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When God’s Spirit Speaks to You

“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,

Nor detest His correction;

For whom the Lord loves He corrects,

Just as a father the son in whom he delights.” Proverbs 3:11-12………………

Within just weeks of a woman telling me she sensed the Lord convicting her she needed to start going back to church on Sundays, she was offered a job requiring her to work on Sundays. The last I heard from her, she seemed to be leaning toward taking the job and may very well have done so. The Spirit of God had...

I Made a Very Hard Decision

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20………….

“I was surprised to hear you would make that decision knowing what you knew,” a sweet friend essentially told me one day.

I am pretty sure she didn’t much approve of the decision I made. Not in the least. Especially considering the decision concerned something she cared d...

Thank God for Toothpaste

Thank God for Toothpaste

“Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving…” Psalm 95:2

I had woken in the middle of the night yet again. I’m someone who doesn’t do well without enough sleep. But this time instead of finding myself cranky and irritable, I was so very thankful.  For toothpaste of all things! And that was not all…

For as I brushed my teeth and experienced the incredibly fresh and clean sensation of a special new toothpaste I had recently bought, enjoying how my very mouth seem...

Has God Called You There – or Not?

“and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” 2 Cor. 5:15 NKJV……………..

I was daydreaming. Not for the first time. Most assuredly not for the last. I’m a daydreamer. My mind is rarely still. So it wasn’t a surprise one day I found myself thinking about the possibility of going somewhere to essentially talk to people about the Lord and about His Word. Somewhere specific. To some specific people. To some people anybo...

Is Your Commitment REAL?

““Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Mt. 7:20-23…………….

“Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up hi...

You’re Standing in the Way

“The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,

And He delights in his way.” Psalm 37:23………………….

You may think you’re helping. You may think you’re needed. You may think you’re there for a reason. For a purpose. That you are the right person. That nobody else can do what you’re doing. That the person standing in front of you needs you. That something needs to be done that only you can do. Or that you’re one of the people anyway. And that you simply must be there. In that situation. In that...

I Feel So Free

I Feel So Free

“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.” James 1:5-8

I feel so free. That was my exact thought. Then it came to me. I feel free becaus...

My LITTLE Ministry

“And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human[b]wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.” 1 Cor. 2:1-5……...

Don’t Take the Bait

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” 1 John 5:4………………

“This is the enemy. He is tempting you. Don’t take the bait,” the Spirit of God said to me plainly and clearly one morning.

The Holy Spirit is ALWAYS plain and clear, mind you, but that particular morning His warning seemed extra plain and extra clear. Maybe you too need this warning – extra plain and extra clear.

I had been getting barraged with thoughts, with wh...

This is NOT Your Responsibility

“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13

Have you ever taken on a responsibility that is NOT YOURS? Many years ago, before I became a Christ follower, I heard a pastor preach about how if we’ve taken on a job God doesn’t want us to have, we need to get out of the way because we’re standing in the way of the person God wants to have that job. I believe he was referring to a work-related job. To employment. Now all these years later as a Chr...