In a recent dream, I found myself walking through deep terrain with some young assistants. It was a road less traveled and required strength and agility to traverse the steeper portions of the journey. But even though the journey should have been physically and mentally challenging, I was able to do it without hesitation.
There's something about the word home that stirs the deepest places of the heart. For many, it brings images of warmth, rest, and belonging. For others, it brings a quiet ache, longing for something they've never fully experienced. But Christmas whispers a truth we all need to hear: Your true home has never been a place…it has always been His will. When the angel visited Mary on an ordinary day in Nazareth, her entire world shifted. She was young, inexperienced, and surely not expecting a divine interruption.
There's something most people don't realize and that is that unprocessed fear is the barrier between you and your wound. You have a wound. Something that happened in your life. Something that shaped how you see yourself, how you move through the world, what you believe about love, safety, and belonging. The wound is real. It lives in you.
My house is decorated. The tree is up, and the lights are hung. Oh, how I love this season! However, it's easy to forget that the season of Advent is about waiting well for Immanuel. Seasons of waiting can feel lonely. They raise questions in our hearts about whether or not God is really listening to our prayers. As I've been thinking about waiting, I've been studying Luke 1. I'm intrigued by the relationship between Elizabeth and Mary in their season of waiting. Each could have felt lonely for many reasons, but in their waiting, God led them to one another.
There are some things about faith that we need to continually go over to keep them fresh. Just because we have heard it or known it doesn't necessarily mean we still remember it. It is good to go back and review some old truths from God's Word that have become old hat, so to speak. Sometimes we find that we have forgotten some important things that were fresh revelations years ago.
"I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth." Psalm 34:1 (NIV) Life will throw fear, worry, and uncertainty at you. Sometimes it comes quietly, other times it hits like a storm. But God's Word tells you exactly what to do: don't let fear run the show. Choose praise. Choose faith. Decide to focus on God instead of your problem. Look at Abraham. When God called him to leave everything familiar and go to a place he had never seen, fear could have paralyzed him. But Abraham chose faith.
If there's one thing we all feel these days, it's the noise. Life is loud, not just in the literal sense, but emotionally, spiritually, culturally. It's as if the world collectively decided the volume knob should stay permanently cranked to eleven. News alerts, opinions, arguments, crises, commentary…everything is urgent, everything is dramatic, and everything demands our attention right now. But when everything is loud, it becomes nearly impossible to hear the things that matter.
The prophetic is not for making money, but you will be blessed, as needed! God knows how to bless! He is generous. The prophetic is not for "knowing everything" but you will know what you need to know! The prophetic is not easy, but it will be a continuing revelation. The Story is not about you, but you can contribute to it, and be noticed for it, and be in it, because you seek Him. The prophetic will reveal more of Jesus to you, not just a story about you! The more you decrease, the more He increases and He has the power and the Glory.
Paralyzed by worries? The wisdom of famous 18th-century preacher, John Wesley, remains solid advice for those who face troubles today. A very worried man once approached famous eighteenth-century preacher, John Wesley, nervously complaining, "I don't know what I should do with all this trouble in my life!" Just as the anxious man finished, Wesley noticed a cow looking over a stone wall. And as if by divine revelation, Wesley suddenly saw a profound lesson in the cow's behavior.
Sometimes supernatural things need to be 'caught' rather than 'taught' because supernatural things are not learned through intellectual understanding but rather received through spiritual sensitivity. Many times, The Holy Spirit is trying to get our attention, but we miss it, because we try to discern it with our natural minds. The Bible says that God speaks in so many different ways including dreams and visions of the night when we're in a deep sleep. I believe that's when our spirits are most receptive because when we are asleep. we are not thinking analytically.
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