Your motives become your motivation. Everything isn’t this simple, but most of our motivations are either related to our dreams or our fears. If you are afraid of failure, your dreams become a puff of smoke. If your dreams drive you to accomplish, to build, to assault what is wrong, your fears have been silenced. Don’t let your fear of failure or of accusation or of offending the religious or […]
Category Archives: Discipleship
Reflection
Every good thing we do is a response to something Jesus has done. We worship because He revealed how wondersful He is. We love because He first loved us. We work because we see Him working. We forgive because He forgave us. The greater and purer your revelation is of His identity and of His intentions toward you, the more powerfully you will stand, fight, encourage others, admonish others, intercede […]
Soul Armor
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 keep making the decision to allow Him to be your […]
Spiritual Sowing
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 do I sow to the Spirit in order to reap […]
What Just Happened
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 has changed your course. If you were a genius, and […]
Forgiveness
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 thinking several things that are not true: * * When […]
Under Good Teaching
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 speaking in absolutes was not wise unless referring to Jesus. […]
How Will They Know You
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 . Conflicts with other people . […]
Creating Space
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 we are expecting can appear. Some things will not appear […]
Choose LIFE
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 on it, but to eat anything else he wanted to […]