Uprising

“O GOD, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is. So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory. Because Your loving- kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You. So will I bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.”

Psalm 63:1-4 AMP

At times life can feel like a dry and weary land. A land effected by a spiritual drought. The atmosphere feels dry where we feel personally and spiritually dehydrated. The solution to this is to seek out the refreshing. We must not accept the dryness or allow it to make us faint, make us quit, or make us give up.

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On your feet now—applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made us; we didn’t make him. We’re his people, his well-tended sheep. Enter with the password: “Thank you!” Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him. For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever.

PSALMS 100

Worship is what we are made for and there is no way out of it. Whether our worship is offered to God or to something else, we will worship. We must be aware of what sits in our heart’s seat of honor and make sure that it is what is most worthy of our worship. (more…)

Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me.”

ISAIAH 6:8

As God works in us, developing our character to mirror His, He continually asks a question. Gently but consistently, He asks a questions that would lead us to a place of devotion and trust.

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Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop.

2 Corinthians 9:6

I believe that we can take more away from this scripture than just the simplistic thought about money, that most of us only want to think about. (more…)

“Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied! [Isa. 55:1, 2.]”

Matthew 5:6 AMP

I love how the word of God uses the terminology of hunger and thirst. It shows us that there is a posture for revival. The posture is one of desperation. (more…)

Jesus said to the disciples in John:

You are my friends if you do what I command.

John 15:14 NLT

Christ Himself made obedience to Him an absolute requirement for true spiritual intimacy. No one can claim that they have intimacy with Jesus if their life is surrounded by disobedience rather than submission to Him.

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Let your roots grow down into him and let your lives be built on him. Then, your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness.

Colossians 2:7

Imagine one of those huge oak trees that are perfect for a wooden swing. One of those trees we all would like to lay out a blanket and rest under the cool of it’s shade. (more…)

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

John 13:34-35

Identity is such an important thing because it helps us all to associate who belongs with who, and what belongs with what. Giving something a name or an identity keeps things in order. (more…)

“SO BE done with every trace of wickedness (depravity, malignity) and all deceit and insincerity (pretense, hypocrisy) and grudges (envy, jealousy) and slander and evil speaking of every kind. Like…

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins.

Ephesians 2:1

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 2:4-5

By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:8-10

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