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Humble Yourself

“Tell my people to humble themselves and obey me,” the Spirit of God told me. “Pride rebels. Tell them to obey,” He said.

Friend, if you are rebelling against God almighty in any or all areas of your life, get rid of the pride. It is an abomination to God.

Humble yourself and obey Him no matter the cost to your flesh. Jesus Christ is Lord, the only true God, and He commands that we love Him with all our hearts and in our love for Him that we obey Him.

Obey Him. Now. And always.

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It Hurts [So Much], BUT –

It Hurts [So Much], But…

“It hurts [so much]*, but I forgive her.” I don’t know if I spoke the words aloud or murmured them in my heart.

I don’t know if it was an official prayer or simply a strong thought. I hadn’t slept well and was pretty much still waking up. I had already spent wonderful time with the Lord praying, listening, and studying His Word. Now this.

I had been thinking about someone I dearly loved who had come into my life for very small snippets of time and then darted quickly awa...

The Tale of Three Lovers

The Tale of Three Lovers…

Once upon a time there was a man with three lovers. He loved all three vehemently and passionately and relentlessly pursued all three to no end though it was abundantly clear he was getting himself into more and more trouble and headed for utter destruction. Each lover had a name that was the perfect fit for the lover. One was called SELF. One was called MONEY. And one was called PLEASURE.

Tragic to say this story isn’t a fairy tale. It’s a true story about how many peo...

Dear friend, …I do my best to write and publish the mess...

Dear friend, …

I do my best to write and publish the messages the Lord places on my heart as best I can discern IN HIS TIME regardless of what my flesh has to say about it. I believe He has a plan and purpose and perfect timing for every message He gives me, and that He knows whom He wants to read each one and when and for what reason all for His ultimate glory. So in obedience to the Lord today, here are today’s FIVE MESSAGES.

Today’s messages are CHALLENGING, my friend, and yet filled with THE...

A Warning About FEAR

A WARNING ABOUT FEAR…

Do not let fear hold you back from doing what God has called you to do in any and all areas of your life. As the Lord tells us hundreds of times in the Bible in one form or another, FEAR NOT.

“Fear is holding you back from doing everything I have called you to do,” the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart one day. He wasn’t finished. “Fear not.”

Now the Lord was warning me not to let fear hold me back in EVERYTHING because He knows in some areas of my life I am moving confidently ...

A Message About Your Body

“How does it glorify me when you don’t take care of the body I have given you?” the Holy Spirit told me. He said a little bit more. Then this. “You need to glorify me with all things including your thoughts, words, and actions. And this includes taking very good care of the body I have given you.”

Oh, but He was not done. He then made abundantly clear He wanted me to deliver this message to you who are reading this.

This is what I heard the Holy Spirit speak to my heart: “TELL PEOPLE TO TAKE CAR...

Father, I Don’t Understand

“Father, I don’t understand,” I told the Lord regarding something He had made clear He wanted me to do.

“You don’t need to, do you?” He replied. “You simply need to obey.”

In our pride, sometimes we want the Lord to explain Himself before we decide whether or not to obey Him. Or even if we plan to obey Him, we still want an explanation first. As though He owes it to us to explain Himself. As though our obedience should be contingent on getting the answers we want. Or on agreeing with whatever th...

Your Secret Thoughts

“Your thoughts are unacceptable to me.” There was no doubt. No question. No debate. I knew the Holy Spirit had spoken to my heart. I knew what I needed to do. Purify my heart. Repent. Get rid of the wicked thoughts.

In case you think I had exceedingly sickeningly grossly unbelievably foul thoughts in my mind at the time, you are wrong. There were most assuredly ungodly, but they were simply unkind thoughts about someone.

Truth is unkind thoughts, mean thoughts, dirty thoughts, foul thoughts, cr...

Every Single Breath

I was married to a man with a horrific lung disease coupled with an opioid addiction the combination of which left him for years struggling to breathe. He used to tell people breathing for him was like trying to breathe through a straw. The end of his life was spent on oxygen. He ultimately drew his last challenging breath and went on by God’s grace alone to be with the Lord.

Every breath is a gift from the Lord, and I wonder, how many of us take this for granted as I did for so long? How many o...

Disobeying God, Grieving God

“Disobedience of any kind grieves me,” the Holy Spirit told me.

Now any time we believe the Lord has spoken to us, we need to measure what we hear against the Bible. He only and always speaks in line with it. Does disobedience displease, dishonor, and grieve the Lord? The Lord makes utterly clear in His Word He despises sin, that sin has awful consequences, and that we are not to grieve His Holy Spirit!

Note exactly what He spoke to me. Disobedience of ANY kind grieves Him. Why would He include ...