God is teaching me to treasure what He has given me.

The Israelites, after walking 40 years in the wilderness and being delivered from slavery and bondage in Egypt for many years...what's promised is that they would walk into the land of milk and honey. The question is how do you do that when all you know is failure, defeat, and curses...and that's the question for today's believers.

Let's open our Bibles to the book of Luke.

We're talking about Esther today!

A person can be anointed, but can they keep the power of God operative in their life? The character traits needed are obedience, wisdom, god-like kindness, honorable, just, righteous, spirit of unity, Holy Spirit indwelling, and fear of God, understanding that He is the Creator and all supernatural blessings are from Him.

The Bible says that the wrath of God is coming. We need to move ourselves away from being a potential recipient of God's wrath. Thank God we can be saved from the wrath of God through the blood of Jesus!

We are all experiencing the effects of living in today's world of clamor, noise, doubt, lawlessness, violence, and in general, a fallen state. It is normal to want to escape to a safe haven, but how do we? If we can understand the mystery of God - the mystery of godliness, we can live in the mystery and create a new reality as we become a new creation, with a new destiny (heaven) and beginning.

Times are perilous: wars, earthquakes, tornadoes, fire, giants, fallen angels. Everything is happening as Jesus said it would, and it makes you want to escape to heaven, but are you ready to escape? Jesus said, "Pick up your cross and follow Me," and that's how we escape. Get ready, guys!

Escaping to heaven is kind of difficult when you are also running away from the Creator of Heaven. One might consider repenting before judgment and walking in the Holy Spirit so we can receive the blessings instead.

There is always confusion or lack of understanding about the "kingdom of God" versus the "kingdom of heaven". From the Bible, the kingdom of God is about your personal walk with the Lord and living a righteous lifestyle. Faith is the primary factor as we walk with the Lord that we please Him, and we can't judge each other's walk. The kingdom of heaven, on the other hand, is a location, maybe not physical like earth, but still a place we are desirous of living in eternally. Holy Spirit, Jesus and the Father/Creator reside in heaven, not to mention those who believe and accepted Jesus.