perspective and training for the life of the Spirit
There are two ways I see in scripture that blessing boundaries can be increased. 1. God Can Command It “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, ?do not hold back; ?lengthen your cords, ? strengthen your stakes. ?For you will spread out to the right and to the left; ?your descendants will dispossess nations ?and settle in their desolate cities. Isaiah 54:2-3 (New International Version, ©2010) 2. We Can Request It Jabez was more honorable than his [...] Read more »
When you look at Scripture and see the overlap of what Fearing the Lord is, what Seeking the Lord is and what doing what’s right is, you have a key for all three….Obedience. When you seek God you obey God. When you fear God you obey God. When you do what’s right you obey God. I’m boiling it down to its essentials here and it’s all saying the same thing. God will not honor sin. Because temptation needs to look [...] Read more »
Can you still obey God when you’re faced with fear? Yes! Download the Episode or watch it below. How to Love in Fear – RevTrev TV In this episode of RevTrev TV I continue my discussion with Gary Meller as we talk about how to love in fear. View Now View all the episodes: Tweet Read more »
In our last post in this series of “How Big Is Your But?” I wrote about if we really have any options but to obey God. Of course it’s our choice to disobey, but often we excuse it to the point of not even acknowledging that we are not doing what He’s told us to do or doing what He’s told us not to do. Here are three lies I first saw on Perry Noble’s blog. They are worth repeating [...] Read more »
In this series on “How Big is Your But?” we’ve looked at the children of Israel’s response to the news from the spies who looked at the giants in the land and said “we looked like grasshoppers in our own eyes and we looked the same to them.” Their response to worry and fear is only significant in how it affects our response today to situations that look impossible. If God has told you to do the difficult are you [...] Read more »
What are the promises when I obey God? I’ve never preached on this portion of Scripture except when I’ve shared this message. It’s a powerful one to consider. Deuteronomy 28:1-13 (NLT) “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God: Your [...] Read more »
I’ve found 4 ways to help us do what’s right. Here they are: 1. Let the Word teach you what’s right… 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. Proverbs 1:2-4 (New Living Translation) Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help [...] Read more »
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 »
Truth: You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you,all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3 (New Living Translation) Thought: When we were in New Zealand, everyone was so laid-back compared with what we were used to in North America. When you signaled to change lanes on a busy motorway, people would actually give way to you. It was astounding. Few were in a hurry. “No worries” is the standard reply. No one seemed busy… unless [...] Read more »
I had the vision of dancing with Jesus. I heard the voice of God tell me he had given me time to write. I was quickly closing in on my word count goal for my novel and we were wondering what God had in store. The kids should be able to adapt to New Zealand, right? A greater purpose for our move should at least start to sprout, no? I could be writing at home, couldn’t I? We called Canada [...] Read more »
Wynne Lewis was coming to Auckland to visit his son. I hadn’t seen Wynne since the 2002 FCA International Convention I helped organize. We’d exchanged email fairly regularly since. It was only 500 and some km from Palmerston North, so I thought we’d go up for the weekend. Problem is: they don’t believe in straight roads in New Zealand. I was told it was a 9-hour drive. Alberta is flat until you get to the mountains. Nine hours would take [...] Read more »
Finding a decent home to rent in Palmerston North had been a difficult task to accomplish. Most of the homes we had checked out were damp, moldy and very stinky. Finally we found one. Needless to say we had down graded from our huge four bedroom 4-level-split in Edmonton to a small three bedroom bungalow in N.Z. Interestingly enough though the market value of the home in N.Z. was probably a fair amount more than the one in Edmonton. My [...] Read more »
It wasn’t that we woke up one day and decided to move to the other side of the world. Before we were married God told us independently that we would be outside Canada. We didn’t know the where, when, why, or how but knew God would reveal it in time and we were to simply do the best with what we had while we had it. When we were considering me becoming the Senior Pastor of RCF, I asked God [...] Read more »
These words were once common in marriage vows, and they need to be common in our relationship with the Lover of our souls. The enemy can come with signs and wonders, what separates us as children of God is that we need to love, honor and obey what the Spirit says. Maybe this explains it better: Tweet Read more »
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