December 2009
10 posts
you gotta want it.
“Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.” - Psalm 79:8
“Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me.” - Psalm 142:6
In this hour, as we go into 2010, one thing I feel tugging on my heart from the Lord is this:
Do you want...
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At...”
– C.S. Lewis
c'mon lord!
Sometimes the most painful rebuke in the world doesn’t feel like a rebuke at all.
Lemme explain:
The past 3 months God has orchestrated the most peculiar rebuke and teaching that I’ve ever experienced in my life: He’s blessed me only to make me more desperate.
Don’t think so? Lemme run down the line:
Credit-card debt cancellation. Check.
Great favor with spiritual...
bored?
I admire/appreciate/envy old [happy] couples. Don’t you? haha
Looking at old couples, as they continue on living lives together, it always causes me to take a moment and say to God: “Hey Lord, I want that.” There is a model in those relationships that I think we all can learn from and apply to our relationships w/ not just our (future) spouses, but one another - a level of...
joy down in my heart (where?)
If there’s one thing that the LORD has been showing me lately it’s this: anxiety and worration have no place in his people. School, finances, and personal relationships have reached a critical point in my life, where the decisions and actions that I take now, in this season, I realize have generational consequences. And while that’s so amazing, I also find myself at times under...
kingdom come.
It’s always important for the army to have a battleplan.
Just returning today from a New Philly Staff Retreat (I serve at New Philadelphia Church [http://newphiladelphiachurch.com] currently as an intern pastor). A great time to reflect, rejoice, reenergize, and get ready for the new year. Let me just go ahead and declare it: 2010 is going to be the best year yet! Breakthrough, a year of...
it's time.
A letter from Mike Bickle and Lou Engle concerning the critical hour in which we live.
It is time to encounter God and take action.
We stand at a critical juncture in our nation’s history. It is time to encounter God and to take action. The Holy Spirit is visiting His people with power. At the same time, the powers of darkness are raging against the moral fabric of our nation. The light...
under the influence.
At one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13But when anything is...