When He Speaks

From the beginning of time, God had a plan. He planned to commune with humanity but we allowed sin to enter in. However, that was still His plan. He walked in the garden with Adam and Eve and talked with them daily. Satan and his twistedness ruined that as Eve was deceived. Everything that has happened since has been orchestrated to aline with His plan. With thousands of promises in His Word, He paints a picture of His plan. Approximately 300 promises were specifically made regarding Jesus and His plan of salvation. God plays the long game.  From the beginning of time, He has been working, often in the background. He made sure that Adam and Eve continued to have the means to survive. He provided protection and survival for Noah when the evil of the world became too much. He provided a means to continue the human race after that.  When the world again turned to evil at the Tower of Babel, He confused their languages instead of killing them all again. As they dispersed with thos...

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭21:12‭-‬13‬  [12] Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. [13] “It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” What is there in my own temple that has become what it shouldn't be? The money changers and merchants capitalized on opportunity from the need the temple presented. Their services weren't unneeded but sorely misplaced and misdirected. What in my own life has become my money changers? Something that is a good thing, even a necessary thing, but misplaced in its importance and distracting from what my temple is called to do?  If I am called to be a house of prayer, am I worrying? Do I sit and overthink? Am I attempting to fix things on my own or allowing my relationship and communication with the Father to lead and dictate my actions? If I am to be a hous...

When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” Matthew 8:1‭-‬4  "Lord, if you're willing, you can make me clean." If you're willing. This leper didn't even ask for healing. He merely spoke to the knowledge he had of Jesus and His ability to heal. He knew He was capable. He humbled himself before Him and verbally acknowledged that it was within Jesus' power to heal the leprosy.  Without hesitation, Jesus touched the unclean man, something that was very socially unacceptable in that time frame. He not only bucked convention and tradition but also took it a ...

I was sitting there in my cell. It was dark, dank and stank. I could hear the mice scurry over the floor. I wasn't supposed to have been caught but I did the crime. I knew my time was short and I would die soon. The sun was just starting to rise. It was one more day for me to sit within these four walls and wait for the calling of my name, my time to go, the final hoorah. There would be no one coming to my rescue. There would be no one mourning my death. I was a murderer. I had willfully, intentionally incited an uprising. I was trouble. I deserved my fate. I'd resigned myself to it. Oh how I wish I could go back. I would've done things differently. If I could, I wouldn't do it again at all. This cell is cold. I miss my family. They've written me off. They don't come visit. They've given up on me. I'm a lost cause for them. They are damaged by reputation.  Wait. What's this noise? What's going on outside? There must be something major happening. ...

 My heart is heavy lately and the burdens I'm facing have been a struggle. As I continue to grow and heal and process all of the things, I'm reminded time and time again that I don't face these things alone. When things are hard.... From the ends of the earth I call to you,      I call as my heart grows faint;      lead me to the rock that is higher than I.               - Psalm 61:2 I can take everything to Him. He wants all of it. All my hurts, anger, fear, sadness, happy, or bitter. He created me and knows it all anyway. He wants me to hand it back to Him. That's where we find true healing.  So as I'm struggling lately to process through some difficult things, my soul has felt heavy, my steps unsteady, and my mind overwhelmed. My little ADHD brain bounces around like a pinball inside my skull and it can make a completing something interesting, which often leads to things being more confusi...

“See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness— indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples. “Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, “ ‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?’ Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey.  Habakkuk 2:4‭-‬7 Read this again from the perspective that God's talking about Satan here. I'll wait.  Verses four and five talk about what he is trying to accomplish here. "Puffed up; his desires are not upright". Everything he does is to suit himself, further his agenda, and distract or destroy. Our focus should be on God and God alone but that crafty booger uses thin...