Crosslines

What is a feeling? Where do emotions come from? From the thoughts you think or from your heart? And finally, can anything be done when they go crazy?

A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within. Similarly, the enemy has dormant traps in each one of our lives...waiting within to bring destruction when we least expect. But when we are shown the trap we are no longer in harms way. When it is brought to light it no longer has power over us. 

The great thought divide. We need to think about...what we are thinking about. Most people think "their thoughts" all originate with them without even considering what the enemy is sending. When we truly begin to get well is when we are able to divide our thoughts from the enemy's thoughts .  

If you aren't recognizing traps in your life you probably aren't applying the Promises in the Word. Our eyes need to be wide open for where the enemy is looking to trap us. It really seems that when the Lord anoints you traps from the enemy are soon to follow. And that is exactly why God's promises are there. So we can be delivered from the traps.

Are you awake? Aware? The enemy is after you. You are his personal target. Many times people think they are just stumbling through life without realizing they are under direct attack from the enemy. The enemy has a person vendetta against every believer and it take God's Promises to defeat him. 

God placed the earth under mankind's care and mankind under His care.  We are God's middle management, HIs stewards of the earth. We live in a world where our management over it matters.

There are two types of Christians: King Sauls and King Davids. Have you been an overcomer throughout your life or just for a moment? The story of David and Goliath screams that one man can truly make a difference. 

The most dangerous prayer you can pray is "God I want everything you've got!"

If it is always God's will to heal, what are some of the reasons we are not seeing more healing?

Is it God's Will to heal every time? Is the ball in our court or God's when it comes to healing? 

Life is not always what we perceive. Our emotions and even eyes can deceive us, but you can always take a moment to check your Spirit. The Holy Spirit will lead and guide you into all truth. 

Jesus disciplines/corrects those He loves BUT do you love the correction He gives? Life and our relationships are all about who we give permission to correct us and who we love enough to correct. 

Setting your first captive free. If you don't go through deliverance or do deliverance, as the Bible says, you will be powerless in your ministry. "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed....to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound." 

Do you let bad decisions and agreements stand? Our words and agreements and the words and agreements of those we lead matter. Leaders have the privilege and authority to cover those they lead by not letting their bad decisions stand. 

Have you ever made a promise of commitment and wish you hadn't? Numbers 30:4 gives those in authority the ability to not let the words and decisions of those under him stand. But if the father says nothing the bad decision stands. If we hold a place of authority we must know how to forbid. 

Why did the Lord ask Abraham to give up the son that was most precious to him? And what is the Lord asking of us?

If you are in ministry, you are a target for the enemy. 

Are you willing to be a fool for Christ? 

Are you asking yourself the hard questions? Are miracles not happening because of God…or because of us? There are so many promises God has given, but they remained unclaimed, unused. Only an unoffended heart can find them. 

What satan means for evil and harm, God weaves for good. God's will is not automatically happening on the earth, but when we partner with Him, He weaves even the most terrible things for good. 

Victory is not automatic when the enemy attacks. The Lord has put weapons and tools in our hands to win the battle every time but it is up to us to use those weapons until we see the enemy defeated. 

The feast of Purim started in 480 B.C. When you look through history you see the same spirits and evil at work to destroy God's people. What Esther and her people went through has striking similarities to the Jews in WWII. God's will prevails when His people choose courage in the face of impossibilities.

What causes some people to make it in ministry and others to not? "The one sown with seed on the rocky places, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately he falls away." - Matthew 13:20-21. Do you have a firm root in yourself? Do you ha...

It is all in the name! Speaking the name of Jesus changes everything. Because of the power in the name of Jesus, the enemy is working to silence believers from speaking His name.