Declaring the beauty of Jesus and His glorious return
Mike Bickle regularly tells a story from when he was 27 years old. It was May 1983 and during a season of sustained prayer and fasting the Lord spoke to him and said, “Do 24 hour prayer in the spirit of the tabernacle of David.”...
There's something more! There's something better!...
What does God esteem? What is it He values? He’s given us many commandments but what’s at the core of those? It’s such an important question. As followers of Jesus it’s one of the most important questions we’ll ever ask....
I have found, by much experience, that I am one of the weakest people I know. The problem with weakness is that...
Saint Irenaeus said, “The glory of God is man fully alive and fully alive consists of beholding God.” The furious longing of God for you is a reality that is meant to cause life to explode from your heart....
In sum of last week, in the difference between the eternity set in our hearts and the reality of a broken world around us arises longing. Beauty awakens longing because it calls out to us about that which is true about us but not yet fully realized. BUT…there is more....
God has a secret. It’s a secret written into the core of our beings from the moment we are conceived. It’s a secret meant to draw us into the very heart of our maker. It’s a secret that cries out about who we are and what we were made for....
So you find yourself in circumstantial difficulty. You’re in a proverbial prison and you can’t get out. You’re stuck and stuck fast – nothing’s moving, nothing’s changing, like Joseph was in Genesis – and you can’t see it ever changing. You might be there because it’s your fault or it might not be your...
