I recently had a dream that my Daddy was still alive but still had dementia. In this dream there was a man and other people desperately trying to get my Daddy into a particular sinful situation. In my dream I was fighting as hard and as much as I could possibly fight to stop them from their evil influence. And immediately before I woke up I thought about my sons. Once I woke up I felt the Lord say to me, as long and hard as you were fighting in your dream for your Daddy, you must continue to fight …
A Hardened Heart
Many years ago I stepped on a sliver of glass. After trying minimally to get it out I thought I would just let it work its way out. That was 5 years ago and it is still there. My heel made a big callous over it so that it could protect my foot from any further injury, however I still have pain there today. As I was in the shower this morning, I felt the nudge of the Lord saying, that is just like your heart. Anytime you have disappointment or unmet expectations, if not dealt with directly and removed …
The Broken Pot
I read this story about 18 years ago, I don’t know who wrote it but it immediately became a big part of my testimony as I could totally relate to it. Once upon a time there were 2 clay pots. These were no ordinary pots for they could talk. One was beautiful and exquisite and the other had several major cracks in it. The beautiful pot would taunt the broken pot every day. It said things like “I don’t know why they keep you around here. You are ugly and broken and can’t even do what a pot is supposed …
Seeking Comfort not the Comforter
There is a lesson I am learning, it is hard and painful. I have been guilty of seeking comfort but not The Comforter! Anytime there is pain I don’t want it! I don’t want physical pain, emotional pain, or spiritual pain and yet I have experienced all three. I put my trust in medicine or a doctor very easily. I have put my trust in godly friends and counsel but at the time I need it most I seem to make God my last resort. He should be my go to, my first choice I know this! Pain is an …
Words Are Powerful
How many of us have said words before thinking and then been like… Oops. Words once said cannot be taken back. Many of us do not realize how much power there is in our words. God says: “There is death and life in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18: 21. Think about it. Do we really realize how much power there is in our words and in God’s Word? When Jesus was praying to the Father He said ‘Sanctify them by Your Word for Your Word is truth.’ John 17: 17. King David inspired by the Holy Spirit wrote …
Stand Firm and Secure the Victory
1 Peter 5: 8-9 “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.” The enemy is out there to make all Christians ineffective, each God fearing, God teaching church in turmoil and each family broken and hurting. To steal, kill and destroy. The enemy is alive and well and taking aim against each Christian individual, home, church, community and nation. I …
John’s Doubt
Matt 3:17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” I have been reading about John the Baptist lately. He wasn’t Baptist he just baptized people in the river and therefore got the name. He was the cousin of Jesus and was filled with the Holy Spirit from the womb. This was not a natural occurrence then only prophets had the Spirit in them or on them prior to this. He was a prophet and was a very outspoken man of God. John knew he had a mission …
God’s Protection
Genesis 32:1-2 “So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.” Have you ever heard the expression that God uses the natural to explain the spiritual? If you are in our Wednesday night class you have heard it a lot. Well, here is something that The Lord has shown me today. Yesterday, I had just read in Genesis 32 about Jacob seeing the angels and God said, You are in the presence of angels and Me all the …
Generational Lying
Have you ever had someone speak a lie about you or over you? I am sure we all have. As well as we have most likely all spoken lies over others either accidentally (we didn’t know it was a lie) or on purpose. As I was reading Genesis 26 about the famine, Isaac told the king that Rebekah was his sister and all I kept thinking was “sins of the father”. You see Abraham had done that very same thing to the very same guy!!! Then the king looked out the window and saw them caressing each other and said… …
A Revelation
Genesis 16: 1-5 “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai. Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan. So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw …
Greener Grass
Philippians 4:11 “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content” We live in a very rural area. There are lots of woods and pastures on our way to the nearest town. As we were making our trek to town last night, I saw several cows grazing near the fence line. Then just a bit off from them was a very large cow who had stuck her huge head and neck through the barbed wire fence to eat as much of the green grass as she could on the …