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Our two cats like to sit on top of our couch that overlooks our front yard and street. From that position, they can see and discern their environment. It's a vigilant perspective. If they huddle in their bed all the time, they would be unaware of their surroundings....
This morning, Jan and I will be ministering at a church in another part of the state. Before we go and speak somewhere, we ask the Lord: “What's on this house?” The word I got for today was "peace." Gaining an understanding helps us determine how to engage with...
The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah teach us something about God's nature. While He judged their sin, He also rescued the righteous remnant. The Lord told Abraham, “I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant” (Genesis 18:20)....
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...
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...