Lining the Nation Back Up With Its Covenant “Jacob had to wrestle with God until He could see God. We have to be willing to wrestle in a way that the powers and principalities controlling this country and God’s covenant plan are broken away. We must wrestle to get back into God’s plan of covenant […]

Division Breeds Rebellion If the Church in America could ever get past the doctrinal issues which separate them and work together, we would be a formidable force in the nation. A religious spirit is at the root of that. Satan releases that spirit to keep us divided and so we’ll make things harder on ourselves. […]

God’s Covenantal Friends I find it fascinating that God took Abraham on a journey where the places He took him helped to tell the story. The most significant place He took Abraham was Hebron. It was so significant that Abraham and Sarah are buried there. The picture meaning of Hebron, not the literal meaning, is […]

Will We Face Him or Face-to-Face Him? Right before God wrestled with Jacob at Penuel and revealed Himself to Jacob, you still see Jacob’s manipulative nature at work. Right before God conquered him there and defeated that old nature, you find Jacob sending gifts out to try to appease Esau. “Appease is another form of […]

There is Serious Work to Do Wherever you read in the Bible up until the birth of Christ, you are going to find a flawed nation and flawed people. Sometimes they were so flawed that they were, like the cultures around them, killing their children and sacrificing them to Baal, Asherah and Molech. Sometimes it […]

Living the American Dream The American dream is not about you. It’s not about having houses and cars and material wealth. It’s not about having the free time to travel wherever you want to go or to hang out and barbeque with your friends and families on the weekend. None of those things is wrong. […]

Jacob’s Nature was Changed – God’s Dream was Restored Jacob had a unique encounter with God at Penuel. At Penuel, he wrestled with God and prevailed. At that place, God changed his name to Israel. Penuel or Phanuel means, “the face of God”. God got ahold of Jacob there. His twisted nature was wrestled out […]

Revealing the Brokenness America is deeply divided. It’s not that we don’t know it is, but I don’t think we know how deeply divided it is. The ideologies of our citizenry are just about split 50-50 between those that consider themselves liberals and those that think of themselves as conservatives. Some of our beliefs are […]

Perfect Vision in 2020 “Autumn received a word from the Lord in the middle of corporate worship the other week. When the Lord spoke to her, He said this: “‘Look upon the horizon, because 2020 is coming. You will be able to see clearly, because the rain has stopped. Now that the storms have passed, […]

The Year to Say At Rosh Hashanah this year, which begins September 29th, we are going to move from a ten year season of “ayin” – to see – into 10 years of “peh” – to say. We are going to see and then say what we see. The words we speak are going to […]