I want to offer a bit of encouragement to you today about a situation that seems to be common to all of us who pray. We’ve all been in the position where we are desperately asking God to answer a prayer. Yes? We watch and we wait. Watch and wait. Finally, we see an open door. Yes, we say, thank you Lord! Knowing God has heard us, we walk through the open door only to have the disappointment of it slamming in our face or worse, we walk through, the door shuts behind us and we realize we’re in Continue Reading
Heart Shift: Could Your Heart be Moving Away From God’s?
For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.’ Jeremiah 29:10-13 (NASB) The theme for the weekend Continue Reading
The Bear, The Lion {and Your Current Circumstances}
Standing at nearly ten-foot-tall, the man must have looked like an armored tank to young David. He wore a helmet of brass upon his head and a coat of scale armor of about 125 pounds of bronze. The bible describes the armor and war tools in details, giving us a vivid picture of Goliath’s fearsome stature and strength. David had come up from Bethlehem with the mere purpose of bringing food to his brothers, who were battling the Philistines in the valley of Elah. But as he arrived at the camp, Continue Reading
Growing in Dark and Silent Places – #SoaringwithJesus
"I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden wealth of secret places, So that you may know that it is I, The LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.” Isaiah 45:3 Some of my fondest memories from childhood were made in Caputera - a small, backwards fisherman’s village in South Brazil, where I spent every Summer vacation as a child. When my great-grandparents immigrated to Brazil from Spain in the 1800's, they founded the village together with other families. My grandparents Continue Reading
‘Why Did You Doubt Me?’
"Hand of God" Painting by artist Young Sung Kim Passage: Matthew 14:22-34 "Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,”he said, “why did you doubt?” v.31 It was the miracles of miracles. The first mass miracle took place in Decapolis, where between ten to fifteen thousand people were fed with two fish and five loaves of bread. I can only imagine the excitement, as the multitudes watched the fish and bread multiply before their eyes. Yahweh Jireh, their Continue Reading
Finding Peace in the Midst of the Storms – Atlanta Journal Constitution Column
Shortly after midnight on Oct. 23, hurricane Patricia became the strongest Pacific hurricane on record in the Americas. My phone started buzzing with texts from my family and friends that morning, since my name was soon to be associated with the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Pacific coast. I watched as real-time videos of the horrific storm popped on my computer screen, praying for the areas on its path. As it turned out, Patricia’s intensity decreased very quickly as the storm’s Continue Reading
