Hey! I hope you are well. In reading my Bible I came across Psalm 63:1 and was blown away by what I read. I also received some news from my 10 year old daughter yesterday that amazed me, both experiences spoke to me, something I share in my video. If you can’t see the video click here: VIDEO
God bless,
Mark Brown
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October 4th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Thank you for this message. It came at just the right time. Please keep me in your prayers. Thank you.
October 4th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Hi Mark,
I am so happy to hear that your daughter is okay! Thank you for such a wonderful, and much needed message today. My son Jason is 10. He has struggled with anxiety issues related to school since he started 6 years ago. We have had him in counseling with a wonderful Christian counselor for 3 years now. Your message this morning sums up our situation. I have watched Jason grow stronger through this challenge in his little life. It has had very frightening manifestations at times, but he keeps putting it in God’s hands. As a family we have prayed for and over him. I am amazed at how much stronger he is because of these struggles. Please pray for Jason that he will always look to our Lord and Saviour for everything. Pray that our family will support him the way Jesus would. We will be praying for you and your family as well. Thank you and God Bless!
October 4th, 2011 at 10:38 am
If you would please pray that I may continue to grow in my walk with Jesus. That the Holy Spirit will fill my daily from the inside out. My prayer is to serve our Lord every day of my life to the fullest. Please pray that I may do this. Thank you for all you do. I always appreciate getting your messages and thank God that He sends His word and seed through you and other wonderful messengers to feed us and build us up and keep us going. Please pray that I might get stronger each day. Thank you. Linda
October 4th, 2011 at 10:49 am
Dear Rev. Brown,
I am going through something that makes me just want to give up. My dad is almost 80 years old and it’s good that he wants to keep active but every time I turn around, he’s hurting himself seriously. I try to care for my mom,,keep up with the housework, doing the cooking because my mom can’t and do the other things that need doing but I just can’t do it all and I’m not getting any help from my sister. My dad has been hurt seriously several times through falls he’s taken or accidents he’s had an has required hospitalization and if something happens to him, I won’t be able to drive my mom around because I can’t legally drive because of a medical condition. I feel that everything is happening at once and I have prayed for a way through it but I just don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. Please pray for my family that we can find our way through this mess. Thank you and I very much enjoy your blogs and videos. They are a comfort to me.
October 4th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Please pray for me. I am in a very difficult situation at the moment. Pray for me for a job. I’m praying for the right job and know God will provide for me. We also have to move and are looking for a house to rent. I believe God will put the right house on our path. Thank you for praying with me and for me. God bless.
October 4th, 2011 at 11:04 am
My heart leaps when I see a new video! The anticipation for what God has to say through you is all inpspiring. I am in a place that God is doing a mighty work in me – I fear, but look forwad too, the break through He has planned for me as I seek his guidance to mold me and make me more like him. I want it to happen quick to get it over with, it hurts, but that is not the plan I see. Bless you!
October 4th, 2011 at 11:15 am
God woke me up at 2 am to listen to this. May have to listen a second time to glean all the info. Please pray for my youngest son, John Keenan, who will be 21 in December. He is searching for direction in his life. His heart is for ministry, but I am a single mom and finding funding for him to attend a christian school for training is difficult. He also doesn’t want to ask me for help as he puts it I’ve given him 17 years. Everyone that knows him will tell you there is a call on his life. He wants to study christian drama to put on plays that inspire young people. He is at a crossroads right now, where he will either step out in faith or settle for a normal job. Please pray that Gods light will give him clear direction and he will have the courage to step out.
Thanks,
Maria
October 4th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Hello Brother Mark, It has been a while since i heard you minister. Please know that your video was truly a blessing to me. I recently just started back to church and the biggest problem was getting back up and deciding where to go from there. Well we finally made it to a little church just around the corner and going to visit a few more times before we decide if that is the one where we belong. Please keep me and my family in prayer….Thank you and God Bless you as you go about your Heavenly Fathers business. The Lord is faithful and true…..
October 4th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
I wish I could see the video but I cannot due to beign blocked and slow connection at home. Is there a written blog somehwere I can read? Thanks – Maggie
October 4th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Mark I am struggling in my journey with God right now. In the past I felt freely to praise and feel Him. Now I feel like my heart and head is just not responding like I want it too. I do believe in Jesus and God but I am questioning my faith and desire to serve Him but something in me just won’t let me give up! I need prayers like never before. I don’t want to be a lukewarm Christain as I know what the Bible says about that.
Please pray that God will send his Holy Spirit and heal me spiritually and physically and I won’t give up! Pray that I will sincerely mean it when I seek Him and His will for my Life.
God bless you and the work you are doing!
October 4th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Yes Brother Mark, you can pray for me ! I am facing a temdous burden financally, professionaly and personally. I have been praying and reading the word, but can’t even sem to find a starting point. I hve faced many trial in the past and through God always came out, but this time is different. I am weary and find it hard to even try. God Bless
October 4th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Pastor Brown,
The way God uses you and uses you to impact my life is incredible. Over a year ago, your emails built up in my inbox as i was on a vacation and when i came back, so did unexpected issues. However, your emails gave me incredible hope and peace. To give you an idea, say i was having an issues with patience; i would go to my email and check the oldest message from your blog, and it had to do with patience, then i would come across an issue with judging, again i would check my email and the oldest message had to do with judging, et cetera et cetera. This result happened nine consecutive times! And now, your messages are once again providing the same impact, since your last post on “getting angry.” I thank God immensely for His creation of you and how willing you are to work for Him.
Now, what i could use prayer for is “getting angry” and never giving up. My grades in School are currently failing, (i am very disappointed to say) and working to get them up is quite difficult, i’ve been trying to work harder but my body continually fails me. I want to work and i really really need to improve my grades but my eyes get heavy and body gives up. I need prayer for not giving up, please.
Thank you and God bless you Mark!
-Joe M.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Please pray for my kids and I, Mark. I am a single mom and in a really bad place. I already approached my church, very broken, but they made me feel even more worthless and I am in so much pain. I am doing my best to hold on to His word in spite of it, but I am so overwhelmed it’s hard to keep my head above water. Your devotionals are such a tremendous blessing to me. Thank you so much for all you do.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Thank you for your encouraging words. Please pray for my husband as he is going through a dry period and is unable to concentrate on his ministry. Please also pray that God will give me wisdom on how best to encourage him and build him up. I’m not very good at it. Thank you.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Mark, I am so thankful for your videos. They always seem to be right on mark. My struggle right now is with money. I am a senior citizen on a fixed income and with the economy being so bad right now I am struggling to make ends meet, and actually they do not meet. I have too many bills to pay for the money I have. It doesn’t seem right somehow to ask God for money. How shall I continue? Please pray for me to have courage and strength. Thank you. Your Sister in Christ, Marilynn
October 4th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Dear mark,
Thank you for this – struggle is the appropriate word and realising that healing is a process which is in God’s timing. I pray that I will persevere and not give up and give thanks for your testimony of coming through the other side stronger.
God bless you.
Jo.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Who am I? It seems these days I can not find myself to get out of the bed to go to church, yet I am blessed with a job. I can force myself up to be at work by 7 (till 7pm) but not church by 9:30 for a mere 3 hours. I love my God and am truley blessed. My marriage is finally working out, I have two wonderful little boys and have a wonderful “in-law” family. Lord, I pray to find my path back to you. I pray my husband will follow. Dear friends, please speak this prayer with me. Thank you Mark for your sermons, if you will.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
thanks for this video mark. i have beeen strugglimg for several years with bipolar depression and thia has been encouraging. please could you email me so i can ask your advice on something relating to my mental health. i dont want to publish it all on here. thanks.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Thank you for your message, Mark. I enjoy hearing them, it always seems to be fitting for the time. I am currently at a crossroads in my life, and have been praying for direction on what my ‘next step’ should be. The past few years have been rough, and in that time, I made some poor decisions that ultimately led me to being closer to God (which I am grateful for). Prayer for me in that I can find it to forgive MYSELF and truly open my soul to hearing God’s response to my prayers is appreciated. Thank you for all you do in spreading God’s word.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Mark, Thank you for the wonderful message of challenges making one stronger. It was a perfect message at the perfect time in my life. I would like to ask that you pray for me to continue to be patient as I await for God’s plan to be revealed to me. I have been unemployed for 2 months now and we’re facing some financial challenges. Thank you for all you do in speaking God’s word through this forum. God bless you and your family.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Thanks ever so much for you encouraging words!
October 4th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Hi Mark, I so enjoy your words but I cannot bear much more. I’ve been unemployed for 11 months now. I made my boys lunchs for 13 years, went to every school event, volunteered at their school drove them around to all their events, participated in fundraising events, to now only seeing them once a week because I left my apartment for health reasons (it had a lot of mold) and because I couldn’t pay the rent, they are now staying with their dad. This is killing me. AFter that I was involved in a car accident and lost my car, then I started riding my bike and was involved in a bike accident that flung me over my handle bars and broke my arm. I am jobless, carless, and my boys . . . . How much can someone bear. Ontop of that I have not been feeling well for years now. Something is in my system and the doctors cannot find anything in their test. Pray for me and my boys.
October 4th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Thank you for the encouragement! If you could pray for me as well. I have been confronted by sins that are deep in my heart. Sometimes it seems overwhelming. I have struggled in my faith, and want to love God more than anything. I want to be wholly devoted to Him, just as I was created to be. Please pray for me, that God would work in my heart and draw me closer to Himself.
October 4th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Thanks for the message Mark. It was what I needed to hear today. Please pray for healing and God’s strength for my family.
October 4th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Mark, I am so fed up of breaking my promises to God I am an old man who keeps on falling I feel dead inside I don’t feel the holy spirit working in me I fell away from God and trying to get back to where I was before the sin that broke me occured.
when I read my bible I feel nothing when I try to pry my mind wonders and I even fall asleep.
Mark your prayers would be appreciated.
May god bless you as you continue the race.
October 4th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Thank you, I always feel blessed when the right message comes at the right time. I have been living in a fog, not able to see the road ahead and feel I need to make some serious life decisions YESTERDAY. I am being shown “the next step” one small step at a time but find it hard to not panic as unemployment will be running out and I will need to leave my home. Usually I know exactly what to do. Not this time. Decisions need to be made regarding my home and finances. I want to move and find work out of state because of a domestic assault. My now ex-husband is in jail serving time but not for long. I am still healing emotionally, trying to accept this time of unemployment as gift, time to heal and grow strong and prepare. Hard to let go and trust when so much is on the line financially. Please pray that I am not being misled and am indeed on the right path and that God is walking me through this fog. Thank you.
October 4th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
That’s what I did over and over. And I would also proclaim out loud His promise that He would never leave me because HE promised! But things got worse, my endurance is very strong, but this one was waaay too much. I almost committed myself into the hospital; no joke. I have too much on my plate and I do not even feel God at all. I have no relief. BUT BUT BUT BUT… I would get temporary relief in opening the bible; and listening to sermons… like I do every day… but it would be temporary… very temporary.. i could not control my thoughts; it was just too hard; too overwhelming.
Things ARE starting to turn around, because I ran away from home… and i got to stay overnight in a hotel and just worship away from my house, where my husband is. Now, I have been rejuvenated…ready for another round.
I KNOW that I will go over to the other side.. I will walk this through to the other side. I WILL make it! That’s it. I will make it.. and there is no other alternative.
October 5th, 2011 at 2:06 am
Thanks Mark that is exactly what im asking myself rite now, why do i keep falling. should i keep searching for Christ? and i do feel stronger when i pick myself back up again. i can feel the strength of the experience i just went through and i know god is with me. thank you for reminding me i am not alone, god bless
October 5th, 2011 at 3:11 am
The way God works through you is AMAZING. I often wish you had messages to share everyday, as they’re really helping me through the hardest time in my life. Things have been an enormous struggle for the last few years. I am married with a 5 year old, and a 17 month old. When I was pregnant with my youngest, my mother (and best friend), was diagnosed with Leukemia. She lived only six more weeks before losing her. Around that same time, a neighbor introduced my husband to drugs. He was getting high every night for a year, not there for me and the children. For awhile he agreed to go to counseling, but quit after a few times. I told him I would do anything to make our marriage work, but he said he “just doesn’t care.” He wouldn’t consider treatment for his drug use.. Finally I told his mother, out of concern. A week later he got violent in front if the kids and ended up being arrested. The saddest part is that even before the drugs, he ” didn’t care.” We are now going through a divorce. I have huge financial problems. I’m scared of the future and have terrible anxiety. I have a few friends, but my family has not really been there. I’ve been bringing the kids to church, sometimes twice a week. I’m desperate for some peace. God IS there. I know that… Through this storm. I’m closer to him than ever, and for that I’m so very thankful. Please Mark, pray for my children. Pray for me to get through this, and even though my marraige is over, please pray my
husband will find the Lord, and overcome his addiction and depression. Please pray he’ll become a good, and stable father.
Thank you so much for what you do. I can’t imagine how many lives you’re touching. <3
October 5th, 2011 at 3:40 am
Thank you Mark, for being there for the Lord to work though. I’ve never spoken up before, but so often your own journey brings just what I need to learn, at just the right time.
Today I’ll take you up on that offer of prayer. I am struggling with a lot right now, much of which I suppose I won’t share on an open forum, but one thing that really spoke to me today was your mention of how a broken bone heals stronger that it was. I have been so broken myself, and I know it has strengthened me. And right now, shortly before hearing your message in fact, I started towards hopefully mending some broken friendships. A handful of good friends that I managed to alienate through my own stubbornness and poor choices a handful of years back. I have lost enough people in my life, over silly little things, and over things I even now do not understand. Please pray that my words of apology reach hearts willing to listen and that those friendships are made stronger in the healing. And if the friendships are not meant to be, that at least my words now may heal some of the hurt my words caused in the past. And pray for the Lord’s assistance in keeping a tight rein on my tongue!
So odd to think just how much you feel like a good friend, and yet I’ve never communicated with you. Just know that you are appreciated. Amanda
October 5th, 2011 at 5:32 am
I dunno wat to say because im going thru a rough patch… whether it is gud or bad i lack confidence and im not able to believe in myself and finding hard to be closer to God please pray for me mark.. I have been thinking abt talking this out to a pastor and at the same time thinking about just relying on god
October 5th, 2011 at 10:34 am
Thank you Mark, I think your awesome, God is working through you to reach many. I’m not “giving up” I need prayer to stop drinking(alcohol) even if i think I have it under control, & also presciption drugs enter my mind for my pain, but I can’t go down that path again, I need physical healing(Cyst’s). I have claimed!my healing,and praise God every day no matter what storm I face, I keep walking with the Holy Spirit, God’s great gift to man. Praise God and God bless you Mark with strength, peace & joy!!!!
October 5th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Please pray for me. This was really encouraging and I thank you. I guess I dont really know what exactly is wrong… I just feel so distant from God and Im thirsty. I have had some hard hits and am discouraged and at a loss of what to do next. I think I have spread myself too thin and am trying to figure out what I need to cut out to balance my life and be able to breathe. What God wants me to do at this point in my life. Im also a little discouraged in my prayer life as well, just not knowing where to begin there, and even reading. Its like God is no where to be found, and I NEED him to show up. Im so tired. Thank you for your prayers. Blessings.
October 5th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
This is a season of loneliness for me. I know God is always with me but feel so discouraged because family, friends, and husband are all not saved. I am in a bible study group and have a great mentor but they have their own life to lead and have jobs and are a part in the church. And there is just not much time to talk much less fellowship. I feel very lonely and discouraged and this wirks can be so happy with it’s negativity and worldly ways. I stay in the world and pray constantly but I feel like Paul. Sometimes I say and do things that is the opposite of what I want to do and get convicted but my faith is so weak. Please help me Lord to have strength in my weaknesses and to witness to others and have the Holy Ghost give me boldness and confidence. Help me Holy Ghost to leave my past in the past and to not have a poor spirit. I
October 5th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
I pray against generational curses and just need to keep pressing on in Jesus name. I want to be stronger in the Lord but feel so weak in my faith. help me Lord.
October 5th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Mark, God sure does know when and how to comfort one. I recently had to go through a bitter experience of losing stuff. My struggle is more to do with my own reaction to the whole experience. I have so much of anger & frustration right now. I feel violated & helpless but i know that God transforms his loved ones & there is a greater purpose for the stuff that we go through & he somehow makes it right & yes,we become that much more stronger when we get through the whole healing process!. Please pray that i heal the right way.Thank you for this & god bless you & your loved ones.
October 5th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Please pray for my husband and I to become better stewards with our finances. We completed the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University this year, but we are still struggling. Thank you and God Bless.
October 6th, 2011 at 4:34 am
Please pray for my husband and me. We’ve endured nearly four and a half years of infertility and a very early miscarriage almost a year ago. This has been, by far, my most difficult struggle and is directly connected to my current spiritual obstacle of surrendering it all to God. My husband and I are very close, but it frustrates me because he doesn’t quite understand what I’m going through as the woman with infertility. He also has been able to surrender his control to God and doesn’t quite understand that I’m still in the process.
I thank you for your blog and videos. Continue doing God’s work.
October 6th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
I really loved your message. Please pray for me. I am going through a divorce, due to domestic abuse. I am a christian and God has been so very wonderful to me. I Know that God has something great in store for me. I will always seek God’s well in my life, and I will never give up. I thank you for your blog and the wonderful work you do for God.
October 6th, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Mark – Thank you for this message, I really needed to hear from God and He spoke directly to me through you. Long story short but need prayer for healing. I had a on again/off again 18 year relationship with a man and we now have a 9 yr old daughter. We both are addicts but I am in recovery with 3 years clean, he is not doing so well…Engaged 2 years ago, he started using again and we split up. I have always felt that God made us for eachother and that it is his will for us to be together but Satan has done everything to mess that up. He does not see this, I do and found out that he married someone in January. It was in secret, he hasn’t seen our daughter since April and I believe this was Satan also……My dilema is that if it is not God’s will for us then I pray that God will take the hurt away and help me to completly let go…..I have not been able to let go completely because I feel so strongly that this is what is supposed to be…..I do not trust any man for that matter, feeling that I was never good enough and I just want the pain and hurt to go away. Same for my daughter who’s father is not around and doesn’t understand why he married someone elso. I don’t know what God’s will is but I need healing…..Thank you for your prayers.
October 7th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Your message was good
please pray for me as I struggle with sin and also, I am about to go off to Marine bootcamp. I am scared/proud/eager/lost. I plan on going Infantry. I havnt prayed a whole lot about this manner, but I feel like God is guiding me where He wants me to be. Prayers would be appreciated.
God Bless
October 7th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Thanks Mark for your ever practical application of God’s word. I’m highly familiar with being persistent and never giving up. I’ve been thru a lot. I don’t doubt God at all. I’m finding tho that my desire to seek God and persevere with current trials just isn’t there. I’m really weary and tired of what I consider a continual onslaught. I know the truth but it’s not setting me free. So prayer for a renewed vigilance and to be able to let go of hurt from my childhood would help. Thanks.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:42 am
Your message is very inpsiring and full of encouragement. I am going through a very tough and difficult time of my life because of a decision I made to turn away from my sinful life and follow God, and also pursue my dream to be a singer. I had this dream many years ago but gave it up somehow and started living a sinful life due to lack of encouragement in the environment where I lived. Everyone knows that I have a gift to write songs and sing as well, but I couldn’t find the right people to function with musically; and instead of encouragement, all I had was discouragement. So I gave it up thinking I was not meant to do it and even walked away from God. But every now and then in my sleep I will dream and see myself singing. Sometimes I even wake up with fresh songs. Some are with clear messages for a change, while some are just normal songs. Also, a voice has been speaking to my heart reminding me of the dream I gave up. I try to listen to the voice and its seems very clear that I should believe, have faith and work hard to make the dream a reality. For almost a year now, I have decided to turn away from my sinful life. I am now building a relatioship with God and trying to pursue my dream of being a singer; but everything is getting tough. I find myself struggling with finances, no good job or the right people I need to function with musically. It’s killing me and driving me crazy. I am confused and kind of twisted. A part of me wants to go back to the old life I used to live, and the other wants to pursue the dream in my heart.
I just want you to pray for me that God will lead and direct me to the right people I need to function with musically, and help me through my struggle, with a breakthrough; because I really don’t want to go back to my old ways.
May God bless you and your daughter as you pray for me.
Thanks
Kenny.
October 8th, 2011 at 8:49 am
Hi Mark
There was a mistake in my email address in my previous comment. I had to write this note to inform you, and if you would like to reach me, please use the email address on this comment.
Thanks
Kenny
October 12th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Mark, you are such a blessing from God! God knows exactly what to do during time of need. I have been struggling with some things for a while now and I would love for you to keep me in your prayers and pray that I will perserver and not give up, but to trust God, seek him, and grow closer to him through these struggles. God Bless!
December 7th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
prayer request- please pray for me. I am going through a difficult time where everything seems hopeless. I know I need to be strong, and getting through this time will make me stronger. But being strong right now seems almost impossible. I have a better outlook right now than I did a few minutes ago, but I just ask for prayers of patience and strength. Thanks. God Bless