"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

The biblical concept of meditation carries the image of a lion growling over, eating, and savoring its freshly caught prey.

I am here to encourage you to get off of the bleachers of passive faith and get onto the field of active awakening.

Will you be in the world for Christ, or will you be in Christ for the world?

Encouragement, in the biblical sense of the term, is never “You can do it!” It is always “God will do it.”

Our God, the God of heaven and earth, the only true and living God, almost always begins very, very, very, very small.

God sends his power to deliver us, but he also sends us the sure word of his faithfulness, even as we languish in the midst of difficult times, still awaiting his deliverance.

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Come, Holy Spirit, and bring deep awakening to the deepest places in our hearts. Soften our hearts. Show us the hardness. Break up the fallow ground. Declare a season of sowing in our hearts.

One of the everyday ways we can hear the voice of God is through the encouragement of other people.