Who Starts the Fights?

Yahweh picked a fight with Satan over Job. Yahweh won, therefore Job also won. Who picked the fight with Jacob at Peniel? Jacob was convinced that he had been fighting Yahweh all night. If Jacob had surrendered earlier, what would have changed in the blessing he could have received? How often are we fighting with Yahweh when He wants to […]

Expecting Help

Daniel’s three friends Mishael, Hananiah and Azariah (their demon-glorifying names were Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego) prayed for him to get revelation about the king’s dream so that they would not be killed. We need to expect such blessing, including such supernatural intervention in our lives: The king replied to the Chaldeans, “My word is final: If you don’t tell me […]

Greater Surrender

The path to the life of righteousness – of proper character and proper service to Jesus – is not found by working harder at getting things right. It is found by greater surrender of our desires, our intentions, our possessions, and our actions to the Living God. Losing our lives in surrender to Him opens our access to Life in […]

Love and Worship

Anger, fear, insult – these and other powers can poke a pin in our self-control and expose things that surprise us as they burst forth. Just as Peter cursed as he denied knowing Jesus, we have all uttered curses and accusations and bitter insults when we found ourselves under pressure from attackers or accusers. Our responses can be worship of […]

Sanctified Mind

Let your mind be changed, because the Kingdom of Heaven is close by you. John Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Paul Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus. Paul Together, we have the mind of Christ. Paul Get focused on the King and His place of […]

Break or Melt

If your heart is not broken on days regarding how much Jesus loves the lost, you may not be not properly under His influence. If your heart is not melted on days regarding how much Jesus loves you, you may not be properly under His influence. See what love the Father has lavished on us in letting us be called […]

Home Style

The Holy Spirit was not poured out on the people of Jesus at the temple, nor in a synagogue. He met them in a home (Acts 2:1-4). When He was poured out again on a gathering of the people of Jesus, including a refreshing for some of the 120 just mentioned, He met them in a home (Acts 4:18-31). When […]

Seek Him Always

Jesus seems to love meeting us in places where we are in trouble. On days, we don’t seem to think of Him too deeply unless we are in trouble. I suggest that this may explain some of the frequency of our finding ourselves in trouble. I also suggest that it is much more awesome to acknowledge Him in every moment […]

Successful Courage

Without regard for what your flesh would like to torment you into believing, you are not alone. Although there are reasons to be sad on days, there is no excuse for staying sad. What happens to you is never as important as your response. People who bump through life in defeat and despair are not likely responding to their past […]

Increase

Isaiah wrote that our God’s government would never stop increasing (Isaiah 9:6-7). Jesus appeared in the Earth to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to it and to pay the blood price to take a harvest from it back to Heaven. If His government never stops increasing, and if His government is what His miracles were about, it seems that we […]