The Farquhars in Poland

The Farquhars in Poland Duane & Lori on going on a grand adventure to the city of Gdansk, Poland. What’s going to happen? What will God do? Tune in & find out with us!

08/24/2026

August 24, 2026

God Hears and Answers

Psalm 65:1–3
Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled. O you who hear prayer, to you all men will come. When we were overwhelmed by sins, you atoned for our transgressions. NIV

It often happens that in a counseling session with some troubled soul, someone who has a marital problem or financial problem or some other kind of problem; I have to tell that person very honestly: “I don’t have the answer to your problem. I can’t tell you exactly what to do, but one thing I can tell you, God hears and answers prayer.”

That’s what the psalmist says, “O you who hear prayer, to you all men will come.” Ultimately everybody needs God. Everybody needs to know that God hears and answers prayer. That’s what’s going to bring, ultimately, the whole of humanity to God – the fact that God hears and answers prayer. And there’s one special prayer that He delights to answer above all others and that is the prayer for forgiveness of our sins. When we’ve sinned and failed God and man we don’t need to turn away in despair, we can turn back to God, cry to Him for forgiveness and then we’ll be able to say, as the psalmist says there, “When we were overwhelmed by sins, You atoned for our transgressions.”

Don’t let fear or guilt or despair keep you from praying. Remember, in the depths of your agony God hears and He answers prayer.

—Derek Prince

08/17/2026

August 17, 2026

Encounter with God

Psalm 63:1–2; 6
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. NIV

How important it is to have your own personal revelation of God. Not just to rely on what someone else has told you or what you read in a book or even what you heard in church. All that may be good, but it’s not sufficient. There must come a time when you’ve seen God for yourself, when you’ve come to know Him first-hand. When you’ve had such a revelation of God that nothing else can ever satisfy you but God Himself.

David had that kind of revelation. He said, “I’ve seen You in the sanctuary. I’ve beheld Your power and Your glory and now I’m in a dry and thirsty land, but my soul longs for You more than it does for water. And even when I lie in bed at night my meditation is of You. You fill my heart and my mind, my imagination, my longing. All the day through I’m taken up with You, my God.”

There’s no other source of true satisfaction. My soul doesn’t find rest in any other way. I’ve seen You and known You in a way that I can never forget and that has determined the course of my life. It determines my attitudes, my actions, the things that I choose, and the way I walk, and so it needs to be in each one of our lives.

—Derek Prince

08/10/2026

August 10, 2026

In God Alone

Psalm 62:1–2; 5–6
My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. NIV

There is one very important word that occurs four times in succession in those verses that I’ve just read. The word is “alone.”

My soul finds rest in God alone.
He alone is my rock and salvation.
My hope comes from God alone.
And He alone is my rock.

You see, there’s a certain sense in which the only ultimate source of salvation and of hope is God Himself. The prophet Isaiah cried out, “God has become my salvation.” Salvation is not to be found in religion, even in a creed or a doctrine, or in church membership. There’s only one ultimate source of salvation and it’s very important that each one of us comes at some time in our lives to that place where we use that word “alone”; where we say, “God alone is my hope, my rock, my fortress, and the source of my salvation.” And, true enough, when we say that, it becomes true in our experience.

—Derek Prince

08/03/2026

August 3, 2026

From the Ends of the Earth

61:1–2
Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. NIV

Those words have a very special meaning for me; they were given to me by the Holy Spirit at a time of crisis in my own life and in a remarkable and unusual situation. I was going through a time when I was facing disappointment and sorrow and, really, it seemed that the waves and the billows of God were going over my own soul.

I was in a jet airplane on my way from the United States to Australia. I opened my Bible in the plane to those words, “From the ends of the earth I call to you.” And I thought to myself, That’s remarkable, because that’s where I’m headed for – the ends of the earth, the farthest part of the earth from the land where those words were written.

And I thought, Why am I going there, what’s God’s purpose? And I read the words again, “From the ends of the earth I call to you; I call as my heart grows faint.” And I realized that in His infinite wisdom God was taking me all that long journey not merely to preach to others, but to spend time in prayer myself, to wait upon God, to call to Him from the very ends of the earth. And there came a special week in my life at that time when I spent most of my time in prayer calling to God and as I prayed there at the opposite end of the earth, God heard my cry, solved my problems and showed me the way out.

So remember that: Call to God in your hour of need.

—Derek Prince

07/27/2026

July 27, 2026

A Bottle Full of Tears

Psalm 56:8
Thou hast taken account of my wanderings; put my tears in Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book? NIV

That is a cry of a desperate soul, someone who knows what it is to be a wanderer, a fugitive, an exile. Someone who knows what it is to shed many, many tears.

Well, even in his tears and in his exile, he finds comfort. He realizes that the eye of God is upon him, that God is taking note of everything that he goes through, that a record is being kept in God’s book of all that he suffers for righteousness’ sake.

And he even says, “God put my tears in Thy bottle.” Why would you want your tears stored up with God? You see, one day those tears are going to look very different to you than the way you see them now. Now you see them as suffering, now you see them as a cause for wondering, What’s gone wrong? But, you see, in this life we only see the reverse side of the tapestry. We see colors that don’t seem to blend and patterns that don’t make much sense. But, remember, in eternity we’ll see the tapestry the right way up and things that made no sense and caused us to wonder if God really knew what He was doing will work out into a most beautiful pattern that will give us joy throughout eternity.

So, remember, when you are suffering for righteousness’ sake and maybe shedding bitter tears, don’t turn away from God, don’t give up hope, just do as the psalmist did. Cry out to God, “Put my tears in Thy bottle.”

—Derek Prince

07/13/2026

July 13, 2026

A Broken Spirit

Psalm 51:16–17
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. NIV

What is David the psalmist telling us there? Surely he’s telling us that first and foremost God is not interested in externals. Sacrifice and offerings are not necessarily things that God does not want, but they are things that He does not want first and foremost. And if that’s all there is in our lives – the external practices of religion – then God takes no pleasure in them. He looks below the surface; He looks to the heart; He looks to the motives; He looks to the attitude.

And it says that the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: “A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” Those are strange words to our ears today. What does it mean that God desires a broken spirit? Does He want to crush us? Does He want to beat us down? Does He want to humiliate us? No, I’m sure that’s not it. What is a broken spirit? I think it’s a spirit that has come totally to the end of itself. All independence, all self-will and all self-righteousness have been purged out. We’ve come to the place where we have no hope but in God; we’ve come to the end of our own resources. We have no claims upon God, we simply turn to Him for His mercy and His faithfulness, not trusting our own merits, but clinging only to God.

—Derek Prince

07/06/2026

July 6, 2026

The Secret Hidden Wisdom

Psalm 51:6
Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. NIV

Those words are addressed by the psalmist David to the Lord Himself. What is it that God really looks for in our lives? First and foremost, it is not the external practices of religion – not necessarily churchgoing or other religious acts. God looks much deeper than those. He looks right down into the innermost depths of our hearts and our lives.

Elsewhere, the Bible tells us that God does not see as man sees because man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. So David says, “Surely you desire truth in the inner parts.” What does God want? What is truth in the inner parts? I believe it is absolute sincerity – the opposite of religious externalism, hypocrisy. Those things do not appeal to God. In fact, He does not approve of them. He detests them. He looks beneath all that. He wants to see if we are sincere, open, and transparent in our relationship with Him. Do we say the same thing with our mouths that we are thinking in our minds?

If we come to that place, then we can say, like the psalmist, “You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.” There is a secret place in our innermost being where we can begin to hear the voice of God and learn from Him and He teaches us wisdom there.

—Derek Prince

06/29/2026

June 29, 2026

Thank Offerings to God

Psalm 50:14–15
Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me. NIV

At some time or other in our lives, we all face trouble. The psalmist speaks about the day of trouble. There is not one of us that does not, at sometime or other, pass through a day of trouble. But here the psalmist tells us the way out of trouble, the way of deliverance. And let me tell you, I’ve had to prove this many times in my own experience.

What is the way out of trouble? “Sacrifice thank offerings to God.” In the very midst of your trouble, exercise your faith and begin to thank God. Offer Him that sacrifice of thanking Him and praising Him. Then call upon Him in the day of trouble and His promise is, “I will deliver you,” and not merely that, “You will honor Me.” God’s deliverance will work out to His glory; it will become a testimony in our lives of how God has delivered us in the day of trouble.

And then, further on in that psalm, the psalmist says, “He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God” (v. 23). So, when we’re in trouble and we make that sacrifice of beginning to thank God although we may see no way out, we prepare a way that God shows us His salvation. God opens the way for those who offer Him the sacrifice of thank offerings.

So when you’re in the midst of trouble, remember, that’s the way out!

—Derek Prince

06/22/2026

June 22, 2026

You Can Be His Temple!

Psalm 29:9; 48:9
And in God’s temple everything says, “Glory!” NASB
Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love. NIV

You see, what sets God’s temple apart from every other place in the universe is it’s a place where there is only one theme, and that is God and His glory. Everything in the temple says, “Glory!” Not just the persons, not just the angelic beings, not just the worshipers, but the furniture of the temple, the very building itself. All cry out, “Glory to God.”

And then it says, “Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.” It’s not merely outward expressions that ascribe glory to God, but it’s the inward meditation of the true worshiper. Its meditation is focused on God, on God’s unfailing love and faithfulness and mercy.

That means that God’s temple can be anywhere where we meet those conditions. When we meet those conditions – when our whole being cries, “Glory to God,” when all our thoughts are focused and centered on God, when we meditate on Him, then there, where we are – it may be in an automobile, it may be in a kitchen – but it becomes God’s temple because everything is saying, “Glory!” and every thought and meditation is centered on the person of the Lord.

So that’s what it’s like to be a temple of the Lord – and, remember, you and I are supposed to be God’s temples.

—Derek Prince

06/16/2026

June 15, 2026

Appropriate Response

Psalm 47:1, 5–6
Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets. Sing praises to God; sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. NIV

That’s the Bible’s picture of the response that’s appropriate to God in His power and in His glory. The one specific word that sums up that which God’s greatness, grandeur should provoke from you and me is the word praise, but a very all-inclusive kind of praise, a praise that occupies every part of our physical body, a praise that occupies all our faculties.

“Clap your hands all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.” That’s something more than just religious respectability. That’s a total response of our redeemed being to the Lord in His greatness. Clap our hands; shout to God.

Then it says, “God has ascended amid shouts of joy, … amid the sounding of trumpets.” Shouts and clapping of hands and musical instruments are all required to sound forth the praise of God.

And then it goes on, “Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises.” You know, it’s a theme, “Sing praises, sing praises, sing praises.” That’s how we have to respond to God.

—Derek Prince

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