Spiritual Nuggets

Sometimes healing comes in a different package than we're expecting.  In 2019, on my birthday, I was in the Holy Land with a group of songwriters. The whole experience was rich and life-changing. I'd love to share one of my "moments" with you.   We were in a little town Jesus frequented called Bethsaida. As we entered Bethsaida there was an engraved stone that said Jesus welcomed the people and cured those in need of healing. Just reading those words stirred my heart. We cont

I Arise Today... With the wind of Holy Spirit at my back, With the power & portion of My Father, Placed in me through Jesus Christ. I Arise Today... With better days ahead, & lesser days behind, With future provision seated right next to every potential problem and pain. I Arise Today... With the call of hope in my ear, With the strength of God in my heart, And with the Prince of Peace anchored to my soul. I Arise Today... On the wings of eagles, In the shadow of the Almighty

I’ve often wondered the point of prayer. If God knows everything, then why do I need to pray?   I’ve been taught that prayer isn't about changing God but about changing me. That's true, but there is so much more. If you don't believe that prayer really changes outcomes, it's hard to pray with any kind of power or real faith.   When Jesus taught His disciples to pray He told us to say “Kingdom of God - Come! Will of God - be done!” (Matt. 6) This passage in original Greek is i

“ Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years.  “Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways…"  Hebrews 3:8-10 NASB   Can you imagine seeing the wonders and miracles of God on a daily basis for forty years and STILL dying of unbelief? That's exact

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash Sometimes we need to push and praise simultaneously. This is one way we ACTIVATE our faith. Faith m eans we push with our prayers all the way for the breakthrough. We praise in the middle of the pressing in, and then no matter what the outcome is…we keep praising .   Push and Praise. Start doing this is your everyday life, and you'll start to see your prayers and intimacy with the Lord come to life. Why? Because faith always pleases Go

Some wounds go deep, and time doesn't heal them. Some create such an infection that you have to dig deep to uproot the entire wound.   I just found out I have a tooth abscess. The problem is, the tooth already had a root canal. That means I didn't have any nerves in there to feel any pain. I was numb to the infection. And because I wasn't in pain, I didn't know I had an infection…or for how long. It's likely this infection had been brewing for almost two years.   I was remind