“And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.” (1 John 5:14) Let’s revisit this scripture from last week. Confidence. Assurance. The privilege of boldness. Certainty. This is not wishful thinking or hopeful guessing. This is settled knowing. Abraham walked in that kind of certainty. God promised him an heir, and then the years piled up. Abraham turned ninety-nine. Sarah was long past childbearing. Every natural Read More
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From Tolerance to Territory: Reclaiming Your Dominion
There is a dangerous comfort in tolerance. Somewhere along the way, many believers traded dominion for coexistence. We learned to live beside the very things God commanded us to rule over including sickness, fear, poverty, addiction, confusion, generational strongholds and we called our endurance “patience” or “long-suffering.” But tolerance and dominion are not the same spirit. One waits the enemy out. The other casts him out. In the beginning, God’s first command to man was not “endure the earth” but “have dominion” (Genesis 1:26). Dominion was the original assignment. It was never God’s design for His children to simply survive Read More