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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
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The Gospel of the Kingdom
- by: Os Hillman
- April 11, 2024
“This is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did.” – 1 John 2:5b-6 When Christ came to earth, He came to bring to mankind the gospel of the Kingdom. Over the centuries, the Church has tended to emphasize only a portion of the gospel.
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Defining Your Life
- by: Os Hillman
- April 11, 2024
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). Satan always defines your life based on your past; God defines you by your future. “You’re never going to change!” “You always do that!” Perhaps you’ve heard such words. Words
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Planning for Success
- by: Os Hillman
- April 10, 2024
“I know, O Lord, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.” – Jeremiah 10:23 In business I hear a lot about planning. Every January I hear workplace believers establishing their planning for the year. Corporations establish plans that cover anywhere from one to five years.
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Faith vs. Feelings
- by: Charis Brown
- April 10, 2024
“Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus.” -Luke 22:3&4 Each of us struggles with emotions – emotions are a part of life. But, what do we do with emotions
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 10, 2024
Son, one of the signs that will tell you that your adversity is about to end is this: When the adversity no longer matters to you, your season is almost over. This is a sign. You have become dead to your circumstances and only desire my will. This is a good place to be, my
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The Fertile Pasture
- by: Os Hillman
- April 10, 2024
“Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands” (Mic 7:14). “I’ve called you to pastor the bank,” said the Lord to my friend Chuck. “Pastor the bank? How does one pastor a bank, Lord?” “The things I taught you I want you
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
- by: Os Hillman
- April 9, 2024
Son, I want you to understand that life without hardship is not a sign of my blessing. In fact, it is often just the opposite; the greater the call, the greater the adversity. Such was the case for my son Paul. My, what hardship he endured for me. Never did he view this as a
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Balance the Natural and the Spiritual
- by: Os Hillman
- April 9, 2024
“No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save” (Psalm 33:16-17). The Bible tells us not to put our confidence in things the world considers to be our protection, defense, or
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Where Do You Place Your Confidence?
- by: Os Hillman
- April 9, 2024
“Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.” -1 Chronicles 21:1 God always requires total trust in Him alone for our victories in life. Throughout Scripture we are cautioned not to place our trust in the strength of horses, other men or our own abilities. In 1 Chronicles, David’s
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Arriving vs. Abiding
- by: Charis Brown
- April 9, 2024
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” -John 15:7 Do you ever just feel like you want to “get there”? Are you always feeling tension between where you are now and where you feel called to be? I