Taking It to Work: I remember one time when I was in high school, when my grandfather had to come to the school to see me for some reason. I remember the picture in my mind of seeing him from afar, a silhouette from the bright light coming through the Read more…
Taking It to Work: Are you a glass half-empty, or a glass half-full type person? I tend to be halfway between the two. Here’s why. If I listen to too much news, either the fake variety or the true variety, it tends to drag me down (both of them), then Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: Gratitude mounts upon need. The heart that knows no need, knows little of thanksgiving. He who knows no thanksgiving, even though rich, dies of want. Sin drives deep a vast debt, unpaid in many works, for even these lack for purity. Darkness cannot abide with light, Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: It is in the strain. Little growth happens any other way. For I do not bring ease to those who follow. Adversity in My measure brings strength; without such there can be no growth. Even he on level ground will slow, and he who does Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: He who calls upon My Name will be saved from eternal separation. My blood spares the saint, but not all who call Me Lord speak truth. Grace is given to those with true desire for mercy, disturbed greatly by their sin, willing to abandon self Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: The magnificence of creation is not of its own, for all is maintained by My hand. There is no mind of beast or care of man that is not fully by My breath. I bring life from death, and light in darkness. In warmth I Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: Creation is as surface. As the flesh covers the greater interior workings of man, so this creation is of surface to the eternal. The spirit is unseen; the soul contained but ungrasped. These are of the eternal. The body corruptible is but a tabernacle, that Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: I Am, and change not. Before time I knew you, your frame in all its weakness known. My presence with you to be, from long past, even today. The pains also known, and the calling of the Father eternal to your ear. In the response Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: Those who thirst do not drink only once. Those who hunger do not discard the provision for tomorrow, for all hunger again, and all thirst again. In labor and toil, more is needed. Effort empties the small storehouse, and it cannot remain for perishing. As the Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: I protect those who stand rightly. Although many might come against, I support those who call upon My Name and stand in My righteousness. Even threat of death, or the shedding of blood will not move those who have their faith in My right hand, Read more…