Panting After God

Panting After God

“As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” Psalm 42:1 (NKJV). Do you know what it is like to be really thirsty and not be able to get water? Three days is about the longest most living...
Zeal For the Lord

Zeal For the Lord

A few years ago I was in a shopping area and my car would not start. Fortunately there was of those “rare” to find service stations right in the area. The mechanic came over and declared, “Lady, you have no power because your gas tank is empty. You are out of fuel.”...
Forsake Passivity

Forsake Passivity

“Let us lay aside every weight which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” — Hebrews 12:1B I want to emphasize the absolute necessity of aggressively pursuing the Lord and His purposes for our lives. We can miss His will...
Ablaze

Ablaze

I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! — Luke 12: 49 The footnote in the NKJ says it is better to understand the statement to be a reference to the burning zeal of believers rather than what some commentators think that fire...

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