Daily Prophetic Words--Praying for our Global Community

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word is a short bit coming from the book of John, chapter 6.  After the people saw the miraculous sign Jesus did, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world."  John 6:14 The Israelites were waiting for a special prophet, a savior, someone who would overthrow the powers that be in their day and return all of Israel to their autonomous state as in the days of David.  A kind of Moses, if you will, only more powerful.  Well, they were mistaken to that end.  They had already overlooked the "greatest prophet", John the Baptist, and did not recognize who Jesus was either.  So Jesus clearly explained to the crowd later on that he was the Son of God, the bread--manna--of life.  Their forefathers had eaten manna in the desert, manna provided by God, and now, they should also eat of the "living" manna, Jesus the Christ.  It was a hard concept for them to understand, especially when many i

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word is one of encouragement for those the Lord is calling to 'step out of the boat' this year and begin a teaching, preaching, or healing type of ministry.  The word came in a dream, then was accompanied by Psalms 11 & 17. In the first part of the dream I saw a person talking to a small group of mostly children and their parents in a church sanctuary.  It was an informal "healing service" at a church that was just opening up to the idea of that kind of service.  Equally as green was the speaker, who had been called by God to go out and preach and heal, but up to that point hadn't publicly done so.  As the speaker's voice trembled from nerves and stumbled over words on occasion, the parents in the crowd became critical and unbelieving and started to talk amongst themselves.  Their arrogance was revealed as they thought the meeting was a bunch of hooey coming from some flake who couldn't even speak right.  Well,

Greetings in the Lord! Last month I had a dream regarding the trouble being plotted surrounding the Olympics in Sochi, and of the antagonistic/hostile attitudes found within that region, in general.  Well, I want to share another dream I had from last night that I believe also relates to that situation. In my dream I saw a woman fleeing a complex of large grey buildings, kind of like a campus, where many people were gathered.  She was trying to escape the authorities who were looking for her there.  Getting into a small black rental car, she began to drive around the exiting roads of the secured campus and had to stop at a security check point.  Armed guards were searching the exiting cars thoroughly looking for her and she panicked, deciding to drive out of the campus the wrong way on the empty "Enter" roads.  Soon she realized that that wasn't going to work, so she abandoned the car hastily in the "I-R" lot.  Running from there she saw a small green car l

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word is actually several Scriptures from the book of Proverbs, my favorite book in the Bible.  As you may know, Proverbs is a collection of short bits of wisdom, and lends itself very nicely for us practical and pragmatic types.  For those who say, "The Bible is confusing," they could start to read there.  The Scriptures are short and sweet, and for the most part, plain to understand. Now, having said all that, I would just like to add that many Proverbs are a lot more literal than we can understand, too.  Take, for example, today's starting verse: Proverbs 21:16) A man who strays from the path of understanding comes to rest in the company of the dead. What 'dead'? you ask.  Do we find people hanging out with zombies?  Well, kind of.  They are hanging out with spiritually dead people, to be sure, but more often than not, it refers to unclean spirits.  So, we can understand that by living foolishly and joining the wicked i

Greetings in the Lord! Well, as I begin the new week, I am listening to the wind blow fiercely through the mountains yet again.  The news says it may reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour, and I believe it, as I see the waving of the tall Ponderosa pines through my windows.  But to me, the winds also represent the swift moving of the Holy Spirit  these days; the powerful presence of the Lord among us, clearing away the old and ushering in the new.  Of course, sometimes the wind storm makes quite a mess, as we saw with the devastating tornadoes this fall.  The wreckage eventually gets cleaned up though, and rebuilding happens.  Such is the time we are in....a tearing down, uprooting, and finally, replanting.  But turbulent times can be unnerving, however.  It is with that in mind that the Lord gives us today's word from 2 Samuel 3:1) " The war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time.  David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul g

Greetings in the Lord! For the past couple of days I've been getting Scriptures regarding "scoffers."  In spiritual terms, these would be people who are arrogant unbelievers, mockers to the point that they disdain putting any faith in God.  It is a seriously toxic spiritual condition, both for the scoffer and for the people around them.  The arrogant, mocking and doubt of the scoffer can be an effective bully tactic to try and quiet the voice of the faithful, overwhelm those weaker or newer in their faith, and recruit unsuspecting or like-hearted individuals to join along.  Scoffing is also aggressive in that it reveals their intolerance by immediately trying to discredit; only disagreements or conflicts will result when addressing a scoffer.  In 2 Peter 3:3 we read that "scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires."  So, we can understand then, that in addition to being arrogant, aggressive, mocking, and contentious, they are un-teac

Greetings in the Lord! Today while praying I saw a vision of a person standing on a snowy, blowy mountain top.  And even though the cold wind blew against them at the peak and they stood knee-deep in snow, they were happy and comforted to finally be above the crest of the mountain top, out of the mountain's shadowy side to feel the sun's warming light on their face.  It was a kiss on the cheek from God.  A sign that everything would end up being OK after all. It's kind of like that in life, too.  As we climb up to the "Rock that is higher than us", we are met with stronger winds and cooler temperatures quite often, not at all like the foothills of the "Sound of Music."  Still, it's safer to live in the high perches of righteous living then in the low coastal regions on beaches of debauchery, so to speak.  But no matter where you are in your spiritual journey, when you are fatigued and weary you are vulnerable and the true test is what you do dur

Greetings in the Lord! Yesterday I came across a news headline from Colorado that caught my attention for a couple of reasons.  Firstly, having lived in Riyadh for two years, I like to stay current with news events related to Saudi Arabia.  Secondly, this news story was peculiar, in that, most news outlets had only one sentence about it, and of the one that had more (Denver Post), it did not contain all the important facts of the story, namely, that this Saudi man was convicted of holding his house maid as a sex slave for 4 years while living in the US.  Here's a link to the article: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24835332/judge-denies-homaidan-al-turkis-request-return-saudi?source=rss    I'm not sure why many American news outlets gloss over details or omit stories altogether when it relates to Muslims.  Of course, my main guess is censorship, as I've lived in several countries where there is no freedom of the press and our presses quite often resemble that.  But tha