We are all recovering graspers. We love the familiar and more of the same of everything. But when Jesus shows up he usually changes everything. Today we look at a remarkable woman, Mary Magdalene.

God loves to hide things. Do you hide things? You hide things that are are valuable or vulnerable. God hides things because he is a stickler for timing. Palm Sunday, beginning the last week of the Lord's life, we look as Jesus unveils with total clarity who He was.

Who has suffered affliction for one or two years? Gone without for 5? Suffered reversals and setbacks for10, 20 or 30 years? In the hour before us God is going to promote the lives of His afflicted.

God is at work in your life and He is making something that doesn't look like anything you've seen, asked for or imagined. And each of us has to go through the unique training seasons that are apropos to our anointing and our calling.

Every move of God, every revival is simply the end of a long season of drought—in your life, in the land. Drought and famine in the Holy Land were horrifying specters, when there is no water, no rain. What is it like to face the nothings in our lives?

And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child… Zechariah 12:10

Revival is always preceded by a gentle rain of God's spirit that produces tears, the diamonds of the soul. Tears, the sacred water that washes all things and makes all things clean.

Vince Lombardi used to start every football season by standing before his men and saying "Gentlemen, this is a football." But sometimes we need to go back to basics. Look through Holy Scripture and allow God to show us what it is all about.

God chooses strange creatures sometimes to speak to us; to Balaam a jackass, to Peter a rooster, to Noah a dove and also to God's people, a dead man's bones.

This is a surgical word that pinches first then sets you free. God is just about to bring us onward and upward but first but you must release any form of unforgiveness.