Write down the revelation...

I'm leaving, but I do know when I'll be back again. Regular posts will cease for two weeks as I prepare for a trip out of the country. New posts will return on November 6. Psalms for Sundays will continue. Be blessed, Andrea

I just spent a few days with my college roommate. We used to play a lot of card games. Sometimes we’d play one game and sometimes we play as many as eight games. She could never figure out why it was so random until she realized I like to play until I win (for the record, it wasn’t a conscious thing on my part). If it takes only once – great; but if it takes more, we keep playing until I come out the winner. She still loves to razz me about this little fact but I make no apologies. I’m a winner and I know it. As Christians, it’s in our DNA to be victorious. It’s not our right to lose but it is our inheritance to win. From the first commission God gave to Adam in the garden – to multiply and subdue the earth – we’ve been destined to come out on top. The one who subdues is the one who claims victory. We are victorious; gloriously victorious in Christ. Daniel 7:22 tells us the Ancient of Days was seated [on his throne] and pronounced judgement in favour of the saints of the

One of my all-time favourite suspense/thriller movies is Sleeping With the Enemy. I may be giving away my age but I saw the movie in the theatre with my high school boyfriend. (*spoiler alert) I still remember my heart pounding when Julia Roberts opened her cupboards to find everything in order and the audible gasp I let out when her ex-husband reappeared. She had made an elaborate plan to escape her controlling marriage by faking her death. Finally when she was starting to feel secure and remember who she was born to be, her husband returned. The law has authority over a man only as long as he lives. For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage...So, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God...But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been rele

A couple of years ago, I was driving to the bank during a low traffic time. There are two intersections with lights on my way to the bank from where I live; both intersections have a right-turn lane and a through/left turn lane. Another car was waiting to turn left so I moved into the right-turn lane to go around him. I continued my way to the bank and noticed the van behind me was headed in the same direction. In fact, the van stopped at the bank machine. He got out of his vehicle at the same time I did. Then he came over and started to berate me for breaching a traffic law. I was taken back and surprised he had driven out of his way to scold me. He wasn’t wrong. I committed a traffic violation but his method of exposing my crime didn’t endear me to make changes, rather I was inflamed with anger and I reacted in a similar manner to his delivery.   Last week I posted about the better way to give someone a prophetic word. (You can read the post here ).   Prophecy should en

Prophecy is simply the divine word of the Lord. Since entering the new covenant through the blood of Jesus, prophetic utterances are made available to everyone, which can be wonderful and terrifying but Paul clarifies prophecy is a gift of the Holy Spirit to give strength, encouragement and comfort (1 Corinthians 14:3). It sounds like a good thing, so why does it terrify so many in the church? Like many gifts of the Spirit, prophecy has been perverted. Some churches responded by throwing it out. Some churches use prophecy as a licence to call out the sin in others and it leave you feeling raw and exposed. In many cases, prophesy is used as a control tool to keep people adhering to the law by exposing their sin instead of expressing the love of God for them. It’s not prophetic to know someone’s sin or shortcomings. We don’t need God to tell us about other people’s sins. Most of us are hound dogs for areas of weakness in others. It bothers me when I see prophetic declarations u