For He is God and there is no other. He can bring together the east and the west. He can orchestrate events into a contiguous symphony. And what is it God wants from you? See Him in every leaf of every tree. Listen to His tuning fork in your spirit. Lay down your life for […]
If the doing does not come out of the being, it will not be sustained. One person steals because he is a thief. Another person serves because she is a servant. The being takes place first in the heart and then in the mind, will, and emotions. The marker of dying to self: when you […]
The 12 apostles walked with Jesus for three years and knew him as well as any man can know another. And they loved Him dearly, perhaps even Judas until his sinful nature took over. Paul, the appointed 12th Apostle, spent three years with Jesus in the Arabian Desert and came to know Him as well […]
You are what you fill your mind with – negative or positive, the world or Jesus Christ, what you want to do or what God wants you to do. If you want to change who you are, you must first change what you fill your mind with. If you want to be more godly, you […]
Every morning I have a choice to make for the day. Will I be filled with the world or be filled with the Holy Spirit? Will my to do list dictate my thoughts and behavior, or will I allow the Holy Spirit to guide them? Will I set the course for my ship this day […]
If He had said, “Here it is,” I would have looked at it.If He had said, “There it is,” I would have searched for it. But how do you hear his voice unless you listen for it? Andhow do you listen for it unless you still your own mind. Beas the prophet Samuel when he […]
Change takes place on the inside, not the outside. It’s BE BE, not DO DO, as Oswald Chambers said. It’s not what am I going to do for Jesus but what am I going to be for Him. It took me years to learn this lesson. The fruits of the Spirit come out of the […]
The left bookend is the world as God meant it to be in the beginning. It is referred to as the Garden of Eden or simply Paradise. Through the sin of Adam and Eve, Paradise was lost and replaced by the wasteland of a cursed and fallen world where death, disease, and destruction hold sway. […]
Do you know Jesus? Do you really know Him – in an intimate way. Not as a thought in your mind but as a presence in your innermost being, in that place you call “me.” Do you know Him there? Do you seek Him in every nook and cranny? Do you hear Him in the […]
Who is this Jesus, the author of my soul? He is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. He was there before I was born and will gather me into His arms when I die – to live with Him forever. He is alive in my spirit […]