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A few minutes ago, the Lord gave me a word that was so impactful it affected me physically. He said, "I am bringing to you people you have been told to reject. This rejection includes those who have been brave enough to broadcast the rejected message. I am doing this...
All of God's judgments have within them an expression of His mercy. His mercy has a limit, not on God's ability to love sinful people, but on the extent and purpose of His judgment. People too easily think that God enjoys judging sin. Because of that misunderstanding,...
A coming revival in the Church will fill the Temples of God with His glory. In this covenant, the Temple represents our lives, not a physical structure. In the time of Haggai, the people had allowed God's Temple to go unfinished. This incomplete representation of the...
Wise leadership will always keep in mind the foundation the Lord used to build upon what they now steward. In the substance of that foundation are the elements God will use to guide and resurrect the faith of a family, a church, or a denomination when they lose their...
Those who are currently speaking the truth of God’s word in our culture seem out of step with the spirit of the age. They appear like naked people, oddities reminiscent of an antiquated belief system. They are mocked and labeled as uniformed, intolerant, and unloving...
Today, we are surrounded by a variety of wicked and perverse ideologies. Much of it is being forced upon us and demanding that we accept these ideologies as the new normal. We are being surrounded like it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah when perversion pounded...
We place quotation marks around the Scripture we quote. It is right when quoting something not original to us. In doing so, what we quote can sound distant and not part of us like it is when quoting something from a book. Scripture is different. It is alive and active...
Because we live in a physical world and relate to the unfolding of time based on clocks and calendars, we can wrongly discern what we perceive as a delay. If we are not careful, we can wrongly interpret a delay as a lack of fulfillment of what God has promised. The...
Tomorrow is Father’s Day. As the day approaches, I think of my father, Charlie Elkins. He passed away 34 years ago. He was born in 1908 in a sod hut in the panhandle of Oklahoma near the town of Guymon. Outside the front door of their home was a horse hooked to a...
Of late, I have felt compelled to write about issues facing the Church that if not processed by the wisdom of Scripture and the insight of the Spirit, could lead us to destinations fatal to our faith. One such issue is an error that can seem appealing and reasonable...
Not all that is being called fresh revelation is a word from the Lord. Some of this "fresh revelation" can be a Trojan horse of deception that looks innocuous and agreeable to the immature. When allowed to enter our circles of fellowship without discernment it will be...
Spiritual warfare is a popular topic. We discuss the tactics and spiritual weapons we will need to challenge hell’s aggression against people, churches, and the affairs of nations. What we don’t talk much about is another battle, a personal one that takes place within...
We need to be careful how we describe the Old Covenant. Today, it is becoming increasingly popular to portray the Old Covenant in a negative light. Both the Old and New Covenants were administrated by the same God, the God of Mercy. I want to say something upfront to...
Anything of lasting value that we have to offer to our friends, family, and God’s people was not produced by our natural talent or strength. It came from places of redeemed brokenness, places where the Lord healed us, and where we exchanged the illusion of...
In our backyard is a bird’s nest inside one of our trees. The nest is quiet until the baby birds realize their mother is inbound with food. At that point, they begin to squeal and squawk loudly expressing their hunger and the anticipation of their next meal. I’ve been...