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Category: miracles
Live and Lead as God’s Remnant
God never sees the Remnant as leftovers. The remnant always speaks of those chosen, appointed, selected, positioned, and ordained in God’s thinking. God wants everybody but starts with a selected and strategic remnant.
Generations
God designed Creation with generations as a fundamental aspect of history. Purpose is established in all that exists by Creation, and the generations are designed to allow the movement of Divine purpose through history. To understand the ancient meaning of the word, “generations,” we begin with the pictorial expressions of the letters. The first letter […]
Born to Lead
In answer to the question – “How does God choose leaders?” – we might review revelation fundamentals about God and how He does stuff. Our Biblical worldview should include the presuppositions of Creation, Redemption, and Restoration; for outside the context of Bible revelation, we usually fail to filter out humanism, animism, and occultism, creeping confusions […]
Mature Enough to Work in a Team?
Note the words of Holy Spirit concerning Paul included Barnabas; that is, note that God sent them together, building team ministry by Divine design. This wasn’t a mission board strategizing but God designing. In the maturing process, leaders develop the power and passion to do things as spiritual adolescents so they can prove they are […]
Apostolic Blueprints
Paul gives revelation insight into resets of the kingdom that occurred when Jesus ascended to be with Father. Quoting prophetic words from the Psalms that mirror the moments when David brought Glory into Zion and fed the nation, Paul frames the Ascension with a sense of bringing Glory and kingdom together into function. David shifted […]
Prophetic Presbytery
Defining terms for “prophetic presbytery” is a good beginning point. The concept is being discussed, but the concept also has variants forms of meaning. Why? Because of usage of the terms in church polity and applications of the terms that are inconsistent with their use in Scripture. We will be Biblical. We will function according […]
Prophetic Maturity, Prophetic Process, Part 1
Consider the phrasing of Paul: “The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.” Couple that with Peter’s statement: “Whoever speaks, let him speak as one who speaks the oracles of God.” Further consider, then, that prophets are responsible for what they speak, and what they speak should represent God. In the first uses […]
Rebellious Unbelief
No doubt rebellion and unbelief work together to stop God’s people dead in their tracks. No doubt that God identifies some disobedience with unbelief and responds to disobedience as rebellion. The failure to respond, to follow through, to finish the assignment – all are forms of rebellious unbelief. Consider the phrasing of Hebrews 3:12 – […]
Plowing Prayer and Plowing Preaching
There is a difference between speaking Truth and preparing people to receive Truth. We have been called to do both, and Jesus has a strategy for both. Beware the simplistic perception that all we are called to do is “faithfully” communicate Truth. Of course, we must be faithful to preach even if no one listens, […]
Pioneering Leadership: “I Want More. Continuous Improvement. This isn’t Enough,” Part 1
Pioneering leaders, especially apostles and prophets who function in foundational leadership roles, tend toward a specific set of motivations. These motivations can eclipse other vital aspects of the kingdom while serving to move the whole pile forward in essential ways. Pioneering leaders should be intentional about their weaknesses, making themselves accountable for how others receive […]
Maturing as a Leader: What Got You Here, What Will Get You into “Next,” part 2
Being a leader applies to everyone since personal leadership is universal and individual. “Being a leader” gets more specific in the roles we play: husband or wife, father or mother, employee or employer, warrior or general, ruler or king, and king or kingdom, for example. Leadership assumes definition in function, but our personal leadership continues […]
Salt and Light
This past week, some leaders forcefully reminded me of their viewpoint on transforming culture. They were kind enough to share their conclusions with some supporting ideas from Scripture. They were kind about it except that their conclusions were finalized with “this is the way to do it, and all other ways stink.” Their conclusion says, […]
The Next Seven Years of Plenty (with Seven Steps of Action)
Wealth of the Wicked Stored Up Isaiah pictures what is available in the atmosphere as rain in ways that help us understand how God changes the conditions to release. A desert atmosphere contains a reservoir but the conditions distribute the moisture so randomly that it seldom produces rain. Water is available but the conditions don’t […]
Jesus on Civil Government and Kingdom Leadership
Jesus draws contrast between the patterns, principles, and politics of governments and the leadership of His kingdom that will have the greater influence upon them when the Ecclesia functions properly. The kings of the non-Jews lord it over them; and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ The term “lord” is a dominion […]