Category: General

The Delightful Demand of God’s Favor Jacob was a success. While working with his father-in-law, Laban, Jacob suffered from the delightful, demanding burden of God’s favor. He learned how heavy that burden could become when the politics of envy targeted him and he was surrounded by existential lies. Laban had other offspring besides the daughters […]

Superlative Humility Philippians 2:3 – “Do nothing out of –but, instead—” “Superlative humility” means that I push the limits of humility until I hit extremes of grace and Divine strength.  Jesus did, and He broke through to His purpose. He pushed humility to the extreme Do nothing out of “eritheia” or “kenodoxia“ “working for hire” […]

Jacob walked in favor. His favor was upon his assignment more than it was upon him; that is, he could use favor to produce the wrong outcomes and lose out on favor’s highest rewards. But, Jacob reset his priorities to mine from favor its most incredible gems. “But Jacob soon learned that Laban’s sons were […]

Paul describes his calling and assignment as “Apostle Paul” as a grace flow. This led some to assume that “apostle” is a charismatic gift. Not so. Paul is not describing “apostle” as one of the gift capacities, although all apostles have a specific gift mix or function of the gifts that respond to their role […]

Yesterday, during dinner with some awesome kingdom people, the lady of the house mentioned agreement. That truth stuck with me through the next 48 hours because it is a revelation Holy Spirit is investing in my spirit. Agreement in Purpose Agreeing with Jesus is seen first in His great discussion of the Authentic Vine: “But […]

As we walk through this pandemic, many prophets and apostles who prophesy are looking back at their prophecies to find something that signaled this global disruption. They will find some things, for sure, and then they will seek an interpretation of them that proves they heard something. They are actually proving the point of the […]

What the Five Kingdom Leaders Do The famous phrase from Paul’s discussion of kingdom leadership, “equipping the saints,” ain’t about equipping. At least, not so much. The idea that local church pastors teach people to do stuff so they aren’t doing it all – well, that is so far removed from what Paul discusses that […]

Fathering Lineage God’s point of view for Abraham was more than the origination of nations. He was a father of nations in more than the sense that he had children who became nations. God saw Abraham as an international leader. God says, “How can I deal with Sodom and Gomorrah without first speaking with Abraham, […]

The Mindset of God The Logos of God is Jesus as a manifested revelation of God, and the eternal, unchanging mindset of God. The Bible is not the Logos; it is not exhaustive. The Bible is the written or “graphe” communication of Logos God chose to reveal Who He is and How He does stuff. […]

Recognizing Rebellion The rebel seldom defines their posture as “rebellious.” Few are proud of being rebels. Rebels functions in a delusion warp of personal justification. Rebels offer any authority ultimatums. A spiritual father should avoid the relational death that comes with ultimatums by anticipating them and heading them off before they arrive. Rebuke the rebellion […]