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Optimism without discernment will become a deception. Discernment will allow us to look through the veneer of what has been prepared for us to reveal God's perspective. We live in a world constantly trying to lead us away from the truth to embrace illusions...
Voting is not just casting a ballot for a preferred candidate. We also vote by the purchases we make, how we raise our families, and how we treat our fellow human beings. Life is a constant stream of the votes we cast. Thirty years ago, I was trained as an appraiser...
We talk a lot about setting boundaries for our lives. While setting good and positive boundaries is wholesome, some boundaries are set for us when we allow unconfessed sin to define our lives. Those boundaries define a life given over to sin and rebellion limiting the...
The most significant prophetic words are not always spoken from behind a podium in a church service, or by a speaker at a conference. The most significant prophetic words are many times spoken in closed doors gatherings with world-changers whose target is the...
When you don’t know the next step, declare the heart of God into the unknown. Declarations of God’s heart will make a way when no way forward is visible. Declarations uttered in faith are like spiritual bulldozers; they have the power to push aside walls of...
There are only two things in this life we can stand upon and be secure. Those two things are the love of God and Scripture. Nothing else can provide us with the secure footing required to navigate through the challenging seasons of life. Scripture tells us that...
Some mainstream social media platforms and search engines are demonstrating a level of control and censorship not imagined just a few years ago. Consideration of an opposing opinion is being denied and in some extreme cases defined as domestic terrorism. As...
Jan and I are processing the next season of our lives. This is not about the next few months or even a year or two. We are processing decades. Amid this spiritual exercise, the Lord spoke, “You will find a new assignment within your current assignment.” What I...
In a tactical operation, whether natural or spiritual, those who can remain fluid and able to break away from a failed plan and adapt to rapidly changing circumstance are the ones who will actually complete the mission when the mission seems to have fallen apart. Stay...
God placed an internal alarm clock inside me that awakens me about 4:00 each morning. He put the alarm clock there about 12 years ago when He commissioned a writing anointing in my life. Those early morning hours of stillness have become a creative retreat between the...
Something is being manifested in nature causing me to think the created order is responding to what the Spirit is releasing in Oregon and beyond. Two events are taking place at the same time and in the same location in this region- one literally on top of the other. A...
What was burning as a revival fire in the past and appears to have died out has not been fully extinguished. A burning ember of passion always remains. That ember has continued to smolder in the hearts of people waiting for a moment in time, as directed by the Spirit,...
We can make our plans, but in the end, it is the Lord who directs our steps. Making a plan is a good exercise. Because we only see in part, even our best plans are only partial. Something is always missing. The larger image in our minds must be the picture of...
You have been standing alone for a season, but that is about to change. The sound of your faith is making the sound of Heaven on Earth. That sound has become a spiritual magnet inviting those of like mind to come and join you. Yesterday, I was hiking through the...
God has given you the ability to ascend in faith the obstacles of life while others may fall behind. Some of those who fall behind are people you know through the daily activities of life. They might even be friends. This is not because you are better than anyone...