How Can I Examine My Obedience?
Can I examine my obedience to God? Since obedience is part of fearing the Lord, seeking the Lord and doing what’s right…and doing what’s right, seeking the Lord and fearing the Lord are the pre-requisites for getting the good God has intended for us, how can I examine myself to see if I’m obeying God? [...]
How I Can Seek the Lord – 7 ways
How can I seek the Lord? If you’re like me, you might think “seeking the Lord” simply means to “pray longer, pray louder and probably fast”. While Scripture does mention prayer and fasting with the right attitude, it also includes other, possibly surprising ways. 7 Ways to Seek the Lord 1. Call upon God and [...]
How I Hear the Father Speak
I’ve had different people tell me recently, “I can’t hear God the way you hear God”. While I know I’m the Father’s favorite… I know all of His children are His favorites so to hear Him speak is something that we should all expect. So let’s start with the basics. First, the Father spoke, and [...]
Why I Need to Keep in Step with the Spirit
Why I Need to Keep in Step with the Spirit It started with a dream. I don’t often dream, or I should say I don’t often think God is speaking to me through the dreams I dream. This one was different. It was one that made me sit up and take notice. I dreamed I [...]
Pain – Don’t Let the Seed Go To Waste – Day 31
Truth: I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels–a plentiful harvest of new lives. Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world [...]
Live Without Offence at God – Day 29
Truth: “But forget all that– it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19 (New Living Translation) [...]
Do I Need to Forgive the Father? – Day 28
Truth: Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! For when you did awesome things that we [...]
You’ve Been Forgiven – Day 27
Truth: Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-33 (New Living Translation) Thought: There are many who, after being forgiven by God and after seeking the forgiveness [...]
Asking for Forgiveness – Day 26
Truth: …leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God. Matthew 5:24 (New Living Translation) Thought: We are fallen people living in a fallen world. That’s not an excuse. We need to become more and more and more like Jesus. But there [...]
Forgive and Forget? – Day 25
Truth: I have thought deeply about all that goes on here under the sun, where people have the power to hurt each other. I have seen wicked people buried with honor. Yet they were the very ones who frequented the Temple and are now praised in the same city where they committed their crimes! This, [...]
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