BIG SHOUT out to each of you who are doing amazing things in the midst of difficult and challenging times. As leaders, you have had to rethink, restructure, re-prioritize, adjust, learn new things, change thought patterns,  all the while looking for the same outcomes but arriving at those outcomes from a totally different construct. For [...]

Words are one of the most powerful forces in the universe. Words can rock someone’s identity, derail their destiny, or just plain wreak havoc in their lives destroying confidence, emotional well-being, instilling fear, and releasing a curse, which is simply the power to fail, over their lives.   But words are also powerfully creative! They [...]

Dale Mast writes this in his book, “The Throne of David” . “Surprises should never catch us by surprise – even though they will. We must rise above these “surprises” by continuing to dream with Him in the middle of a nightmare if we are to shift the earth!”   I bought this book in [...]

My prayer this morning with the Lord was something He showed me a little over a year ago that I have prayed many times. “Lord, let me be a sensitive to your voice as I am to my cell phone!”   In the environment in which we currently find ourselves, change is a daily and [...]

So I am currently reading through the Old Testament (Old Covenant meaning old as in obsolete)  right now and if there is ever a time that I speed read through the Bible it is in these beginning books! But this morning a verse rang my spiritual bell and while I know it is very familiar [...]

I find that many times many people want everything to come together perfectly before they are willing to start something. They want the stars to align, four affirmations from others, all the finances in the bank, no resistance from others around them, and most importantly, they want all of their fears addressed, risks minimalized, and [...]

Small word that is used 1637 times in the Bible. So much is dependent on “If”.  If my people….. If you forgive men their trespasses.....  If you want to be perfect…..  If you have faith as a mustard seed.....  If you say to this mountain.....  If two of you agree on earth….. If anyone desires [...]

Challenges, problems, situations, setbacks, holdups! These are all part of life’s circumstances that come at us on a  sometimes, seemingly, daily basis. Here’s the insight you need! The answer is probably right there in front of you. Either you can’t see it or it takes more time, energy, commitment, or maybe sacrifice than you were [...]

Don’t forget the “God Factor”.   In life’s many challenges, sometimes we forget the God factor. I call it the God factor because it is God showing up in the middle of life’s situations and doing the seemingly impossible. One of the many things I have learned in my walk with Jesus is that the [...]

What is God thinking? What are you thinking? There really shouldn’t be too much gap between the two.   Paul tells the Corinthian church that “….we have the mind of Christ.” I Cor 2:16. If I truly have the mind of Christ, then I really should be thinking His thoughts! About myself, about others, and [...]