Pray with willingness to OBEY

GOALS & MISSION STATEMENTS. Luke 4:18-21.

A preacher asked, “Is there anyone here with goals?,” everyone nodded, then he followed-up: “Raise your hand if you have your goals written down in your pocket right now!” No one raised a hand. The point? You only achieve things you are deeply committed to. If you don’t write down your goals, you will notContinue reading “GOALS & MISSION STATEMENTS. Luke 4:18-21.”

HOW DO YOU KNOW GOD’S VOICE? Jeremiah 42:3,6.

Dancers and athletes work from their “core,” actors from their “center,” singers from the “diaphragm,” and golfers talk about swinging from the “thoracic spine,” or the “chest.” Hearing from God is like that: He speaks to a place deep down and it boils up from there, filling your whole body. God speaks in your bones,Continue reading “HOW DO YOU KNOW GOD’S VOICE? Jeremiah 42:3,6.”

BE READY FOR ANYTHING.

The worst thing that happened to the Israelites was the Babylonian captivity. Long after they were rescued from the Pharaoh and brought to the Promised Land, after David killed Goliath and God established David’s kingdom and Solomon’s temple—generations passed and the people got worse and worse. Remember how they left Egypt and built a goldenContinue reading “BE READY FOR ANYTHING.”