An attempt to initiate a radical social reset is unfolding. The Lord is beginning to reposition His people to stand for truth and challenge what is taking place. The Lord is assembling proven spiritual warriors who are skilled in both prayer and Spirit-led action....
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GOD’S TROPHY ROOM
The kingdom of darkness wants our failures to become trophies in the temple of darkness. These temples are not physical temples, but mindsets of darkness where our failures support the accusations of hell. The life of Saul was a sad life. In his final battle...
WHEN OUR FAITH BECOMES THIN AND BRITTLE
Last week, I took my truck to a local tire dealer to have my tires rotated. I have done the tire rotation faithfully every 5,000 miles. My truck is twenty years old, so I’ve done these rotations faithfully for all of the 119,000 miles of the truck’s life. In this...
When You Want To Walk Away
If you have experienced a frustrating and painful outcome from a decision or an action made outside your control and now you want to walk away, make sure you are walking into the arms of Jesus, not into the arms of bitterness and anger. Be wise in the choices you make...
Dangerous Christians
A dangerous Christian - dangerous to the works of hell - is one who… refuses to align with other people’s negative expectations. is not led by the established religious or political party line. responds to the Spirit, not to peer pressure. believes the miraculous is...
Too Good For This World
An audience is not an anointing. Some of the most anointed lives are lived in isolation and suffering. Celebrity and notoriety come and go at the whim of a consumer culture both within society and the Church. Do not chase the affirmation of people thinking...
The Journey Marker
Clarity and confirmation are coming. A significant marker that will guide you through this last challenging leg of your journey will soon appear. Its presence will pilot you into a new place, one that has remained hidden until this moment of time. God will...
Stolen Valor
If you are not familiar with the term “stolen valor” a quick YouTube search will reveal in vivid detail what it means. Stolen valor takes place when someone who never served in the military dons a uniform and medals and tries to impersonate a veteran. There is always...
At Peace
One of the greatest gifts you can leave behind is to be, as far as it is possible with you, at peace with all people. “As far as possible” means we walk as far forward in the process of reconciliation as the will of the other person will allow. We can walk up...
Defining Your Assignment – Scout, Pioneer or Settler?
Recently, I spoke at a gathering of social reformers and cultural influencers. My assignment was to unpack the teaching gift from within the five equipping gifts Paul mentioned in Ephesians 4. In my presentation, I shared there are three expressions of a teaching gift...
Preparing a Place for the Fruit
When I was a kid, I grew up in the Silicon Valley of California before the high tech companies arrived. Our valley was a continuous expanse of fruit orchards. My first real job was at age 9 picking prunes. The ease of picking prunes would depend on how the...
The New Full Gospel Church
A few decades ago, a local church that believed in the supernatural works of God self-described itself as Full Gospel. The term noted an on-going belief in the supernatural works of God including the function of all the gifts of the Spirit. They did not believe in a...
Announcing Something Better
When John the Baptist was crying out in the wilderness the people of Jerusalem and the surrounding region ventured out to hear his message. In that advancing crowd were people from all spheres of cultural influence. It would not be the innovators of a new product or...
Discerning the Purpose of an Open Door
We write and speak a lot about open doors of opportunity. What we don't talk about is the need to pause on the threshold of those open doors to inquire of the Lord to determine if He was the one who opened the door. A life that demands continual forward motion is a...
Making the Cut
The soul and the spirit need to remain separate in the formation of our worldview and theology. Only the Word of God can make the separating cut revealing the distinction between these two components of our life. Theologies and doctrines formed by human logic in the...