True power serves love, not the other way round. Where the presence of God is, so is his power to heal, restore, and cast out evil. Yet it is all for love because God is love. We are called to become love, that is the only true context for God’s power to be demonstrated. Like...
Jesus promises that anyone who believes in Him will have streams of living water flowing from them referring to the Holy Spirit. He also promises that anyone who believes in Him will do what He did and even greater things. Many of us intellectually accept that statement but often disqualify others and even ourselves. Are...
When God pours out his Spirit we receive authority to speak his word. The spirit of God and the word of God are always tied together. When God speaks the word, the Spirit creates. When the Spirit fills us, it causes us to speak in the same authority as Jesus. Sharing prophecy in the church...
The father is more than willing to pour out his Spirit. And it is for anyone who will ask. You do not need to know any more than you know today to receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a person to be in a relationship with, not a power to be harnessed. He...
Jesus was very excited as he talked about us receiving the Holy Spirit. This promise excited him, that as it was always to be from the beginning, God would be in all of us. That our bodies would be temples of the Holy Spirit, filled with the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord. We would contain...
Jesus came and did what the first Adam failed at. He conquered the devil. Through his life, ministry and finally death and resurrection. And this victory was a victory for us all. Yet, it was not just a victory for us but also a showing us how to fight and win. If we want the...
There is a cost to discipleship. The cost is the cross of self-denial. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, body and strength. Love always costs us something. And we are invited to love God with all we are. It will cost you time, money, habits, and relationships, it will cost you...
The ways of our world are opposed to the way of Jesus. Our cities, cultures and the world will often normalise ways of life that enthrone the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. To love the world is to be God’s enemy. While we are in the...
Our war in the world is not against human beings. It is not against your conservative brother or liberal sister. It is not even against people who worship differently from you. Neither is it against a government or institution. Instead, we must be aware that there are real spiritual forces behind the ways of the...
The enemy’s go-to strategy is lies. How do we then fight the enemy’s lies? It is by Spirit and truth that we are formed into the image of Jesus. This is why the enemy is always trying to isolate people from the Spirit of God and community before filling them with lies. In our super...
