New Site Design

I’ve missed my blog posts yesterday and I was planning on getting a few up today as well, but there were issues with site speed and theme continuity, so I needed to take some time and look into new options. I’m excited I found FrugalThemes. It was easy to set up the theme, and I only see one issue that I need help to get fixed – I can’t get to the home page. Anyway, I know it’s something I’m [...] Read more »

Do You Read E-books?

Do you read e-books? We’re considering putting 25 ebooks on Amazon for the Kindle, Apple for the iBookstore and KoboBooks.com for the Kobo. They will be available for download on RevTrev Books as well for any other reader that uses .epub format. Love to have your feedback. [poll id="2"] [poll id="3"] [poll id="4"] Tweet Read more »

10 Questions I Would Ask Before Launching A Ministry

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I’ve had some more time to prayerfully think about my first response for advice on starting a ministry.  If you haven’t listened to my podcasts on How to Steward A Prophetic Call Part 1 and How to Steward a Prophetic Call Part 2, you’re welcome to do it. 10 Questions to Ask Before Launching A Ministry 1. Have I Heard God? I’ve learned to look for three parts to any call. There needs to be a call – anything from [...] Read more »

When Hope Dies (part 2) – RevTrev Radio Episode 5

When Hope Dies (part 2) - Episode #5 – RevTrev Radio When Hope Dies – Part 2 Does “happily ever after” ever happen? What do we do when we know God has promised something and we get it, but it dies? By examining the Shunammite’s response in 2 Kings 4:9-26 we can have confidence to hope even when our hope dies. Subscribe to iTunes I have been able to include the lessons I’ve learned from studying for this message in my [...] Read more »

Seeking the Lord

Before we look at seeking the Lord, I need to point out something about fearing the Lord. We’re given three conditions for getting the good God has for us. Fear the Lord Seek the Lord Do what’s right And right away we see that part of fearing God is obeying his commandments…doing what’s right. We could make an argument that everything in the list of 16 Ways To Fear the Lord can be summarized with “do what’s right.” I won’t [...] Read more »

16 Ways I Can Fear the Lord

16 Ways I’ve Found to Fear the Lord How can I fear the Lord? Fearing the Lord is not walking around being afraid you’re going to give account of all your past sins at the end of your days. You will do this if you haven’t asked  Him to forgive you in this life. But if you are washed, sanctified, and justified – which you are when you have Jesus as Lord of your life (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)- you’re only [...] Read more »

Why Fear God?

Why Fear God? The first condition for getting the good God has for us is for us to “fear God.” So the question is How Can I Fear God? How do we balance perfect love driving out all fear (1 John 4:18) with worshipping God acceptably with all reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:28-29)? How can God not give us the spirit of fear, and yet still tell us to fear Him? What is fearing [...] Read more »

When Hope Dies (part 1) – RevTrev Radio Episode 4

When Hope Dies (part 1) - Episode #4 – RevTrev Radio When Hope Dies – Part 1 Does “happily ever after” ever happen? What do we do when we know God has promised something and we get it, but it dies? By examining the Shunammite’s response in 2 Kings 4:9-26 we can have confidence to hope even when our hope dies. Subscribe to iTunes I have been able to include the lessons I’ve learned from studying for this message in my [...] Read more »

Daily Spousal Relationship Health Check

I really want to learn to love my wife better, in ways she understands and appreciates. So I thought I’d let the Scripture guide me. I’m letting the Holy Spirit evaluate my motives in our relationship. I’ve created a Relationship Health Check you can download. Here it is so you can see if you want to download it… Daily Spousal Relationship Health Check Allow the Holy Spirit to show you His thoughts of your actions today. You’re spouse may have [...] Read more »

Has God Promised Good to Us?

Has God really promised good to us? The fourth verse of John Newton’s “Amazing Grace” has us singing it so…what does the Bible say? There are two great verses that tell us our Good God wants good for us. I know there are many more, but these two come with the conditions Promises for good O fear the LORD, you His saints; For to those who fear Him there is no want. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; [...] Read more »

How to Get the Good God Has For You

How to get the good God has for you. I know that there are many of us struggling with things in this life. Some issues are because of health. Some are because of finances. Some are relationships that really need miracles to change hearts. These are the areas where hope is tested. I want you to know you can still have hope. I want you to know how to get the good God has for you. The writer of Hebrews [...] Read more »

How Should I Launch A New Ministry?

I love being on Twitter. I connect with such amazing people. Someone I’ll keep nameless has asked me a question. I thought about it a bit and decided a blog post might be a good way to answer. I’m hoping to break out to the motivational & spiritual speaking world full-time. Any pointers? One of the reasons we’ve started Expectancy Ministries is to help launch and encourage other ministries as we can. So I do have a few things that [...] Read more »

Encouragement for Writers

Writers need encouragement. Since I’m getting ready to launch Hope In Transition, I’m on the look out for writing advice and encouragement. I’ve found some great help around doing up e-books. Since I have so many ready to go, I’m excited to see what comes of it. I came across this video and was blown away with what the speaker says. She describes my writing experience with the Holy Spirit. Even though she uses different language and comes from a [...] Read more »

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