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Cease Striving
Cease striving. How you effort about doing this and that, come before Me and be ye still. Let Me lead and guide your next steps…
Cease striving. How you effort about doing this and that, come before Me and be ye still. Let Me lead and guide your next steps…
We can never know what God will bring about when we offer our loaves and fishes (desires, gifts, talents, time, resources, life) to Jesus to…
The Lord fashioned you for a purpose. The enemy knows this and has set out to orchestrate a way to hide this revolutionary fact. Every…
When you face a circumstance that make you weak in the knees and your very flesh tremble. When your spirit groans within you crying out…
What I’m doing now does not look like the promise for which you are waiting upon Me, but what I’m doing now is needful. Isaiah…
Prayer: You invite me to enter in. What can You do with my life? At times it feels futile to keep trying for it seems…
See through the smoke screen of lies and the look of circumstance to My truth about you. Even if man says you are one way…
Be not weary of the noise that surrounds. Do not think you will never be able to comprehend all the technologies of this day. My…
Stop doubting yourself. This is not arrogance, but confidence. Confidence that I have called and prepared you, that I prompt you on all you need…
Prayer of Repentance: Lord, I come boldly to Your throne of grace and repent for operating with a critical heart. For ears, I’ve allowed this…
My love, your arms are weary with sadness but I refresh. Yes, you have identified the stirring in your spirit – for I breathe new…
Prayer: God, I don’t know if what I have to offer is enough. It seems so pointless to offer the little unto You that I…
Prayer to the Lord: The number of pages written in my journal does not matter. The number of posts on a website means nothing, if…
Prayer: Why are you downcast, oh my soul? And why so disquieted within me? Put your hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,…
As You follow Me, you will encounter troubles of diverse kinds. My love, release all to Me. Come to Me and pour out your heart…
Transitions, life changes, unknown future, surrounding catastrophes, bad news from a far off land and near – oh Lord how do I live? Follow Me.…
The Lord can teach us spiritual truths in every day interactions, even from words that come from our own mouths. Just this morning I was…
Prayer of Adoration: God, You’re so good. I lose all of my doubts, fears, vulnerabilities, defenses, anxieties, imaginations, and dread to surrender myself in worship…
When anxiety surrounds; when inundated with hopeless reports coming through every channel; when even the atmosphere in our homes, office, marketplace, cars, trains, planes, etc.…
Past the doubt, beyond the fear, above the self-loathing and self-destructive habits and choices, you will find My forgiveness full and free. Lift your head,…
Being willing to disappoint others to follow God can seem a scary position as we wonder how such a decision might wreck our social, political,…
Your presence woos me. As I busy myself with tasks of the day a still small voice calls from deep unto deep and bid me…
Do not grow weary in well doing, bear fruit where I’ve planted you. When it is time to move, I will move you. You will…
To start over or stay? When facing such a life changing decision, seek the Lord. This was a lesson learned over many years. As the…
I came across a powerful video on YouTube entitled, “The Cost of Anointing” by David Wilkerson (1931-2011), who was an American evangelist who left an…
In our world of expected immediacy waiting can often be frowned upon, especially if we have the ability and means to get things done. We…
After a long and intense season of seeking to be elsewhere than where He had me, the Lord posed the following question: Why do you…
When we face a place of great change, questions surface from deep within our hearts such as: “Why am I alive? What do You want…
As a base social need, when we sing in front of others we generally desire affirmation that we have a voice that is enjoyable to…
The Lord will call some to a foreign land to bring forth His Kingdom on earth through various forms of mission work. That does not…