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My Big LOVE Prayers!

Moments before writing this message I wrote this prayer to God and am strongly compelled to share it with you.

“Oh please let me have the fullness of your love let me receive it enjoy it experience it believe in it walk in it live it and pour it out on others and ever be filled with more of it dear God amen!”

I am reminded of a never-ending splendid river that never runs dry and that not only enjoys all the wonderfulness and refreshing-ness and invigorating-ness and magnificent beauty of its wat...

In His Image

God created us in His image not the image of the world. Therefore do not try to grow in the image of this world.

Do not look to the world and to others living according to the world’s ways as your role models, inspiration, encouragement, and image to become like.

Turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible and yield yourself to the Holy Spirit of God as He conforms you to Himself and transforms you into the person He created you to be. Turn to God and to His ways and His will for you and to His ...

When God Says Close the Door

When God says close the door, when He tells you to end something, to leave something, to say goodbye to someone, to put a full stop to anything or any relationship whatsoever, no matter what His reasons, whether you understand or do not, or want to obey Him or absolutely do not, HUMBLE YOURSELF AND OBEY THE LORD AND CLOSE THE DOOR.

Make sure you are clear. Pray your heart out. Ask others to pray for you and ask them to help you discern His voice if God leads you to do so. And make certain what y...

Cry Out to God

I absolutely love how time and again the Lord shows us in the Bible people who cry out to Him – and how He hears and responds to them!

This is an exceeding encouragement to each and every one of us to not merely believe in the Lord Jesus Christ but to ever cry out to the Lord as we pray to Him, repent before Him, praise Him, thank and bless Him, worship Him, seek Him, pour our hearts out to Him, express our needs to Him, and draw near to Him!

Believing in and following the Lord Jesus Christ is n...

The Hand of Christ

SPECIAL NOTE: Amazingly I was headed out with the garbage when suddenly I felt an urgent need to rush to the computer. With no plan of this whatsoever, I sat down and poured out this message. This is not edited. It is the message I believe the Holy Spirit placed on my heart. I then figured I could wait until later to publish it. But again I felt an urgency. As though someone, or perhaps even maybe many people, need this message now. To the Lord be ALL THE GLORY! 

The Hand of Christ

I realized a...

Do Not Be Stopped

“The enemy is going to use anything you allow him to use to try to stop you,” the Holy Spirit essentially spoke to my heart. “Do not let him stop you.”

I knew exactly what the Lord was telling me. The devil has tried for decades to try to stop one particular and vital part of my life and ministry, and he has gone absolutely all out to try to do so.

What about you, friend? Is there something God has called you to do that the devil is trying to stop you from starting, or continuing, or even finish...

Don’t Bow Down to Fear

There is no doubt about it. The biggest battle of my life has been fear. The devil in his ever mission to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10) and his desperate desire to shut down me and my ministry and my exceeding passion for the Lord Jesus Christ and longing to tell the world about Him has come at me with fear, doubt, unbelief, anxiety, worry, and panic for most of my life. And I have learned an exceeding powerful lesson in the midst of it all that is true for us all.

No matter our thoughts...

Gentle Like Jesus

“I want that gentleness,” I thought as I considered a precious young sister in the Lord I know.

These words came to me. The gentleness of Christ.

See, I know good and well her gentleness is not her own. It is the gentleness of Jesus.

And I do not need to ask her how she gets it, how she has it, how she expresses it and blesses others with it.

My beloved sister in the Lord spends time in the presence of the Lord. She consecrates herself to Him. She repents of her sins. She draws near to Him. She ...

She Offered to Hold My Hand

A senior woman who was living in a hotel nearby to where my Dad lay in his bed dying knew I had driven a very long way to be there with him at the end of his life and would be staying in the same hotel during that season.

She also knew that like herself I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.

She did not invite me to church, quote a bunch of Bible verses, give me a greeting card to comfort me, give me a talk  about heaven, etc., though any of that would have been a fine blessing.

She simply an...

Do This With All

Per the Bible, God wants us to BE PATIENT with ALL, BE GENTLE with ALL, and HONOR ALL. This does not leave anyone out, does it?

God gives us the ability to do what He calls us to do. If you need help being patient and gentle with all and honoring all, PRAY TO GOD for His help to do so!

“Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.” 1 Peter 2:17 NKJV

“Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.” Philippians 4:5 NKJV

“Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those w...