Listening to the Holy Spirit: I call some as shepherds, but others to the harvest. I call many to tend, and some to labor in the field. Some lay bricks of tomorrow, still others clean what deteriorates with time. To what have I called you? For a season here, then another there? Your work is not as important as the Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: The reward of the Father is greater than the world. All that is offered of the world is of greater cost to he who receives it. The reward of the Father is a great inheritance of a limitless King to he who has been adopted. Beyond measure are the gifts of eternity. Do not trade, Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: The love shown to a brother is not one of feeling, but one of sacrifice. How do you love another? In receipt, there is no love. Loss to another, willed against the natural man is the highest gift. The old man, before My Spirit enters, thinks only of self. He may appear generous, but only Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: In My creation I am visible. As witness your hands, movement function, as you contemplate the details of mere thought, as you exhale and draw your next, you experience My work in you. As you work, so does the creation that lies within you – My light, given as life to men. See with the Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: Work is a gift of the Father. To tend to responsibility is nourishment to the caregiver. Tasks required and completed give satisfaction. Challenge to strain, allows gift and talent to release. I gave the garden before the fall. To care and complete was the joy; effort yes, but great delight is in the hearty work Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: I give law not to weigh down, but that you may know the way of blessing. He who knows not wrong, finds grief regardless. He who follows what is laid out before him, that growth and blessing occur, he is the fortunate, not the repressed. I have given you life and abundance, but also law Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: Do not fear the winds of tomorrow, for He who follows My voice will doubt not his path. My way is not safe, but is not unknown. I bring you to still waters, but first the travel. Terrain of pits and rocks lie between, still, no fear should overtake you, for I know the way. Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: The small are dominated as weak. Those with power lord it over those with little. Without the Spirit of the living God, power seeks only for self. It seeds for a harvest, but reaps corruption. Power in the hands of the believer must protect; a standing shield against unrighteousness; a fortress to the oppressed; strength Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: As a builder builds, so do I. As you are called by the Father, so I call you to My likeness. You too build. The work of your hands, when given to Me, they form through your life the things of God. As you labor in the day, your presence, if glowing with My likeness, Read more
Listening to the Holy Spirit: Man answers man, but the children of the Father answer to the God they serve. It is a great honor, always in time, to be chosen as a servant to a good king. Of highest esteem were these servants held. Men grow proud in service to those they deem greater, and revile serving those they Read more