Not Every Battle is Yours to Fight
Instead of presuming to take on every battle in sight, I’ve learned to wait and look for His direction before walking onto any battleground.
Instead of presuming to take on every battle in sight, I’ve learned to wait and look for His direction before walking onto any battleground.
If you don’t want Jesus in the valley, you also won’t want Him on the mountaintop.
Church government and structure are meant to serve and protect the place of koinonia, not the other way around.
More mercy less judgment.
There’s nothing that can hinder Your purpose or Your plan.
Even when I feel most alone, I know I am not!
God protects His own and lifts them beyond the reach of their persecutors.
Amazing things happen when you give your god-sized dreams to the Almighty One who can make them come true!
It is in that place where our faith will begin to see what is not seen with the natural eye.
And while we cannot pay for salvation, once we have found it, we are willing to give up everything else to possess it.
Instead of building a relationship with their Lord, they thought they could win Him with their offerings.
Our grandchildren face many confusing and critical cultures that we didn’t encounter when growing up or raising our children.
Some of you have taken your eyes off Jesus, therefore you are not walking in the promises that He has provided for you.
It’s time for you to push past those roadblocks, my friends. It’s time to go all in!
God doesn’t simply exist, among other things that exist, but rather, in His existence . . . all things exist.
Out of death, He brought life.
The ugliness of mankind mocks, mutilates, and murders the Altogether Lovely.
Push through the crowd of your own hopeless thoughts so that you can grab hold of the very hem of His garments
God has made us a symbol and source of the Lord’s blessing to the nations around us.
Thankfully, there will be times when your heart connects deeply with another.
Moment by moment care.
Oneness in marriage does not erase the personhood of either spouse.
Putting on gentleness, patience, and peace, we abound in His love.
Do not use what God has given you to devise evil against Him but use it to serve Him.
We must believe truth and embrace it when it is revealed.
My relationship with Him must be built on His thoughts of me, and this world.
We need not fear the crisis for we have a proven plan—call on Jesus!
Nothing can take it from you.
I might not see the fruit of the present, but new life is being formed through it.
I pray she will always see the beauty within herself and understand that her worth comes from the One who created her.
Sometimes God will ask us to do things that to us don’t make sense or are downright scary.
There is an anointing to do exactly what God has called you to do at an accelerated pace.
The Lord’s offer of love requires a choice because we are entering a marriage.
Life doesn’t have to be as hard as we sometimes make it.
Feeding on Him.
Maybe my complete surrender is a sweet aroma to my King.
Klassen’s does a great job of dropping you right into Regency England and the Devonshire coast.
He saves us not in any random place, but in His personal space.
I AM coming and sending My Mighty Ones to catch you.
Wise counsel from those around you who are mature in the Lord, can often prevent you from making critical mistakes.
The average age of viewing explicit images is now about 10 years old.
Powerful presence.
To overcome the temptation to react, we must maintain humility of heart.
Our modern world is filled with anxious people, and isn’t the Bible’s most frequent command to not be afraid?
In life as God’s people we are often challenged by those in authority demanding our obedience.
Tell My People, I AM calling them to be My Mouthpiece, speaking order and balance.
We can become confused in our exposure to the world and our alliance with the spirit of the age.
If we follow the Lamb, we will become all we are called to be in an edifying, practical way.
Trust in what He has for you.
My kids and their kids are an amazing gift to me—a gift I never want to take for granted.
The God whose Word came to pass for the Israelites in the desert will come through for you.
If you want to live with God you need to actively show your love for Him.
As believers, we have been blessed with a unique calling and anointing and we must value and protect that which The LORD has entrusted to us.
I will remain an open vessel for my Father to use, exactly as He sees fit.
Our purpose is not just to wash each others’ feet, but to encourage others to come to Christ and to become that new creation.
We must work to become more unified in our pursuit of a single goal—honoring God above all else via our union.
We have an abundance of advice and wisdom, but not from the voices of experience.
Enforce, support, and repeat the words God has spoken concerning you and your destiny.
Openness with people is a good thing as long as we don’t forget that truth is “discerned only through the Spirit.”
He loves you with an everlasting love and will be relentless until He finds you no matter how you became lost.
I was willing to take it all on faith because the Bible said so. But it didn’t seem likely.
The resilient person doesn’t embrace any single failure or loss as the final declaration of who they are.
I hear the cry of a generation calling out for authentic relationship over marketed Christianity.
God isn’t going to let you miss it as long as you stay connected to Him and continue to move in obedience to the sound of His Voice.
God knows when we look in the mirror and examine our sins and setbacks, we have no space for the offenses of others.
Living from joy.
God never intended us to walk through life alone, trusting no one but ourselves and Him.
God understands you, and He loves you, and He put His plan together with you in mind.
As a priest, every believer is to stand out as different and holy unto God.
I am gathering My army and aligning you in ferocious focus to partner with Me to see My Glory and My name manifest in the earth.
Somehow people have been led to believe that (prophetic) warnings belong only in the Old Testament.
There have always been scoundrels, wolves, false workers, and pastors who feed only themselves.
Lead from peace.
Look to God in faith and He will give you all the refreshment you need.
We are meant to go through the storms of life—not camp out there.
Noah prayed and waited patiently, trusting God.
The dry place they crossed was a safe place provided by God for their benefit!
Destroying chaos.
Being a disciple means walking with Jesus, learning from Him, following His way, journeying with Him, pursuing holiness, and growing spiritually.
Where is my focus?
There are many significant ways you can improve your marriage without your spouse’s direct cooperation.
Many battles between our fleshly nature and the indwelling Holy Spirit await us, refining our faith.
I do not fear death because I know that I am in my Father God’s hands.
It’s time for you to tap into the realms of the Kingdom and begin stewarding the prophetic seeds that the Holy Spirit put inside of you.
Instead of searching for another voice to add to the arsenal of affirming voices, we need to hear the prophetic voice of God.
There has not been one single time in my journey up the mountain that the Lord has not been with me, not once!
Shining for Him.
We are ever being seduced into a perpetual state of distraction by our irreplaceable backlit devices.
We could all use some moments of slow.
In our humanity we cannot comprehend His love for us amidst our fallen state.
You can grow in favor with God and man by growing in wisdom and walking in truth and honor.
Real identity and real Liberty come when we know Who Jesus Christ is, and when we come to a real understanding of Who we are in Him.
Ask for the Lord’s vision for your congregation, then proclaim it and pray that every member sees it.
His perfect peace
The Lord is wonderfully continuous in His care for us, He never sleeps or slumbers.
We often blame our guys for our nagging because they didn’t respond to our request or didn’t do it when we wanted it done.
When it was time to leave I was rejuvenated and ready to recommence my service of the Lord.
I will open the eyes of My People to see as an eagle sees things from a panoramic view.
The Lord has been set along the walls of our personal lives and what we have been called to do for Him.
We should have no doubt in our minds that whatever need we have, it’s going to be provided.