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A Stake in the Ground – Scorched Earth and 3 Kings When we started this series about a stake in the ground, I told you after that night that there was so much to be told that if I were to write it all in a single devotional it would be contained in several books. I also introduced a key component of the theme as being the

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A Stake in the Ground - Tender Moments That Define Slavery This morning’s message was inspired by a statement by a Dallas area pastor about prayer. I saw the statement in a post by a dearly beloved brother and it spoke to me. The pastor drew an analogy about how our government is now telling us that we need to wash our hands many times

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A Stake in the Ground – The Worst Kind of Slavery The absolute worst type of slavery is when the victim thinks with all of their mind that they are free when in fact they are very much deeply enslaved. In the devotionals of the previous 2 days, we talked about the experiences of Daniel and his 3 friends when they were in

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Stake in the Ground – The Line That Can Not Be Crossed This is a continuation of the theme of biblical rebels. Yesterday’s verse looked at the famous example of Daniel’s 3 friends and how they were placed into a position of choosing whether to obey God or to obey earthly laws. The key thing to notice about this interaction between

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Stake in the Ground – Scorched Earth Strategy Against Freedom and Prophesy If you have not been following along on these devotionals and writings over the past few days about change and fear, I highly recommend that you go back and read through them. As I contemplate them and look around right now, with every passing day there are passing events that

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A Stake in the Ground – Scorched Earth In today’s continuation of this message, I will follow on from where we left off yesterday about change and how the enemy of God’s people uses a “scorched earth” strategy. This is the section of this message where the LORD had me pondering many of the recent events around my

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A Stake in the Ground – Change and Scorched Earth This message today is the result of another night of prayer and reflection. It has been reflection on the whole counsel of God’s word (not just individual verses, passages or even books or divisions… the entire bible as you will see). It has been reflection on recent events and

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The Search for the Empty Cup – The Painful Truth When we are left to our own ability, we all have a very strong tendency be pessimists. We look diligently for and then focus in on the problems in others and we note how their cups fall short of being full. We do this because of the fact that we each have a sinful nature that is

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The Testimony of God’s Children – It Is Very Personal The Lord is very close and intimately involved with every aspect of your life today. He is not distant or far off, only focused on other things in creation. No, instead He watches and is concerned with every aspect of your life. In good times and bad times, He already knows your

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Promises of Jesus – Counting the Cost Yesterday we looked at the promise that Jesus made to us that we would be able to ask anything in His name and that our Father in heaven would do it. But that promise did not represent an open pass to pray for anything that we wanted. That kind of power in our prayers is a bi-

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Promises of Jesus – Our Prayers and Requests At the end of yesterday’s devotional scripture, Jesus told His disciples of how their joy would be complete after He left them (died) and returned. He told them in John 16:23-24 that at that time they would be able to ask for anything directly to the Father and that He would give

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Promises of Jesus As the time of the earthly ministry of Jesus was about to come to and end, He could see the anxiety building in His disciples. He freely told them of the things that were going to happen soon and they struggled to understand. When they did understand, it troubled them.

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For the choir director: A psalm of David 1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God.
The skies display his craftsmanship.
2 Day after day they continue to speak;
night after night they make him known.
3 They speak without a sound or word;
their voice is never heard.
4 Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,
and

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Moses – Water to Wine Part 6 – The God Who Unites This morning when the LORD woke me up, before even going to the scripture, He placed this theme on my heart and then had me to lay there and just ponder it deeply. As I pondered in my mind, He showed me examples of how He looks at things so very differently than we do. He said

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Moses – Water to Wine Part 5 – God’s Power and Strength through Our Weakness Yesterday in chapter 3, we saw how God got the attention of Moses in a dramatic way on Mount Sinai and began to speak to him. God told him about all of the powerful and amazing things He was going to do through Him when He sent Moses back to Egypt to rescue the children of

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Moses – Water to Wine Part 4 – God calls Moses Up until this point in the story, Moses has been away from Egypt in Midian for several years. He has married, settled and has a family there. We will see today that he has become a humble shepherd watching over the flock of his father-in-law (does this sound like a familiar

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Moses – Water to Wine Part 3 – The Birth & Preparation of Moses from the Water At this point in the story, the new Pharaoh of Egypt had:
1) Placed heavy and harsh burdens of labor on the children of Israel to discourage and weaken them, and
2) Implemented nation-wide birth control efforts to reduce their population, requiring that all newborn baby boys be

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Moses – Water to Wine Part 2 – God Creates a Nation & the Enemy Tries to Stop It This morning in part 2 of this series, we will go back to see how the foundation was set for the need of God to raise Moses to deliver His people. The first chapter of Exodus is a picture of a tremendous transition. In it we will see how God started with a family of 12 sons and

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Moses – Water to Wine Part 1 This devotional series started off for me yesterday as a study and reflection of the well-known life of Moses. As I pondered it yesterday, there are obviously many lessons that we can learn about our own spiritual journeys by studying the life of this man. A general theme that

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Judging and Swine Today’s word is another historical devotional. It was originally given to me one year ago today which I find to be very interesting in light of all that we see going on around us today. It is about the topic of judging. The genesis of this message was from a discussion I had last

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Pride and Forgiveness This is the theme that the LORD gently placed on my heart this morning. Because of our nature, without exception we all have a problem with these two things. Our tendency to be prideful often makes us compare ourselves to others. Yes, even as Christians we may admit that we are