Romans 11:22 exhorts us to, “Behold then the kindness and severity of God….” This does not imply that God is kind one day and severe the next. He does not change. He is both kind and severe all the time. Many are only able to behold His kindness, and because of this, they become open to distorted, extreme, and false teachings about His grace and mercy. Others tend to only see His severity and are therefore deceived and unable to grasp His grace and mercy. To see...

       There is a ditch on either side of the path of life, and there are extremes on both sides of every truth. The faith and confidence needed to be decisive can easily drift into presumption at times. Still, it is better to err on the side of extreme faith than too little faith. God can correct presumption and premature action. The law of inertia states you cannot steer what is not moving. It is much easier for the Lord to steer us when we are moving.

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       The first thing the Lord required of Abraham to become the “father of faith” was to leave his home in Ur of the Chaldees, the Babylonians. As we are told in Hebrews 11:8-10:

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

By faith he lived as an alien in the...

         We have been addressing the manifest presence of the Lord, and its relationship to koinonia fellowship. We will now cover some of the basics that enable this, and that can inhibit or rob us of this basic and crucial part of our inheritance in Christ. We will begin with the mentality of fallen man, which has led to the most devastating counterfeits and robbed many of the greatest experiences they can have in this life. The most poignant illustration of this trap is found in Genesis 11:2-4:

It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a...

         As I have shared, I have had many prophetic experiences in the heavenly realm. I have met with the Lord face to face several times, but I don’t think there is anything in the Lord or in this life that we can experience like His manifest presence. In almost all my prophetic experiences I was alone, but when I experienced the manifest presence of the Lord with His people there was just something about this that impacted me greater than my personal experiences. I may not know all the reasons for this, but I know the most important reason:...