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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...
During lunch last week, my daughter and I were talking about communication within relationships when the subject of sarcasm came up. Anna is a wordsmith by degree and life-experience. She shared with me the word sarcasm means “to tear the flesh.” While I have never...
Since the beginning of time, false representations of reality have been offered as counterfeits to God’s truth. There are two definitions of a global reset being offered at this time. One reset is empowered by God, and the other is empowered by darkness. Masking...
I had just parked my car to enter a local supermarket when I looked down and saw a rubber glove on the pavement. As soon as I saw the glove, the Lord spoke a word of encouragement. The promise you wore so joyfully but have discarded because you thought God had...
After a loud explosion, the hearing of those close to the booming sound can temporarily lose their ability to hear. There are times in the spirit realm when God releases an explosion of His intervening power of such significance that we feel as though we have lost our...
A good friend of mine, Mark Simon, conducts strategic operating planning sessions, or “Strat Ops.” These Strat Ops sessions can last for several days, venturing deep into a person's motivating principles. The goal of the planning process is to help people optimize the...
A fingerprint of involvement thought erased in an attempt to scrub away evidence of complicity will be discovered. Its discovery will turn around an assumed verdict of innocence. This revelation will take place in both personal relationships and in global affairs...
The revelation of truth by God's Spirit is not hindered by doctored social media algorithms or filtered news reporting. The Spirit can move through all human attempts at restriction, control, and manipulation as if they were not present. The Lord will invite...
Last night, I said to Jan, “I want to watch an old movie.” I suggested we watch the classic film starring Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” As we watched the film, it was done with an acting style and language out of date with modern...
I’ve been alive long enough to have lived through several seasons of cultural upheaval. The current season may well be the most intense. When so much is happening, and people are taking sides, lobbing their perspectives like mortars into other people’s lives, it is...
When the way forward in any area of life is not known, our heads begin to swivel, looking for direction. We need to be careful in these moments that we do not yield to desperation or fear. When the pathway seems blocked and a stall has taken place, our ability to...
This morning, one of my Facebook friends wrote to me and said she was searching for words regarding the spirit of Goliath that prowls through culture as an intimidator. She went on The Elijah List to do a word search and found something I wrote in 2015 that seems to...
When I was a young SWAT cop, our team was deployed during a county-wide strike where emotions were tense, and the possibility of violence was real. Our days off and vacations were canceled, and we worked 12-hour shifts. This situation went on for seven long weeks...