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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 18, 2024
Son, there is a kingdom principle you have learned that I want you to share with my sons and daughters. When you are thrust into a time of great adversity and pain, the only way to heal is to begin to focus on others. Staying focused on yourself internalizes your pain. Your healing comes as
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God Speaks to Us Where We Are
- by: Charis Brown
- April 18, 2024
“When Jesus came by, He looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. ‘Zacchaeus!’ He said. ‘Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.’” -Luke 19:5 Has God ever spoken to you right where you are? I heard a funny joke one time that a pastor shared. “Do you think
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Beware of Unusual Circumstances
- by: Os Hillman
- April 18, 2024
“Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit?” (1 Cor 12:7-9). Whenever something unusual happens in daily life, these are often signs that God
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Losing Your Life for His Purposes
- by: Os Hillman
- April 18, 2024
“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me will save it.” – Luke 9:24 When the time came for God to fulfill Joseph’s dreams, Joseph himself had virtually no interest at all in it. Jesus said, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it,
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City Transformation Begins in Two Places
- by: Os Hillman
- April 17, 2024
“While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there” (Acts 17:16-18). In order to
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Wanted: Dead or Alive!
- by: Os Hillman
- April 17, 2024
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Eph 6:12). In the old west it was common to see a poster on the wall of the town jail or
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Daily Bread
- by: Charis Brown
- April 17, 2024
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” -Matthew 4:4 What does the phrase mean, “our daily bread?” When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness by Satan after 40 days of fasting, he replied, “Man shall not live on bread
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 17, 2024
Son, you have learned an important principle in my kingdom. Act with authority, but never reach for power. My Son had all the power of heaven behind him. But he never reached for earthly power. He humbled himself and allowed my power to work through him. As you humble yourself, I will work through you
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The Graduate-Level Test: Self-Defense
- by: Os Hillman
- April 16, 2024
“He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.” – Psalm 37:6 As a believer grows in trusting obedience and love, God often brings a test that seems uncharacteristically cruel. The test: being wrongfully judged by those close to you. It is not for the reactionary.
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Dumbing Down Sin
- by: Charis Brown
- April 16, 2024
“When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of
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A Job Versus a Calling
- by: Os Hillman
- April 16, 2024
“Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant? as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve” (Matt 20:26-28). My family and I traveled to my home town every few months to visit my mom in an elderly care nursing facility for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. We
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 16, 2024
Son, there is power in walking as one. When you join others and leverage what you each do, you multiply each of your capabilities and the anointing I have placed over your lives. My sons were about to do this at the Tower of Babel, but the motive of their heart was wrong. I had
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When Things Don’t Go As Planned
- by: Charis Brown
- April 15, 2024
“In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path.” -Proverbs 3:6 Often when we find ourselves struggling in the area of vision, we find it hard to believe that God could do the extraordinary with our lives. We think things will turn out a certain way, and it turns out, they don’t.
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 15, 2024
Son, you must realize how much I desire your total trust in me. Many of my sons and daughters try to create fortresses that will insulate them from calamity in life. But you must know, and let my sons and daughters know, there is only one place that is secure in this life. That place
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The Integrity Test
- by: Os Hillman
- April 15, 2024
“Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place” (Ps 51:6). Integrity is often defined by what we do in secret. Are our actions the same in public as what we do behind closed doors? Kenneth Lay was the chairman and CEO of Enron, a multi-billion dollar energy
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Four Attributes of a Life God Blesses
- by: Os Hillman
- April 15, 2024
“So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.’” – Isaiah 28:16 Whenever God calls us into a consecrated life, it is made up of four distinct stages. Christ often compared
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Closed on Sunday
- by: Os Hillman
- April 14, 2024
“Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you” (Ex 31:14). Can a business have a Christian testimony without ever saying a word? Absolutely. Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, Inc. is America’s second-largest quick service chicken restaurant chain. The company’s stated corporate purpose is “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to
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Praying God’s Will
- by: Charis Brown
- April 14, 2024
“…Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” -Matthew 6:10 Often we hear of people’s answered prayer. Then again, there are many other prayers that seem as of yet unanswered. We think of prayer like a phone call to God, with God on the receiving end. We are happy
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 14, 2024
Son, you should know one of my characteristics is that I am a God of war. You live in a war zone. There are casualties every day. You and I are fighting for the souls of men. I lead an army of angels. I have made many of my sons warriors too. Samson was one
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Using Satan for God’s Purposes
- by: Os Hillman
- April 14, 2024
“Hand this man over to satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.” – 1 Corinthians. 5:5 Paul encountered a believer who was involved in an incestuous relationship in the Corinthian church. This man was deluded by satan and was controlled by immorality. The
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 13, 2024
Son, I want you to understand that shame is a tool the enemy of your soul uses to keep you in a place of defeat. Shame wants you to believe that you are a failure because you failed. In contrast, guilt is my Holy Spirit telling you that you have done something wrong. Yes, you
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Working in Rest
- by: Charis Brown
- April 13, 2024
“‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.’” -Leviticus 23:3 Our world is crazy. Literally, crazy. We wake up, get ready, eat breakfast, go
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The Work-a-holic
- by: Os Hillman
- April 13, 2024
“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship” (Romans 8:15). Living a balanced life is evidence of a Spirit-led life. People work long hours for many reasons which can lead to significant problems in our lives. One reason people over work
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Your Work
- by: Os Hillman
- April 13, 2024
“I have brought You glory on earth by completing the work You gave Me to do.” – John 17:4 The Lord has revealed to us that the number one thing we are to do is love the Lord our God with all our heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves. His desire is for
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The Work-a-holic
- by: Os Hillman
- April 13, 2024
“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship” (Romans 8:15). Living a balanced life is evidence of a Spirit-led life. People work long hours for many reasons which can lead to significant problems in our lives. One reason people over work
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 12, 2024
Son, you are living in a day when many of my sons and daughters are being ensnared by their lusts. Few understand the nature of this trap. Some of my sons explain away their behavior as natural, but in truth it is a symptom of a much greater problem. When my Son is invited into
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New Paradigms
- by: Os Hillman
- April 12, 2024
“Yes, he has hidden himself among the baggage” (1 Sam. 10:22). If you want to experience something you’ve never done, you must do something you’ve never done. In his book Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing His Will, Henry Blackaby writes, “You cannot go with God and stay where you are.” God often has to radically
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The Good Life
- by: Charis Brown
- April 12, 2024
“Be vigilant, listen obediently to these words that I command you so that you’ll have a good life, you and your children, for a long, long time, doing what is good and right in the eyes of God, your God.” -Deuteronomy 12:28 What is the good life? It seems in our culture that a good
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Knowledge that is Productive
- by: Os Hillman
- April 12, 2024
“For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – 2 Peter 1:8 Productivity is a term all workplace believers can relate to. It is the by-product of what we desire from our work. Without productivity, we do
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 11, 2024
Son, you and I are partners in bringing about my will on earth. What you do, or do not do, matters. If you fail to stand in the gap, there ARE consequences. Do you remember when I told my son Moses to go up in battle against the Amalekites? His key to victory was whether
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Planted Like A Tree
- by: Charis Brown
- April 11, 2024
“He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” -Psalm 1:3 I was in the gym with my husband when Flyleaf’s song All Around Me came on. As I started to hum the tune under my breath I