If your life is a long list of things other people are doing wrong, instead of a manifestation of One Who came to save people from themselves, please become convinced that one work is more useful than the other. If your answer to others’ sins is intercession instead of accusation, their lives could be changed.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
New Wine
If what you learn of Jesus does not become an expansion in you, it is dead. When it is new wine, full of the Spirit of Life, it will expand in you until you must decide whether to preserve the wine or the wine skin.
Just Say “No”
As you seek direction from the Spirit of Life regarding actions and invitations and temptations that constantly press you for service, the more you refuse the ones He leads you away from, the more you can devote yourself to the ones He leads you to accept. If you are not asking Him for that type of guidance, today would be a good day to start saying “Yes” to His invitation […]
You Are Qualified
The teachers who have been making a living off of false eschatology (words about the end times) are likely to create the same scenario that Jesus encountered the first time He came to the earth: the religious camps all thought that He would rise from their party, would believe their doctrines and judge the other parties, and would rule the nation under their guidance. His entire process of being revealed […]
Glad for Mercy
The more we learn to thank the Holy Spirit when He points out a failure or sin and offers correction, the less we take offense when He uses a brother or sister to do it because we weren’t listening to Him. We have really come to live in a blessed place when, after not grasping that He is speaking to us on a subject, and not hearing His voice in […]
Released From Failure
On the cross, Jesus delivered us from the pain of failure and the penalty of failure. He has empowered us to walk in righteousness, and He has delivered us from the kingdom of darkness into His light for eternity. We need to believe these things in order to step out of the cage’s open door, though. When we find ourselves caged again, we need to then find ourselves freed again. […]
Costly Proximity
Approaching Yahweh always required death. Bulls, goats, and for the poorest citizens, birds, had to be sacrificed and blood presented. The blood that Jesus presented was so perfect a sacrifice that the manner of death changed with His offering. Now, death is still required, but the resurrection is applied to each life’s offering. We are now living sacrifices. We lay down our lives as offerings, and take them up to […]
Rules for Living
If you are struggling with how to live your life, and you are looking for answers, look for them in Jesus, not in rules for living. Finding a good set of rules to try to attain righteousness instead of finding the power of Jesus, raised from the dead, seated in the throne of my heart by His Spirit, is like the contrast between going to a physician who is treating […]
Proper Demands
Demanding righteous behavior from others is not nearly as effective at changing the world as demanding it from ourselves.