WILDERNESS: The Problem with Polytheism
We are often seduced into becoming practical polytheists—placing God on the shelf alongside every other idol giving shape and meaning to our lives.
We are often seduced into becoming practical polytheists—placing God on the shelf alongside every other idol giving shape and meaning to our lives.
When we look back over our lives we need to see a trail of altars which serve as the pillars of our autobiography and way-finders for those coming in our wake.
Hardship in the wilderness will do one of two things in our lives: it will infuse character into our souls or wear callouses onto them; holiness or hardness.
The deepest, most profound and otherwise unquenchable thirst of every single person on planet earth is for the Holy Spirit.
We will know we are in a great awakening when our gatherings around the Lord’s Table become alive with the power of the Spirit.
Deliverance must be followed by discipleship. We witness the order of the Kingdom as we are discipled into the lifestyle of the King.
The Kingdom of God is a very different place than the kingdom of the world and the wilderness is the place where it all gets sorted out—the wheat from the chaff.
Our capacity to live in right, direct relationships with one another comes from living in a right, direct relationship with God.
Fasting, like nothing else, creates an opening for the Holy Spirit to liberate us from slavery to our physical appetites while deepening our spiritual attachment to God.
Our needs and wants will lead us like bread crumbs to our deeper longings, and because our core longings are God-given, they can only be God-filled.