2 Corinthians 12:14-15 Look, I am ready this third time to come and visit you; and I will not be a burden to you; for it is not what you own that I want, but you! Children are not supposed to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. And as for me, I will most gladly spend everything I have and be spent myself too for your […]
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Champions
Your sons and daughters need a champion to lead them. They don’t need a hall monitor. They don’t need the police. They need someone who will shout a charge to steal 3rd, not someone who is constantly reminding them to keep touching the base until they are ready to run. They may really be maintenance staff, who will just take the things we built and keep the lights on and […]
First Page of “Using the Bible”
Matthew 3:16 When Jesus was baptized by his cousin John in the river, Heaven opened and the Spirit of God came down on Him. The Holy Spirit then did something that He loves to do after He baptizes someone: He drove Jesus out into the wilderness. In the place of lack and pain and threats of more, Jesus encountered misery and exile. He began to suffer the things through which […]
Meeting Jesus in our Baptisms
Some Criteria for Identifying Baptisms * There is a real danger of our destruction * God intends to effect growth through the baptism, usually in one or more of three areas: – Knowing our God – Knowing who He says we are – Knowing our purpose/ministry/destiny/calling * We have to submit to our God and His fellowship in the baptism and in His intent in order to receive the blessing of the […]
Whose Image do you Bear?
Genesis 4:25-5:4 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, “For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.” And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord. 5 This is the book of the genealogy of […]
Curses or Blessings
We have tendency to value everything from our perspective and nothing from Yahweh’s perspective. When we get that repaired, we will be walking in the Spirit in His Kingdom. We can’t tell the difference between blessed things and cursed things until we can see them from the throne room of God. There is a Hebrew word that is transliterated “cherem” (Strongs: h2764) that appears 38 times in Scripture. It literally […]
Using the Lord’s Name in Vain
Acts 19:13-20 The typical version of a “power encounter,” such as the confrontation of Baal and Yahweh on Mt. Carmel with Elijah representing Yahweh, is that Yahweh overpowers the unclean spirits and embarrasses them in the process. Another such encounter was in Philippi in Acts 16, when Paul cast a python spirit out of a soothsaying girl. Many people were saved, and public knowledge of the local principality having to bow […]
Hindsight
Hindsight is 20 20 I’m told. Prophetic sight levels vary. Listening to the Spirit improves your ability to see what’s ahead. Listening to prophets who are listening to the Spirit helps. Even if all you ever seem to have working is learning from mistakes, if you really do learn something from each one, your game will improve. Some of the most effective lessons on knowing the Shepherd’s voice can be […]
Walk a Mile
Never criticize someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes. By then, you are safely a mile ahead of them, and you have their shoes, so you can say anything you want to without fear.
Divine Culture
Some people are convinced that there are two versions of society in the earth – guilt-based, and shame-based. In a guilt-based culture, citizens are taught to feel bad if they have done something the rest of the people consider to be wrong. The offending citizen should feel guilt even if no one knows about the failure. Paying for the error, or having it paid for by someone else, the offender […]