A banner year is a year that is more than expected, above expectation financially, physically, emotionally, etc. Don’t base this year on what happened last year or the year before that. God wants to do more than we expect. He wants us to look back at the year and have…
I mentioned in yesterday’s blog that my Dad sent one dollar a day to the same ministry for years. After a year, the people receiving the mail were trying to figure out who this Crank person was. Each day they began anticipating the Crank letter. The Reward For The Faithful…
When I was growing up, we didn’t have health insurance. We lived in a travel trailer and moved from place-to-place for my Dad to preach. My Dad liked to say that we had blessed assurance. And we did. God met our needs. And my Dad followed the teaching, “the generous…
As we look at the world around us, we can’t help but notice that we have too much. Too much air, too much ocean, too much land, God doesn’t give just enough. Man has not completely explored the entire earth. There are portions of the land that man has never…
My Dad and his Dad had the poverty mindset mentality. I grew up so poor that we had Hamburger Helper minus the hamburger. We weren’t poor; we were po’. I got family hand-me-downs, I didn’t get new clothes. We shopped at garage sales when we had a few dollars. As…
In your life would you describe yourself as someone who presses in toward God? Some people think spending time with God, reading the Bible, or attending a Bible study is a passive activity. God is anything BUT passive. He is GLORIOUS, and he has AMAZING things to show us. The…
The word launch means to set in motion. To thrust is to suddenly lunch in a direction. A lunge is a movement where our body thrusts forward. It may cause us to be unbalanced, and it can be uncomfortable. So when Jesus says, “THRUST OUT!” He’s saying at my word,…
I was advised recently to “watch what you say” and the advice was warranted. I had been saying words of agreement out of one side of my mouth. Then, out of the other side of my mouth I cancelled out those words. 1) We get what we say, choose words…
Whether it’s one setback or a month of setbacks, God is working behind the scenes to turn our setback into a comeback. The Holy Spirit prompted me, some of you call it women’s intuition, others say “something” told me, well that something has a name. He urged me to think…
We all trip up from time to time. God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. (1 Corinthians 1:27) It is through our weakness that some of us give God a whole lot of glory. Jesus said, “My power is made perfect in weakness.” God doesn’t…
If we had been in God’s shoes in Genesis, we would have said, “It’s as dark as a black cat, in a coal bin, eating licorice.” And then it would have STAYED dark. We act like we have no influence over our circumstances by saying flippant things that agree with…
God had someone speak into my life recently. He is a highly respected man of God, and he told me that he heard me preach about 24” rims on an Escalade. He heard me say, “I’ll probably never drive something like that because people would give me a hard time…
