The Lord instructs His people to have other gods before Him and that He is a jealous God visiting the iniquities of the fathers onto the children to the third and fourth generation. Unless we put the devil into the equation this sounds like a threat...

The symptoms of chaos in our lives are anxiety, depression and fear. Chaos comes as one of the after-effects of childhood trauma. The trauma has gotten us to permit disassociation and "I don't want to know" to rule in our souls. Disassociation does n...

Life is the place where love and fear meet and make war. It is the co-mingling of the two most powerful and compelling forces on earth. "Perfect love casts out fear." But what is love? We are told that God loved us even when we were still sinners. We...

The dictionary defines pain as penalty, and suffering inflicted as punishment of an offense. This is a perfect lead in for the spirit of guilt to gets us to agree with the implication that we deserve to be punished for sins we have committed. Agreein...

Only those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will be permitted to enter into the temple. (Rev.21:27) Jesus told His disciples to rejoice that their names “were written in Heaven.” “And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God and books w...

There is not much glory in this Snake Pit down here. Atrocities, horrific injustices, vile hatred and sin rule the day. Jesus came to lay down His life in the Snake Pit to glorify the Father and redeem us from the destruction of the Evil One. “Now th...

Isaiah said it well. Pits of despair, lies, caves of fear and confusion have locked up God’s people. It is time to come out of the strongholds Satan has set, the snares of hopelessness. “But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are snar...

Be anxious for nothing. Fear not. God is for me. Fear makes us anxious. Perfect love casts out fear - if we know God is for us. What are the thoughts fear is putting in our minds to build its case for anxiety and against love? Fear says, what can I d...

Emmanuel (Immanuel) means "God with us." God is above us. God is against us when we sin. God is among us. God is for us. God is in us. God is with us. And because Jesus came to be with us, we can now be with Him. He lives in us and we can live in Him...

Our foundations are in shambles, our minds have been overtaken, and our eyes blinded to see what is right in front of us. The snatcher (aka Satan) truly has done a magnificent job of distracting us from the liberating power of the truth of God’s Word...