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Critics have a shared magnetism. They are drawn together by their mutual disagreement with those who have opposing opinions. Undisciplined critics have an anger problem that dictates how they respond. It is too easy to want to delete their angry and challenging...
A faith in God that is beginning to fade away is a dangerous situation. There is more at stake than just a cooling of our faith. It will eventually lead to a hardened heart where the truth of God and His word is lessened and replaced by the shallowness of human...
When we walk along a path of deception, believing what we were told was the undeniable truth, a moment of clarification will come. In that moment, when the evidence of our deception is made clear, we will have a decision to make. Will we continue to believe and...
Yesterday, Jan and I were asked to bring a word of encouragement at the end of the service at our home church in Medford, Oregon. When I was asked to share, the Lord gave me two words, “rebuild and restore.” Around those two words, the Lord would form the content of a...
It is always unproductive and dishonoring to interpret someone’s life or opinion through the lens of our bias and then use that interpretation to prematurely judge their motives. We need to be careful, now more than ever, how we process that kind of interpretation. We...
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...