Monthly Archives: February 2026

  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.