Category: General

Do You Feel Blessed or Lucky?

We could paraphrase Clint Eastwood’s famous line out of context: “You gotta ask yourself this question, saint, Do you feel lucky? Well, saint, do ya?” Blessing speaks directly to Sovereignty of God. Luck doesn’t exist at all. Blessing is reality. Luck is deceptive fantasy. God doesn’t order anything with randomness. God doesn’t do everything, cause […]

Excuse Me, You’re Stronghold is Showing

Strongholds occur when your enemy takes advantage of your vulnerability. The wound, trauma, terror, or source experience “takes on a life of its own.” When I overreact, overcompensate, and overdo mundane life and living, I am exhibiting the residuals of that stronghold. Having a bad experience with one dog isn’t a good reason to fear […]

Non-controlling Leadership

Leadership of a group is different from fathering leadership, yet the two function in tandem; that is, leadership of a group is a fathering function that sets a backdrop for fathering individuals within the group. Each person within the group may experience leadership uniquely with leadership functions personalized to individual destiny, but this individualization maintains […]

Equip

You will be hilariously surprised when you discover what Jesus designed for you in kingdom leadership. Since I really believe the Scriptures and really reveal God so I can recognize His immediate involvement in life on earth, I really believe Jesus bestowed five functions and foundations of leadership upon His called together assembly, the Body […]

The Passion of the Christ(ian)

Without passion for dying we lack passion for living. The passion of the Christ is for dying, being poured out like wine, broken like bread, a burning desire to finish His assignment, an assignment that costs Him everything in order to gain everything. He is pushed to the limit, and His passion for what Father’s […]

Almost or All? Repost

Every next-level step we take faces us with the “I don’t know how to do this” dilemma of kingdom dynamics. Experience in kingdom leadership prepares us for surrender; experience teaches us that experience doesn’t prepare us to understand as much as it prepares us to stop depending upon our own understanding! Kingdom experience teaches trust. […]

Apply the Supply! – 2

The Blood Line The blood line is a demarcation only enforce when I apply the supply. The Blood is available, with power and overcoming protection, but I must apply the Blood strategically to “draw a line” of demarcation. The line of demarcation had already begun to work for God’s people in Egypt in the sense that […]