Leaving Your Enemy Speechless
Studying in Second Chronicles this week, I seemed to be getting downloads from Heaven as several verses leapt off my screen and quickly rooted in my heart. Hezekiah’s story begins to unfold in chapter thirty and his life has been an inspiration to me since the first days of reading my bible with an awakened…
What God Does, We Want To Do
“The Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.” – Deuteronomy 30:5 Father, You are so incredibly good that we have no issues with this verse today. You have ordained a time for…
A Preface To My Sermon Series On Spiritual Gifts
So many among God’s people are sensing some difficult-to-define rumblings taking place. God’s divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, as stated in Second Peter 1:3. The objective Word of God constantly serves as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (Psalm 119:105), so…
Filling Up
“I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For…
Upward Forevermore
All of time and eternity, all that was created and has ever been, all manifestations of light and darkness, all tangible matter and each intangible thought, every prayer and all praise, each pain and all pleasure, both demon and angel, sinner and saint, all children of darkness and each child of the light, every speck…
What Describes You Does Not Define You
Who are you? That question is never answered by most people who walk the planet. In a quest to receive an identity, most of us end up substituting the answer for “What am I?” and never make significant connection with the essential answer to “Who am I?” I am a wife. I am a mother. …
From ! to ? …And Back Again
“Blessed is the one who is not offended by Me.” – Luke 7:23 {ESV} That’s a beatitude from the Lord Jesus which rarely gets any press. This statement from the Son of God is found in one of my favorite passages in the Gospels. John the Baptist’s ministry comet had crashed. The baptizer went from…
Deeper, Father, Deeper…Deeper
Father, Take us deeper today. Bring us out of the shallows and lead us into the dimensions that are provided for us in Jesus, Your Son. Help us no longer to associate the idea of our maturing in the faith with the simple belief that we must grow deeper in what we have already learned. …
Eat Your Opposition For Breakfast
Once the Father births a vision in your heart, you become connected to a sense of meaningfulness about why you are here on planet earth. Most people never experience this inestimable privilege. They hit that conveyor belt of whatever culture they are born into and simply take a number and live for whatever everyone else…
Let’s Eat
For the last six years one of the challenges faced by Amy and me is getting our now ten year old son to eat. He is a brilliant little man but he has no desire for variety in his diet. Interestingly, when he was very young, he would eat almost anything – from butternut squash…