We keep careful track of our appointments. The doctor, the dentist, the lawyer, the professor’s office hours, we write them on the calendar, set a reminder, and show up, often ten minutes early with our paperwork in hand. We wouldn’t dream of not showing up for the dentist. We’d never casually skip a meeting with our attorney. These appointments matter to us, so we honor them. But what about our appointments with God? Do we even make them? Is there a set time when we say, “This hour belongs to my Father”? And if we do make that appointment, are Read More
Stand Firm: God’s Strength for Every Battle
Life is beautiful; it’s also a battlefield. Whether we recognize it or not, we are engaged in warfare every day. Some battles are visible—the struggles with finances, relationships, health, disappointments, and uncertainty. Others are invisible; the spiritual battles that rage in our minds, hearts, and souls. As followers of Christ, we must understand that while we live in the natural world, we are also participants in a spiritual war. The apostle Paul reminds us: For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the Read More
From Tolerance to Territory: Reclaiming Your Dominion
There is a dangerous comfort in tolerance. Somewhere along the way, many believers traded dominion for coexistence. We learned to live beside the very things God commanded us to rule over including sickness, fear, poverty, addiction, confusion, generational strongholds and we called our endurance “patience” or “long-suffering.” But tolerance and dominion are not the same spirit. One waits the enemy out. The other casts him out. In the beginning, God’s first command to man was not “endure the earth” but “have dominion” (Genesis 1:26). Dominion was the original assignment. It was never God’s design for His children to simply survive Read More
Rename Your Season
“Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].” — Hebrews 11:1 People, it’s time to start renaming your seasons. I heard the Lord say: “Just because you do not see it in the natural, does not mean I have not already provided it. Just because you see emptiness, does not mean I have not already filled those empty places. I can supernaturally fill any space as easily as I can provide Read More
Not Crushed: Discovering God’s Strength in Your Weakness
Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 4:8–10 inspire believers in every generation: “We are pressured in every way [hedged in], but not crushed; perplexed [unsure of finding a way out], but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned [to stand alone]; struck down, but never destroyed.” If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably read those words and thought, “But I’m not Paul.” Paul endured imprisonment, beatings, shipwrecks, rejection, and constant hardship. Yet he remained steadfast in his faith and unwavering in his mission. How is that possible? The answer is not that Paul possessed extraordinary human strength. His endurance came Read More
Zealous Pursuit or Passive Waiting?
There’s a difference between waiting on God and hiding behind waiting on God. One is faith. The other is fear dressed up in spiritual language. We need to examine our posture before God. Scripture never presents faith as passive. James reminds us, “faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (James 2:17). Yet many believers confuse stillness with surrender. They tell themselves they’re “waiting on God” when in reality, they’re avoiding obedience that feels costly, uncertain, or uncomfortable. There’s a posture of open hands and a closed heart; thus, appearing receptive while remaining unmoved. And then there’s Read More