Category: Identity

  • WATER IT!

    One of my favourite past-times is gardening. It is most fun when you plant a seed, water it, see it grow to become a plant ready for harvest.
    Consider this verse. “I (Paul) planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase” (1 Corinthians 3:6). This talks about the natural process of how the kingdom advances in a life, family, church, or region.

    • Planting – Someone has to plant a seed of truth, love, prayer, declaration, prophetic act, or obedience for there to be a future harvest of good things.
    • Watering – After the seed is planted, it will need to be “watered” by that person or others.
    • Supernatural increase – As it is watered, “God gives the increase.
    • Fruitfulness – Then there is a harvest of salvation, revival, healthy relationships, and freedom.

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  • HEAVENLY SOLUTIONS TO EARTHLY PROBLEMS

    Have you ever been faced with a problem that feels impossible to solve? The kind that grieves your heart, brings worry to your mind, and leaves you lying awake as you think of all the ways there could be resolve?  I’d propose even with our best effort and intent we will not solve the world’s most pressing problems if we limit our thinking to earthly thoughts.

    Further, I would propose that God uses the challenges in our lives to prepare us for our divine destiny! In the Kingdom of God ashes turn to beauty and takes our challenges and turns them to victories. The challenge is many Believers feel dismayed because they don’t realize the power they have access to. It is time to adjust our thinking, grab hold of our authority in Christ, and lean into the solution available to us as Believers.

    What if problems became our faith builders and terrible situations increased our strength?  (more…)

  • FINISHING STRONG

    The battle isn’t over till it is over. We need to finish strong. We need to persevere to the end. This is not always easy. The passion that comes at the beginning of a fight can wane if the fight wears on. I believe David displayed three keys that helped make his fight with Goliath, as well as many of his future battles, strong to the end.

    Preparation First, David came to the battle prepared. The development of David’s heart did not start on the day he met Goliath on the battlefield. It’s foolish to believe we can fight giants without having prepared ahead of time. Instead, as the apostle Paul says, “Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training” (1 Cor. 9:25). Just as athletes prepare for competition well in advance of the event, so we ought to prepare ourselves spiritually before we face giants. Otherwise, we won’t be ready to fight the battle when we find ourselves on the front line. When the door of opportunity opens, it’s too late to prepare. (more…)

  • THE POWER OF OUR WORDS

    Our words are more powerful than many of us know. The Bible tells us this over and over. More than eighty Scriptures address the power of the tongue. This is because we are made in the image of God, and God uses His words to create. In fact, the very first thing we see God doing in the Bible is speaking the world into existence (see Gen. 1:1–3). God created the world and every living thing in it with His words. When He spoke in Genesis 1, nothing became something. The word for created in Genesis 1:1 literally means “something from nothing.” God said it, and it was so. It is hard for us to wrap our minds around this reality, but this is the power of God’s voice. When God speaks, He creates. The author of Hebrews describes it like this: “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible” (Heb. 11:3). God created the tangible universe using nothing but the power of His words. (more…)