…continued from part 1… There is a difference between confronting spiritual forces and confronting people. When it comes to our relationships with people, exercising dominion or authority in the Kingdom is something done in love, with honor, and with mercy. Jesus won by love, not by force… and we must do the same. We influence [...]
Have you ever walked into a place and felt great? The atmosphere is full of joy, hope, and peace. You can feel it when you walk into a home and you instantly feel “at home”, or into a business and you feel energized, people are smiling and happy. Then you walk into another place and [...]
At prayer last night we were talking with the Lord about influence – about becoming people of influence, being good stewards of that influence, using influence to advance the Kingdom – and I realized that just as transformed people transform people… influenced people influence people. Human beings tend to be reactive, responding to whatever stimulus [...]
There is a difference between excellence and perfection. Although we often think of “excellence” and “perfection” as being synonymous, they are not. One can live and work with a spirit of excellence, or one can strive for perfection. Not only are the two not synonymous, they cannot exist concurrently. I didn’t “get” this until about [...]
If “on earth as it is in heaven” is to become a reality for us, we have to get “I can’t” completely out of our vocabulary. There’s no “can’t” in heaven. Every excuse and every limitation needs to be obliterated by the presence of God. When we get there… when we can no longer say, [...]