GAINING A HEAVENLY PERSPECTIVE

Our two cats like to sit on top of our couch that overlooks our front yard and street. From that position, they can see and discern their environment. It’s a vigilant perspective. If they huddle in their bed all the time, they would be unaware of their...

RELEASING GOD’S PRESENCE

This morning, Jan and I will be ministering at a church in another part of the state. Before we go and speak somewhere, we ask the Lord: “What’s on this house?” The word I got for today was “peace.” Gaining an understanding helps us determine how to...

WHEN SURROUNDED BY EVIL

The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah teach us something about God’s nature. While He judged their sin, He also rescued the righteous remnant. The Lord told Abraham, “I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant” (Genesis...

OUR NEW NAME

We are navigating through a time in history where the Church, more than ever, needs to reconsider the name the Lord has given to each of us. He called us His friends: “You are my friends if you do what I command, I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t...

PROTECTING THE SACRIFICE

Whatever God offers to us as a promise will require a sacrifice of faith on our part. That sacrifice must be protected from disbelief. These sacrifices are sacred acts of faith that require our surveillance and protection until the time of their fulfillment. As a...

A FALSE UNITY IS NEVER GOD’S WILL

Unity with the world systems was never God’s original intent for His people. True unity is only possible in Christ.  Building the Tower of Babel was an early example of a failed expression of unity. The people had come together in one place to build a “monument...