Posts with the category “teaching”

The last lesson is never give up! I could have decided to not even try for any rings as I had never gotten one in the past. However, I rode the Carousel over the years, enjoyed the time with my family...  Read More

By Barb Fisher2 Peter 1:4-8…by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is ...  Read More

We can worship as everyone else does and in the places everyone else worships, or we can hear His voice calling us to the threshing floor, and like David, obey. ...  Read More

It will cost us something to be transformed into His burning one. We become a living sacrifice by placing ourselves on the altar before His Presence and surrendering to His consuming fire. ...  Read More

God makes His Word known for a purpose, which is not so we become puffed up with knowledge, or that we impress others with what we know. God’s purpose is transformation. ...  Read More

It was a season of war for Israel, but not for David. He was not a warrior but a shepherd. And a very attentive shepherd. He guarded his sheep by remaining fully alert to any enemy who would try to en...  Read More

By Barb FisherThere is a beautiful story of redemption found in the book of Ruth. Ruth was the widowed daughter-in-law of Naomi. Naomi and Ruth suffered great loss. They were two women left on their o...  Read More

By Barb Fisher“All increase in the Kingdom comes through the faithful stewardship of what already has been given.” (Open Heavens by Bill Johnson)After reading the above quote, I started thinking about...  Read More

By Kimm BrettIt is always amazing to me how God can speak to you in the midst of your life tasks.  He can use simple everyday activities to illuminate aspects for you to ponder.  This weekend I had on...  Read More

For the first twenty plus years of my life, the prayer I prayed most often was: “God, please don’t give up on me.” I still pray that prayer sometimes, but not as often because I have come to embrace t...  Read More

Your heart has increased in its capacity to align with and carry His presence to a greater degree, and that caused uncontainable gladness to bubble up and out of His gracious Being. He begins to brag ...  Read More

Moses went from not knowing God, to not wanting to take one step without the awareness of God’s Presence going with him. ...  Read More

That sweet aroma ascends to God. For those who smell the fragrance of Christ permeating from our sacrificed life of thanksgiving, there will either be a fragrance of Life or a fragrance of death. But ...  Read More

by Barb FisherAs I was coming out of a state of sleep, I had a dream. A young man was playing a guitar and singing: “Be Courageous, Courageous, Courageous, Courageous, be Bold…be Bold.” It was very ti...  Read More

To ignore such a powerful weapon against the enemy is to weaken our own position, and we miss out on the glorious inheritance of joy that God has promised us. ...  Read More

The older generation has been called by God to declare His power and mighty acts to those who are younger. Connecting to the elderly in our midst will bring forth the necessary keys for the seasonable...  Read More

We are to keep our hearts, guard our hearts against anything or anyone that would attempt to steal our affections. Pursue God. Seek God. Everyday. Every moment. Keep your heart facing Him. Holy Spirit...  Read More