It is interesting to ponder why anyone does what others want them to. In studying people, we find that obedience is driven by different things at different stages of maturity. In fact one can measure the life maturity of someone by the “why” of their obedience. Infants obey because they don’t want to be punished […]
Ezekiel 11:19 God will knit my heart back together, I need this because I have given bits and pieces of my heart to so many, “gods”. He will give me a unified heart, unified to him and to others. He will do this by putting the Holy Spirit in me to take out my stony […]
Grace, grace, God’s grace, grace that is greater than all my sin. Understanding the enormity of grace is crucial to a godly life. Realizing my debt, helps me to give up my “rights” because “rights” makes no sense when I am the worst, (chief) of sinners. 1Timothy 1:15 I can keep my cool when my […]
I have always liked the story of the bad attitude son who showed up to work in his father’s vineyard and it was counted as doing the will of his father. We all fight against resistance, which is the devil suggesting that if we do what God tells us to do, then we will lose […]
Hebrews 11:13-16 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had […]
When the king of England wanted to dictate how to worship his god, so that he could have more personal control; he sent his soldiers to stop a growing movement of godliness in the countryside. The people resisted and one of their leaders was a man named Cromwell, who was given leadership over a few […]
One of the things that I have struggled with my whole life is that the people that God allows me to minister to do not share or invite others to join. If you have found blessing in my sharing then please, prayerfully consider telling someone about my blogs. Ask God to let you meet someone […]
A lot of times we get our balance skewed by doing good things, while neglecting the most important. Luke 11:42 There is a basic, inflexible, rule: If I sacrifice higher priorities in order to attend to lower ones, then everyone suffers, even the ones I think that I am, “helping”. On the other hand, if […]
First, it is actually impossible, even for brilliant minds, to focus on two things at the same time, either we will focus on one and ignore the other or focus on the other and ignore the first. Sure, we can flip rapidly between two things but will handle them both poorly. What is my one […]
When I am straining under much labor and feel heavy laden, then Jesus asks me to,”Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest unto your soul, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” I have an invariable rule […]
