“Sanctified” describes a process of a) being set apart b) to something or someone. “Made holy” is a synonymous phrase. When we are called to a particular work in the earth, which is the case for each of us, we are given gifts by the Spirit of God that make us able to accomplish the work. When we do that […]
Larry Randolph and Steve Thompson, two men who clearly have ministries of prophet, believe that the process of hearing instruction from the Lord typically has three parts: revelation, interpretation, and application. The revelation could be a dream or a word or a vision or a picture or a Scripture that seems to be presented to us in some way that […]
So the one who boasts must boast in the Lord. For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one the Lord commends. (2 Corinthians 10:17-18 Holman Christian Standard Bible® ©) There is a dynamic in us that wants to find things we have in common with people we meet. It listens to their experiences and […]
In 1 Samuel 23:1-14, the story is related of Yahweh instructing David and his 400 man army to go to a village called Keilah, to save them from Philistia. They were obedient, and they delivered the people of Keilah from the Philistines. When Saul heard that David was in Keilah, he sent all the soldiers he could gather to kill […]
In 2 Kings 1, Elijah was instructed to intercept a group of people who had been sent by the king of Israel to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about his physical condition, since he had been injured. He wanted to know if he was going to die. Elijah sent him a prophecy from Yahweh: “Yes. You are going […]
Being who Yahweh says you are is costly. How ever much you have, usually. If you see an astonishing musician speaking through an instrument or singing beautifully, it generally has cost them their lives up to that point to be there being awesome. A world-class athlete pays for the glory of the trophy with her/his life. Nothing that you have […]
When I was a child, my father had about 600 chickens that he kept so that he could sell their eggs. They were not free range, but caged in pairs. When he was a child, his family had chickens free around their home. There were places built for them to roost, where their eggs could be gathered, but they were […]
Around 650 AD, Muslims finally prevailed in their attempts to conquer Persia. Their “evangelism” then included an invitation to become servants of Mohammad’s allah, or to be infidels subjected to a tax called jizya, or to be enslaved, or to be killed. Descendants of Persia still don’t consider themselves to be Arabs, and have their own version of Islam, setting […]
“No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.” The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him. And He told […]
He went to His hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “How did this wisdom and these miracles come to Him? Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother called Mary, and His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, aren’t they all with us? So where does He […]