It’s one thing to trust God to provide for our present needs (Matthew 6:33). It’s another to presume upon Him by dictating (via a decision to incur debt) the terms of His future provision. By choosing to go into debt, we twist God’s arm to provide not only for our needs but also our wants. Do we believe God knows best what our needs are? Debt … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2016
What Does the Jewish Holocaust Teach Us?
The Holocaust has been described as the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and mass murder of European Jews and other groups carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies between 1933 and 1945. In fact the term Holocaust comes from a religious term referring to sacrifices totally burned on the altar and offered to God. Many researchers and … [Read more...]
Five Spiritual Trends That Will Change the World in 2016
The premise of my last Prophetic Bulletin on the five trends that would change the natural world in 2016 began unfolding faster and with more impact than I expected. I wrote that it would happen in the first quarter of this year, but I honestly did not expect it to begin on the first day as it did. My prayer now is that what I’ve been shown that … [Read more...]
A Place to Start for Spiritually Stuck People
I’m spiritually stuck. We are stuck people. We get distracted, pulled down, undone. God feels distant and irrelevant. Dane Ortlund says, “You are not abnormal. So relax. We all go through this from time to time.” Seasons of spiritual darkness are common — even when many pretend it’s an anomaly. Even when indifference pirates our most pious … [Read more...]
America 2016 at the Crossroads: Great Awakening or Repression
America has entered into some time machine and is playing with technologies and multi-dimensional realities that it does not understand. It’s as if we have activated live streaming from the fourth dimension, which has brought back the ghosts of the past into our present reality. The fleeting images of Nazi Germany keep entering a kind of … [Read more...]