TOPPLING TREES OF DECEPTION

After a recent windstorm, I was hiking along a familiar trail past where a prominent old dead tree once stood. I’ve passed by that old tree for years. Under the wind’s influence, the tree was sheared off, causing the tree to fall. When I saw the fallen tree, the...

KNOWING OUR BOUNDARIES

While we are free to live and travel at will, knowing the boundary of our calling is important. To travel outside that boundary must be done with permission from the Lord. Wherever I travel and see a sign denoting a city, county, or state boundary, I pray these words,...

INTERRUPTED PLANS

Our plans for ministry do not release the power of God. Obedience does. When God decides to move, He moves. No plan of ours can take credit for such divine intervention. In one meeting Peter relayed what happened. “As I began to speak the Spirit fell on them, just as...

WALLS OF ASSUMPTION

No stone-like wall of censorship, no accusation nor any threat of restriction formed by an unbelieving world can prevent the revelation of God’s truth from penetrating these obstacles. There are other walls – walls of accusation, and dismissal. or outright disgust in...
WHERE DO WE START?

WHERE DO WE START?

As I walked behind a local post office, I snapped this picture. These are not over-flowing garbage dumpsters. They are postal bins containing packages ready to be loaded into postal carriers’ vehicles. After taking the photo, I sensed the Lord was speaking. He...