There’s much about healing I don’t understand. Do we need the gift of healing to pray for someone to be healed or can anyone pray? With the gift of healing, the Holy Spirit gives an awareness that God would like to heal a certain person or segment of people. It sometimes is accompanied with the feeling of heat or tingling in the hands and sometimes not. Some people experience this gift and have a ministry…
Do you desire to hear from God? Do you desire to walk in the Spirit? Do you desire to have eyes to see and ears to hear, to perceive what God is doing, saying, where he is moving, so you can do the work the Father is doing like Jesus did? Then good. That is very good. To have a desire for God is the launching off point. So where is the struggle? We operate…
In Hebrews 11 we read about men and women who exemplified great faith. These are our great cloud of witnesses who underwent often horrific situations because they held to a belief that wasn’t popular. Yet, often they didn’t even see what they were believing for take place in their lifetimes. Obviously they weren’t thinking that “If this happens, then it is true.” No. They new it was true regardless of what happened. What is faith…
I’ve talked about writing for years now, so why haven’t I started? Because I’m afraid. I know I’ll get pushback and criticized. I hate being wrong or failing. It cuts me to my core. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past years is that I belong to God, and he helps me in my weaknesses. So if my worst fears are realized, I believe my trust in God will only grow. As…
Why do I hesitate to give my all to God? Why do I not want to lose my life for the sake of God’s Kingdom? Jesus said, “If you seek to save your life, you will lose it, but if you seek to lose your life for the sake of the Kingdom, you will find it.” So, if I seek to hang onto my life, I lose out. If I embrace dying to self, I…
(Originally published on TheScoop2017, February 2017) This is a continuation of Valentine’s Day chocolates do not help beat the sugar addiction. If we want to be helpful to those who are trying to kick the sugar habit, let’s forgo the chocolates and reinvent Valentine’s Day. Reading about Saint Valentine serves as a launching pad to fresh ideas to celebrate the holiday in ways that are meaningful and relationship building. Read the whole story here Saint Valentine. St. Valentine…