When a person hears ‘it’s the end of an era’, what comes to mind? Most knowledge resources define it as: “when a period of time, which is marked by a significant event, comes to an end.” Spiritually-speaking, here are some things to meditate on: When ideas or thoughts become repetitive and commonplace, it’s time to recognize that it is the end of an era. Personal experiences brought lessons, corrections and instructions that have been completed. Now, after the end of…
The idea of a “spiritual breakthrough” is subjective, and the term itself is not found in the Bible. Generally speaking, a spiritual breakthrough is an experience of having reached a new level of spirituality, whatever that means to the person who is “breaking through.” The experience will be different depending on the person and the spiritual need. This could be the first step in salvation, receiving a revelation, obtaining the answer to a prayer, or overcoming a particular sin. Worshiponline.com notes…
Oswald Chambers wrote “The Ascension is the consummation of the Transfiguration. Our Lord does now go back into His primal glory; but He does not go back simply as Son of God; He goes back to God as Son of Man as well as Son of God. There is now freedom of access for anyone straight to the very throne of God by the Ascension of the Son of Man. As Son of Man Jesus Christ deliberately limited omnipotence, omnipresence…
If you had known…in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Luke 19:42 Oswald Chambers once wrote: Jesus entered Jerusalem triumphantly and the city was stirred to its very foundations, but a strange god was there—the pride of the Pharisees. It was a god that seemed religious and upright, but Jesus compared it to “whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones…
Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet, author, and civil servant, wrote how familiarity breeds contempt in the Tale of Melibee, one of The Canterbury Tales published in 1386. However, the Greek fabulist and storyteller, Aesop (620 – 564 BC), who has been credited with a number of fables, was first known to express this proverb in his fable, The Fox and the Lion. A very young Fox, who had never before seen a Lion, happened to meet one in the forest….
Life is broken up into instances that help detect the presence of fear. What is the fear you experience today? Allow fear to be the witness that the believer is still living according to their own dictates, virtually walking outside the boundaries of the journey in the Spirit. This is the evidence that trusting God has yet to be learned. Ask for the counsel of God that will clarify the direct route to walk in accordance with the fear of…
Have you ever looked closely at a spider web? The intricacies, and how each string is spun into the next. It creates a mass entanglement, of which you cannot determine the end, or see where it began with the smallest of thread. Our words are the best example of this thread. What begins with the tiniest silken thread from a gland of a spider, our words begin with something small and seemingly insignificant. Remember the power of words; death and…
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The world can push us so hard to perfection, and the measuring stick used is different depending on what family member, friend, church leader, spouse, neighbor, our own ideas, co-worker, retailer, or social media outlet is holding it. But wouldn’t we rather attain God’s version of perfection through the grace and mercy work of Him, than strive on our own to meet the world’s version of perfection? When we look to Him to perfect us in His ways, then He…
Psalm 78:41 says “They limited the Holy One of Israel”. Charles Spurgeon writes in-depth from his 1859 sermon that when God gave forth the law it was engraved on two stones. The first tablet contained the commandments concerning man and God, the second tablet dealt with man and man. But there are three of the ten – from both tablets – that limit God. How? The third is despair, that despite God’s unlimited goodness and mercy, these people feel that…