Flaming Arrows

As I was typing a letter the other day…yes I said typing. If you’ve ever wondered where all the typewriters in the world are, they’re in prison…the ribbon started acting up. The print started fading until there was just the faintest impression where the keys hit the paper. It was sort of like when your printer is running out of ink and there’s a letter here and there, but the type is very faint and you can barely read it. As I was trying to get it fixed, the Lord started spea

In my morning devotions this morning the Scripture passage I read was Luke 18:1-27. Two things from this passage really caught my attention and spoke to me clearly. The first, in verses 7 and 8, is where Jesus is talking about prayer and how we should be constantly in prayer bringing our requests before Him. In consummation of this, He says that God will act. Quickly. But then He adds a caveat to it. Notice that He does not say, “…will He find love when He returns?” or, “…wil

I went out for my weekly walk and ran into a friend of mine. We used to work together, but now I am rarely able to spend time with him. We decided to walk together and got to going at a pretty good clip. We got to fellowshipping about what God was doing in our lives and teaching us. We shared when our parole hearings were and what we had planned for when we got out. We talked about the miraculous, the ordinary, and the possibilities. All in all, we were sharing the vision tha

From the perspective of this being the “Year Of Victory” for the people of God, I can think of several areas where we should allow the Spirit of God to have free reign. I would address “fear” as the primary objective to have fear over. I believe that fear is a crippling force that keeps the Bride of Christ from being effective in this day and age. Paul told his young disciple Timothy that God has not given us a spirit of fear but one of love, power, and a sound mind (2 Timoth

At the worship service on Wednesday night the pastor was talking about a grain of wheat having to die before it produces a harvest. He was preaching about the New Year and how Jesus brought us to victory. He proclaimed that this was going to be a year of victory where dead things in our lives ceased to infect our soil and how we would produce a harvest for the Kingdom of Jesus. He quoted from John 12:27 which states, “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, sa

I was doing my daily reading the other day and I ran across something that puzzled me. In 2 Corinthians 4:15 Paul prays that the grace of God will superabound towards the believers in the city of Corinth. The adjective superabound actually means to pile one on top of another, on top of another, on top of another... It means to increase, to multiply, to superabound. The New American Standard translation applies this adjective to "more and more people" and in The Message applie

I was at a Bible study the other day and the pastor was talking about how his mind was not in the service because of what happened to him earlier in the day. He talked about a woman who came in to be counseled and had various manifestations of demonic activity (those are my words not his). The reason I share this is not to talk about where we stand with the demonic but, rather, our perspectives. You see, until this time, the pastor presented himself as a very conservative and

These past few weeks have been the most fulfilling in the area of ministry and yet hey have been the toughest in my personal life. My ministry field has expanded to include a variety of people. With the change in my job to the Recreation Department clerk I am able to be on the yard walking with people a lot. The variety of people that I am associating with and am able to minister to is vast also. The lost have needs that they are very cautious to communicate to just anyone. T

About a week ago when we were in a Bible study the comment was made that, "Only God knows the condition of the heart." I have been pondering this and how it relates to the new covenant. You see, if our heart condition cannot be seen then there is no difference between the old covenant and the new. If I go to church, tithe my income, eat the right things, and do not sleep around on my wife then I am just as good as the next guy. Right? The new covenant says “no” that is not th