The Sabbath rest is one of the most rewarding gifts we've been given. If God needed to rest after six days of creating the world and everything in it, then we can follow in His example. Too many times though, we overlook this gift of rest that is bui
Read more…As I write these words to you, I can hardly contain my excitement at what God has been sharing with me, especially in light of what is happening prophetically in the world!
I have spent all my adult life as a student of prophecy, and I believe recen
Divine Days and Prophetic Celebrations
Recently, I wrote an article exploring the Tabernacle's metal construction materials and layout, and how they symbolically explained God's relationship with His people and the standards of purity that He require
Read more…Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today will curse
tomorrow; only one thing endures: Horace Greeley
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character: Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell the character o
But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.—Acts 20:24
If Christianity is to rece
Read more…Of the sons of Issachar who had an understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs were two hundred....—1 Chronicles 12:32
A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times.
Today
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God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. (John 4:24, ESV)
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In John 4 we see a tired Jesus. He was exhausted and thirsty from the journey he and the disciples had just made from Judea to G
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He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor. (Proverbs 22:9, NKJV)
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It was a generous act that got my attention.
After I was done speaking at a conference, a teenage boy asked to
Read more…O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory.—Psalm 63:1-2
But it is withi
Read more…For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.—Acts 20:29-30
Within the circles
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Let the nations be glad and sing for joy. (Psalm 67:4)
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I’m obsessed with gymnastics and figure skating. Obsessed. For two weeks, every four years. You know... like everyone else in America... when the Winter Olympics gam
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“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness” (2 Peter 1:3 NIV).
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Jennifer stood in front of the mirror staring at the overweig
Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge these great people of Yours?—1 Kings 3:9
That so-called Bible religion in our times is suffering rapid decl
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“These (trials) have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed” (1 Peter 1:7, NIV).
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Read more…Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?—Isaiah 40:12
We must be concerned with the person and ch
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When He had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, He broke them and gave them to His disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so … The people ate and were satisfied. (Mark 8:6, 8a, NIV).
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The Gospel of Mark
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.—Psalm 95:6-7
Cattle are driven; sheep are led; and our Lord compares His people to sheep
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Before I made you in your mother's womb, I chose you (Jeremiah 1:5, NCV)
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We adopted Miss Becky and she adopted us. My husband was the pastor of a church in South Florida and our family lived in Texas. Miss Becky became a
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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from
But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.—Isaiah 40:31
It is possible to work far beyond the normal strength of the human con
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