actually concocted by the kingdom of darkness overlords as a forum for religious spirits to manifest through human mouthpieces for the purpose of making a parody of prophetic ministry (and of Christianity in general), and for the purpose of controlling millions of Christians, and it is working famously well for them. In their esteem, everything else on KZfaq is just worldly fluff, but which is useful to them because it helps to legitimize KZfaq, which is very important to them as the KZfaq false teachers and false prophets are their primary voice to the world now, along with the system church priestclass (i.e. so-called 'pastors' and other assorted ministers) who emulate them. The kingdom of darkness' highest priority agenda is to use KZfaq to acclimate Christians to false prophetic ministry, because they know that during times of no outpouring of the Holy Spirit (as in this day and time) that the Lord keeps the true prophets hidden, and that when the end-time outpouring of the Holy Spirit arrives (which I think is going to be fairly soon) he will bring them out of hiding and anoint them with Holy Spirit power. That is exactly what happened during the mid-90's outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And the kingdom of darkness overlords remember it, so it is of utmost importance to them to acclimate Christians to false prophetic ministry now so that when the end-time outpouring of the Holy Spirit comes they won't be able to relate to it, and they'll distrust the Lord's prophets, and will be afraid of them, and will call them false prophets, especially when they hear their messages which will be so totally opposite of the sweetsie-sweet and nicie-nice 'prophecies' they've been being weaned on for years and years, most of which major on the elementary principles of Christianity which the Holy Spirit said not to be doing (see Hebrews 6:1-3 in the King James Version). As a side note, religious soul power sometimes drifts over into witchcraft which is also always exploited by religious spirits. Psychic phenomenon can be a form of witchcraft (alsoTarot cards, 'law of attraction,' palm reading, numerology, mind over matter phenomenon, etc.). Simon Magus of Acts 8:9-24 is an example of that. There are many so-called 'pastors' and other ministers who employ witchcraft control to compensate for their own spiritual powerlessness. Many music ministers and worship teams rely on witchcraft spirits and witchcraft methods to empower them. The story about the Philippian girl of Acts chapter 16 (beginning with verse 16) is an example of how a religious spirit manifests through a human mouthpiece, as in what is going on with these KZfaq religionists (i.e. teachers, so-called 'prophets,' and other assorted self-appointed 'Do-Gooders' who are doing their own thing in the Lord's name, some of whom are making a lot of money doing it). Bear in mind that everything the Philippian girl said was 100% correct, and was 100% the truth. But also bear in mind that it was a religious spirit speaking through her, the same as what is going on with these KZfaq religionists. As another side note, politics is actually a lot of people's religion, and politicians and their followers are often targeted by religious spirits. There are a lot of spiritually defunct false teachers and false prophets who have no anointing of the Holy Spirit whatsoever whose credibility is dependent on their ranting about politics. KZfaq is awash with them. Since they have nothing of spiritual value to say, if they didn't rant about politics, nobody would pay much attention to anything they have to say. In Mark 8:15 the Lord told his disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. As I understand it, the leaven of the Pharisees has to do with soul power religion that is devoid of the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and the leaven of Herod has to do with politics, both of which have all to do with control (kingdom of darkness control). In Ephesians 6:12 in the King James Version the Holy Spirit speaking through the Apostle Paul revealed that the fallen angels run the world system (which is why the world is so messed up). In that verse Paul referred to the fallen angels as 'principalities.' As another side note, whenever someone gives rights to the kingdom of darkness overlords to lade them with a religious spirit, they will also lade them with a deaf, dumb, and blind spirit (per Psalm 115:5-8 in the King James Version), after which they will be unable to hear the Holy Spirit speaking to them, they will be unable to speak by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and they will be unable to receive spiritual truth (they will have no spiritual discernment). Back during the mid-90's outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit spoke the following prophecy through several Christian prophets in the US and Canada which was this: "When this outpouring ends the enemy is poised to retaliate against the outpouring with the biggest onslaught of religious activity in the history of the Lord's church." That was around ten years before KZfaq was invented. At the time the prophecy was given nobody could envision what it was the Lord was talking about. Now we know. I always try to remember to advise Christians to start praying and asking the Lord to give them the gift of discerning of spirits (the Holy Spirit speaking through the Apostle Paul made mention of the gift of discerning of spirits in 1 Corinthians 12:10 in the King James Version), because if ever there was a time in human history when the gift of discerning of spirits was needed, it is now. . I also always try to remember to advise Christians to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues, because speaking in tongues is like a superweapon against the kingdom of darkness. I also always try to remember to advise Christians to never watch religious KZfaq videos, for obvious reasons (obvious to me at least), and to spend the time they'd spend doing that seeking to develop a living relationship with the Holy Spirit in the quiet at home. If you decide to look up the accounts of Simon Magus and the Philippian girl, I suggest that you read those sections of scripture in the King James Version.

Worry not