The whole direction of history is moving toward building a household — a dwelling place for God among His creation.

It began with a chosen few, planted, cultivated, pruned, and tended with the greatest care. From a tiny seed, a Kingdom with enormous branches has grown. And there will come a time when that growth reaches full maturity. When it does, the Kingdom will have come.

It is a blessing to be a part of it, one that many people never experience. There was a time in history when only a handful of individuals had access — geographically and spiritually — to the people of the King. Even today, many remain isolated from the truth, held back by ideological constraints, linguistic barriers, and cultural taboos.

When the Bible tells us we are no longer foreigners and strangers in God’s household, it is a truth worth falling down in worship over. In heaven, we will be amazed by all the barriers to truth that were overcome. We will worship next to people whose languages we have never heard, from tribes most of us didn’t even know existed. We will see people who lived next door to each other for decades without speaking embrace one another in the final celebration.

If only they had known sooner what Jesus came to bring, the Kingdom could have been a much more present reality.

And it can be, you know.

If history is heading in this direction, we might as well try to get there before everyone else. The destination should be reflected in the journey; the unity of the Kingdom is to be found in our hearts today.

So examine your motives, your dreams, your relationships, your work — everything. Do they point toward the direction of history? If not, why not? And is there anything you can do about it today?

Have a great rest of your week. God bless you.

One of the greatest deficiencies in contemporary Christianity is that we don't understand what God has actually given us.

We've reduced salvation to a one-day, spirit-only promise that God will fulfill for us someday. And it's true — those are extravagant promises for our future. But we don't really grasp them. For some, heaven sounds boring and distant.

We forget that God has freely given us promises for right here and right now. The Kingdom will come in full one day, but it is already coming.

Did you notice that when Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He didn't say, "Your kingdom come, Your will be done one day when the earth is ancient history"? He told them to pray God's Kingdom and God's will into Earth as it already is in Heaven — right now. The beauty and glory of Heaven is what this world could become when it is touched by God.

Scripture says these things have been freely given to us, and yet we often fail to understand. That kind of understanding is what transforms us from a people defeated and discouraged by the world into a people who represent the King of a new creation.

Believe what it says. Don't resist the Spirit of God when He urges you to pray and to live with all the hope of the Kingdom. This is one of many places where God commands us to believe something that sounds too good to be true — but not to believe it would be disobedience.

When God promised access to the Kingdom of Heaven, He meant it. Who would pass up such a gift?

And as Jesus said in Matthew 12:50, "For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

So let's take time to reflect: How can we bring our Father's will here on earth? How can we live into the promises God has already given us while we are here?

By serving one another in love. By looking out for the widow and the orphan, and for those who are less fortunate.

That is how you embrace the truth. You can do it without apology. It only depends on what you choose to understand. See less

An athlete trains for gold. An entrepreneur builds for success. A couple planning marriage starts living as one.

Why? Because when your eye is on the goal, your life changes now.

It's the same for us. If we are truly looking forward to the Day of the Lord, we will start living like His Kingdom today. Our character, our choices, our priorities will begin to look like heaven.

You can tell when someone isn’t anticipating His return — their life is still shaped entirely by this world.

So ask yourself: Does my lifestyle today reflect where I say I’m headed?

If you need to realign, fix your eyes on His return. Jesus warned that those who weren’t ready faced consequences, but the Master is pleased with those who live for His Kingdom before it fully comes.

Your holiness today is the measure of how much you want Him tomorrow

Are you chasing the next model car, the newest iPhone, the latest Nike drop? What's at the top of your agenda?

Reassessing our values requires enormous revision. For someone like me,  I was literally thrown in prison before that revision would actually happen.

We need to stop trying to fulfill ourselves with people, possessions, or positions, and instead place our emotional investments in a more enduring account.

People steeped in the ways of the world run after this toy and that property, acquiring and consuming, because they can't find fulfillment anywhere else. We can stand back and let them. Why? Because we know that kind of life will never lead to fulfillment. In the end, that lifestyle is like a dog chasing its tail — an endless chase that never satisfies.

Our chase is satisfied.

We can sympathize with those in prison and joyfully — yes, joyfully — accept the confiscation of our property, or our rights, or our dreams, or whatever it may be, because we know a secret. We have better and lasting possessions.

Have a great weekend everybody. God bless you

When I read this verse, I can see why skeptics throughout history have considered it clear evidence that Christianity is crazy. Human nature has very little interest in faith that includes joyful self-denial and hardship.

Nowhere in the Bible does it tell us to appear respectable to all people. In fact, Jesus thanked God for making the gospel plain to the simple and obscure to the wise in Luke 10:21, and Paul said God chose the foolish things of this world in 1 Corinthians 1:27.

Jesus faced all of those battles too, so we can see what it meant to have joy in them. It doesn't mean that every trial is pleasant. Jesus wasn't having much fun in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before His crucifixion, or especially during the crucifixion itself. He was, however, focused on the joy His trials would lead to — Hebrews 12:2.

Jesus won every battle He ever faced. On the surface, it doesn't seem so. It looks like He lost on several occasions, most notably on the hill outside Jerusalem. But appearances can be deceiving, can't they? Reality doesn't always rise to the surface.

But that's the lens through which we should look at our trials. Appearances are deceiving. What seems to be defeat is often in fact victory, especially when God is involved. If that weren't true, Jesus could never have told the disciples to rejoice when they were persecuted, and Peter could never have repeated the command in verse 13.

Rejoicing is a viable option for the hurting believer, and in the end, it will prove to be entirely rational. 

I was reminded of something while reading my Daily Proverbs

You can feel that truth right now in our current political climate.

There is a lot of noise, division, and distrust. People are tired of the fighting, the spin, the constant outrage cycle. Left vs. right, us vs. them — it feels like we've forgotten how to talk to each other, let alone listen.

But this verse is a reminder of what real leadership looks like. It’s not about party, power, or personality. It’s about righteousness — integrity, justice, humility, truth.

When leaders are righteous, people have hope. Families feel secure. Communities thrive. There is rejoicing, not because everything is perfect, but because people trust that what's being done is right.

When wickedness rules — when leadership is marked by corruption, pride, greed, and lies — the people groan under the weight of it. And I think a lot of people are groaning right now.

We need to pray for leaders who fear God more than they fear losing votes. Leaders who will do what is right even when it's unpopular. And we need to be the kind of people who live righteously in our own homes and communities, because change doesn't start in Washington — it starts with us.

Rejoicing is still possible. But it starts with righteousness

I am so thankful for prison. It was exactly where God met me, at the lowest point in my life.

I thought I knew the Lord my entire life. I could quote Scripture, but I was picking and choosing which parts to actually live by.

It took prison to humble me and bring me to the throne room with a truly contrite heart. And in that moment of surrender, my heart was filled with His presence. My heart is now fully devoted to God. I can honestly say I know the Lord because He is sovereign over my life. My will is aligned with His. I faithfully serve Him in many ways, not out of obligation, but because I want to please my Father in heaven.

It's unfortunate that many self-identified Christians are still walking in darkness, confusing church attendance and Bible studies with true edification by the Holy Spirit. Those things are important, but they will not help you grow with God if you lack a real relationship with our Heavenly Father.

So this week I challenge you: start your day with the Lord first. Pray, read your Bible, and pray some more. Do not be like the people Isaiah spoke of, who honor Him with their lips while their hearts are far from Him.

Make it a great week

Don

Do you remember a time when you were deeply in love and the great lengths you would go to win your beloved's heart? Whatever price you had to pay, however long you had to wait, whatever obstacles you had to overcome — none of it seemed like a sacrifice.

Why?

Because of the inestimable worth of the prize — winning your beloved's heart. Love will go to any length to be fulfilled. The cost is irrelevant. Only the fulfillment matters.

Jesus paid an enormous price at the cross to save us. That is the same love we are to express to others, but it can only be produced when Christ is anchored in our hearts. He is the role model we are told to fix our eyes on. Because of His great love, Jesus became the author and perfecter of our faith.

Whatever you face this week, we can keep going — because the goal is worth anything we will ever have to endure.

Have a blessed week, everybody.

It's a startling claim, isn't it? We're told not merely that God is pleased by our faith — that alone would be simple and encouraging. No, we're told it's *impossible* to please God without faith. If we won't put ourselves in a position to believe what we cannot see, we cannot experience His pleasure.

We have a lot of subtle ways of rebelling against faith. We get discouraged and frustrated waiting for answers to our prayers. We assume God hasn't answered when all we hear is silence. We base our decisions on the evidence in front of us rather than on the promises and wisdom of God.

Maintaining faith can be extremely difficult, but it's absolutely necessary if we're going to please God. The tension between faith and sight becomes our testing ground — a place to demonstrate what we truly believe about Him. Will we hold on to what we know to be true, or will we live under the tyranny of everything visible? The line between the two can get blurry, but the choices we make on that testing ground can be monumental.

Regardless of what you see — choose faith. It always pleases God.

Have a blessed week, everyone.

Don

The truth we quickly discover after becoming Christians is that we are in the middle of a war.

If restoration had come instantly after the resurrection, there would be no conflict. The world would have been made new, the evil serpent would have been cast into hell, and we would be living in a perfect environment.

But those future realities were secured by the cross and the empty tomb, not yet enforced. We have set our faith on those promises, but for now, life is a struggle. We were born in the middle of a war.

As we get closer to the coming of Christ, we need to lean on Scripture more than ever - not on our own strength, but on His.

It's easier to say than to live out. It isn't complicated, just unnatural. We pray for God's strength and live by faith for a while, and then any success puts us right back in our default mode: self-reliance. Only after failing in our self-reliance do we learn to rely again on His strength.

I don't know about you, but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

So this week, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Remember, you cannot do this on your own - we are nothing without Him.

Stand firm in the Word and speak life to someone today.

Have a blessed week, everybody.

Don

Read that again and let it hit you as it did me!!

This isn't soft Christianity. This is life and death.

How much godly fear do you actually have for the world around you? How much mercy? Most Christians are failing at both. We got too comfortable with sin. Too comfortable with people who are walking straight into hell.

Mercy and fear aren't opposites. They work together. If you're weak in mercy, you're weak in fear. If you have no fear of God, you have no real mercy for people. You can't snatch someone from the fire if you don't believe the fire is real.

God didn't call you to be nice. He called you to tell the TRUTH in LOVE. The judgment is real. The fire is real. And His mercy is real. You need to live with both burning in your chest at the same time.

We are in the end of days. Stop pretending we're not.

Stop holding on to friendships that are dragging you to hell. Stop surrounding yourself with corrupted flesh and calling it love. If they won't hear the truth, they don't want Christ.  instead they want you to compromise. The word tells us we cannot compromise.

Light has no fellowship with darkness. Either they will receive the Word and rise with you, or they will reject it and walk away from you. Let them walk. The seed has been planted, let the Holy Spirit do its work.

This week, seriously examine yourself, who we hang around with, and your commitment to the Kingdom.

Do you fear God enough to warn people? Do you love people enough to tell them they're about to burn? Have a blessed week.

- Don

Many of us would like to choose our areas of sacrifice, submitting only on our own terms. But it doesn't work that way if you claim to be a disciple. We were bought with a price. We no longer have the final say over our circumstances or our future; our lives have an Author.

​Do you feel indispensable in God's kingdom? Do you believe you can pick and choose how He uses you? If your answer is yes, you are sadly mistaken. We were completely dead, and He resurrected us. That means we owe Him everything. We have no claim to ourselves.

​ This message has been deeply written on my heart, and it changes how I live compared to the world around me. I am able to serve others freely because I’ve dropped the desire to make a name for myself or chase the social status I used to value. I no longer harbor personal agendas or find myself driven by worldly ambition. Instead, my desires and goals belong entirely to Him. This is what true surrender looks like.

​ When you finally get yourself out of the way, you can fully embrace your true purpose: doing our Father's will.

Have a great week everyone

Don

What a fitting picture of our culture. We wander in darkness, groping about for direction, desperate for a hand to guide us.

In this passage, Paul confronts Elymas the sorcerer, a false prophet who was actively working to turn a Roman official away from the faith. Paul's rebuke is harsh — far harsher than a politically correct society would tolerate today. He calls the man a child of the devil and an enemy of everything righteous. Yet this confrontation was inspired by the Holy Spirit. As uncomfortable as it may be, it is an authentic expression of love for God.

This may not fit our preferred image of God, but it fits the full revelation we've been given in Scripture. This passage holds together a truth we often struggle to reconcile: on one hand, God is fiercely, zealously opposed to sin. On the other, He is always at work redeeming the rebellion within this world. Both are true at once.

The implication for us is clear: **we are to oppose sin and embrace sinners.**

We too once wandered in mist and darkness. And God spoke truth into our confusion. He guided us out — not by leaving us where we were, but by reaching for us.

There is nothing wrong with confronting the deceiver. But when the deceived person is left aware of their own confusion and blindness, we should be ready to take hold of the hand that gropes about. We are called to be available to others the way God was available to us — leading convicted wanderers by the hand, out of the darkness and into the light!  Have a blessed week everybody!

The greatest sermon someone may ever hear could be the one you live out every day. Like a moth drawn to a flame, people are drawn to love. Jesus taught that we can judge a tree by its fruit. So are we simply cultivating love, or are we truly showing God's love by doing His will?

I believe doing His will draws you closer to Him — and in the process, makes your flame burn brighter, making us attractive to people who long for something they know nothing about... Jesus.

If you feel like you're coming up short of God working through you, ask that your life line up with His will. And when it does, be prepared for people to notice.

Have a great week, everyone! God bless you.

Equip yourselves with Christian apologetics. This is how we engage a skeptical world in meaningful conversations about truth. When we face persecution or walk through seasons of trial, we can lean on God's promises and His unchanging goodness.

We may not always fully grasp every promise, but we understand this: He is always with us and will never forsake us. So when you find yourself on trial—when you're called to defend your hope—stand firm and defend God

Have a great week everyone

Don

Charles Parkhurst once said, “Purpose is what gives life meaning. A drifting boat always drifts downstream.”

How many of us are in that same boat—drifting through life, doing the same routine things that society calls success? Days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years. Along the way, our sense of purpose can slip through our fingers. Disappointments come, families struggle, and life can quickly become bittersweet.

But this is not how we are meant to live. As Christians, we know how the story ends and what lies ahead. We are called to prepare others for the Kingdom, one soul at a time. When we align ourselves with the Father’s will, we find true purpose. We are no longer running aimlessly—we are running with divine purpose.

Take a moment today to speak life into someone who may be living in darkness.

Have a blessed week, everyone.

Whatever season you're in right now — the waiting, the uncertainty, the "how is this going to work out" — you are not forgotten. There is a plan for your life bigger than what you can see from where you're standing.

Keep going. Keep believing. Your future is still being written. Have a great week everyone!

Psalm 16:11 reminds us that true joy is not found in perfect circumstances, but in the presence of God. No matter what today brings—whether it is peace or pressure, clarity or confusion—there is a deeper, unshakable fullness of joy available to us. This joy does not depend on outcomes, people, or temporary successes; it flows from a relationship with the One who never changes.

When life feels uncertain, this verse invites us to shift our focus. Instead of chasing happiness in things that fade, we are called to draw near to God, where joy is complete and lasting. In His presence, burdens feel lighter, fear loses its grip, and hope is renewed.

Today, choose to pause and remember where your joy comes from. Even in the middle of challenges, God’s presence is constant, and His joy is full. You are never walking alone, and there is peace waiting for you right where He is.  Make it a great week everyone may God bless you and keep you.

An ambassador bridges the gap between two worlds. God’s call to us is a call to action—to bring His will to Earth and invite others out of darkness. Talk about ultimate purpose!

Just as earthly leaders appoint ambassadors who are special to them, our Heavenly Father chose you because you are deeply valued. He has given us a sacred, vital mission. This week, live out the values of His Kingdom wherever you go—at work, in social clubs, or at the park. Your purpose is clear: change this world for the sake of His. Have a blessed week!!

Discipleship isn’t a comfortable spectator sport—it’s a daily decision to deny self, carry the cross, and follow Jesus wherever He leads.

It means surrendering our agenda, comforts, and pride so His will becomes our priority. The road isn’t always easy, but it’s the only path that leads to real life and purpose.

Let's try this week to deny ourselves, pick up our cross, and follow Him with wholehearted devotion. Let us all be amazed at the doors that will open and the opportunities to bring Gods will on earth to those around us.  God bless and make it a great week everyone.

Examine your life right now.  Are you experiencing hardships from a trial?  Rejoice in them for they help build your character to glorify your father in heaven.

You must get into proper spiritual shape, eat a healthy spiritual diet, and condition yourself for extreme hardships.  The Lord gives us all the tools in our warchest.  You must not bail out at the first sight of trouble.  Many are deceived by false doctrine of the prosperity teaching.  Get rooted in the word and stand firm on the truths of the gospel and equip yourself with the Armor of God to endure your hardships this week.  Have a great weekend everyone

Our Behavior has the power to make other people stumble so we have to be extremely careful how we act around others . Our behavior has the power to point to salvation therefore we need to be extremely zealous. Sin exists. So does righteousness.  Let us convict the world and always point in the right direction.