Sep 27 2009
Daughter,
You were made to wear a crown.
Your smile radiates My beauty to the world.
Your hands reach out and bring healing to the broken.
Your arms embrace and fill the empty with My love.
Your eyes sparkle and draw people into a revelation of who I created them to be.
You are an open invitation to the world.
My children who don’t know Me will see you and long for Me.
Hold that head of yours high.
Walk fearlessly.
Talk confidently.
Sep 21 2009
I’ve learned this about obeying God: You do what’s right even when you don’t feel like it.
You keep standing when you want to sit.
You keep fighting when you feel like surrendering.
You go by what you know, not what you feel.
You walk by faith and not by sight.
You trust God when your emotions lie to you and tell you that He’s the one to blame.
You hang onto Him even when you feel like letting go.
You believe what He says when you have zero evidence backing it up.
Jul 01 2009
I walked by the field of a lazy person, the vineyard of one with no common sense. I saw that it was overgrown with weeds. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down. Then, as I looked and thought about it, I learned this lesson: A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber. -Proverbs 24:30-34, NLT
This passage of truth illustrates the fruits of laziness from a natural standpoint, but what about from a spiritual standpoint?
Jun 24 2009
Something is shifting. Something has shifted.
For me, this is hard. I’m honestly not ready for Jesus to come back. I mean, from a spiritual standpoint, yes, I’m ready. But I have so much in my heart that I’m longing to see and do. Living to be 100 years old wouldn’t even be long enough. I’m not one of these people that is white-knuckling it, hoping that Jesus will hurry up and come back so that all my problems will be solved. I don’t have problems. I live the Word of God and I defeat satan on a daily basis. I don’t wish and hope and pray for victory. I have victory. If satan creeps in with depression or sickness or poverty, I cut him to pieces with the Sword of the Spirit of the Word of God. Through Christ, I always triumph.
Jun 16 2009
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. -Jesus’ words to the Pharisees, Matthew 23:27
Because the name “Pharisee” sounds so old and out-dated and old-fashioned, I never thought much about the prospect of such people being alive today. Weren’t those the kind of people who wore long robes and tried to fulfill long lists of religious rules and regulations? I didn’t personally know anyone like that. Maybe those people existed in dusty old Catholic cathedrals, but I was charismatic. I had to be the furthest thing from a Pharisee. There was no tradition in my church. No list of rules to fulfill. We just loved Jesus and wanted to be like Him. What was Pharisaical about that?
May 19 2009
That should be at the top of every Christian’s to-do list. Learn to argue. Yes, argue.
I dare you to sit still for one minute — or even 15 seconds — and count how many times a lie comes into your mind. Sure, you may not realize it’s a lie. Perhaps the lies that will bombard your mind during that one-minute or 15-second interval are lies you’ve believed your entire life. But if you can’t find them in God’s Word, they’re lies. And lies are nothing more than satan’s arguments against the truth.
May 12 2009
How long do we fight?
Until we see the victory.
Not a moment sooner.
There’s no such thing as: “Well maybe it’s just not God’s will for me to have victory in this area.” Get that lie out of your mind. If it’s not it in God’s Word, you have no business believing it.
But what we do once we’ve seen the victory?
Keep standing.
Don’t sit down and take your comfy seat in the crowd. Keep standing.
May 03 2009
I want to tell you a story about what happened to me last night. I know a lot of the stuff I write on here about God’s Word and believing it and living it might seem like “a lot to ask for” to some people. “Do you mean we’re actually supposed to live like that?” you might think. But I can honestly say that about 99% of what I write on here comes from my own life. And unless I can live it in my own life, I don’t think I have any business telling you to.
Apr 27 2009
How does our enemy rule? By trickery. By deception. Notice that when satan snuck up upon Adam and Even in the forest, he didn’t do so as a fierce bear or a vicious lion. He didn’t try to intimidate them with his size or might. No, satan slithered upon them as a snake. A small, slimy, sneaky snake.
Satan didn’t have power over Adam and Eve. He wasn’t bigger than they were. He wasn’t stronger than they were. But he was crafty. And if he could trick them into bowing down to him, he could have their authority.
Apr 20 2009
Do you believe God’s Word is the final authority? Then why do you give your own doubts and fears the last say?
Do you believe God’s Word when it says: The joy of the LORD is your strength? Then why do you walk around sad and weak, depressed and despondent?
Do you believe satan was totally conquered 2,000 years ago on the Cross? Then why do you let him knock you around, kick you in teeth, and take your lunch money?