The Curse on Adam was more than just fighting weeds and sweating. The real curse the Enemy picked up on to use against the man came when Adam refused to admit he had eaten of the forbidden fruit. He blamed the woman that God had given him. There is no record of him ever admitting he had done anything wrong. To this day, men have a very hard time admitting or confessing that they are guilty of any wrong doing. Their natural reaction is to blame their wives. This is not an attempt to blame men or get even or have an excuse to justify hating them. This is the discovery of a demonic plot against t ..read more

What do we do when life is hard and God does not seem to be helping. We are being tested to become fearful and disappointed. Why are things so hard? What happened to having our “best life now”? The Bible is full of stories of people who went through hard things.  David comforted his soul be reminding himself the God was his rock. He was not going to be moved out of his place of confidence in God. He counseled his soul to wait on God. It takes courage to trust and to wait, to stand and having done all, to stand, and not “throw in the towel.” But, even if we are tempted to leave, where woul ..read more

Marriage was meant to be a covenant between a man and a woman. In Genesis, God made a help mate for Adam to keep him from getting lonely and help him with the Garden. But after they sinned, everything changed. Adam refused to admit he had any part in the disobedient act of eating the fruit. Instead, he said, “it was the woman You gave me.” This opened up the first can of worms between them. Bitterness, blaming and distrust sprang up in the middle of what once was a lovely relationship, and so it continues, thousands of years later, with rejection, abuse, in divorce court, mediation, separation ..read more

Cries of "Hosanna!' had turned to cries of "Crucify Him!". Once on the cross, the religious leaders mocked Jesus saying, "If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross." "If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him..." Jesus would not come down from the cross because He came down to earth for the cross. Jesus isn't about saving Himself. He's about giving Himself completely to save you and me. And we are called to give ourselves fully to Him. Check out the Life Recovery Store. "Because There Is A War For Your Soul"  www.liferecovery.com ..read more

An eye for an eye does not promote the law of love. Satan is the god of this world. What would ever make us think that he would promote the justice due a man? Or that his administration of this world would right the wrongs and distribute the goods and opportunities of his "Snake Pit" fairly? We are left with several options, to trust God to bring justice or to get mad and become bitter. How do we stand in this evil day and having done all, stand, when we are often the victims of Satan’s injustice? Do we walk in the bitterness of offense and unbelief or abide in confidence in the faithfulness o ..read more

The symptoms of chaos in our lives are anxiety, depression and fear. Chaos comes as one of the after-effects of childhood trauma. The trauma has gotten us to permit disassociation and "I don't want to know" to rule in our souls. Disassociation does not allow us to see what is going on, so we live our lives in a cycle of fear, destruction and chaos.   The word Shalom means peace, tranquility, wealth, health, and to have favor with God and men. But Shalom also means to have authority over the power of chaos. Chaos is one of the "powers" that controls the climate of a region or a place ..read more

Life is the place where love and fear meet and make war. It is the co-mingling of the two most powerful and compelling forces on earth. "Perfect love casts out fear." But what is love? We are told that God loved us even when we were still sinners. We are conditioned to define love as conditional, contingent upon our behavior.  Love, according to the scripture "suffers long and is kind." Love does not bend to fear or try to find someone to validate us as lovable or worthy. Our validation and the revelation of knowing we are loved comes from knowing Jesus shed His Blood to set us free to be ..read more

Jesus warned us in the last days to not be deceived. Many would come in His name and deceive many. The curse of false teachers and wolves among His sheep is nothing new. Satan's target has always been the church and the people coming out of darkness. Paul warned of these counterfeit versions of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how false apostles, deceitful workers, even as Satan transforming himself into an angel of light. These false prophets were coming into the midst of the flock posing - as if sent by and in behalf of God. What is our protection from such end days treachery? You shall know ..read more

The dictionary defines pain as penalty, and suffering inflicted as punishment of an offense. This is a perfect lead in for the spirit of guilt to gets us to agree with the implication that we deserve to be punished for sins we have committed. Agreeing that we deserve to be punished opens the door to pain. Guilt feels justified in putting pain on us because we agreed that we sinned. Guilt’s second friend is poverty who gets us to agree that because we have sinned we do not deserve good things. Guilt’s third friend is infirmity. When we agree I did something bad the implication is that I am bad ..read more

Only those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will be permitted to enter into the temple. (Rev.21:27) Jesus told His disciples to rejoice that their names “were written in Heaven.” “And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God and books were opened. And another book was opened which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their words, by the things which were written in the books.” (Rev.20:12) We know there is a Book of Life. There are also books which appear to be the record of our individual works. Those not found in the registry of Heaven will be judged by the ..read more