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August 28 - August 29, 2025
Yes, the disciples were eyewitnesses to Jesus’ life and ministry, yet we don’t see one recorded time in Scripture where they petitioned Jesus, “Teach us to preach.” We don’t see one recorded time where they said, “Teach us to heal,” “Teach us to prophesy,” or “Teach us to do miracles.” After spending three and a half years with the Son of God, they requested, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1).
They had connected the dots and discovered that Jesus’ public life of ministry was the direct result of His private life of prayer.
your kids will remember your tears when you talked to Jesus far more than your words to them about following Jesus.
It’s not Mary versus Martha. It’s Mary before Martha. You see, we need both. Honestly, I believe that every true Mary will become a true Martha. When you sit at His feet, you become filled with the dreams of His heart, and that puts you to work to manifest His dreams in the earth.
Conversely, the heart rooted in intimacy is unaware of itself and unaware of everybody else in its service for Jesus. Mary didn’t see Mary, and she didn’t see Martha. She was just lost in Jesus. And the works born of doing the first works first result in works that last for eternity.
on the other side of the boredom, is a realm of fascination and glory that you will never get over.
“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses?” (Jer. 12:5).
In the same way He delivered Israel out of Egypt so that He could bring them to the wilderness to marry them, God is bringing a whole generation out of the shallow end of Christianity into a deeper life of prayer and consecration. These will be forerunners like John the Baptist who spend their lives in the wilderness, praying and fasting and preparing for the coming of the Lord.
“Though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give to him as many as he needs” (Luke 11:8).
It’s in the furnace where we wait and just burn before Him. The furnace is where the new breed continues to be fashioned and shaped. It’s where we are forged in the fire of delayed promises. We are delivered from fantasies of grandeur and are conformed into the image of the Son.
Jesus calls us all to fast, not out of obligation or religious duty, but out of longing. Fasting in the New Testament is born out of a longing and desire for the presence of Jesus.
In the same way God came to a people who weren’t looking for Him—namely, us—so He is going to reveal Himself to a nation that did not recognize His first coming and, consequently, rejected Him.
“If our minds grow faster than our hearts, we lose discernment.”
The word that wrecks you with fresh wonder, fascination, and trembling will be the word that changes the world. The most valuable commodity in the whole universe, then, is the Spirit of Revelation resting on you when you read the Word.
My ultimate goal is to be burning for God and be as fruitful in my seventies and eighties as I’ve been in my twenties, thirties, and now forties. We need a marathon mindset to prepare for the long haul and not just a sprint.
Isaiah’s lips got exposed when his eyes got opened. There is a direct connection between the eyes being opened and the lips getting exposed. When Isaiah heard those angels sing, he then realized in essence, “I don’t know who I’m talking about.” He had a prophetic ministry, yet he realized the shallowness and emptiness of his message because it was devoid of encounter.
Are you satisfied with dancing around other people’s fires, or do you want to get into the fire?
