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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...
The release of our calling can begin with a single act of obedience that requires courage to speak when others remain silent. It happened to Elijah. He did not remain silent but spoke what the Lord told him to say, even at his peril. We are living in a similar time...
The works of the flesh are contrary and opposed to the works of the Spirit. Whoever declares they are united in any way is walking along a path of deception. There is no union between the two. “The works of the flesh are evident, which...
When I was a flight instructor, I drilled things into my student's minds that would keep them alive in flight. I did the same when I became a pastor 43 years ago. Mastering certain spiritual skills will keep our faith alive when the engine of our faith encounters a...
In any transition of life, the most important thing that will guide our decisions is our faithfulness to the word of the Lord, both in Scripture and by a prophetic announcement. They will keep us safe. This applies to words birthed outside our time of history of which...
Last week, our veterinarian relieved the suffering of our faithful dog, Ladybug. Ladybug lived with us for 4 years. She had developed severe seizures when two years ago she bit into an electrical cord and suffered a paralyzing shock. In the last two years, her...
As the signs of the times begin to gather around the Church and manifest the coming of the Lord, we need to wisely interpret what we are seeing. We should never be so captured by the signs themselves that we are led astray into a narrow understanding of what we see...
In God’s Kingdom, we follow a calling, not ambition. Unrestrained ambition will leave a trail of death in our path, not life. Toward the end of David’s life, as he was dying, one of David’s sons, a man named Adonijah, said, “I will make myself king” (I Kings 1:5). He...
Things are happening in our world like the appearance of an eclipse and the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge that have created a great deal of speculation as to why these events are happening. Some of that speculation can be true. Some will be proven to be...
Choosing to honor Jesus will overcome our greatest fears. After Jesus was crucified, great fear spread among the disciples,” They were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders” (John 20:19). On their minds was the thought, “Are we...
Jesus modeled for us the highest forms of obedience at the time of His suffering and crucifixion. Choosing to obey God’s word is expressed in its purest form when we know that pain and suffering will come, yet we still obey Him. As Jesus concluded His final...
As Jesus gave final instructions to His disciples just before His arrest, He addressed the coming of the Spirit. Jesus said the grief the disciples would experience at His death would be overshadowed by the coming of the Spirit. When the Spirit comes and enters a...
Our faith is rarely tested unless a display of the resurrection power of Jesus has been demonstrated. The power of resurrection is the primary evidence of God’s love. The traction created by that demonstration will threaten the powers of evil currently being employed...