The Scarlet Thread of Our Choices
Our choices can be simplified by just doing what God is asking of us at the moment, not what makes the most sense.
Our choices can be simplified by just doing what God is asking of us at the moment, not what makes the most sense.
Only those who have remained in the Lord and understand His love will know how to respond properly to the hatred.
Whatever the Lord asks us to do in His name it is never about making us famous.
Today we see similar deceptions taking place, preaching these lies from pulpits and expressing them across the platforms of social media.
Instead of chasing after the winds of human success and status, we are called to chase after the wind of God’s Spirit.
We are never without a way of escape if our temple is filled with His presence.
Humility before God and the grace it provides is our most powerful plan of attack.
Our faith is always being perfected if we keep our eyes on Jesus.
He makes us naked before Him where we have no choice but to trust Him or walk away in disbelief.
Our childlike innocence allows us to hear the word of the Lord.
Living a life of faith requires that we shed the things the world considers important to embrace what is important to God.
One purpose of the early creeds of the Church was to hold people to the foundational truths of their faith.
It is the release of God’s love and His promised provision that we will prophesy when natural systems begin to fail.
If we get too tidy and limiting in our expression of faith, we will not expect the power of God to come.
At some point, our faith in the Lord must have a moment of decision when we choose to call upon the Lord and surrender our lives to Him.
Those who take hold of God’s peace will always remain free no matter what happens to them.
Social and spiritual tremors are moving across the landscape.
Turning from that singular dependence on God will make us vulnerable to the enemy’s wiles.
The restoration of Job’s life began when Job demonstrated mercy for his friends and prayed for them.
Non-compliance will bring into public view the lack of integrity of an issue.
It is a day to be particularly thankful for all the people the Lord has allowed to cross the path of our lives.
God’s revelation only comes from a heart submitted to God and from someone open to hearing what the Lord is saying to the Church.
To protect the people within our intimate circle of responsibility is right and good and should be honored, not dismissed and demeaned.
God’s judgment will release blessings that only a repentant heart can experience.
The Lord is always at work for those with eyes to see, even as this life is unraveling.
Devouring a fellow believer is a form of spiritual cannibalism, a meal of division offered by Satan.
Every spiritual battle is a test of our trust in God.
The Lord is looking for people who choose to believe in the fulfillment of His promises.
Our minds must be protected like someone guarding their home from an invader.
This election is greater than the brutal and public portrayal of either candidate’s flaws.
Only when compassion is motivating our principled words will they have the kind of impact God intends.
The Lord will honor your act of faith because faith is timeless and not empowered by something new.
We have a say in how our nation is governed and the environment it creates.
A ripping apart of the veil of deception that wants to smother our nation in its lies will reveal the love of God in remarkable ways.
God’s love requires that we respond when injustice takes place no matter what our affiliation.
Be careful while constructing or deconstructing your faith that you do not become someone who defines God.
God wants to return to you multiple times over what you have invested in others.
Creating division is the by-product of false teachers.
I realized a time may come when simplicity will be the door through which the Spirit will walk into.
God has given you all you will need to get through the remote feelings to a place of stability.
A paused moment in time will be used to gather the Church bringing them into a place of one heart and mind.
All unredeemed people are living under the influence of a system of unbelief driven by an anti-Christ spirit.
Not being aware of what is happening in our world will cause us to become pawns of the Babylonian spirit.
The theme of God doing impossible things is a message that spans across covenants.
The Lord does His most profound works of restoration when we are standing before the ruins of our past and feel hopeless.
Do all you can to support and contend for what is right and just in God’s eyes.
Both the crushing and rebuilding are expressions of God’s merciful love.
Kingdom saboteurs will hamper evil goals by expressing God’s goodness in contrast to an attempt to control people’s behavior.
A prophet is a person who must first and foremost love the people to whom they speak.
The remedy will be revealed at a personal crossroads where life-altering choices are made.
Job’s most significant choice in his troubles was to worship God when it appeared there was nothing to worship Him about.
At some point, we need to reevaluate who and what we are listening to because it will have consequences.
We need to choose wisely how we choose to live this life.
A pick-and-choose approach to Scripture is not only foolish, it’s dangerous.
The truth of a matter is not always found in consensus.
Many believers are riding on balding anointings and brittle understandings of God’s nature.
When we come under attack in a spiritual ambush, we need to realize the Lord has been this way before, we haven’t.
We need times of recalibration and reordering of our lives to experience the peace of God.
Only the presence of God defines the people of God.
The smallest choice to believe the truth, even amidst increasing opposition, will change our tomorrow.
Many are speaking freely but only a few are speaking from God’s heart.
The Lord is assembling proven spiritual warriors who are skilled in both prayer and Spirit-led action.
Jesus is preparing His bride to move in greater demonstrations of His power.
Surrounding ourselves with people of wisdom and honesty is a safeguard.
After the battle, Samuel selected a stone and marked it with the name “Ebenezer” meaning “the stone of help.”
It only takes one dangerous person of faith to turn an army of hell on its heels.
We will be stripped down to the basics of our faith.
The president of El Salvador said the greatest conflict in his nation is a spiritual battle, just like what is happening in the United States.
Our Spirit-filled churches are being called to return to that kind of demonstration through a re-engagement with Heaven’s language.
True peace is a gift only Jesus can offer. Its presence mitigates the effects of fear.
Ask the Lord for dreams and instructions that you will carry into the daytime hours.
We need to think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth where the stump of what was is no longer giving life.
Currently, the Church is being transformed by the Spirit for those who choose to see the Lord in a new way.
What we are pursuing in this life will reveal our motivation and the condition of our hearts.
Yielding to the unrestrained impulses of the spirit of the world will create a spiritual free-for-all.
The Lord’s battles are centered around a battle against the spiritual forces that oppose “truth, humility, and justice.”
No leader or follower is immune from the danger of becoming a tare.
To remain silent when we know that a corrupting evil is taking place makes us compliant with the evil itself.
When fear and concern arise, we need to give those feelings to the Lord and allow Him to migrate our thinking toward a place of faith.
If you are living under the weight of hopeless debt, the Lord will be your only true source of rescue.
Following the commands of God is critical to creating a stable life.
Our trust in God becomes a witness to the world of His faithfulness.
The Lord will turn the defiance of those opposed to God into a weapon to use against them.
All the delivery systems in life will constantly change, but not the basics of our faith.
The definition of “Hate Speech” has been used as an overarching condemnation of anyone who offers a contradiction to an approved social narrative.
The Lord will surround us overcoming our helplessness to reveal unimagined outcomes.
The result of His intervention will cause unexpected victories that we could not imagine in the weakened state of our faith.
The Spirit must discern all things before we accept them as the truth.
Choosing to forgive opens the doors of Heaven to pour blessings onto our lives.
This lessening of God is the gateway to the doctrines of demons.
Only a faith that demonstrates the presence of Jesus Christ can overcome the presence of evil.
Our choice to align with God will increasingly isolate us.
Our choice to monitor what we hear and say will define us as a trustworthy person.
Our life-long commitment to love even our enemies is not easy to do.
We are seeing leaders in our nation, and sadly some within the Church, who are planning to take what they want by any means possible.
The reward of God’s goodness is given to those who are not seeking revenge, but truth.
This darkness creates a culture-wide distress for people who have no hope.
The Lord is looking for courageous voices to speak His truth while realizing the personal peril those voices will suffer.
When we enter a confusing time, returning to the word of God and His prophetic promises will keep us out of the traps.
Ambitions created by our assumptions can blind us and lead us to places not intended for our lives.