In this season the Holy Spirit is targeting areas of constriction and restriction, limitations and afflictions that have been on the Church -- yokes that you have accepted as normal. All man-made yokes, agreements, and alignments are being severed because God wants you free. To walk in the fullness of your anointing you need to be un-yoked so you are available to minister to others in the freedom Jesus has promised. Like Elisha, you are in a "burning of yokes and oxen" (1 Kings 19:21)...

A day at work sometimes calls for a little something to nibble on after lunch. So, it came time for your writer to head over into the break room and grab something out of the vending machine.

I tapped my debit card on the sensor and typed in the number of the selection I was going to make. It had been a while since I had me a Kit-Kat chocolate/wafer bar, so why not? Yeah, that's the ticket. Time to break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat bar. The number of the selection...

"And we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body." (Romans 8:22-23)

The creation is releasing a groan, which is not a word but the SOUND of a spiritual birth. This SOUND is echoed in us as we yearn for the revelation of the glory of God. We are like instruments that resonate...

Formerly you were opposed to the point of breaking, but now YOU are rising up as the breaker in both your personal circumstances and in your ministry to others.

You will finally accept that you are not some weak and powerless Christian but a weapon of war that God is going to move through in the years to come.

"You are My hammer and weapon of war: with you, I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms." (Jeremiah 51:20) This season you will see...

John 14:18,20 - "I will not leave you alone; I will come back to you. When that day comes, you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, just as I am in you."
When we talk about power encounters as a means of reaching people with God's love, many different ideas may run through our heads. Most people don't see themselves as being equipped to have power encounters and may leave this to the more highly gifted. There are, however, several ways that most any spirit-filled...