Some of the opportunities (“good things”) that we encounter are not good. Righteousness is doing what the Spirit of the King says to do, even if it doesn’t seem best or most effective. Asking the Spirit what to do won’t always result in righteous actions, because we don’t always hear what He says or always realize it is Him saying […]
Five years is a long time if you are spending the time waiting on something. Five years isn’t long if you are spending it enjoying something. What is different about your life now, compared to five years ago? What has changed regarding work, or habits, or knowledge, or attitude? If you believe that you could have done more to improve […]
As soon as Jesus becomes the Center of our doctrine, our hope, our discussion, our study, our life, our joy, our love, believers will be united and will begin to bring His authority into every aspect of life in the world. As long as we each have our discussions and doctrines and love and study and hope or anything else […]
Then Elisha said, “Take the arrows!” So he took them, and he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” So he struck the ground three times and stopped. The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had […]
Jesus told His disciples, “Every student of Scripture (‘scribe’) who becomes a disciple of the Kingdom of Heaven is like a homeowner who brings new things and old things out of his storage.” (Matthew 13:52) We need to know the law, but find our discipline in the King’s instruction, both by what He caused to be written, and by what […]
He presented another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when grown, it’s taller than the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”He told them another parable: […]
The parable of the sower and the seed is about the Kingdom, not about how to be saved and born again: “You, then, listen to the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown […]
When your circumstances are creating misery or pain or fear, remember Joseph’s circumstances – he was in Pharaoh’s prison for refusal to submit to temptation. Though he was in Pharaoh’s prison, he was Yahweh’s prisoner. When Paul was in Caesar’s prison, he was Yahweh’s prisoner. They were being held in position for the moment at which they could offer audience […]
Of the honors and the privileges we receive in our lives, the greatest are gained in the events in which, because our hearts are broken or burning because of what stirs the heart of Jesus, we have been so harmed by the pain that He then trusts us to become the answers to the prayers we raise under the burden. […]
Until the great persecution broke out on believers as Luke described in Acts 8, apostles were the only decision makers in the ekklesia of the King. By the time the thrusting forth of everyone but the apostles from Jerusalem reached maturity, forcing all the believers to take up their ministries, there was a congregation formed in Antioch of Syria that […]