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Because of what is happening in the Church where forms of deception are becoming visible, we can learn something from how David was able to lead faithfully in private and in public. When David was king, he led his home the same way he ruled the nation. There was no...
Occasionally, I will read things written or spoken by a follower of Jesus that sound more like an alignment with the spirit of the age than a word of revelation. We are seeing this taking place on a global scale as a result of Shawn Bolz’s sin and the impact it’s...
Those who lead a family, a business, a congregation, or a movement of churches may need to hear a word that contradicts and confronts an accepted narrative that is leading those they serve in the wrong direction. I once had a pastor tell me that all prophetic words...
The quality of our faith will be revealed by the choices we make or what we allow to happen when we are asked to follow a failed leader. In the books of I and II Kings, the various kings listed in those books who ruled over Israel and Judah were described. The...
A few years ago, the Lord told me to look at the subject of finances for prophetic insight. The root of all kinds of evil is found in how our finances are handled. The opposite is true. Goodness can also be discovered in how we handle our finances. We are standing...
As we grow older, Jan and I are considering, even reconsidering, some of the choices we make regarding our lives. For example, we've had to put down two wonderful dogs in the last 10 years. Just yesterday, I told Jan, "If we ever get another dog, we should get one...
The name "Jezebel" has been tossed out without discernment. To label a woman as a Jezebel has become too flippant, especially when it's being used to describe a strong female leader who is spiritually stronger than the weak men who accuse her of being a Jezebel....
In any spiritual conflict, we are never alone. We are never outnumbered by what we see when the enemy surrounds us. Spiritual warfare is waged and won by God, not by what we bring to the fight. Around each believer are the hosts of Heaven, the armies of angels the...
When the Lord gives us a word to speak, there will always be those who disagree with what we say. Some will even condemn us. When this happens, we need to move past those objections and condemnations and hold true to what the Lord asked us to share. Moving past those...
Some things a prophet will speak can seem out of time and do not align with current agreements among other prophets. These lone prophets will undergo scorn and dismissal until what they have prophesied comes to pass. For three years, there was no war between Aram and...
We are constantly being told who to hate and who to love – who to vote for and who to demean – who we should trust and those whom we should not trust. The Church has been called to stand alone with God in culture amidst all the strident voices and listen to God, not...
We can become too flippant about the failure of leaders within our nation and within the Church, thinking their failed leadership can simply be ignored. It can't. Permissive evil in any form and in any position will cause those who are being led to interpret their...
There are times in our lives when we will be unable to make a physical crossing from one season to the next, but we can still make a spiritual crossing. It becomes a spiritual crossing if we are willing to send someone or something of value with those who will make...
Yesterday, I wrote about Solomon's great wealth and the amazement of the Queen of Sheba, who saw how wisely he ruled with justice and righteousness. But those qualities did not last for long. Solomon had a weakness for women. He began to marry foreign women outside...
Recently, I listened to an interview with a man discussing his gold investments with a gold expert. He asked, “Do you think the gold I have could contain any of the gold that was used to build God’s Temple?” The gold expert said, “Yes”, even if it was only a molecule...