Bold Vision: Five Steps To Discover Your Glorious Inheritance

Bold vision is a necessity if you are to have good success in 2024. Ephesians 1:18 informs us that the eyes of our hearts have been enlightened so that we can know what the hope of His calling is and what the wealth of His glorious inheritance is for us. We have a calling (assignment and purpose), which is glorious. God wants only the best for us. His plans for you are peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11). As we go into 2024, remember that God gave you a Read More

Boldness: Plans, Purposes, and Pursuits

Boldness. Be bold in your pursuits. It’s the end of January and as usual, God and I had a conversation about making plans for the coming year. We looked at my plans, purposes, and pursuits from 2020, and He gave me direction for 2021. One of my goals for this year is to publish a book about praying through the pandemic. Look for it later in the year. Boldness is a gift. Do not let the enemy steal this from you.  God doesn’t want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible (2 Timothy 1:6-7). Read More

Help!: Secrets to Answered Prayer

Help me, Jesus! How many of us say this on a daily basis? I do not mean just say it just to say something, but say it because you actually need some help. When my daughter prays for our food the first words out of her mouth are: “Father, Help My Mother“.  I always say “I need all the help I can get”. She has done this for years to the point that we had a friend over for Thanksgiving last year and asked her to pray over the food. She said, “Father, Help Ms. Garnet“. We laughed about that Read More

No Condemnation: Stop Condemning Yourself!

Here’s a great message from guest blogger, Eve Perry: No Condemnation, Stop Condemning Yourself! I was leaving a seminar on Saturday with one of the ladies from my small group and she decided to do a selfie and take some other pictures. She took a couple of pictures of me just laughing and having fun. One of the pictures was of me laughing really hard and a normal fun picture. I sent this picture to a friend with the thought in my heart, “this will make him laugh after a tough week and a rough day at work”. He was helping Read More