During church this morning, I heard these words in my spirit: “I will move you out of your place of comfort, but I will not leave you or forsake you in the process. I will cover you and lead you with My presence.” Those words stayed with me. Later that day, while I was walking […]

David had every earthly reason to celebrate Saul’s death. Saul had rejected him, falsely accused him, hunted him, and repeatedly tried to kill him. Yet when David received the news that Saul had fallen, he didn’t celebrate—he wept. “How the mighty have fallen!”— 2 Samuel 1:19 David didn’t allow Saul’s character to change his own. […]

There’s a familiar story about a butterfly struggling to escape its cocoon. Someone sees the struggle and, wanting to help, tears the cocoon open. It seems compassionate. Why watch something struggle when you have the ability to make it easier? But the butterfly needed the struggle. The very thing that looked like suffering was part […]

A friend of mine told me something yesterday that I can’t stop thinking about: “Peter didn’t walk on water.He walked on the Word.” Man… that will preach. In The Gospel of Matthew 14, the storm was still raging. The wind was still blowing. The waves were still crashing against the boat. Yet when Peter asked […]