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) [...]
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, [...]
God Has Forgiven Me – Day 23
Truth: If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth [which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our hearts]. If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just [...]
I Am Loved – Day 20
Truth: O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and obey his commands, Nehemiah 1:5 (New International Version) Thought: Most people never see this in me because I’m socially bold, but I am really rather shy. I get my energy when I’m [...]
Is Meekness Weakness – Day 16
Truth: Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Philippians 4:5 (New International Version) Thought: Mothers like to label their sons as “gentle.” I’ve never seen a son respond well to that label. I somehow remember starting a fight with someone just to prove I wasn’t “gentle.” How’s that for a fallen [...]
Seek Peace and Pursue it – Day 11
Truth: You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you,all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3 (New Living Translation) Thought: When we were in New Zealand, everyone was so laid-back compared with what we were used to in North America. When you signaled to change lanes on a busy motorway, people [...]
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