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Jesus is not your servant
Live Dead Joy is not your typical “devotional.” You can read it every day, but you’ll end up on your face repenting every day. It’s not what you think of as “devotional.” But it IS necessary. Example from today: It is somewhat ludicrous to call Jesus a servant-king. The danger in reducing Jesus to this hyphenated nonsense is that it…
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The necessity of waiting on God
Moses was called up to the mountain. There he was in the powerful presence of God 40 days and nights. Moses spent the forty days in the presence of God and received the blueprint for God’s heart concerning Israel. Israel “waited” at the bottom of the mountain and fell back to their old patterns from Egypt. Moses received the heart…
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Serious Prayer
With the election over, I can put away my snarky hat (for the most part) and get back to other matters far more important. Beyond the “Alex from Target” and Taylor Swift issues of our day, and certainly WAY past the “War on Christmas” issues are the serious matters of prayer for what goes on in the world. Christians being…
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When we pray in his name
The I AM. When we invoke his name we usher in a powerful history and at the same time unleash powerful possibilities in the present. This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. (Ex. 3:15)
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The obedience test in prayer
This morning I woke up knowing I had just had a dream where I was praying for a friend in my dream. I tried to remember why, but all I could remember was that I prayed. I decided to continue to pray when I got up, not knowing what else to do, or even what to pray. As I stumble…
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Prayers for the day
For Joy: God our heavenly Father, when the thought of you wakes in our hearts, let its awakening not be like a startled bird that flies about in fear. Instead, let it be like a child waking from sleep with a heavenly smile. (Søren Kierkegaard) For Live-Dead: From an Eritrean believer to a missionary: “Ask our brothers and sisters to pray for…
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Why pay attention to ISIS and the Middle East?
Sometimes we can reason out the current Middle East situation with logic that says, “Let’s back away from the region and let them work it out… or battle it out.” What would be wrong with that? First of all, it’s incredibly difficult to say WHAT to do… but to do nothing has some scary consequences. It is not realizing the…
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Apprehended by Christ
I’ve been home a week and have hit the ground running. It’s left me little time to reflect on the Ethiopia trip, as I had to dive right back into teaching here, getting up to speed on our church property and how the marketing of the property is progressing, etc. Preparing for Sunday, I’ve slowed down somewhat to look at…
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The deck is stacked
Last night in our prayer group we were catching up on the past two weeks. As I talked about what God was speaking to me concerning Ethiopia, I was listening to what God was saying to people in our church while I was away. One phrase that stuck out as we talked was, “The deck is stacked.” Someone had heard…
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The season of opportunity
This is no longer a season of standing “at the threshold” of opportunity. We are no longer in a place of being “right at the door.” We are through the door. We are not at the opportunity. We are IN the opportunity. It is time to walk on and work hard. The power of the Spirit is abundantly present. 20 Now to him who is…
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