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Category Archives: Listening in the Wind
I Will Pray
I was struggling to shake the sleep from my eyes as I started my day. I felt that I had awakened that morning as tired as when I lay down the night before. I settled at my kitchen table with coffee in one hand and my bible in the other, quietly asking the Lord to …
Do You Know Me?
“Do you know me?” the question reverberated around the temple’s stone courts as Jesus confronted the crowds that had been whispering around Him. The people had been debating about His identity for days. Some said that He was a good man while others insisted He was a huckster building Himself a reputation. One group guessed …
Persist in Praying
It was a such a busy day at work that I hardly had time to look up. Head down, I stepped out on the pavement to cross the parking lot to my car thinking of all that needed to be done at home. It stopped me in my tracks in shock when I heard the …
Finally Willing
I opened my Bible that morning and heard the Lord whisper, “Let’s go back to John 5 again. You haven’t seen what I want to show you yet.” I was reluctant, but obedient as I flipped through the pages. I had read about Jesus healing that paralytic man many times in the past weeks. I …
In the Cleft
This morning as I sat down with my Bible, the Lord put His finger on Exodus 34. Moses, in his anger had broken the tablets on which God had written the ten commandments. He dealt with the idolatry of the people and then set his face back toward the mountain. He picked up the tablets …
confidence.
I feel the Lord breathing on the word CONFIDENCE tonight. Confidence is Moses holding his staff out over the Red Sea while Pharaoh’s chariot is kicking up dust on the back of his neck. It sounds like David slapping a rock in his sling as he runs across the field toward the giant. Confidence looks …
Small but Powerful
I hear the Lord saying tonight, There is great power in the smallest acts of obedience and faith. When Jesus was sitting on the hillside teaching, a young lad offered Him the sack lunch that his mother had packed. To the crowds nearby, it seemed such an insignificant offer. But in the generous hands of …
Dynamic Kingdom
As I bent in prayer, I heard the Lord whisper, “My House shall be full. I long to see the nations flowing into it, and they shall. There are many who sit complacently in dry religion, comfortable on padded pews. But My kingdom is dynamic and active, full of life and energy. I have not …