Rest Up

Don’t believe the enemy’s lie you have to keep enduring this season—or this day—in frustration and exhaustion before you can crawl into a little bit of rest. In Jesus, you’re always at rest—a rest, peace, and grace so powerful, you’re able to overwhelm every lie, fear, temptation, and rejection, and overcome all your circumstances brilliantly. …

Hope is a Person

When you believe the lie that hope is something you have to generate in your own strength, you get frustrated, disappointed, and exhausted, because you’re putting your awareness of God’s goodness at the mercy of your circumstances and the opinions of others. When that happens, you usually end up faking being okay, or just giving …

Hope-Full

Hope is misunderstood by poets as a fleeting emotion, manipulated by politicians as an expensive promise, and managed by the religious as an earned state. It is none of those things. Hope is your joyful, blessed, constant mindset in Christ. Hope is your confident and continuous expectation of experiencing God's goodness. “Faith, hope, and love …

The Revelation

The ancient warrior quietly sheaths his sword, and turns to face the tomb at last. Eons beyond count he has defended creation and served its Creator, but the last few days have seemed an eternity by comparison. He has guarded Jesus from the moment He was in Mary's womb. Every angel has grieved the separation …

The Door is Open

A while ago, I was praying and had a picture in my head of someone wasting away in a prison cell, but the door was wide open. I think of that image a lot. No matter what you're facing physically, emotionally, spiritually—you have all God's love, healing, peace, grace, favor, wisdom, and joy available to …