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July 31, 2020
Help Me Do Your Will!
Extraordinary! After years of being under false teaching and wanting to wave my magic wand at the Lord with the hope He would give me everything I wanted according to my will and ways, He so unbelievably transformed me that I pray now continually for His will and for Him to help me to do it. Talk about a miraculous makeover of my heart and life by the loving and merciful heart and hands of the Lord! Thanks be to the Lord, I have an insatiable hunger and thirst now to bring love, honor, praise, j...
When Your Mind Keeps Going “There”
“Why do I keep thinking about it?” I asked the Lord.
Over and again, day after day, my mind kept going “there.” To something I shouldn’t have been thinking about. To a distraction. To something that was irritating me. Each time, I got upset. Disturbed. Bothered. Annoyed. Provoked. The love and light of Christ in my heart fell under a big heavy blanket of yuck that settled heavily and darkly over it. I was too busy thinking about what I shouldn’t have been thinking about and getting displeased ab...
Goodbye Bitterness
Bitter beer. I drank tons of beer decades ago in my time as an alcoholic before the Lord set me free. But not bitter beer to the best of my recollection. Not the really bitter kind anyway. Bitter chocolate. Tried it when I fell head over heels in love with chocolate for a season on the road for Jesus. But the bitter kind? No way. Bitter coffee? I haven’t had a cup of coffee in many years, but the very bitter kind, no thank you. I am just not in the least enamored with things bitter. But when it ...
Good News Daily – July 31
Dear friend,
So close by God’s grace to finishing writing my latest book that I am tempted to not send out my Good News Daily messages for a few days to conserve as much time and energy as possible to work on my book. But I don’t live for me anymore. I live for Jesus. And my precious beloved Lord has made clear that I am to send out FOUR MESSAGES today. So here they are! May the Lord use them to bring you encouragement, change, growth, renewal, inspiration, and to draw you to Himself.
I would be...
July 29, 2020
The Porn Must Go!
Now rest assured this is not a fun and easy subject for me. But when the Lord commissions me with a message to share, I must share it. Suffice it to say I once greatly loved a man who had a love affair with pornography and it broke me. His sexual immorality smashed me and our relationship into smithereens. And I have never heard a single story of someone involved in sexual sin of one nature or another who not only and most obviously and worst of all was sinning against God but who also wreaked h...
July 28, 2020
What Love for God Looks Like
For a long time, I professed to love the Lord. My life clearly indicated otherwise. Until the Lord changed me and brought me to where I am today. He taught me how to love Him, and now I sincerely do.
It’s pretty easy to say to ourselves, “Oh, I love the Lord!” And to say to others we feel led to tell, “Oh, I love the Lord!”
But do we? Do we really love the Lord? Truly? Genuinely?
Please consider the 7 key signs of someone who genuinely loves the Lord.
1. We are commanded to love the Lord with AL...
Ruling & Reigning
Who is ruling and reigning in your life? Is it the Lord God almighty through your faith in Jesus Christ as Lord? Or is it you?
For years, I called Jesus Christ Lord even as I ruled and reigned in what I thought of as MY OWN LIFE BELONGING TO ME. But we who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord BELONG TO JESUS. The Lord is to rule and reign not us!
The Lord long ago used a friend to point out to me that the word “kingdom” in the verse below comes from a Greek word also per Strong’s concordance defined ...
Are You Struggling?
Dear friend,
The message below is near and dear to my heart for three reasons. First, because I love the Lord more than anything or anyone in the universe. Second, because I love people and am privileged to be used by God through my ministry to love, help, pray for, and encourage people worldwide in my life’s calling to help people to find and follow the Lord. Third, I was beyond human hope and repair for decades and struggled unfathomably. I still have my struggles, but today I have a love, pea...
July 27, 2020
Why I Despise Pride
I despise pride and so should you! I am not referring to other people’s pride though I certainly find it distasteful, offensive, and unpleasant as perhaps you do as well. I despise MY OWN PRIDE when it crops up and so should you when it crops up in you. Perhaps you wonder. Why should we despise our pride? And what should we do when it arises in us? When it takes up residence in our hearts, when it comes bursting forth from our mouths, and when it appears in our actions, how should we handle it?
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Victorious Love!
Victorious Love!
The world teaches us to love people when we want to, when we feel like it, when they love us in return, when we get something in return, when it feels good to love them, when they treat us well, when we feel they deserve to be loved, when they are thankful for our love and/or for what we do for them, when loving them feels safe, secure, comfortable, familiar, and risk free, etc.
God’s greatest commands are to love Him with all our hearts and to love others as ourselves. Througho...
