The Living Word is meat in due season—just the Word that you need when you need it (Psalm 145:15). The principal thing this Word will do is show you where we are, and what we have to claim and walk in now. Regardless of our situation, the problems we face are not really our real… Continue reading What faith receives; what it rejects
Category: Dealings
Church membership verses Kingdom relationship
It is apparent that there is quite a difference between the form of membership that has locked in churches—even the local churches that were built on a New Testament pattern—and the freedom that exists in the Kingdom relationships to the Lord. Some of the most excellent spiritual ministries to come forth in the Kingdom are… Continue reading Church membership verses Kingdom relationship
Double trouble-double portion
Many people believe that the book of Job deals primarily with the concept of suffering, that it explains why we suffer. Actually, suffering is not the main issue at all. Job experienced the dealings of God so that he could be brought into a place where God could give him a double portion. Several other… Continue reading Double trouble-double portion
With friends like these?
The book of Job is a story with seven principal characters: Job himself, his three friends, Elihu, God, and Satan. Each one comes on the scene at various times to make his speeches. Job speaks nine times; Eliphaz, three times; Bildad, three times; Zophar, two times. Elihu speaks only once, but it is a very… Continue reading With friends like these?
The Lord is my escape hatch
“As we study history, we must first understand that we never learn anything from history.” And so, it is—each generation seems to repeat the same mistakes made by previous generations. You would think that every member of the human race was in the same position as Adam and Eve—each one picking and eating the forbidden… Continue reading The Lord is my escape hatch
“Call me mara”
Ruth 1:19–21 The truths that are found in this message apply to anyone who has received a Word from the Lord and has set his heart to walk with Him in that Word. In our seeking God, we may be pressing toward the goal which we see, only to have God say, “Here is one… Continue reading “Call me mara”
The ups and downs
At times every believer in Christ Jesus must have thought, “If only I could understand what God is doing in my life! Or if I could even know whether or not the present circumstances in my life are of God—maybe it is the devil, or perhaps it is only my friends or relatives that are… Continue reading The ups and downs
The days of myrrh and spices
The second chapter of the book of Esther tells of the great search for a queen to replace Vashti, the dethroned queen of Persia. Xerxes, also called Ahasuerus, had dethroned her because she was disobedient to his command. In verse 12 we read, Now when the turn of each young lady came to go in… Continue reading The days of myrrh and spices
Into the flow of revelation
In the middle of God’s dealings, it is very easy to become evasive and to rationalize those dealings and try to talk your way around them. However, as long as you stay in that rational field of logic and reasoning, you will never come into the revelation of what God is doing in your life.… Continue reading Into the flow of revelation
A promise with a problem
One of the greatest conflicts you have in walking with God is the conflict with God Himself. How can He be so gracious to you and yet so contrary? There is a principle you must see in God’s dealings with you. Usually God’s Word comes in two forms: first, the precepts and the commandments of… Continue reading A promise with a problem
Look! God is with you!
Abraham lived in the day of Amraphel, king of Shinar, who was better known as Hammurabi. Hammurabi was one of the first to codify the law in Babylon. If you were to read those laws, you would be shocked at the injustices that were perpetrated in those days. It was back in those ancient times… Continue reading Look! God is with you!
The corrective judgment in love
It is difficult to understand why God allows certain things to happen. Why is it that so many times you are led into a blind alley, even when you are being led by the Spirit of the Lord? From the time that I began to preach, I felt definitely that the Lord would lead me.… Continue reading The corrective judgment in love
What have you been bleeding lately?
The dealings of God are being accelerated in our lives. They bring to the surface the negative responses we need to repent of and get rid of. This Walk is either going to turn out to be one of the most blessed visitations of grace, or it is going to be one of the saddest… Continue reading What have you been bleeding lately?