Daily Readings by Wild at Heart

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content. Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now and for...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! “He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves ” (Ephesians 1:5–6). We have been chosen by God. We belong to Him. We have been adopted into God’s fa...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! There are forces inside us and there are forces outside us that often come against the deepening of our relationship with God and keep us from taking hold of the joy that is meant to be ours in knowing Him. These forces often collude to sabotage our healing and communion with God. When I was a...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! We are a worshipping Bride. We are also a warring one. And we have been bestowed with the authority of Jesus to move in victory, taking back the ground the enemy has stolen and moving into the terrains where we have been called. I know that I am not alone in being attacked by the enemy on a re...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! What we believe about ourselves matters. Are we worthy of being treated with respect? Yes we are. Every single one of us, no matter what our past may hold. Are we worthy of being loved? Absolutely, as proven once and for all by our God. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! You have an enemy, whether you want to accept the fact or not. Satan and his forces know you, they know your story, and they prey upon your weaknesses until you tell them they can’t do that anymore. You can believe that the loss of hope or desire, those negative or ambivalent feelings, are an...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! As partners with Christ and co- heirs, our posture toward the battle changes. We begin to ask, “What are my orders, God? What would You have me do?” We say, like Moses said, like Abram said, like Isaiah said, like Samuel said, “ Hineni .” Hineni is the Hebrew word for “Here I am. Send me,” or...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Friends, God sent His Holy Spirit into our hearts to help us live in God’s love and boldly pray “Abba! Father!” Abba is a term of endearment to a father. As you know, it means “daddy, papa”— it’s a name reserved for use by a cherished child. A stranger doesn’t get to call Him that. To his gran...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Friends, because of the sacred place we hold in God’s heart— the place that is ours alone— we’ve been invited by Him both to know Him more than we currently do, and to rest in being known by Him. It is a great honor. I think we all have some sense of the deep, holy truth that there is in every...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! It is our inner communion with God that is both the source of our joy and the source of our strength. We do not want to be those who run ahead of our King by chasing after our good ideas. We want to submit our good ideas to Him and wait for His orders. That is the posture of a mat...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! Jesus is both the Shepherd and, as Revelation 13:8 reminds us, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. John the Baptist declared, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). As a lamb, Jesus understands us completely. He knows intimate...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! When our prayers are answered in the way we are contending for them to be, we experience joy and our faith is strengthened. But when our prayers are not answered— even then, friends, our faith can deepen. There’s so much to talk about here because we all have known unanswered pray...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! The wonderful news is that it is God who seeks us, offers us His Living Water, and He will never turn His face away from anyone who comes to Him honestly. Jesus is safe for us to bring the whole truth of who we’ve been, what we’ve done, what we’ve suffered, what we’ve lost, what w...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! When we turn in prayer to God for union despite our emotional state or physical circumstances, these are the times that undo the heart of the King of Heaven (Song of Songs 4:9). Those holy moments are as simple as a turning of your heart toward God and saying, “I long to be one wi...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! Jesus says, “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15 nasb). We are His friends. This elevation of relationship wit...

Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! Jesus warned us that in this world we would have trouble, and He knew what He was talking about. But He didn’t end with merely giving caution; He closed with hope: “But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Suffering too is temporary, though the effects of it, the g...

You are not your sin; sin is no longer the truest thing about the man who has come into union with Jesus. Your heart is good. "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you" (Ezek. 36:26). The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than "a sinner saved by grace." You are a lot more than that. You are a new creation in Christ. The New Testament calls you a saint, a holy...

Prayer sets up a terrible dilemma for us. We want to pray; it’s in our nature. We desperately want to believe that God will come through for us. But then ... he doesn’t seem to, and where does that leave us?   I believe God is in the dilemma; I believe he wants us to push through to real answers, solid answers.   For one thing, this reality we find ourselves in is far more dynamic than most folks...

Twice, in the famous chapter of Romans 7, where Paul presents a first-person angst about our battle against sin, he says, "But this is not my true nature. This is not my heart." As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature ... Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin li...

Jesus is a fierce, intentional man to be sure. But his passions are neither reckless nor momentary. Could a small, unintimidating figure accomplish such a sustained riot? To pull off driving “all of them out of the temple” would require more than a few seconds and repeated blows. This is a sustained assault. If a frail man with a meek voice tried this, he’d be log-jammed by the sheer number and in...

When Neo is set free from the Matrix, he joins the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar — the little hovercraft that is the headquarters and ship of the small fellowship called to set the captives free. There are nine of them in all, each a character in his own way, but nonetheless a company of the heart, a “band of brothers,” a family bound together in a single fate. Together, they train for battle. Togeth...

“Love your neighbor as yourself,” Jesus taught (Mark 12:31), implying a direct link between one and the other. Loving our neighbor is clearly an essential to Christian faith; I think we all get that one. But the qualifier “as yourself” is lost upon most people; it confounded me for years. It almost sounds too pop psychology, something you’d see on the cover of the magazines at the checkout stand,...

Every woman is in some way searching for or running from her beauty and every man is looking for or avoiding his strength. Why? In some deep place within, we remember what we were made to be, we carry with us the memory of gods, image-bearers walking in the Garden. So why do we flee our essence? As hard as it may be for us to see our sin, it is far harder still for us to remember our glory. The pa...

The longing for things to be good again is one of the deepest yearnings of the human heart. It has slumbered in the depths of our souls ever since we lost our true home. For our hearts remember Eden. Most of the time this beautiful, powerful longing flows like an underground river below the surface of our awareness — so long as we are consoled by some measure of goodness in our lives. While we are...

The constant push in Western Christianity to “make it practical” betrays our favorite apostasy—it exposes how utterly fixated on the present moment we really are.   Yes, we need to embody God’s love in the world today. The human race is not well; things fall apart. We must care for the planet and all creation; we must fight injustice. But we speak of that work so casually; we do not understand it...