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In the last few hours, news reports have declared that a war between Israel and Iran is imminent. Forces on both sides are now on a war footing and positioning their assets. As this conflict unfolds, we are about to witness a divine intervention. Israel, as...
The Lord fights our most strategic spiritual battles in ways human effort can't accomplish. It is simply a work of God. Elisha was living under the threat of death from the king of Israel. A famine in the land had become so great that a mother ate her son and the dung...
When we consciously open our lives and make a place for God to speak, He will bring words that restore, heal, and make right what is wrong. All of this happens because a place has been made for Him. A woman living in the town of Shunem asked Elisha to stop and stay at...
There are times when we have to say no to a bad idea. Some of these ill-conceived plans can bring unnecessary harm unless someone stands up and says, “No!” In the early 70’s police departments across American were realizing the need for specialized units who could...
For weeks, my community has been trying to survive under a suffocating blanket of smoke. Living in a perpetual smoke-filled world caused by raging wildfires can begin to affect the thinking of people. It is actually called the twilight effect. The heavy smoke covering...
I saw a recent interchange on a social media account where people were condemning a nationally recognized pastor about the style and substance of his ministry. The condemning volleys were fired from the misinformed distance provided to the accusers by a Google search...
When you pray for a generation make sure you are praying with the understanding that a generation means all who are alive at this moment. It’s not about old, young or in-between. When you relegate a problem to a generation based solely on a person's age you remove...
A storm of historic proportions is approaching the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States. Hurricane Irma was birthed off the west coast of Africa and has been generating increasing intensity at levels not normally seen. It is estimated Irma could make...
Recently, I read a profound statement from my friend, Markie Braly who experienced a miraculous healing earlier in the year. The active and vibrant life of this young wife and mother had taken an unexpected turn for the worse. Markie contracted a debilitating disease...
A supernatural cross-examination is coming. What has been put before your eyes as truth is about to be challenged by the court of Heaven. Don’t believe the first testimony about anything. God will have the final say in all things. “In a lawsuit, the first to speak...
The older I become the more my years both past and those yet to come hang like wind chimes waiting for me to pass by. I am the breeze they anticipate my passage a billowing against their calendared surface moving, making the music of life, ...
There are two groups of first responders in a time of crisis. One group saves lives no matter who is suffering. Their primary goal is to give the gift of unconditional love. The second group speaks and acts from an undisciplined personal bias without regards to the...
Have you noticed the increasing level of judgmental commentary flooding your social media accounts and your television screen in the middle of a natural disaster like Hurricane Harvey? If the natural disaster doesn’t kill you then the stones of judgment offered by...
When we are personally under attack it is too easy to circle our wagons in fear and stop moving forward in faith. The term, “Circle the wagons!” was a command issued by wagon masters in real life and later dramatically depicted in western movies when a wagon train...
The words we write and speak are like artillery rounds that strike the shoreline of a human heart. Communication in any form, verbal or written, is like a pre-invasion artillery barrage that a navy will use to pound a hardened and fortified shoreline just before...