“Because He Loves You”
Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him. The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:7-8 TPT) I came across a video that uses the words of a prophetic teacher and pastor, Graham Cooke. I neededContinue Reading
Persistence past resistance
Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy;in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief. (Psalm 143:1 NIV) BANG! The hammer hit the rock. No change. BANG! The hammer hit the rock again. No change. BANG! BANG! BANG! On and on it seemed for hours the hammer tried to breakContinue Reading
Obligation or Loving Obedience?
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. (Psalm 103:8 NIV) My Bible Recap plan had taken me to the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, a voice of gloom and doom, if ever there was one. I must admit that I was not looking forward to reading Jeremiah, or hisContinue Reading
More than occasional encounters
We have come into an intimate experience with God’s love, and we trust in the love he has for us. God is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through them. (1 John 4:16 TPT) As humans infected by the sin of thisContinue Reading
Chicago drugs & creativity
I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and skill, in understanding and intelligence, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship… (Exodus 31:3-5 AMP) Recently I watched a documentary on the band Chicago. By the time I was old enough to pay attention to pop music, they were a “balladContinue Reading
“The Next 6 Months Will Be a Red Sea Moment”
Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to theContinue Reading
Testifying in grief
Praise the Lord!For it is good to sing praises to our [gracious and majestic] God;Praise is becoming and appropriate.He heals the brokenheartedAnd binds up their wounds [healing their pain and comforting their sorrow].He counts the number of the stars;He calls them all by their names.Great is our [majestic and mighty] Lord and abundantContinue Reading
Zephaniah
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17 NIV) For me, Zephaniah 3:17 is associated with a dear lady for whom this wasContinue Reading
I’m still standing
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been foundedContinue Reading
Primary Prayer
The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. (Psalm 29:3-4 ESV) In my state, today is a day to finalize the voting in the primaries for certain local and state-wide political races. Although the eventual winner forContinue Reading