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Greener Grass part 4

03/05/2021 19:16

If you're always looking at the grass on the other side, and thinking that it's greener, you're making sure you can't enjoy the grass on your own side. And if you don't like the grass on your own side... water it. MAKE it greener. Tend it and keep it. Take care of it. I truly believe that you can...

Greener Grass part 3

03/04/2021 18:07

The best way to stop being jealous of the "greener" grass on the other side... is to water your own grass. If you're taking care of you and yours you won't have the time or energy to worry about what anybody else is doing. And that, to me, makes it so simple. Instead of worrying about what you...

Greener Grass part 2

03/03/2021 17:37

If you always think the grass is greener on the other side, you need to do a better job of tending your own patch. Look at Genesis 2:15 (NLT), "The LORD God placed the man in the Garen of Eden to tend and watch over it." The garden was a finished work. But God put US in charge of it. I keep talking...

Greener Grass part 1

03/02/2021 17:47

I think it's easy to compare things in this life. What you have to what you don't have. What you have to what someone else has. But that's the thing that gets us into trouble so many times. Because when you're so busy looking at what you don't have--especially in the context of what someone else...

H-ear-t part 5

03/01/2021 18:13

When you listen with you heart--when you have an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking--you can receive and release the love of God. Because that's what the Spirit is speaking! The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And when you hear that invitation, you can extend that invitation. You can say,...

H-ear-t part 4

02/28/2021 17:39

When you hear (with your heart) what the Spirit is speaking... that's when you can experience what is happening in the supernatural realm. And I use that term specifically because the supernatural is when God's super swallows up our natural. When heaven touches earth, if I can say it that way. On...

H-ear-t part 3

02/27/2021 18:00

Following your heart can only come from listening to your heart. That still, small voice deep inside (your heavenly Father saying "I love you, I love you, I love you" with every beat of HIS heart in your chest) is what leads you, guides you, directs you, and protects you. Faith comes from hearing,...

H-ear-t part 2

02/26/2021 17:55

The center of the heart is the ear. Hearing what the Spirit is saying. Because you can't give what you don't have, and you can only give what you do have. So you have to KNOW what you have. And look at Romans 10:17 (NLT), "So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ."...

H-ear-t part 1

02/25/2021 17:44

I teased this Rant series before getting caught up and fired up with my discussion about the fig tree with my son, so we're going to do it now. The heart is important, right? I think we can all agree with that. Proverbs 4:23 (NLT) reads like this, "Guard your heart above all else, for it determines...

The Tree part 5

02/24/2021 17:29

The fig tree--the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the tree of death--couldn't produce any fruit. It kept people in the trap of trying to turn over a new leaf. Trying to swing from the "bad" limb to the "good" limb, without really realizing that both were on the same tree. It's not about turning...

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