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Is It Time to Plunk Yourself Down? / Proverbs 16:9

“A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.” Proverbs 16:9

“Sit down and write,” the Lord spoke firmly into my heart.

It was still dark, and I had been up for several hours. I could have easily gone back to bed, but I had the sense there was something I needed to do. I had a plan of course, like I usually do. I was walking around my room. I had already bathed and dressed. I was headed to my prayer room to spend more time with the Lord as I had done at 3:30 am. It was no...

Your Mountain-Top Experience

Your Mountain-Top Experience

“And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me,…” Ezekiel 3:22-24

If you’re living for the mountain-top experiences in life,...

I Have Something to Tell You

“Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.” Isaiah 33:17

I want to tell the world how beautiful you are, I told the Lord one night. If only the world knew. It’s my heart’s cry. If only the world understood. If the world would take the time. If the world would listen. If the world knew of your beauty, oh Lord. Why doesn’t the world see? I cry to the Lord sometimes, or I sing to Him. Why doesn’t the world know of your glory? Or see your grace...

Their Cry to the Lord Was Not Enough

“And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree o...

Don’t Hold Back

“But he [Jesus] said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep [obey per Strong’s concordance]it.” Luke 11:28 words in brackets added

Still groggy from a much needed nap, I knelt briefly on the cool swimming pool-blue colored, epoxy-stained floor of my prayer room in a few words of worship to the Lord, thanking Him for a beautiful day thus far following a few days that weren’t some of my favorites. He had used a trio of sisters in the Lord to minister to me His love a...

PARALYZED DOG INSPIRATION: Will You Walk with Me?

“…he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” Psalm 23:3

“Mercy, you’re not going to fit through the dog door in your wheelchair!” I exclaimed to the ministry’s paralyzed dog Miss Mercy as I led her outside so we could walk together. She was so excited for us to go on our walk together in the beautiful sunshine-y day that she had poked her sweet little head through the flap of the dog door used by some of the ministry’s other dogs so she could get outside on our walk as...

Is Jesus Calling You?

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Rev. 3:20

Some of you may be familiar with this well known, fairly often quoted scripture in the Bible. But perhaps you have missed what I did for years. For the more I chase after the Lord, the more I seek His face and study His Word, the deeper He takes me in knowing Him, in loving Him, in understanding His Word, in being convicted by His Spiri...

This World is a MESS

This World is a MESS!

“For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for th...

Why I Preach Repentance

Why I Preach Repentance

“And [Jesus] said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” Luke 24:46-47 [Jesus] added to clarify

I have met few people as desperate as I was for decades to feel loved, accepted, approved of, validated, and affirmed by this world. The last thing in the world that elicits the world’s lo...

Is God Warning You?

Is God Warning You?

“…Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.” Isaiah 6:21

Is God warning you? Has He been warning you? Is there something you are doing you know He wants you to stop doing? Or something you are refusing to do though you know in your heart He wants you to do it? Has God sent you a messenger with a warning about something, or someone, He wants you to let go, but you have shoved the message aside – and maybe pushed away the messenger also? Are you holding your hands o...