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January 23, 2018
When God’s Will Hurts
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.” 2 Cor. 1:3-5………………
God’s will doesn’t always feel good. In fact, sometimes it downright hurts. Sometimes it even hurts a whole heck of...
Whores & Harlots
““How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And sworn by those that are not gods.
When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.” Jeremiah 5:7 NKJV……………..
If you believe the Old Testament is nothing more than a history book, please be assured this is not the case in the least. For the warnings given by the prophets to the people all those years ago are chock full of warnings for us all these years...
January 20, 2018
Does 246 Mean Anything to You?
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”” Luke 6:38…………
I may be wrong, but I’m guessing the number 246 doesn’t mean anything to you, or much anyway. But 246 was a very important number to a couple from China visiting America who were staying in the hotel where the Lord has sent me as the first stop out on the road for ministry. The ho...
STOP What You’re Doing
“The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way.” Psalm 37:23 [the KJV version has “good” in italics as the word may not have been in the original Hebrew text]
Someone needed help. I already had plans. But the person’s need was urgent. The Lord had a different plan than I did. I changed plans. I helped the person in need. I take no credit. I take no glory. All the glory belongs to the Lord. I am nothing more than His vessel madly and passionately in love with Him,...
January 18, 2018
If You Really Love Me…
“He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”” John 14:21…………
“I am prouder of you than you can possibly imagine,” the Spirit of God spoke to me one day. “I see your love for me in your obedience,” He said.
Only the Lord most high knows the unfathomable degree I have desired to hear those very words on this very earth – most especially from my earthly father. But the reality i...
The Man With a Cane
“So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own city. Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may k...
January 13, 2018
Is God Telling You to LET GO?
“Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ” Phil. 3:8
When the Lord told me to let something go, it didn’t surprise me. What surprised me was all His Spirit told and showed me after an incredibly fiery trial and a long season of what felt like incessant crying out to Him for help.
He showed me what He wanted me to let go was something...January 6, 2018
God Says
““But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?”” Luke 6:46……………….
I most assuredly at my ripe old age with my definitely fallible memory do not recall the details of the childhood game called “Simon Says,” but what I do remember is that when Simon gives instructions, the instructions are to be heard and followed. Simon is in charge, and when Simon says something, the participants in the game are to listen and take action. They are not to pick and choose which of Sim...
Sweet Liberty, Love & Service
“For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:13-14……………………
Why does God set us free through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? Why does He bestow upon us blessed liberty? Why does He gives us freedom through Christ? Is it so we can lay our heads back on our recliner chairs, kick up our feet...
January 5, 2018
Have You Checked Your Motives?
“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12……………………
“Your motives are wrong,” the Spirit of God essentially told me one morning.
Ouch. How could I argue? He was totally right. He always is. He is God. He is Lord.
I had been writing someone I knew and was reviewing what I had written. In my estimate there w...
