Your soul can’t protect your soul. You have to be strengthened by the Lord and His power. The enemies you need protection from are spirits. You are, too. His Spirit empowers your spirit to overcome those spirits. Maybe the armor you need to put on is Him. He is the Truth, the Righteousness, the Covering. Your soul just needs to […]
One of my favorite advisors advised me this morning to stop calling myself crazy. Yes, most of what I believe I am to accomplish before I die is impossible, but that doesn’t mean that I am crazy for expecting it to happen. Yes, the people who receive the most encouragement through me are people who think the normal Christian Life […]
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. Galatians 6:7-10 (NKJV) Life that never stops is a valuable harvest. What […]
What just happened is NEVER as important as what happens NEXT! No matter what just happened, whether it was the biggest mistake you have ever dreamed of making, or the grandest success, what happens next is always more important. If you made a mistake, and what happens next is not an educational experience that changes your course, then the mistake […]
Our God is holding us responsible for administrating His work of reconciliation in the earth Matthew 18:21-35 God has made it possible for us to forgive by paying for our sins against each other with the blood Jesus shed on the cross Ephesians 4:31-32 When we begin the process of forgiving, we will be in danger of being deceived into […]
This is a long post. What you see here is an introduction. If it seems interesting, read the rest of the article at the link at the end of the post. I was tormented by the Holy Spirit with a phrase for about 4 years. I heard someone say it, but could not believe it. I had been taught that […]
Hebrews 11:32-38 speaks about heroes of the faith: They were…..”tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mocking and beatings, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented… they […]
Acts 19 Ephesians 6:10-20 * Do the people who know us best identify us more by our toys or our weapons? * What habits or attitudes do they most likely remember us by? * Is our initial view of hard situations in our lives that they are from merely physical sources? . Sickness . Accidents . […]
Faith is the substance of things hoped for – the evidence of things not seen. It is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. It is a confidence of things hoped for, a conviction of matters not seen. That is three English translations of Hebrews 11:1 Faith creates a space into which what […]
Genesis 2:9,16&17 Yahweh made a fenced-in place and grew a garden in it. He put two important trees in the middle of it. One was the tree of Life, and the other was the tree of Death. He called the tree of Death the “tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” He told Adam not to eat the fruit […]