Jesus, I want to see the deaf hear tonight. – This is Chapter One from my book Putting Jesus on Display with Love and Power This is a prayer I have prayed many times, but this evening in Brazil it seemed to carry a special weight. I was reminded of Isaiah 35:5, the Scripture that says,
American Express customer care agent gets healed and gives her life to Jesus over the phone, even though I bombed it on two words of knowledge. This testimony came up in my FB memories today from 3 years ago. One thing I love about FB memories is it reminds me of all these God encounters.
What do you do with your failure, sin and poor choices? What do you do with those images that often suspend time, that play in slow motion like a car accident? Your life flashes before you. Fear grips you and strikes at the core of your being. This is often what happens with our failures
What I love so much about this story is that it happened on Valentine’s Day, and I think it just might be a prophetic message to remind us all that Holy Spirit is always bearing witness to people in tangible, incarnational, naturally supernatural ways. The Holy Spirit is always at work in and through us
Our identity lies only in Jesus, who bought us for a price. Don’t forget who you are, and you won’t act like who you are not. Breathe in a fresh revelation of the nature and mercy of an amazing God who made and transformed you into His likeness. Live from the vine of life, Jesus,
The gifts of the Spirit are just that: gifts, not trophies, ministries, or identity builders. They are gifts of His grace, expressions of His love, invitations of His transformation, or impartation for the person receiving. They are to help build faith, hope, and love in Jesus only, not in the person delivering the gifts. His
How do you deal with principalities and powers? You become incarnational in your prayers. You become Jesus with skin on to people afflicted by demonic mindsets, ideologies, and actions. How did God deal with sin, a lost world, satan, and the demonic principalities and powers that influenced and captured the minds, hearts, and governmental powers
We Always Have A Reason For Hope! Because Jesus is King! He’s Emmanuel-God with us, not God far from us, but God always-present, never leaving us. This doesn’t mean we will never walk through the valley of the shadow of death; it just means death is only a shadow. The 23rd Psalm proclaims the gospel
Fantasy, fiction, tall tales, urban legends, and conspiracy may have a hook of truth. But that’s all that it is—a hook. It’s click bait. Its job is to reel you in to an alternate reality and/or paranoia that distorts your view of reality. You stop seeing real people and you just start seeing a caricature
How Do We Press Through The Pushback Of The Enemy? A prophetic teaching and vision that I thought just might be a timely word for today – Taken from my book, From the Sanctuary to the Streets, by Brian Blount & Charles Bello. Our challenge is to understand the nature of the conflict and then