Arriving With the Blessings of God
Our appearance is designed to release the blessings of God into challenging situations.
Our appearance is designed to release the blessings of God into challenging situations.
Confusion, fear, and unbelief are not permitted to contradict God’s word or any promise He has made to us.
We have made the Gospel a complicated subject to explain followed by a lot of personal hoops.
The calling to follow Jesus would not be a faith walk in the park.
We all need to be startled from time to time motivating us to go deeper into the place of our hidden motives.
It is in that place where our faith will begin to see what is not seen with the natural eye.
God has made us a symbol and source of the Lord’s blessing to the nations around us.
The Lord’s offer of love requires a choice because we are entering a marriage.
We can become confused in our exposure to the world and our alliance with the spirit of the age.
Openness with people is a good thing as long as we don’t forget that truth is “discerned only through the Spirit.”
Somehow people have been led to believe that (prophetic) warnings belong only in the Old Testament.
Instead of searching for another voice to add to the arsenal of affirming voices, we need to hear the prophetic voice of God.
The Lord has been set along the walls of our personal lives and what we have been called to do for Him.
The revelation of God’s enduring love for Israel brought the nation to a place of wisdom where the heart and intent of God were finally seen.
God will restore all that has been lost if our hearts are open to his loving advances of restoration.
We are being called back to a place where a new heart and a responsive spirit await us.
When a watchman’s warning is heard and obeyed with a repentant heart, it will bring freedom.
Mirages cause people to run toward them without receiving the reward of refreshment and replenishment.
God’s field of play is about the condition of our hearts and our willingness to yield to His will.
People who live under this kind of failed leadership no matter how right it may appear on the surface, will suffer a scattering, not a union.
As the world continues to advance a list of absurdities and falsehoods, only by a daily infusion of God’s word can we hope to stand and not faint.
There is a repositioning that happens with our obedience.
It was a serving attitude that Paul demonstrated to others that kept him safe in each ascent.
We have become overly compliant with the world’s standards not wanting to empty the pews if we speak the truth in love.
The evidence of our trust is our silent obedience to God in the middle of the turmoil, confusion, and disappointment.
The sound some prophets are currently making is warning us the world is not as tame and subdued as we have been led to believe.
The truths we hold and profess in Jesus can take a long time to unfold.
God’s word, not our feelings or impressions about what we think is right or wrong, must be what leads our lives and forms our opinions.
The Lord will destroy the destructive strongholds of human reasoning, destroying their arguments and the platforms of their support.
The Lord never takes delight in the misery of His people no matter how grievous our sin might appear.
Those walking in the Gideon calling will do what God asks of them even when having personal doubts.
A blade of truth is being prepared that will be thrust into the belly of this sin that will bring freedom and deliverance.
We do not want anything to attach to our lives that was gained through the compromise of the truth.
Hearing the Lord’s voice will keep us from violating those boundaries and suffering unnecessary consequences.
You didn’t come this far to sit on the sidelines sipping a cool one and watching others play the game.
We need to choose this perspective of mercy if we are to keep our sanity in the middle of all the turmoil.
Some of you are about to make a significant crossing, a journey to what God has promised.
Do not believe the lies of hell that remove people from the touch of God based on natural or historical evidence.
A remnant is emerging to model and express the justice of God in places where moral corruption is happening without restraint.
Not all the restrictions and delays we face are from the devil.
Faith is choosing to look past the lies that got us bitten by our sins.
Incomplete obedience will not align us with what the Lord has promised.
In the stillness of His presence, we can let go of the things that make our lives heavy and fearful.
The battles being fought today are about the conflict of belief taking place within human hearts.
Our freedom sets up our understanding of what He asks of us to live and remain free.
As a person of faith, no matter how well we craft a sentence of complaint, it is always directed at the Lord.
In times of war, it is too easy to label an entire group of people as the evil ones to dismiss them in total.
The shot you are called to make will require that you are so close you will see the eyes of your spiritual attacker.
In our faith, we must be filled up and topped off because what is happening in our world may require a full magazine.
All the personal histories that converged on that day were used by God to set the stage for the miracle.
Belief took place once the attachment was broken.
To stop after one failure or many, is not you’re calling.
There is another kind of prayer that goes to the very root of authority that applies itself in our present day.
The world is watching the screening of our lives looking for things that don’t add up or make no sense when compared to the life of Jesus.
God remains unchanged by the foolishness and whims of human understanding and interpretation.
It is a day we set aside to thank and acknowledge the God who gave us such blessings.
We should always be spiritually vigilant making sure our lives have been cleared of any presence that wants to destroy our faith.
The places of tension and traction are where God reveals His will and expresses His goodness.
Only after confession and repentance is hope possible for an individual or a nation.
No matter how intense these life-shattering false alarms become, God is up to something greater.
Today, follow the slightest nudge of the Spirit to speak the truth in love no matter the context.
The saddest of all false accusations come from those within our own ranks as believers.
Makeovers have a window of possibility attached to them that requires a specific timing.
The joy God experiences from our desire to be with Him becomes our joy as we look into His face and experience His presence.
If Jesus is not believed and affirmed as the only way into truth and life, false gods will step in to fill that void of deception.
Those on both sides of an act of obedience need to give each other permission to live and move as the Spirit leads them.
A larger conflict is emerging for those who can see what the Lord is doing.
May all that is planned and ready to execute, like it was on the first day of the missile attacks in Israel, stumble and fall to the ground.
Instead of confining the Gospel, God used an evil plan of persecution to expand its influence geographically.
The Lord is using our perceived lack to probe the depth of our trust in Him.
The challenges of life have made us feel like we are sitting alone in a dark place.
God’s power is second to none in this world or in the heavens above.
I had become too casual about the physical presence of God’s word.
Under the direction of the Holy Spirit, not our assumptions, we will be able to see what we are about to walk into.
We can use the Old Testament template to interpret the present and forecast the future.
The work of reconstruction and restoration that honors God, will not go unchallenged.
No matter how dark a time in history might appear, God is the only one who is calling the shots on the conclusion of our world.
A single drop of Jesus’ blood accomplished what all the sacrifices across all of time could not.
When we know a promise has been deposited in our future and continue to pray into its fulfillment we will live in hope.
Our warfare in times of chaos and disorder will not leave behind bite marks that tear and rip another person apart.
When the worship started, a miracle took place.
Those who say God is not concerned about nations are ill-informed regarding His purpose for the Church on Earth.
Look for a leader who is in constant communication with the Lord seeking His opinion and direction above their own.
We advance in our faith by allowing God to open up the closed loops of thinking about spiritual realities.
True leaders put the quest for personal gain aside to wash the feet of those they serve.
Today, when we engage in spiritual warfare, we are the footstool of God’s presence on Earth.
As the body of Christ, we carry the presence of God into all areas of life, including our families.
Through their willingness to obey the Lord and allow themselves to be reined by Him, the tenderness of their heart is revealed.
Every battle requires that we inquire of the Lord, “Should I take this on?”
Today, our world is flaunting in public what is inappropriate, even in private.
It was on the same seashore – the Sea of Galilee – where Peter began following Jesus that the Lord would now restore Peter.
We need to be guided along the path of revelation.
We cannot be friends of God if we claim His name but continue to live in disobedience.
That single accusation or criticism is like the first movement of a snowpack that begins to tumble down a mountain.
To be used by God for His glory, we must be willing to put to death our need for human praise and wait for the praise of God.
The Lord is dilating the eyes of His people to examine our current understanding of reality.
What we had wrongly assumed would remain forever dead and closed will begin to open.
More important than the individual sounds the global prophetic voice makes is the One who is directing the chorus of these voices.
At some point in every move of God, it will be required of us to recognize where and how the Lord is choosing to reveal Himself.
When we find ourselves in situations beyond our control, our choice to do good, not evil, will become our act of resistance.