I read an article earlier this year about how we are living in an increasingly blame-oriented society. And when shopping for a birthday gift for a friend recently, I saw a sign that said, “I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you!” A recent project placed me right in the middle of this very issue. The project was several weeks behind, nothing seemed to be going in the right direction, and to make matters worse,…
A question we should ask ourselves every day is: “Am I living in the flesh, or am I living in the Spirit?” Chinese church leader and Christian teacher Watchman Nee explained it this way: the flesh is linked with Adam; the Spirit is linked with Christ. To live in the flesh is to do something “out from” myself as in Adam. It is to derive strength from the old natural source of life that we inherited from him, so that…
I had a dream that I was traveling with an African American couple. We drove for hours and stopped for the night. The black couple is your earthly spiritual helpers and will accompany you on your Spiritual Journey. This has nothing to do with ethnicity, only that black in a dream always means “unknown or unfamiliar.” Stopping for the night means there will be rest periods between lessons. They paid for all the expenses on the drive and when we…
Choose earnestly the Spiritual Journey. There are 7 divine calls of God to each person. The call to salvation. We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He…
A good friend of mine phoned me last week. She had stepped outside onto her patio and there was a snake. She had to watch her step, as suddenly seeing this amphibian made her rather uncomfortable. A few days after her call, I was pulling into the garage and smacked the side mirror of the car on the garage door frame. What was I doing? I had one eye on an area where I had just planted some flowers and…
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….