Featured Blog Posts – June 2023 Archive (17)

Revelation 1:6 - "And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father -- to Him be glory and power forever and ever! Amen."

Mary was chosen to bring forth the Son of God into the world in human flesh.  Jesus Christ was a living, breathing move of God.  Every place He went heaven was brought forth on the earth.  He was also conceived within every born-again believer at the…

John 12:21 tells us that a delegation from the Greek community came to the disciples and said, "We wish to see Jesus."

If there is an intense yearning within us, then there must be something to respond to that aspiration or we would not possess it. 

"As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O…

Mark 8:15  ^- “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

In saying “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod” He was warning them about influences of the mind that can rob us of the understanding of revelation and renewal. …

"My Beloved spake, and said unto me, 'Rise up, My love, My fair one, and come away.'" Song of Solomon 2:10

The Lord has something far better to offer us if we will respond to His call to "rise up" with Him into a higher realm of spiritual reality. To this pressing call, He adds a word of encouragement:

"For, lo, the winter is…

 And He said to them all, "If any man will [willingly choose to] come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." Luke 9:23

Each of us who desires to personally know and serve the Lord must first make this life-changing decision to "take up our cross."  When we willingly do this, our present relationship to the Lord, and…

The tendency to embrace the concept of God being an angry Father is done in equal proportion to a person's inability to demonstrate His power.  There is a connection between our belief system and what actually flows through us.  If we don't see Jesus' life as the ultimate illustration of the will of God, we will continually undermine our ability to display it.

The Holy Spirit always wants to demonstrate what…

Genesis 1:26 - "Let Us make man in Our image, to be like Ourselves; let man have dominion...over all the earth."

It has always been the Lord's intent to have a "people" who would have dominion authority on the earth.

The word "dominion" (Hebrew - radah) means to prevail,…

Life can get busy and noisy!  In 2023 this is the world that we live in, the world we get used to. How we deal with the busyness and noise makes all the difference in how we are able to walk with awareness of God's presence.

Luke 8:14-15 - "And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares…

Matthew 5:13,14,16 -- "You are the salt of the earth......You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

The entire world is poised for swift, radical change. It is imperative that the Church embrace and…

 2 Peter 1:4 - "By which He (God) has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire."

Each of us has a promised land for our lives (our Christ calling). God's promises are key to us entering into the…

"I know what you have done;  I know that you are neither cold nor hot.  How I wish you were either one or the other!  But because you are barely warm, neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth!...Buy also some medicine (from Me) to put on your eyes, so that you may see." - Revelation 3:15,18 TEV

The religious spirit is so closely akin to the Holy…

Jesus prophesied, "I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father" (John 14:12).

By listening to the Holy Spirit and then casting our nets where He tells us to, we will be able to haul in a miraculous catch

This generation, as it arises and breaks out of…

If we are feeling "spiritually empty," it may be the Lord's intention for us to feel this way. The Lord often removes the old to make room for the new, as we are about to enter into a new season. Thus:

"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 5:3).

Rather than being discouraged or complaining about our present…

 "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him." - James 1:2-5…

Jesus Himself called on God as, "Abba Father," as He faced the Cross. He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for You" (Mark 14:36). Whatever burden you are bearing, calling out to Abba Father is calling out for the impossible to become possible.

SET IN AND SEATED WITH HIM…

"He turns a wilderness into pools of water, and dry land into water springs. There He makes the hungry dwell, that they may establish a city for a dwelling place, and sow fields and plant vineyards, that they may yield a fruitful harvest." -  Psalm 107:35-37

If you find yourself in a dry land or a wilderness season, start focusing on bearing fruit that remains for His Kingdom and watch how…

 The Holy Spirit is "the Helper" not "the Doer." He will do His part, but He expects us to do ours. It is good to be able to recognize the work of the Holy Spirit, but we must not stop there. We must go on to seek Him for what our part is and then do it.

We must constantly seek to understand God’s purpose for our life (our DESTINY in Christ). -…