Insights from The Elijah Blessing: An Undivided Heart
In the beginning, a divided heart may look very much like an undivided one. It’s as if you’ve reached a subtle fork in the road, where the two paths before you appear to run side-by-side. It seems you can take both paths at the same time. It seems you don’t have to choose. Lord, help us to learn from a king who did not.
Masters of misdirection spend their lives using anyone, everyone, to get whatever they want. They do it so subtly, so skillfully, that the exploited ones usually do not know they’re being used.
You want to know Christ, to love him and serve him with an undivided heart. But in seeking to follow him, you've been blindsided by violent spiritual assault. Worse yet, it's come from a place you would not have dreamed.
Did you ever try to use a key that should work, but didn’t? That often happens with a copy of the original. To the eye, it seems a match. But…
You have an instrument. You have a voice. Be blessed to stay before God as he teaches you. Be blessed to play your part.
Mini-post from The Elijah Blessing: Love may not look a thing like we had thought.
Be blessed to see past strong deception and skillful misdirection, to recognize Ahab and Jezebel at work.
An upstart named Elijah stood before Ahab, Israel’s king. Elijah had no credentials that would have impressed Ahab. First Kings 17:1 describes him simply as, “Elijah, who was from Tishbe…
Today, let’s consider the impossible – and utterly delightful – challenge of mastering the language in which God speaks. It’s a challenge crucial to living by the Spirit. (And also…
