Even after having been followers of Jesus for years, our first inclinations are frequently to respond to others’ failures with accusation and condemnation instead of agape and intercession. We can’t know our own stupid failures without the Holy Spirit revealing them to us. How valuable is it when He additionally trusts us with the awareness that someone else has failed […]
When our first response to others’ failures, bad habits, and foolishness becomes intercession instead of complaints and accusations and sermons on how we would have done things if we had been in their shoes, there will be a shift in the atmosphere that causes there to be more witchcraft outside the church than inside. Currently, believers do more damage to […]
King Ahasuerus said to Esther the Queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews. You may write in the king’s name whatever pleases you concerning the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. A document written in the king’s name […]
There is little wonder that the religions that teach reincarnation also have as their only pitiful hope that one day they will simply cease to exist. Looping around and around, hoping for improved circumstances and lives, the best life they can hope for is to melt into the universal unconsciousness, because life is misery, so to be free from misery, […]
Many people have unknowingly taken church membership as a pitiful substitute for the process of having died, been born of Yahweh into His family, and thereby having become candidates for being able to see the Kingdom of Heaven unfold around them as He works in, around and through them to accomplish His will in the earth. And when you were […]
Touching the dead can have a bad effect on you. “The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days. He is to purify himself with the water on the third day and the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not […]
It is the design of Jesus that causes a chick to peck its way out of the prison of an egg shell. His design in us draws us to Him – none have excuse for not searching for Him (Romans 1:20). His work in us is beyond His design, though. He calls. He gives grace before the call. He gives […]
On those rare days when you may feel small and insignificant, or unprepared and ineffective, be encouraged that even the smallest seed has huge power hidden in it. That power is released when it is yoked to the power of obedience. And He said: “How can we illustrate the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe […]
One of the greatest fears in humans is the fear of change. At one point in time, most people resisted the things you take for granted as normal and basic and comfortable, because they were new. Since we cannot grow without changes and changing, the more we avoid change, the more immature and the less fruitful we are. “I am […]
Microwaving a frozen dinner relieves us from the responsibility of having to follow a recipe and hope it turns out right. It’s much less work. It’s faster. It’s cheaper. Doing the work produces a much better product, though. The ingredients can be high quality or less chemical-soaked. The same type of choice can be made on days regarding the way […]