Today I speak about the importance of us becoming equipped to walk according to God’s will. Colossians 3:16-17 “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”
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Today I bring a foundational teaching about God’s unchanging love. We repent for believing the lie that God can reject His children. Even in times of discipline God loves us to the uttermost and wants to see us mature as His sons.
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Today I inspire us to receive a new perception of God’s love for us. God is preparing each one of us for something new, but it cannot happen out of our human perception of love. There is a motivation in God’s love to see us grow and mature, so we can participate in the bringing forth His kingdom.
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Today I expound on the story in 1 Kings 17. Even though Elijah was a prophet, he could not solve his own problems. He had to rely on the miracle God provided through the poor widow. We need to get out of our comfort zone and appropriate the provision God has given us through relationships.
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Today I link the parable of the prodigal son to Revelation 3:20. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.” The prodigal son was free to make his own choice but the father delighted when he chose to come home. Similarly God will never force us to open the door to His love but is eager to dwell with us when we choose to let Him into our lives.
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Today I express the importance of us becoming channels of living water. When we only receive and never share the blessing, we become like the dead sea. We must be willingly to share the love we have received to continue the flow of living water.
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Today I relate our provision from God to a box of parts waiting to be assembled. We have access to a complete provision, but if we do not read the manual and spend quality time with our instructor, we won’t be able to see the fullness of all that we have received.
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Today I inspire us to continue opening up to receive God’s love. God is love, and the key to walking as sons of God is seeking His love with all our heart. We grow up by receiving His love with a broken spirit. Everything we do must be born out of this pure love.
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Last Summer I was happy to celebrate my graduation from Shiloh University with a Master of Divinity degree. It took me several years, numerous classes, books, and hundreds of hours. However, my desire to study and learn did not stop with the graduation. Achieving a degree was never my main goal. My goal was, and continues to be, always focused …
Today I connect our ability to see ourselves as God sees us to our openness to receive God’s love. Through a story of the eight cow woman we can see how opening up to God’s love allows us to be aware of the beauty in ourselves that He has seen from the beginning.
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Seeds have an amazing ability to retain and preserve their quality and ability to reproduce and multiply. Seeds kept for years still retain the same untouched qualities they had generations past. I have heard of some 2,000-year-old seeds that germinated. They can not only reproduce the same DNA—the qualities of what they are—but they can reproduce it in great quantity. …
Today I impart a new revelation of the Holy Spirit. Jesus wanted us to have the Holy Spirit, not only to be filled with His power, but also to have a daily reminder of His love for us and His desire for us to walk in oneness.
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Every year when we go through the period between the biblical feasts of Passover and Pentecost I like to study the difficult transition that the disciples went through. Today we can read the whole sequence of events and we know that everything was leading to the Day of Pentecost and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; but we must remember …
Today I relate our anticipation for Pentecost with our hunger for the truth. The Holy Spirit was not sent for the disciples’ personal gain, but to enable them to walk in their commissioning. We cannot miss what God is doing because it does not happen the way we thought it would.
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After the first Passover in Egypt the people of Israel camped in the desert, a time where God made a covenant with the people of Israel (Deuteronomy 4:12-14). When God gave Moses the law, one of the feasts He instructed them to celebrate was known as the Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23:15-17). Immediately following the Passover, the priest was to …
Today I link our ability to see God’s plan for our lives to our willingness to be part of His plan. We cannot expect to see God moving if we are reluctant to be the channel through which He moves.
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Some people think that they have all the control over their lives and that they can achieve anything that they want because of their intelligence, strength, abilities, and talents. Those people forget that they were blessed with each one of the gifts that they rely on. Any of the talents or strengths that we think we have, we have actually …
Today I speak about our need to have a daily revelation of the Lord. The disciples knew Christ, but when he appeared on the road to Emmaus after His resurrection they did not recognize him. We cannot be satisfied with a revelation or an experience from the past. We pray everyday for our daily bread, a fresh and new revelation and experience with God.
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Today I convey the importance of having an experience with God’s love. We can study the word and know it’s teaching but it is a daily experience with God’s Love that will change us. Part of this process is getting to know ourselves as we are known by God. 1 John 3:1 “See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are.”
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We just finished celebrating the Feast of Passover, and even though I grew up celebrating the biblical feasts ( Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, and others), I have wondered if people may think it is a little strange for us to celebrate the festivals of the Old Testament. I have also had people ask, ‘Why do you even read the Old Testament?’ …
Today I teach about Passover and how it relates to us as Christians. In the book of Exodus, God delivered His people from slavery. They were not only slaves to Pharaoh, but also to the gods of Egypt. The Israelites had to stay in their houses with blood on the door posts to be set free. Today, we recognize that Christ’s blood is our covering. When we take communion, we take it in faith that we are no longer slaves to the gods of this world but we are sons of the Lord Most High.
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Today I reiterate the importance of loving one another. Our love, one for another, is key in this process of restoration. When we move in this love we activate principles of the Kingdom. John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
I have been writing about the process of restoration of the church, and one of the things that impact the way I walk with God is the way I apply, in my life, the principles established by God. Sometimes we may have a sense that we have lost our closeness with God and that we are not being blessed. When we understand the principles of a walk in the Spirit we should not become confused when we feel that. It is important to learn that we are blessed when we obey the commandments of the Word of God. It is not enough to know something; we are blessed when we do the things we already know. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them (John 13:17).
One of the principles that impact our lives constantly is forgiveness. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray he included this principle. For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. “But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions” (Matthew 6:14–15). Jesus also taught about this principle in a parable (Matthew 18:23-35). In this parable it becomes clear that the debt that God is willing to forgive us is infinitely greater than the debt that we are asked to forgive others.
We are approaching the time of Passover. During this time we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Salvation, Redemption, Forgiveness of our sins, and being born again in a relationship with God, the Father. We can only approach the communion table to appropriate the forgiveness of our sins when we are willing to let go of the offenses of others toward us. It does not mean that it is easy; it means that we recognize that we have been forgiven a lot more than we are forgiving others. The offenses of others toward us are not worth holding on to, when compared to the mercy and grace of God towards us, through the blood of Jesus spilled for us.
Isaiah 58:1-12
Matthew 25:35-40
Matthew 5:23-24
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Today I explain the importance of having a revelation of God’s love for us. When God saved us, He opened the door for us to have a deep relationship with His love and His promises. His provision of everything pertaining to life and godliness, is available to us when we choose to open our hearts and receive His love.
On my last blog I started to write about the process of the restoration of the church. As I continued to meditate about this, one thing became very clear to me, one of the first things that must be restored is our revelation of God’s love for us. This revelation can only come when we trust that He is willing to have a relationship with us, even when we fail and make mistakes. If I believe that He is just waiting for my next sin to reject me, my walk with God will always be based on a fear of rejection, instead of a revelation of His unchanging love. “Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end” (John 13:1). One of the ways to translate this last part is: He loved them eternally.
Jesus Christ taught His disciples to pray to the Father. As a Father, God may discipline His children, but He never rejects them. In reality, in His love He wants us to grow in our relationship with Him. Sometimes it is very easy to confuse discipline, correction, and even punishment with rejection. In God’s faithfulness we see that He is not rejecting His children, even if for a while He has to discipline them. “He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him” (Psalm 103:9–11).
The restoration of our relationship with God will never be based on our own religious merits, but on His faithfulness and unchanging love. “Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in unchanging love” (Micah 7:18). On the other hand we must be open for the discipline and maturing in our relationship with the Father, and also to become channels of the same love and acceptance to others.
John 3:16-17
Psalm 136
Luke 15:19-20
Hebrews 5:7-9
Romans 11:32
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As we approach the time of the Feast of Passover we are filled with anticipation to celebrate it as a family. The Feast of Passover is inexhaustible in its significance for us today because it represents the love and drive of God to see His people delivered from any obligation so they can come to worship Him only. During the first …
I have been writing about the process of restoration of the church, and one of the things that impact the way I walk with God is the way I apply, in my life, the principles established by God. Sometimes we may have a sense that we have lost our closeness with God and that we are not being blessed. When …
Today I link our personal walks with God to Philippians 3:12, “Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.” We must have a drive and determination to walk every day in a way that will bring forth God’s presence.
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Today I dive into the keys of effective prayer. We no longer come as beggars before the king, but enter into prayer as sons relating to a loving father. Find out what is yours according to the sacrifice of the son.
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Today I illuminate Psalms 51 through the context of David’s life. We know David as a worshiper and a man after God’s own heart, but it is important for us to study his life and understand the man behind the Psalms.
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The history of the Church is a very interesting subject, but it is not always easy to understand why so many things went so wrong. On the other hand it is important to remember that from the very beginning the church started with this idea of restoration (Acts 3:19-21). There are so many scriptures that point to the fact that …
Today I relate God’s presence in the book of Esther to God’s presence in our daily lives. God is behind the scenes orchestrating our lives, but we still have to accept and walk in the authority He has given us.
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