One Sunday night in February, I had an opportunity to participate in a local ministry’s vision to serve a local homeless community by handing out blankets, women’s and men’s coats, clothing, shoes, toiletries, snacks, and hot tea. We were out in the cold for more than two hours. Inwardly, I was mumbling in my heart […]

I was awakened in the middle of the night, around 3:30 in the morning, and my TV was still on from the previous night. It was on the Hallmark Drama channel as I often love to watch The Waltons as a means to quiet my heart and relax in cheer. I found myself looking at […]

Often, we don’t feel that we have a testimony. But yet, if we were to meet with you privately, you would tell us the things the Lord has brought you out of. But here is the dilemma: what if the person who witnessed to you would have remained silent? What if the person who prayed […]

When was the last time you told your testimony? Not the nice testimony during the Sunday night service at church, but the testimony while sitting next to someone on the train or standing in the line at the grocery store – that testimony. Have you ever been sick, I mean really sick, and you said […]

Are you allowing others’ testimony to keep you quiet about yours?  What makes your testimony so genuine and impactful is that it is YOURS. No one can tell your testimony – sure, they can tell what happened; but with sincerity, passion, insight, and even revelation, that testimony is yours and should come from your heart to […]

The believer’s relationship with Christ is one that continuously receives vertical nutrients (strength, exhortation, refreshing, abiding, hope, deliverance, strategies, help, healing, transformation, security, and counseling) and other help as needed from the Lord directly through our vertical relationship with the Lord. Daily, and sometimes even moment by moment, we must discipline ourselves to tap into […]

A story is told of a young man who started a moving company. He was very excited about helping families and other people move from one place to another. He thought it would be a great opportunity to own his own business and to bring in others as the business grew to open up other […]