You can’t “effort” your way into grace, but God can grace you for effective effort. Why are we “programmed” to think we have to work hard and do our very best in order to “deserve” God’s rest? It’s a question I think about a lot since the Bible tells us something very different about entering […]

We’ve been sold a definition of rest by this world that just isn’t accurate. The kind of rest the world pushes is insufficient. Have you realized this yet? The more you religiously engage with the self-care rituals, the more you aggressively disappear for “me time,” the more you pursue products that promise to curb your […]

Most Christians aren’t experiencing real rest, and it shows. With the levels of anxiety, overwhelm and burnout we experience, is it really a surprise that most Christians aren’t really “doing rest right?” I know it just feels like one more thing to “worry” about, but when we get this rest thing “right,” it’s going to […]

Will you be filled with His Spirit? At a time when it feels like the resistance and oppression of the enemy are at an all time high against the Church, it can begin to seem as though the only answer is to step back and take your losses. But the Church was built to endure […]

“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 When Paul shares this little nugget in his letter to the […]

Whatever that enemy is, you’re going to have to make a decision to sit down at the table of provision and abundance that God is preparing for you, in the presence of your rival, and say, “God told me to receive with confidence in my enemy’s presence today, and so I will do it!”

If you will just decide today that you are going to sit on that starting point of breakthrough – constantly, unrelentingly – and not get off, agreeing with the word of the Lord for your life no matter what, YOU WILL SEE YOUR PROMISE!

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the […]

  This month Doug and I will celebrate our seventh wedding anniversary. While that may not seem like a lot of time to become an expert on anything, we’ve made a concentrated number of mistakes that, I am sure, have more than doubled our “on the ground” knowledge of what it takes to make a marriage […]