Yearly Archives: 2026

John 3:5-7 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.  My attention was riveted by what Jesus said, "That which is born of Spirit IS spirit."  He is calling us to surpass this flesh, to become spiritual creatures in Him. And He is telling us we MUST be born of the Spirit or we cannot enter into the kingdom of God.  In Luke 17:21 Jesus is speaking again and further clarifies, "Behold, the kingdom of God is within you." In I Corinthians we read, "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit OF GOD dwelleth in you?" Lord, help us to yield to the Spirit of our Living God so that we can become the spiritual creatures He made us to be. He wants to be "connected" to us, a "part of our very being" and a part of our whole life to…

  Have you ever been beat up emotionally and spiritually by genuine people you know loved the Lord? Their advice hit you like lead bullets in the heart. They quoted scriptures like a machine gun, thinking, sincerely that it would answer the hurt inside you. I spent many years feeling just like that – beat up, misunderstood, corrected when I already knew what was wrong and was fighting it with all my strength and not winning, advised with words that I already knew were in the Bible,  but were not helping me at all, and told to just keep on keeping on, it will be alright, but it wasn’t. One day, in total frustration, I told God, “I don’t understand why You don’t answer me, You don’t talk to me the way they say you are talking to them, You don’t set me free from my past, it keeps coming back to beat me up whether through my own mind, or my “friends” condemnation.” I said, “If You don’t fix me, I am unfixable.” He decided to remind me of some things that had escaped me. I began to realize I had shut down even hearing His Word because of…

Methods vs Working in the Spirit Many people want to develop methods for spiritual work. God wants to work through His Spirit within us. To the degree that we trust in a method is to the degree we have moved away from trusting in Him and His guidance. Jesus even warns us in the New Testament that there will be some who have cast out demons in His Name and He will have to tell them to depart. Matt 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. When we develop a pattern for deliverance, or healing, or performing miracles, we cease to walk purely with our heavenly Father and we enter into the supernatural in the realm of the world. Satan has power, has supernatural…

Living Stones serve a Living God I Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Christ Jesus. What is being said here? Obviously, we are not actually rocks, without life. Instead, it is referring to the solidarity we have brought forth in our lives through Christ. A rock shows strength. Jesus is called the Rock on which we stand. We become lively rocks as the adopted sons and daughters of God when we are born again. But what else is He saying here. "Built Up a spiritual house." We don't arrive unless we are willing, choosing, to serve God. As we begin to learn His ways and obey His laws, we come into a connection to Him that helps us offer up those spiritual sacrifices to Him. What are they? The fruits of the Spirit are: Gal. 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance,: against such there is no law. 

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you they are spirit, and they are life.  Jesus had just shocked the disciples by telling them they must eat his flesh and drink His blood. Now, I would have been shocked too. But Jesus was telling them a parable, because He couldn't tell them the future yet. He is giving them a picture of the Spiritual Realm about to happen when He leaves this earthly vessel behind and they will understand the blood was the life of Flesh. The bread was Spirit.  There had to be a crossover where death was destroyed and life eternal was taken up. Jesus had to die and be resurrected for death to lose it's power. Life was in Jesus's blood, physical life.  As the perfect sacrifice He had to die as a sinless flesh-man to be worthy for the Father to raise Him up victorious over the sentence of death. A cow didn't sin - a man did. Only a man could pay the price for that sin to restore life eternal unto mankind. But there was no man worthy. All had sinned and come…