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Keep Your Love Alive Through Trials!

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  Keep Your Love Alive Through Trials “I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, as to what you will tell him: For I am lovesick.” — Song of Songs 5:8 Reflection In the Song of Songs, we find the story of a young woman, known as the Shulamite, and her love for her bridegroom. Their relationship presents a spiritual picture of our relationship with Messiah Yeshua. In chapter 5, the woman is searching for her beloved, who seems to have withdrawn from her. As she searches, the watchmen of the city find her, strike her, and take away her shawl. She is suffering, and it seems as if her beloved has forsaken her. She might have been tempted to doubt her Bridegroom King and ask, Does He really love me? Is He really with me anymore? She might have been tempted to become bitter and angry at God. She might have begun to wonder, Is God even real? Does following Him make any difference? But in this moment of deep pain and confusion, she did something extraordinary: she tur...
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God Takes the Little and Does Big Things!

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  God Takes the Little and Does Big Things Scripture: John 6 In John 6 we read about the feeding of the 5000 by Jesus. We learn a tremendous KingdomNomics principle from the small lad in the story who had two small fish and five barley loaves of bread. In verse 9 the disciple Andrew questions how so little could be relevant in feeding a multitude of people. Jesus took what was little or insignificant in the view of the world, and miraculously used it to feed the 5000! What does this say to us? God can take our  time, talent,  and  treasure , even though we think they are small and insignificant, and exponentially multiply them for the advancement of his kingdom in this world. We all want to be “two fish and five loaves people” willing to share so Jesus can do great things through us as we make ourselves available to him. This lad’s life echoes through eternity because he was willing to share what he had as he yielded himself to the purposes of God. Today, ask yoursel...
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Walk With God Through Prayer!

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  Walk With God Through Prayer “For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, ‘In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength.’” — Isaiah 30:15 Reflection Beloved, prayer is a mighty force to be reckoned with. When one of my daughters was away in college, my wife and I went to visit her. We went out to dinner together, and I could tell something was bothering her. So I asked her if she was okay. Her response was disturbing to me. She was afraid that something bad was going to happen to me, that I was going to die that day. This was a real fear for her, and I knew it was coming from the enemy because it was a feeling of dread and gloom. I said, Honey, let’s pray. We joined our hands together, and I prayed. I asked Father to fill her with His love and remove this fear from her. In Jesus’ name, I took a stand against the enemy and took authority over the spirit of fear. We asked Father for His love and protection. Yeshua broke the power of...
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Do You Have a Self-Serve Mentality?

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  Do You Have a Self-Serve Mentality? Scripture: Luke 6:38, NIV “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” In Luke 6:38, Jesus tells us that as we give it will be given back to us in good measure, pressed down, and shaken together along life’s way. The other day I drove into a gas station and I saw a sign in big letters, SELF SERVE, over the gas pumps. Before I became a practitioner of KingdomNomics, my attitude was the SELF-SERVE MENTALITY. When I pulled up to anything I wanted, in effect, I said to myself, “FILL’ER UP!” The principles of KingdomNomics teach us life does not consist of the abundance of things, and that we should labor for the food that leads to eternal life. We find an increasing life of fulfillment as we practice giving or investing in what matters to the Lord Jesus Christ. When the “time bubble” in which we find o...
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Strengthen From the Inside Out!

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  Strengthened From the Inside Out “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” — Ephesians 3:16-17 Reflection Beloved, I want you to know that there is more to you than meets the eye. You have an inner man that the Spirit of God wants to fill with His power. In Ephesians 3, the apostle Paul makes intercession for believers, asking Father to strengthen us with power through His Spirit in our inner man. This is the same power that raised Yeshua from the dead. Paul is praying that we would be strengthened by that power deep inside us. Over thirty years ago, I had a dramatic encounter that made this truth a reality to me. During a time when I was going through a deep season of repentance in my life, the Spirit of God supernaturally filled me from above. He literally came down through my head and took hold of my inner man. I was keenly aware of w...
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The World is Passing Away Before Our Eyes!

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  The World is Passing Away Before Our Eyes! Scripture: 1 John 2:17, NIV The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. In 1 John 2:17, we are reminded that the world and the lust of it is passing away, but the person who does the will of God will live forever. These words hit me like a bullet between the eyes. In my own life so many of things I considered so important over the years are now gone! The company I worked for is now gone. Boards of companies I served on are now gone. Just through the aging process, we can see how we ourselves are “passing away.” Our bodies are temporary. Let’s face it. We are only renting or leasing them, having to turn them in at the end of the lease term. The Bible has so many references regarding the brevity of life. One is our life is like a breath that passes by and does not return. Wow! That is really brief! The Kingdom of God thinker develops the attitude, “I am going to live forever!” Because of this h...
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Set Apart to Belong to God!

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  Set Apart to Belong to God “Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.” — Leviticus 20:26 Reflection When God gave the Law of Moses to Israel, He was doing more than establishing rules for His people. The Law set apart Israel from all other nations. Israel lived in a world where lawlessness ruled the day. God’s Law lifted them out of that chaos and disorder and distinguished them from every other culture and people group. God had declared that the Jewish people were to be holy unto Him because He is holy and had separated them from other peoples to be His. What actually set the Israelites apart? For starters, they were called to worship only one God. This seemed foolish to many of those around them, yet God’s command was clear: “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3). Their devotion to the one true God distinguished them from the nations surrounding them. In addition, God set apart His people through...
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