The Need for Brokenness God’s lessons are far too often hard fought, not by God as by us. We resist by trying to work out all the details of life while ignoring God in the process. This was the lesson Jacob learned by the river Jabbok. God literally had to break the hold Jacob’s fleshly […]

What Are We Hitching God’s Presence To? Are we hitching God’s presence to humanity’s new carts? David desperately wanted the presence of God. After securing Jerusalem as his and Israel’s capital, David also wanted it to be the place where God’s presence resided. For the past 70 years, the Ark of the Covenant had been […]

What’s In Your Hand? When it comes to giving and fulfilling the Great Commission many people are inclined to think they really don’t have that much to give. But this simply isn’t true. Moses thought like that and God had to correct his stinken’ thinken’. Moses didn’t think to highly of His abilities saying, “Suppose […]

Are You Seeing Red? Are you seeing red? Have you reached your boiling point? Are you ready to blow up? Are your grapes wrathful? Are you angry? Anger is an emotion God has wired all of us with. Dr. David Seamands said, “Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, […]

How Low Can We Go? It’s only when we find ourselves down and at the end of ourselves, that’s when we’re at the threshold of God doing a new thing that coincides with His will and purpose. We may not recognize it, but God’s there working on our behalf to get us back to that […]

God Wants Us Healed People are adept at putting on faces, fronts, or false facades. But the truth is that people are hurting in so many ways. Some people are in need of peace, lonely people are in need of relationships, people without hope are in desperate need of hope, and sick people are in […]

God’s Love is Frightening During the Welsh Revival, a Welshman was praying in English but still thinking in his native tongue. When he began to quote Psalm 130:4 which says, “But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared,” he stumbled trying to find the right words. Eventually he brought forth this translation. […]

It’s Never the Right Time for the Wrong Place Dinah, daughter of Jacob, found out the hard way that it’s never a good time to be in the wrong place putting yourself in a compromised position and potential danger. After Jacob returned to the land of Canaan, he settled near the city of Shechem. Living […]

Beginnings Matter If you want to be successful make sure your beginning is correct. This is the story of Cain and Abel. Both Cain and Abel stood guilty before God, and both needed God’s forgiveness. Yet one was accepted while the other one rejected. Why? Cain came before God with the works of his hands. […]

God is Longsuffering, Not Forever-Suffering Children will test your patience. This is something every parent knows. Children will continue to do something to see how much they can get away with, or ask you for something to see how far they can go. And while this is an attribute of a child, this shouldn’t be […]