Who Starts the Fights?
Yahweh picked a fight with Satan over Job. Yahweh won, therefore Job also won. Who picked the fight with Jacob at Peniel? Jacob was convinced that he had been fighting Yahweh all night. If Jacob had surrendered …
Category: Kingdom
Expecting Help
Daniel’s three friends Mishael, Hananiah and Azariah (their demon-glorifying names were Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego) prayed for him to get revelation about the king’s dream so that they would not be killed. We need to expect such …
Greater Surrender
The path to the life of righteousness – of proper character and proper service to Jesus – is not found by working harder at getting things right. It is found by greater surrender of our desires, our …
Successful Courage
Without regard for what your flesh would like to torment you into believing, you are not alone. Although there are reasons to be sad on days, there is no excuse for staying sad. What happens to you …
Increase
Isaiah wrote that our God’s government would never stop increasing (Isaiah 9:6-7). Jesus appeared in the Earth to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to it and to pay the blood price to take a harvest from it …
Pain and Offense
People we don’t really love offend us. People we really love hurt us. Both of these responses must come to be surrendered to the power of the cross. Jesus was paying for our offenses and our harm …
Eclipsing Venus
Recently, Venus has been the brightest thing in the sky after the sun and the moon. The sun is so much brighter though, that when it rises, Venus becomes invisible. The brightness of the sun causes other …
Believing / Seeing
Jairus’ daughter was sick. While he was believing that Jesus could heal his daughter, when worse news came to him – that his daughter was no longer sick because she was now dead – he was invited …
Unsnatchable
The steps in Moses’ life were to move from being a persecuted slave’s son to being prince, then from prince to sheep herder in Midian, then from shepherd to prophet, then from prophet to national leadership. Each …
His Second Coming
For longer than I have been paying attention, people have been saying that the return of Jesus could be any day now, because all the signs have been fulfilled. Time is short. Peter seems to have encountered …