Urgency
Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days;let me know how fleeting my life is.You have made my days a mere handbreadth;the span of my years is as nothing before you.Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure. (Psalm 39:4-5 ESV) Last week IContinue Reading
Living Water Dialogue
But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.” (John 4:14 AMP) God, thank you for the peace andContinue Reading
Blindness and Victory
For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory. (Deuteronomy 20:4 NIV) There’s a line in the song “Way Maker” by Sinach that says, “Even when I don’t see it, you’re working.” I expect that, likeContinue Reading
All Fullness
For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. (John 3:34 NIV) “A long time ago, in a chapter of life far, far away….” I realized that what we do for God is supposed to come out of who we are in Christ.Continue Reading
The Thief and Truth
For if you embrace the truth, it will release true freedom into your lives. (John 8:32 TPT) Have you ever been in a situation when you just didn’t know where the truth was? I’m not talking about which child used the Sharpie on the brand new furniture. I’m talking aboutContinue Reading
Hear, Listen, Respond
He who has ears [to hear], let him be listening and let him consider and perceive and comprehend by hearing. (Matthew 13:9 AMPC) I was starting to study the Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Seeds in Matthew 13 when I got “stuck” on one statement. Depending on the Bible translation, Matthew 13:9 sounds like this:Continue Reading
Depopulate hell
No one can please God without faith. Whoever goes to God must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who seek him. (Hebrews 11:6 GW) If you have any type of truthful understanding of what hell is, you do not want to go there. Nor do you wantContinue Reading
A mixed bag…redeemed
Let all that I am praise the Lord; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me. (Psalm 103:1-2 NLT) We all have a variety of plants – good and bad – in the gardenContinue Reading
“What we leave behind”
The Sovereign Lord has given me his words of wisdom, so that I know how to comfort the weary. Morning by morning he wakens me and opens my understanding to his will. (Isaiah 50:4 NLT) Legacy is like the roots of a plant in the garden of the next generation. In ourContinue Reading
“What we leave behind after we’re gone.”
“And this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children’s children forever. I, the Lord, have spoken!” (Isaiah 59:21 NLT) I’veContinue Reading