“Can you just give me a couple of days please?” You’ll never hear those words from the Lord, not when it comes to forgiveness. When does God forgive? The instant, the second that we repent and confess our mistake to Him. Not a couple of days later! When we agree with God that we were wrong we are humbling ourselves before Him and at that very moment your forgiven! Your sins are now...

Walking daily with the Lord requires focus, no wonder Satan is after our concentration. If he can get our minds on something other than God’s will he’ll be close to making the steal! He has to get our attention first. Last night I spoke to a group of young adults. I thought things were going well, but I had a heckler in the crowd who would often chime in. I let it go for a while and then...

Where does anxiety really come from? If you ask me it’s a breakdown of our fundamentals. I am getting ready to coach my daughters t-ball team soon and fundamentals are going to be key and that’s the way it is for walks with God. If you look at a lot of the mistakes we make, most of them stem from a lack of trust. When we fail to trust the Lord as we should that causes a chain reaction in...

Here I was at the gas pump yesterday gazing out my front windshield and I started thinking about my attitude.  I just got off the phone with my wife and started to compare my attitude with what I thought God wanted it to be. The gas was still pumping into my truck, so I asked my six year old how she thought God wants me to be right now. I thought she would give me a few nice things on how Jesus wanted...

Here you are you step up to the starting line, about to compete and you notice that your opponent is prideful. You look over to the referee, “Sir, wait a minute, time out please. But sir he’s prideful, he’s going to lose, is there someone else?”  Your thinking, “This is going to be a waste of time, he’s prideful and he’ll be resisted by God. Is there anyone...

I was with a woman last night who had just lost her husband of forty years to cancer. As the family and I gathered in her home we talked of how wonderful of a man he was, how he loved the Lord, his wife and his family. Some times death is one of the hardest things to deal with in life.  We wonder why, why so young, why him or her, why? But we don’t look at it from God’s perspective, God...

Many have predicted the end, even to the day and year that our world would come to a close.  It’s unfortunate but they are our there, it’s just a shame they don’t study the scriptures. The bible tells us there will be an end someday, but it will really be a beginning! You see those who know Jesus Christ will be with Him forever someday, as it says in 1st Thessalonians 4:17.  So...

Imagine surprising the Lord with praise. Here you are meeting God for lunch at a restaurant, you give Him a hug and then start walking to a room in the back. When you walk with the Lord through the door of the back room, boom! Praise the Lord! Surprise Father, praise was awaiting You! Wow could you imagine the Lords face? You meet Him for lunch, walked Him to a private room and super surprised Him...

44 Even so, he pitied them in their distress and listened to their cries. 45 He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his unfailing love. Psalm 106:44-45 (NLT) Because of His love God did something and not just because of His love, but His unfailing love! The Lord relented and if you look that word up it means to change one’s mind from an upcoming harsh course of action. God relented,...

This morning I walked downstairs still half a sleep and started to pray. I began with, “Good morning Lord. Thank You for this & that and can you help me with this & that.”  There’s nothing wrong with that of course, but I was tired and went right to my needs in prayer. Which again is fine. But I said to myself, “Wait a minute here! Lord forgive me, let me start over....