Apprentice 2 Jesus

Prayer

  • It is time to rise up in prayer

    I woke up this morning with that challenge. It is time to wake up the prayer warrior. It is time to rise up to the place God has called me all along. Return to that fire of prayer and do NOT let up. The call is being made. “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead,… Read more

  • Contentment or Complacency

    Too often in my own life I think I’m content, which is a biblical virtue… when I’m just complacent. It’s a huge difference, and I also found I don’t like discovering I’m on the wrong side of that ledger. Lord, help me be content in you, but never complacent in my pursuit of you.   Read more

  • Is it YOUR vision or GOD’s vision?

    Preparing for my message today out of Zechariah, this thought occurred to me: You can’t analyze your way to the fulfillment of a vision. It is GOD who fulfills the vision. We need God-sized thoughts and dreams that just can’t be fulfilled in our own power. I am praying for breakthrough in our lives for… Read more

  • It’s easy to have faith when the building is full

    Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the LORD that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zerubbabel? The New International Version. (2011). (Zec 4:10). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. In a day of mega everything, people find it easy to… Read more

  • We interrupt this Miley Cyrus rant (and Ben Affleck is Batman?!!?!?) rant…

    I know it is SOOOO important to go over and over and over and over and over again how HORRIBLE it was that Ben Affleck is cast as Batman. How TRAGIC. So, we’ve moved on to more meaningful rants… like Miley Cyrus’s raunchy performance at the VMAs last night. (NOTE: I don’t know who Miley… Read more

  • Struggling with the abundance of God

    My challenge from the Lord today came loud and clear. I have been noting more and more in my Bible when I see something about the abundance of God toward his people. The Spirit spoke clearly in my heart: You note the abudance of God, but you don’t BELIEVE in the abundance of God. Yet. Read more

  • The place of knowing God

    “He made know his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel.” (Ps. 103:7, NIV) The saying goes something like this: There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. This verse in Psalm 103 is a… Read more

  • When will the body count bother us?

    Not as Americans, but as Christians, when will the news we refuse to pay attention to finally start to jolt us? The New York Times has a picture at the top of their website showing body bags of a Syrian family. The report is death by nerve gas. Thousands, thousands, have perished in Syria. Hundreds,… Read more

  • You can hang up or hang on

    I am working my way through Mark Batterson’s book The Circle Maker. It is something I’ve wanted to get to and finally walking through a Barnes and Noble last night, I picked up and started reading. It is a challenge to my very anemic prayer life right now. He talks about praying hard. We need persistence that simply won’t… Read more

  • Egypt

    There are no easy solutions. The two extremes that are making the most noise and doing the most damage today don’t offer solutions. In the midst of it all, Christians are being threatened constantly.  All the voices shouting today scream violence and revenge. I find myself in a place where I can’t pray for “one… Read more