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The Lord spoke a powerful sentence in the middle of His confrontation of the people's ability to create idols who cannot perform or stand on their own, "I have prepared you even though you do not know me" (Isaiah 45:5). All of our life is a preparation to believe in...
Jesus said, “I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). The word for “world” is the word “cosmos.” It defines all of humanity and its systems that are hostile to God. Because of that reality, the Church should be the least stressed group of people on Earth. Jesus has...
When we learn about the gift of prophecy, our first lesson to learn is that it is God speaking, not a human. While God will use His servants to verbally transmit or demonstrate His message, it is God who is speaking to us. Knowing it's His voice that is giving us a...
Albert Einstein made a powerful statement, “Nothing happens until something moves.” Einstein was revealing a spiritual truth using the language of physics. Nothing happens in the Spirit until we take a step of faith. I have a very dear friend with whom I have...
Not all Jews left Egypt in the Exodus. Estimates vary as to the number who stayed behind. Some Hebrew scholars suggest numbers that vary from 1 out of 50 up to as few as 1 out of 500 Jews chose to leave. Many of us have believed the Exodus was a total evacuation, not...
For those of you who look at the condition of your life, the nation, and the world and sense a stalemate has taken place, listen to the word of the Lord, “For I am ready to set things right, not in the distant future, but right now!” (Isaiah 46:13). God has...
My daughter, Anna, has written a book about what she and her husband have learned while navigating through their first year of marriage. It is a project not for the faint of heart while still growing and learning the boundaries of a new and unfamiliar relationship,...
What we assume to be the truth, an assumption not confirmed by Scripture or by the Spirit, can form a false foundation for our faith and provide us with an unreliable interpretation of history. We need to employ the interpretive tool of what I would call Long History....
The Lord is pulling the rug of our assumptions out from under our feet. He is doing this to reposition us for the start of a new season. Pulling the rug of assumption out from under our feet is an act of love. It will not be comfortable when this takes place, it might...
We all come from different backgrounds and a wide variety of jobs. By the time I was 22, I probably had ten jobs. One of those jobs was a 9-month stint as a bartender. It was in my 21st year. I had no job prospects for employment at the time. I finally found a job...
If you are an average American, each day you either read or watch a preferred news source. Our favorite news source affirms our bias. Hopefully, that affirmation is revealing the truth, not parroting a prepared narrative created by people who are motivated by a...
We are surrounded by other worlds. These are not distant planets in faraway galaxies, but unexplored areas of interest we have not yet discovered in this world. Each area of interest has a door. Once you walk through that door you see a world you had never imagined....
The Lord reveals to each generation the unchanging nature of His character. In that revelation will come manifestations of His nature that may run contrary to popular and accepted theologies that have drifted from the foundation of truth. In those moments of...
Satan always attempts to move people and their thinking to a place where they will align with his desired purpose. In the beginning, as he makes his initial moves, he goes undetected, while he inflates a lie in an attempt to make it believable. One of his most...
There are times in life when we will be afflicted to such a degree that we will have nowhere left to turn for help except to God. To those who do not understand the depth of this kind of pain and desperation, it will appear like we are ignoring reality when we finally...