Breadcrumbs

There are people in the world who walk around with a sheen of tears in their eyes. Chances are, they are the merciful-- those who carry the deep compassion of Jesus around inside them. It's a heavy gift, but a beautiful one. Amy speaks about her gift of mercy. And, yes, she had tears in her eyes many times throughout the interview.

The gift of exhortation is a lot like being a cheerleader with a kick. It's a word gift that inspires and compels and draws the family of God forward, upward, outward. It sooths and agitates all at once. An exhorted is like a commander that rallies the troops for action, bracing them for the hard road ahead, but inspiring them with the promise of the good good road beyond it. If you think you migh...

Breadcrumbs is a podcast about the ways the Lord speaks to me through my particular blend of gifts, so I'd like to use it to help you better understand how He might be speaking to you through yours. I'll be interviewing people I know and love who put the Lord on display through all kinds of gifts. In the interview, my daughter Norah speaks about her primary gift of discerning of spirits.

Sometimes prophetic words keep maturing long past when you’ve released them. They grow into something more. The Lord sent me back to last year’s word “Spiritual Passport” (Episode 43), and added some new insights about a season of training my weak left hand-- about becoming an ambidextrous warrior.  ✸ Jeremiah Johnson Word: “ He is Raising Up the 1% ” ✸ 1 Chronicles 12:1-2 • These were the men who...

Journal Notes: As the year crosses over from one to the other, I’m being asked to leave some baggage behind, and the Holy Spirit couldn’t have been more clear with me about what that baggage is: RESENTMENT. ✸ Psalm 51: I recognize my rebellion... The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. ✸ Psalm 32: Do not be like a ...mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control. Instagram @mildly...

Journal Notes: The Lord has been showing me royal robes lately. He is speaking about His royal children who are too uncomfortable to put robes that may make them stand out too much. But it’s time.

Journal Notes: I have a vision of two carved masonry stones. The left one blooms with a blue flower. The Lord speaks to me about beauty and how it calls to the hearts of us all. ✸ Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also planted eternity in the human heart...

Journal Notes: Bears, foxes, mice... The Lord is speaking about cleaning house down to the smallest pesky invaders. He is saying these small things distract from the work of JOINING He wants to do in the House of Ministry. ✸ Song of Songs 2:15 • Let us catch the little foxes that spoil the vineyard and ruin the vine, for our vineyard is in bloom... ✸ Ephesians 4:16 • From Him the whole body [the c...

Journal Notes: An exposing is coming to us all. The Lord has been preparing me for the day the Pharisees come to scrutinize me in court. He’s been getting me all washed and cleaned so that when that time comes, I will stand naked and unashamed. ✸ Ephesians 5:25-27 • Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her ... having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,  so that He might...

Journal Notes: I'm given a handful of dreams on a theme. They all point to the Lord persistently asking me to hand over the last of my pride. We tend to keep our monsters of sin on a leash because they serve us in some earthly way, but beware. A beast on a leash will eventually lunge and bite. There is only one Strongman strong enough to deal with our monsters. ✸ Mark 5: the man lived in the t...

Journal Notes: It’s dragon hunting season. We all have a dragon that knows how to prey on our deepest fears and insecurities, and it’s stalking us like we’re the last meal it’ll ever have. It’s time to name our dragons and ask the Lord how best to kill it.   ✷ Psalm 141 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips [to keep me from speaking thoughtlessly]. Let the righteo...

Journal Notes: I have a vision of my new spiritual passport to travel with into the next thing. It's emblazoned with the word AHAL. This word is about what that means. ✸  Exodus 33: Moses used to take the Tent and set it up outside the camp, some distance away. He called it the Tent of Meeting. Anyone who sought God would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp. ✸  Numbers 12: Then the LORD...

Journal Notes: I dream of a race I can't compete in using my old strengths. Instead, I learn that the race can be "run" by sitting still and becoming friends with the one who wears the crown and holds the red ribbon.

Journal Notes: The Lord speaks about the Cry of the Crow and calling out from the Crow's Nest. ✸ Ezekiel 33: If I bring a sword on a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, and he sees the sword coming on the land, and he blows the trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears... and does not take warning... his blood will be on his [own] h...

Journal Notes: So many dreams and visions about a multi-headed dragon, and a moonlit huntress. It's time to talk about Leviathan and Artemis, and their twisted partnership in the earth.

Journal Notes: I dream of climbing the steps of a temple with bare feet. He speaks of the barefoot service of the Zadok priesthood in the upper/inner rooms of the temple. ✸Ezekiel 43 And the glory and brilliance of the Lord entered the temple by way of the gate facing toward the east.... And He [the Lord] said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet...

Journal Notes: I dream of a pearl staircase and the Lord speaks of 2024 as the year of Psalm 24-- A year of ASCENSION. ✸Psalm 24: Who will ascend the mountain of the Lord? Those with clean hands and a pure heart. Lift your heads...

Journal Notes: "Let's finish up well, little one," He said. He shows me the top branches of an oak tree and says "BIRTHING." Many of us are in the agony of a crowning season-- the last painful push before the birth. ✸ Psalm 22 {A cry of anguish} O my God, I call out by day, but You do not answer. And by night, but I find no rest. ✸ Psalm 24 (The King of Glory enters Zion} W...

Journal Notes: I see a vision of the Father ripping His heart out and throwing it to earth... Jesus. And I reflect on what it means that, if we are IN Jesus, then we ARE the Father's heart. ✸Proverbs 4:23: Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.

Journal Notes: My brother and I have matching visions of tulip bulbs ringed in fire and rainbow, and I hear the Lord speak about His New Thing being done in the earth. ✸Isaiah 43 Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing, now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even put a road in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. ✸Jeremiah 31 And say, “He who scattered Israel will ga...

Journal Notes: I see visions and dreams of stars and sand and sea turtles and limestone... And they all speak of the coming MULTIPLICATION, and the grace we will need for it.

Journal Notes: I have multiple visions of the kinds of leaders the Lord is looking for in these final days. They all share a few traits, one of which is confident joy. I heard the word "Zephyr," and He speaks of the warm, gentle wind of this kind of leadership. 🪶Hebrews 6:19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure... 🪶Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, bec...

Journal Notes: A verse from Jeremiah grips me, and I ask the Lord a question. He responds with an answer and a solution, because He's a good God. Jeremiah 6:14 “They have treated superficially the [bloody] broken wound of My people, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

Journal Notes: I had a dream about being tested in many areas of life. My faithfulness, courage, and respectfulness were all tested. And then my calling and assignment was tested, and I passed by His grace. He has a way of widening and straightening the path He's asked us to walk, if we only say yes.

Journal Notes: This word is about Rome, Mecca, Jerusalem, Babylon & Zion. Cities. God says a lot about cities, good and bad. Our earthly cities are trapped in nets sprung by bait we fell for. But our hope is not in earthly cities at all.