Early in my faith walk I had no idea how DAMAGING it was to get MY OWN horses ready for the battles of life and think it was not only sufficient, but “the best way to go.” Recognizing my INADEQUACY without God wasn’t even a seed that could grow. It did not exist in me.    Moving down my spiritual road a piece has brought my INADEQACY without God into essential focus. Though full of pain,...

We all have bosses.   The two-year-old who tests the boundaries set by well-meaning parents. The teenager managing his online profiles the way HE thinks is the best. The head-strong CEO who thinks he is boss of EVERYTHING—not just the business, but his entire life (ME early in my faith walk). Playing boss creeps into the life of every human being on planet earth. It is inevitable...

Failing to recognize our INADEQUACY without God is the first step on the road to naming ourselves “BOSS.” But what goes through the mind of a Christian before rejecting God and embracing the lie that they can be the boss of their life?    They play the NEVER song over and over in their mind: I will NEVER be good enough for God to forgive my past. God will NEVER use me to build-up his Kingdom...

RECOGNIZING OUR INADEQUACY without God is not a “one and done” exercise. We must work on it EVERY DAY. I learned that lesson the hard way early in my faith walk. It was a time that had me searching for an EASY way to fire myself as boss and promote God to be the CEO of my life. I wanted to draw a line through the word SELF; but did not know how to pull it off.    It took far too long, but...

It hit my early this morning during my quiet time that the spiritual imperative of RECOGNIZING OUR INADEQUACY without God is a FIGHT that I want to be “the good fight” Paul talks about in 2 Timothy.    “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7    We all—that includes YOU—have a fight to fight in this life on planet earth. Everyone’s...

By now you can see that this month’s spiritual imperative–RECOGNIZING OUR INADEQUACY without God–is mostly about not trying to be the boss of our life. About trusting God. About embracing HIS WILL over our own. That’s the neat and tidy summary. But it understates, if not ignores, the reality that trusting GOD’S WILL can be so frightening that defaulting to OUR WILL is an ever-present and...

The spiritual imperative of RECOGNIZING OUR INADEQUACY is misleading. To admit our INADEQUACY without God is so understated that it can cause us to miss that we are utterly, 100% HELPLESS without God.    INADEQUATE and HELPLESS without God is how I want to live out my faith every single day. Not just on Sundays. Not just when my spiritual equilibrium is in balance. Not just when my moods...

Comments from this ministry’s tribe of 1.1 Million online followers around the world are overwhelming positive for our 2021 series on committing to SPIRITUAL IMPERATIVES—what must be done. Not what we want to do or should do or try to do. What we MUST do. In January that was RELEASE CONTROL TO GOD. The imperative for February was REJECT THE WORLD. I am thankful that the faith walk of so many believers...

Why should we end this month’s spiritual imperative–REJECT THE WORLD–with a reminder to stay away from the world’s LOTTERY selling PERFECTION? Because the world and the Enemy win if we chase perfection instead of allowing GOD’S PEACE to invade our mind and penetrate our heart.    The WORLD has become a bright and shiny LOTTERY where the few people who ever win, eventually lose....

Two days left in our current exploration of the spiritual imperative: REJECT THE WORLD. I have two messages in mind that should send us into March with strong momentum for the next imperative: RECOGNIZE OUR INADEQUACY. But in the meantime let’s flip back to REJECTING THE WORLD and address TRUTH.    TRUTH has been under attack since we broke from God in the Garden. But the world has become...