Defining a Season of Watching

In January of 2020, the Lord asked Jan and me to withdraw into an extended season of sabbatical. This sabbatical meant we would need to disconnect across the board from the familiar. We were already in that place of isolation when the pandemic lockdown was...

Downstream Thinking

This morning, I had just finished some writing and heard in my spirit the phrase, “downstream thinking.” Immediately, I saw the image of a stream and knew the imagery was the metaphor for something the Lord wanted to say. A stream bisects our valley. It is called Bear...

Praying for a Revival of Rain

While we argue over issues of opinion and focus our prayers on those topics, others in the American West are facing situations whose outcomes will be life or death. We pray a great deal about our opinions hoping they become the norm ignoring the more substantial...

Stumbling the Plans of Hell

While our nation experiences a deepening cultural divide, and we are preoccupied with national issues, a significant arrangement of military forces are staging to confront and disempower the free nations of the world and usher in a dark agenda on a global scale. The...

Reaching the Tipping Point of Prayer

Never allow despair to overcome your faith. Every breakthrough no matter how farfetched it might appear has a capacity of prayer that must be reached before the breakthrough can take place. Each time we offer up a prayer in faith it is added to the cup of that...