This is the third week we will address the need for patience and waiting on the Lord to follow the King. If you’re getting impatient with this, perhaps this is especially for you! I’m just sayin’…

         Growing in patience and learning to “wait upon the Lord” are necessary to walk in the faith that receives His promises. Could impatience be the reason we are not receiving or walking in many things we are expecting? Giving ourselves to growing in patience is one of the most important things we can do. If...

         Last week I shared how many times I had missed the Lord and His will for my life because of my impatience. Since I asked Him to help me with this, I have had daily challenges to my patience and often many each day. I am also starting to expect daily encounters with the Lord, or some other special purpose encounter. 

         Learning to embrace challenges to my patience has another significant result. The stress monitor on my watch shows that most days I am now living in a range of 20 or more points below...

     In the Gospels there’s a story about a sick man whose friends brought him to Jesus on a bed.  Because of the crowd they could not get near Him, so they climbed up on the roof, tore a hole in it, and let him down in front of Jesus. The Lord was moved by their faith and healed him. The lesson here is faith is persistent. 

     Such faith moves God. Nothing is more powerful than God being moved to help us. In Hebrews 6:12 we are told to “imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the...

         Anything God is in will be the most exciting thing happening in the world. The body of Christ, the church, will eventually become the most powerful and interesting force the world has ever known. We can be sure of this and become a part of it. If we become a part of it, we will live the most interesting, exciting, and fulfilling life we could ever live.

         Today we have some of the most exciting and powerful churches and movements since the first century. Many of these are still unknown to much of the body...

         Following the King of kings is the greatest adventure and most fulfilling life we can have on this earth. Likewise, visiting the house of the King of kings should be one of the most exciting things we ever do. Yet for far, too many going to His house, the church, can be one of the most boring things in their life. How can this be? 

         The short answer is, if our church is boring, we are going to a church the Lord does not go to. How can that be? Doesn’t the Lord inhabit His...