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“The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us’” (Matthew 1:23). Immanuel is a word used frequently during Christmas. His presence is larger than a theological concept or definition. It...
I remember the first time I heard a car backfire. The loud and piercing sound broke through the normal sounds of life and got my attention. The backfire was the sound of something coming to life. No matter the depths of evil being planned and expressed in our world,...
After a recent windstorm, I was hiking along a familiar trail past where a prominent old dead tree once stood. I’ve passed by that old tree for years. Under the wind's influence, the tree was sheared off, causing the tree to fall. When I saw the fallen tree, the Lord...
A search through Scripture will reveal that God does not use accusation to challenge His people. Accusation is a tactic used by Satan and his demonic minions against the people of God to weaken their faith and challenge their trust in God. Sadly, whenever a follower...
In life, a given situation is either worse than we have been led to believe or not as bad as it appears. A static condition of any situation is typically a transition point between these realities. We have been offered two methods of interpretation for the events of...
There is coming a moment in time when what was prophesied and then dismissed as fantasy and conspiracy theory will come to pass. At the moment of revelation, the integrity of many will face a challenge. They will be faced with a choice to either embrace the...
For the last few days, I have been reading through the book of Revelation. In recent months, I have also been watching interviews with scientists and astrophysicists describing our cosmos and the far reaches of outer space. This morning, I asked the Lord a silent...
Exposure is never the primary goal of God. The timing of the exposure is paramount to Him. The Lord’s timing sets the stage for collateral developments that an untimely revelation cannot produce. In the wait, stilling our impatient heart is our primary assignment. “Be...
For those who are beginning to sense a nudge from the Lord to prophesy, I want to offer some thoughts. I share these insights from my own prophetic journey that began 42 years ago. Some of my experiences have been positive and some were negative. It will be the same...
As we wait for the fulfillment of a prophetic word, we should never appear like someone following a carrot-dangling-on-a-stick, continually pushing a word forward into the future past its initial date of promise in hopes something will take place. Once a prophetic...
When God is involved in a battle it is the small, often ignored, and seemingly insignificant issue that becomes the downfall of a giant of opposition and his army of supporters. The fearful Israelites and the Philistine army walked upon the very stones from which...
This morning, I read that a potentially hazardous asteroid the size of the Seattle Space Needle will pass relatively close to Earth today. It will be close by space definition - 4.5 million miles. In April another large asteroid passed exceptionally close at 12, 000...
Hesitation can be dangerous. If we are crossing a street and a speeding car is fast approaching, hesitation can get us killed. Hesitation can prove costly if we need to do something with an investment to put it in a safe place during unstable times. If we did nothing...
Last month, I took one of my rifles out to the gun range. I wanted to fire a few rounds to make sure the rifle was still sighted in and on target. It was a hasty affair. I stapled a target to a stack of cardboard boxes and fired away. I didn’t use my normal...
A free person is a threat, not just to a dictatorial regime attempting to gain and keep control, but to the compliant masses. Freedom is not limited to the realm of civil government. It is also spiritual. When we become free people, we can no longer be bought off by...