Receiving and Responding to God’s Love
Healing for Gender Confusion
This testimony of how God healed gender confusion was sent to me by my friend Rick Phillips. This is a true story, shared by a woman who found inner healing during her journaling time, alone with the Lord. I’ve copied the journaling verbatim, as she shared it. It amazed me in that God did this for her, out of the blue. She is the oldest child in a family of all girls. By her own…
The Orphan Spirit—A Dream
One afternoon my wife and I watched a Bethel video featuring Bill Johnson, who spoke on the subject of the orphan spirit. It was a good message, but apparently, the Holy Spirit wasn’t done speaking when I turned the video off. The message continued into my dreams. That night I had a dream in which Bill Johnson and his wife Beni were present, along with one of their sons. (I don’t know which one.) Their presence in…
Obedience to God
Many of us have been told that the goal of our faith is that we would be made more obedient to God. Have you ever wondered what that means, exactly? Every sermon I can recall hearing which addressed the topic of obeying God has equated it with obedience to a moral code of conduct. As much as new covenant teachers try to emphasize God’s grace, it seems we can’t get away from the tendency to observe our own moral…
Your Identity in Christ
When Jesus walked the streets of Galilee, His acts of healing created division among those who watched Him. Some rejoiced at the miracles they witnessed, while others criticized Him. The same attitudes exist today. Healing, deliverance, and miracles are ways in which the kingdom of God is made manifest through us. When we bring the kingdom of God to earth, we invite criticism, because wherever the kingdom goes, it destroys belief systems that are opposed…