Believers, have you felt in recent seasons that there’s been an unprecedented level of wrestling against disjointedness, fragmentation and disharmony among your mind, your soul and spirit? That it has required a different kind of effort for your Christ mind to align with your flesh and with your spirit man? If so, by now you’ve [...]
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Thankful for Me???
Well this is the season of New Things …. sooo … this was definitely new. I found myself praying a prayer this morning that I’d never prayed before. After spending time with Abba … you know - basking in His beauty, His glory and majesty and His holiness (His ways are sooo not our ways). [...]
1-2-3 – Follow Me
Have you ever felt like it’s taking five times as long to advance through one of The Gospels as it should – especially when it’s a re-read? Well that’s what it’s like for me reading through The Book of Luke, again. New revelations simply have me so transfixed! For example here’s something that jumped out [...]
How to be Alien Light Bearers in Enemy Territory
The following by no means intended to be an exhaustive or novel list, just a few essential principles those of us who’ve been chosen by Christ and who have chosen Him in return need to be constantly aware of: 1) Our substance. We are new creations. Our sin-soaked humanity was crucified with Christ (This is [...]
Life in the Blood
For the life of all flesh is its blood. Leviticus 17:14 And the life of men is in the blood of The Lamb … Recent and ongoing reports of violence, murder, mayhem and destruction sparked a family commentary on violence against the innocent, the under-represented, and the misrepresented … to which I’d venture to add [...]
Rewind
How amazing is God's voice. Here is what The Holy Spirit deposited into my spirit nearly exactly three years ago today (Jan 09, 2019. Writing this on Jan. 10). It's no accident that I "happened upon it" today. It was indeed His preparation then for time to come ... for a season yet upon us. [...]
If Today …
Isn't it interesting that mostly throughout Scripture we are admonished to subdue the flesh - to put aside fleshly desires, flee the lusts of the flesh. Yet their is one place in us where Our Lord actually desires a constitution of flesh - - our hearts. The very heart that as Jeremiah laments, "The heart [...]
First Do No Harm
The Basic Tenet of Love Seems the club song got it right. At least as far as the appeal to the most fundamental aspect of Love is concerned; first, do no harm. Perhaps you know the chorus … “What is love. Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me – no more.” Have you ever been [...]
Avoiding the Folly of Fools
The Lord is no respecter of persons and definitely not a fan of fools. He dedicated an entire book to help us rid ourselves of what He establishes as foolish ways. Primarily I think because they lead to hurt, harm and danger - ultimately separating us from one another and from Him. Stranger DangerThe Fool [...]
Obedience Accomplishes its Own Work
So obedience - perhaps not the most glamorous virtue. But what if we thought of Obedience less as a sort of passive virtue, and more as an entity created by God for labor. Having its own purpose and its own agency and work to accomplish - much like Truth which liberates (John 8:32), or Testing [...]
Gifts From The Father to The Son & To The Sons of Men
From the Father to the Son And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. John 17:5 Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because [...]
Destiny
What is Our Destiny? In its simplest form for me it is To know Christ, to be known by Him, and to be His hands and feet in the earth. But wait, there’s more .. Redemption from the penalty of sin, and restoration to relationship with The Father through The Christ, for those who [...]
Why isn’t My Season Working? – When will the Reign Come?
Have you ever been in what feels like a desert place in your walk? You seek after The Christ, grasping for your Emmanuel on your way to some destination, perhaps in pursuit of destiny even – not doubting, but you have questions, and He seems distant, out of earshot and out of reach? A place [...]
The Holy Spirit Prepares The Way …
If you’ve read any of my Posts, it may be obvious that I’m a big fan of The Book of Luke and his detailed and nuanced accounts. They’re so full of seeds for rich revelation. So something that caught my attention as I read through The Gospel this time, was the role of The Holy [...]
Liberty from the spirit of Infirmity
"On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put [...]
Denying the Power of Unclean Things (II)
Jesus’ effective, out of the gate rebuke of the enemy’s tactics in the wilderness, followed by a series of devil-rebuking events might lead us to reimagine our concept of “the unclean” and its broader, deeper application. It was doubt, false pride and deception which were the unclean things that facilitated the original breach, and resulting [...]
Denying Power to the Unclean Things (I)
Throughout His ministry – indeed from the very start, Jesus mastered unclean spirits. In fact His very first act of supremacy was exercising dominion over, and imposing His will upon the chief unclean spirit – the devil. Luke Chapter 4 tells us that Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, and led of The Spirit, [...]
Love, Love, Love …
All you need is love … dat ta dah dah dah. All you need is love… dat ta dah dah dah. All you need is love, love. Love is all you need. What a fun, catchy, feel-good tune. Not sure whether The Beatles knew they were paraphrasing Scripture or not, but if the love being [...]
Releasing the Dead Things that Spawn the Badlands
Death begets death, so we turn back the spirit of Death. With penitent hearts, we reject and release the former dead things that have corrupted good soil turning it into desert places and turning our land into the Badlands. Have Mercy on us Lord and forgive us: For courting the spirit of irreverence for a [...]
Healing Promises for The Badlands
Isaiah 35 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the lily. 2 It shall blossom abundantly and shall also praise and sing for joy; the honour of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the beauty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD and the [...]
The Vine, the Branches and First Fruits
The Vine, the Branches and the First Fruits “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. [...]
Preparation for Newness of Life –Trust the Process
“As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, [...]
Preparing for the Arrival of The King
I so enjoy the season of Advent and all it represents, don't you? I'm convinced that much of it has to do with the preparation for His arrival. But its not even so much about us preparing ourselves, but about The Holy One tenderly preparing us for His arrival. It's the kind of preparation born [...]
Less About the Gates and Mostly About the Dwelling
The Holy Spirit began the year 2020 with forewarning and ushering us into His dwelling place – into the safety in His temple, tabernacle, sanctuary where He covered us and protected us by the Shed blood of Jesus in preparation for things to come: plagues and pestilence, strife and spirit of hatred and of murder [...]
Lessons at the Gates of the House and the City
Recently The Lord has made the theme of Gates inescapably and a little inexplicably prominent. The Holy Spirit has shed light on how some of these pieces fit together. In fact they’ve shown up meaningfully and tangibly in my own life, but I’m convinced I don’t have full revelation – yet, perhaps soon by His [...]
Escape from Beyond the Event Horizon
For three consecutive days, when I opened my Bible, the pages have opened to Jeremiah Chapter 5. Well the third day, they actually opened to Psalm 27, but a third attempt on the third day led me right back to Jeremiah 5 (I’d tried randomly flipping The Book open three times hoping I wouldn’t end [...]
Running in Circles
So about a week-and-a-half ago, maybe two - after spending time with The Lord in the wee hours of the morning, as I made my way back to bed, He clearly spoke to my spirit go downstairs and run around the living room. Whaa??? - - of course I was like… Lord I couldn’t have [...]
Things That Go Bump in a Life
Quick – You’re in the middle The Serengeti. A ravenous lion spots you and gives chase. What do you do? Try and figure out how you spontaneously ended up in the Serengeti?Hail a cab. "Taxi!"Summon your most effective spiritual warfare proclamation and launch into TonguesRun!!! Right. So this may not be the best example of [...]
The Strong Life Series – V
Man Made StrengthI’ve read this Psalm 52 a couple of times in the past couple of days. When I first read it the verses seemed strikingly and primarily reminiscent of corrupt high-profile figures in today’s society with great power, wealth, authority and influence. And indeed the text does indeed address the treachery of wicked men [...]
The Strong Life Series – IV
If These Walls Could TalkWhether we’re just embarking upon life’s journey, whether we’re well on our way, and whether it’s been a smooth ride or more like a series of unfortunate events, if we were to examine the framework of the structure of the life we’ve lived so far, what might the it reveal about [...]
The Strong Life Series – III
The Strong Life is Life-Giving.Unless on active duty in the armed forces, or deployed to serve and protect in other capacities, rarely are we called upon, during the course of our daily existence, to fulfill the ultimate act of the “no greater love” ideal: sacrificing our physical life for another. But we are called to [...]
The Strong Life Series – II
The Strong Life Dwells in Sanctuary & Shadows. Many years past The Good Lord by His grace showed me the importance of life preserved in the cocoon until the appointed time. A life escaping the safety and nurture of the cocoon state prematurely, exposes itself the risk of hostility in the external environment at a [...]
The Strong Life Series Part I
It may not be obvious at first in this tumultuous hour, but the theme of strength is pervasive. It’s as though the Lord is speaking it over and over again from the four corners of the earth – or at least from the North, South, East & West of this nation. He has so much [...]
Dwelling Place
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and enquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4 This for many of us, is our heart’s cry. This for many [...]
What Manner of Love …
Now remain, faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love - the ultimate kind of sacrificial love described in Corinthians 1:13. Agape.So perhaps we’ve come to understand that not all love is created equal. There have been books authored to dissect different forms of love. C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves elaborating on [...]
For the Kingdom, The Power and the Glory are Yours …
This profession exclaimed at the conclusion of what we commonly refer to as The Lord’s prayer1 (see Matthew 6:9-13), is so incredibly powerful in so many ways. But one aspect of it that I never really noticed, or at least consciously acknowledged before is how the profession, and confession “For the Kingdom, The Power, and [...]
The Blessing of Proximity, Position & Posture
"One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.”… Luke 13 – 11:12 How ironic that the most appropriate, natural, essential, life-preserving posture of the creature [...]
Between the Two Adams
"While the people were being immersed, Yeshua was being immersed. As he was praying, heaven was opened, The Rauch HaKodesh came down on him in physical form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven. "You are my Son, whom I love, I am well pleased with you."Luke: 21-22 (CJB) Immersion, and The Blessing [...]
Seed, Trees, & Armor – A Season for Yielding
During my time with The Lord in the morning He takes me to Genesis.It wasn’t the scripture I’d clicked on from my Bible app – but I’d tried clicking on the designated “Daily” scripture twice – and both times I landed in Genesis 1:11. Assuming that’s where The Lord needed me to be, I read through to verse 12
A New Year … A New You (and me)
Wow 2018 ... That was some year ... I'm convinced that its lessons, challenges, and blessings were designed, even commissioned to carefully prepare me for entry into a renewed life in Christ in 2019.
A New Year … A New Your (and me)
Wow 2018 ... That was some year ... I'm convinced that its lessons, challenges, and blessings were designed, even commissioned to carefully prepare me for entry into a renewed life in Christ in 2019.
The Danger of Misguided, Unappointed, Disappointed Zealots
The other day when I dropped into Judges 19 which began with “And it came to pass that in those days when there was no king in Israel …” That phrase immediately strikes me because I instantly think of The King and my spirit goes directly to seeing it as symbolic of their being no [...]
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