How to Handle ‘NO’

You are my friends if you do what I command.  John 15:14(NIV) I didn’t pray for a lady today. But God asked me to. Actually, to be clear, God asked me to ask if I could pray for her. As my heart began racing and all the little reasons why I shouldn’t flooded in, I…

The Ways He Didn’t Make

“This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,” Isaiah 43:16(NIV) Waymaker. The God who makes a way when there is no way. A path through water. As I meditated on this story in the Bible where the Israelites cross through the Red Sea on dry land,…

Who Are You?

Identity is found in the God we trust. Any other identity will self-destruct. -Lecrae, Identity When you genuinely know who you are, people’s opinion of you changes nothing. That statement took a while to be able to say. And even now, when people begin to criticize, condemn, and bad-mouth me it takes a minute or…

Empty-handed

The only reason we don’t have revival is because we are willing to live without it. Leonard Ravenhill We want revival. We want God to do a new thing. We want a move of the Holy Spirit. But we want it in the perimeters of our convenience and spare time. And that’s just not how…

Why Did Jesus Weep?

Jesus wept. John 11:35 Someone needs to read that verse today. It’s really short- read it a couple times. Do you know why Jesus was weeping in John 11? At first, I thought He was weeping because His friend, Lazarus, had died. But if you read the whole chapter you’ll see that before Jesus even…