Zestfully Clean?
Let me tell you a little about my childhood. My mom believed in soap, Zest soap to be exact. Mom believed, to borrow from the Zest advertising slogan, "you're not fully clean unless you're Zestfully clean". We bathed with Zest 365 days a year. A little later in my life, mom showed me another creative use for Zest. I can remember one time as a 7- or 8-year-old coming home from school and innocently using a bad word. Faster than you can spell the word "Mississippi", out came the Zest. With God as my witness, I didn't have a clue what the word meant. I won't tell you what the word was but it...
Excelling in Mechanics, Failing in Dynamic
One of the great preachers of England's Methodist Church in the early 1900's was a man named Samuel Chadwick. Because of his forthrightness, Chadwick was greatly loved and hated. Consider this quote ... "The Church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is College-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles. The Church that multiplies committees and neglects prayer may be fussy, noisy, enterprising, but it labors in vain and spends its strength for nought. It is possible to excel in mechanics and fail in dynamic." ~ The Way to Pentecost...
The Nations are Waiting
Please do me a favor and forgive my excitement. I'm having trouble containing myself. Knowing that we know that we know that we have heard from God, are moving 100% in His will and timing, and are seeing confirmation after confirmation that God has originated this new season of ministry causes me to need restraints to confine my anticipation. We know that we are in for the ride of our lives, living out a dream that is beyond our comprehension. Here is the latest update. I'll use some restraint and squeeze it into a super short summary. I could literally write paragraph after paragraph...
Our Heart, Our Directive, Our Need
I want to deviate from the type of blog posting that I normally share. Since the first blog was posted on August 20, 2007, I've been sharing with fellow Igniters in some 60+ nations about connecting and flowing with the Holy Ghost so that we can see one last move of God's Spirit. Now, just shy of our 7th anniversary of posting a blog each and every week, I am echoing a sentence from that "Dare to Dream" post. In that blog post, I quoted a line from the Over the Rainbow song from The Wizard of Oz ... "And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." I know that you've read...
Giving the Advantage
While I was never much for participating in sports in my childhood and youth, when I did play, I always wanted to be on the winning side. So, in my effort to win, I was always looking and analyzing to insure that we had all of the advantages necessary for the victory. I wanted everything to work in our favor so that we would have the check mark in our win column. In speaking to His followers just a few short days before His return to heaven, Jesus gathers them together and tells them: " ... it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do...
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