Month: January 2025

When you reap the harvest of your breakthrough, the one that cost you endurance, submission, suffering, and, sometimes, years of faithfulness to your assignment, where do you invest that harvest? When you experience breakthrough, the opportunists will seek you out. The kingdom of God has some hangers-on who make book negotiating with faithful inheritors about […]

My good friend, Clay Nash, says, “If you honor me, honor my values.” Powerful words! When I heard him say them the first time, I felt them as much as I heard them. At that moment, I was listening to Clay Nash as a representative of Jesus of Nazareth, not only as my good friend. […]

Ask yourself why the forbidden is sexy. Marriage and faithfulness are the most empowering of all sensual experiences reaching even to the ultimate of spirit, soul, and body oneness. It is the image of God in humanity. It is the highest of all in terms of personal spiritual experience, and the most fundament relational dynamic […]

What is wine? What is the wineskin? What is the vineyard? What is the result of this metaphoric reference when coupled with putting new cloth into an old garment? The first point of Jesus concerns loss. He says both the old wineskin and the old garment will be destroyed by the introduction of new wine […]

Start With the Fundamentals The authority of the Scriptures is a fundamental Truth for the kingdom of God. The King has spoken. His words say that all the Bible for all the people all the time in every place expresses “Who God Is” so we recognize Him when we know Him, “How God does stuff” […]

Simon’s Life and Death Simon Peter asks Jesus, gesturing toward John, “What is gonna happen with him? Jesus answers, “What has that got to do with you? Follow Me.” Follow means submit. “Just get’r done, Simon. You and John are both apostles, but your ministries and lives look nothing alike. Is that going to be […]

“No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier” (2 Timothy 2:4, NASB). The idea that the soldier is serving or on active duty seems to be implied in the wording, so many translations include this idea. “No […]

As a person who prophesies, do not prophesy marriage. Just don’t do it. But, I see it. But, I hear it. But, I know it. But, I’m sure of it. Don’t do it. The prophetic process that you follow for directing life decisions is not an “I see it. I hear it. I know it. […]

The term “apostolic” includes several characteristics of this kingdom leadership dynamic’s function, how that leadership affects the whole and each operating where it is functioning, and the systematic order this function provides the kingdom culture and the regional Ecclesia. Apostle means, “Special Representative.” It does not mean “sent one.” It can mean “sent one,” but […]

Unity is far from us when we do not agree on mission objectives. Then, when we agree on mission objectives, we must surrender to a strategy to move forward together. “I Just Do My Part” I hear apostles say, “Well, I know what I’m supposed to do, and I’m going to pour my life into […]