Knowing About vs Truly Knowing God Metaphors are so helpful to understand spiritual truths. I love when God gives me metaphors. One day, I asked Jesus to show me the difference between someone who thinks they know Him and someone who really knows Him. The Lord led me to Titus 1:16a, “They claim to know […]
When we see through God’s eyes, we feel with His heart. We can have a remarkable degree of confidence in our prayers because the Holy Spirit is in our hearts. The fullness of the Spirit of God in us entitles us to God’s attentiveness because it is our inheritance as children of the Living God to commune with God. […]
Choose to Believe What you choose to believe is revealed in your words In this clip from Kung Fu Panda, Master Oogway gives wise counsel to Shifu by encouraging him to believe that Po, the Dragon Warrior prophesied about in their culture can save the empire against evil Thai Lung. When Shifu approached Mastor Oogway […]
”This whole concept is summed up in 2 Corinthians 1:20 MSG 20-22 “Whatever God has promised gets stamped with the Yes of Jesus. In him, this is what we preach and pray, the great Amen, God’s Yes and our Yes together, gloriously evident. God affirms us, making us a sure thing in Christ, putting his Yes within us. By his Spirit he has stamped us with his eternal pledge—a sure beginning of what he is destined to complete.” […]
Becoming child-like is like pushing the reset button on a computer riddled with viruses. It sets you back to before you were wrecked; to a time when you were innocent, humble, trusting and believed in Me with wide-eyed wonder. The walls of the negativity and skepticism of the world had not gone up yet. […]
Romans 10:9: If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. NIV Jesus, help me understand why it’s important for me to declare with my mouth that You are Lord? Help me to better understand what it means to believe […]
On a hillside, just outside of Bethlehem, Ezra was leaning against a tree, daydreaming in the moonlight as the sheep bleated quietly in the chill of the night. He was 16, the oldest of the shepherds and was taking his shift to watch these 343 sheep while his 12-year-old brother Simon and four others were […]
“Well that’s a no-brainer!” Whenever I hear the expression “no-brainer” it gives me pause now that I know the important truth that good is the enemy of best. “Piece of cake”, “Easy”, “Obvious”…those are the synonyms for no-brainer that pop up on the powerthesaurus.com. But are the best things for us always easy or obvious? […]