Category: General

The parables Jesus uses to illustrate the days of ultimates for His generation teach us about endurance. The parables of Matthew 25 give His response to the destruction of Jerusalem He prophesies in Matthew 24. In way or another, we all see some parallels with other seasons of ultimates, generations that live through times when […]

God only left one mantle of a prophet available. David was a prophet but he left a throne in place. Elijah’s mantle remains available because of the specific strategy of God to prepare The Lord a people who accurately anticipate what’s coming next. Samuel wasn’t really into the “prepare The Lord a people” thing. I […]

The question, “From where does David’s heart come?” may be the wrong question. It doesn’t necessarily come from somewhere or someone in the sense that it is received or imparted. A heart like David’s is developed. It grows and matures certainly by what it allows to be its focus or treasure, by the priorities it […]

Jesus says, I am the True Vine. You are branches. Father is the owner of the Vineyard. Bearing fruit is fulfilling purpose. Branches that bear no fruit, do not fulfill their purposes, are removed. Branches that bear fruit are pruned so that can fulfill more purpose. Branches are prepared to bear much fruit, to gain […]

David’s spirit of leadership certainly speaks to us today! This is the spirit of leadership in which Jesus operated, making the kingdom David established eternal. David’s writing are quoted often in the New Testament, especially with regards to Messiah and kingdom. The spirit of leadership that marked David’s life was brought to greatest fullness and […]

Jesus made it very clear that the basis of the Law and Prophets was love, not legalism. I mean, there is a lot of legality in the Law – it’s the law! And, there is a lot of uncovering in the prophets as well as promise – it’s reveal-a-tion! However, understanding the bedrock strata from […]

Dream literally means “sleep vision.” The oldest English form of the words means “joy, mirth, and music.” The other peek-English forms follow along the lines of “vision, deception, imaginations of a sleeping person,” and references to music, noise, and merriment. Perhaps, some of the words blend in a sense of drunkenness. At any rate, the […]

…but you can have more than one. The kingdom is full of fathers, so you will be rubbing shoulders with fathers all the time. You can receive from many fathers even as you will also have assigned fathers. Forefathers Fathers of the faith touch our lives even after they are gone! Their mantles remain – […]

Christians love conspiracy theories, especially ones involving the antichrist. Such theories become the basis for rather bizarre responses to reality sometimes at the expense of the more important assignments Jesus has given the Ecclesia.

Leading means following because the goals toward which a leader is moving himself and others must come from outside and above him in order to be worthy of his leadership. That is, God created man and crowned him with glory and honor, so man is designed and developed by God to pursue Glory and Honor: […]