My Word for 2025

Mar 13, 2025

Good morning. It’s a cold morning today in South Carolina.

It is now 2025; the new year promises both blessings and turmoil. Like many of you, I have various plans for this new year. For one thing, I am in the process of rearranging my library. I’m trying to clean out my files and arrange what remains by the Dewey Decimal System. I expect the process to take several months.

 But I’ve also been pondering what God has shown me concerning the new year. Today, I want to share some of what the Lord has told me.

I have no grandiose news for you; what I do have falls into two categories. Depending on how you view it, this can be good or not-so-good news. The first point is primarily for the Church; the second is for all humanity [including the Church].

First, this year, the Holy Spirit will actively work in God’s people to separate or cleave their spirits from their souls. What does this mean? God wants our spirits and souls to reside within our bodies but no longer be entangled.

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Time for Your Medicine

Feb 08, 2023

I listened to the President's State of the Union address this evening. I will let others debate [nicely, I hope] the merits of the various new programs discussed. It was the end of the address I am writing about.

I was ready to weep when, in the end, the president appealed to American pride, saying Americans are the best; we can do anything; we can overcome any problem, etc.

Yes, we can do anything---IF God is with us.

 

We can have peace, prosperity, safety, and social justice for all--IF we seek His face.

 

But walking in pride is even now leading us toward disaster as we listen to the pied-piper of selfish arrogance.

 

Our problem did not start with politics and will not end with politics--we are suffering from heart disease. Our hearts are growing cold toward God and hard toward anyone or anything except ourselves.

 

The cure?

2 Chronicles 7:14--14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, ...

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