Sometimes pain can come on in an unexpected moment, such as when you step barefoot onto a sharp object, or when you suddenly lose a loved one. Other times, the pain is a deep ache of an old injury that resurfaces with a change in weather - or when your past emotional pain is triggered …
Waiting on the Promises
What have you been waiting on the Lord for? A breakthrough? Healing? Deliverance from an oppressive situation? Our need and our pain reveal a greater glory that we were created for. Hunger suggests that we were created for food. Exhaustion says that we were created for rest and strength. Loneliness calls that we have a …
Leadership Goals like Jesus
I want lead like Jesus. Jesus is the quintessential example of servant leadership. His goals were to lower himself to build up those who were created through him, for him and by him for a relationship with him. Yet, instead of looking at this role as a burden and a bother, he considered it a …
Give Me Self-discipline, Lord!
A well quoted verse is 2 Timothy 1:7. The well known part of the verse is this: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear!" I have quoted this to myself and others for years — even decades. But, today it came to me with fresh eyes and revelation. Let's look at the …
Can Faith Be An Idol?
When faith is an idol, we believe we can’t admit we are scared or unsure or that perhaps we heard God wrong. If we do- this is unbelief and then God can’t do what we want him to do. This is a lie.
Suffering in Vain
Friends, there is no doubt that persecution is upon the church. But, let us examine ourselves to make sure that any persecution, rejection, ridicule or hardship we face is truly for Christ and not just because we are loud-mouthed, or rude, or obnoxious, or participating in illegal activity or incendiary rhetoric. The Apostle Peter writes …
Don’t Fall for that Old Trick
Wrestling not against flesh and blood We have authority in Jesus to fight. Yet the enemy will lie to us to tell us we couldn’t or shouldn’t fight him. This undermines the power of the cross of Christ. We should never see this as just ourselves fighting in our own power - but as walking …
You’re Not Helpless
You have everything you need for life and godliness. Everything. You are not helpless. If you have turned from sin and embraced Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior- you have been called by God and given everything you need to overcome. "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and …
Seek the Lord While He May Be Found
I was praying tonight about the state of our world and nation- just crying out to God without words. I saw a picture of a man of God from ages past kneeling in candlelight. He was dressed like the men from the Great Awakening. The Lord impressed on me that this very picture is the …
40 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 40 -Strength to Stand in Suffering
"I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next." Corrie Ten Boom