Working Dates: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 to Thursday, December 3, 2020
[11 pages of conversation anchored in Isaiah 40:1-11 from the lectionary readings for 2 Advent on 06 Dec 20]
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): Welcome to expectation, and wondering, and hoping and trusting that things will get better, that God will keep the promises made–even when we do not. [1]
Rabbi Shaul Leiter (30 Nov 20): Kathryn, Make a Wandering Jew a Wondering Jew
Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): SOWING AND REAPING, OR JUDGMENT?
Isaiah 40:1 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.
Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Brat (from seven years ago in “On Your Mark” 07 June 2013): I cannot express how grateful I am to see that finally there are people who actually grieve and lament over all these detestable things that have been done. Somebody grieves? Besides just Jo and me?
When Light Came In (01 Dec 20): I feel achy. The grief is thick.
Steve Shultz (in “Advent is Cosmic” 29 Nov 20): How did this happen?
Rabbi Shaul Leiter (24 Nov 20): Many experiences helped me arrive at that point.
Mark 13:29 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that He is near, at the very gates.
(Echo): Ezekiel 8: 5 Then he said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.
Steve Shultz (in “Thanks” 26 Nov 20): When God shows up, the “ground is gonna shake.” So you might as well accept it.
Isaiah 40:6 A voice says, “Cry out!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All people are grass, their constancy is like the flower of the field.
Prism Ministries (in “Ghost Town” 28 Nov 20): And this is just evil talk! Not even evil deeds. Evil talk turns a city into a ghost town. This “city” could also be a home, a business, a church, or a community. Do you remember a time in your life where negative words pierced the life out of you? Have you ever been hurt by the negative effects of gossip?[2]
Tony Robinson (29 Nov 20): Wonder abounds. Which is a good thing, a very good thing. St. Gregory of Nyssa once commented, “Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”
Nate Johnston (01 Dec 20): …The enemy may think he has brought the body of Christ to the ground but it has only brought us to our knees, and when we are on our knees is when we are the most dangerous. He is truly overplayed his hand and we are going to see this in December through to January.[3]
Rabbi Shaul Leiter (30 Nov 20): Over and over we see Wandering Jews transformed into Wondering Jews who wish to connect and learn more about themselves and make Judaism theirs!
Isaiah 40:2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): Amazing, am I right?
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): “O that you would tear open the heavens and come down…There is no one who calls on your name, or attempts to take hold of you” Isaiah cries out in today’s reading, because Israel has been waiting so long in exile that they have nearly forgotten who God is and what God can do. So he lifts his voice to heaven, desperately, urgently: “You are our father. We are the clay and you are our potter.” Do something, God, do something now, something decisive, something that will help us remember what it feels like to be happy again, to make the world make sense again. End our exile, God. End our desolation. End our waiting.
Rabbi Shaul Leiter (30 Nov 20): For many it is the first time they have met an observant Jew, the first time they have experienced vibrant living Judaism.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): A few years ago, I made myself vulnerable to a very well-known prophet of God. He always amazes me and I love everything he writes or speaks.
Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): A well-known prophet recently posted that God no longer displays His judgment/wrath on people because He already did that through Jesus on the cross. He sees validity in reaping the consequences of our sins, but challenges the idea that God would “judge” the ungodly.[4]
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): The waiting and the wondering of Advent is, really, what most of the days of our lives will look like in any season, and it invites us to learn to be ok with that, to not let the wait dull our senses or harden our hearts. “The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all,” writes Auden, probably because there is so much of it, so much time spent waiting that we might forget what we are waiting for.
Isaiah 40:3 A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Lance Wallnau (01 Dec 20): We just need to see the grand design through heaven’s eyes.
Brat: Objective? Sanctuary. I thought that at the core was the reconciliation of the Seven Churches.
Isaiah 40:4 Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): I have always cherished Advent, this first liturgical season of the Church year, and I think a lot of Episcopalians feel the same way. We are drawn, for some reason, to its particular blend of sights, sounds, and silences, the quiet and unadorned sobriety, the crisp way that it cuts through thin sentimentality to the deep places within us where Christ gestates.
Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): Then I read the story in Acts 5 about Ananias and Sapphira. They fell dead at the apostles’ feet when he confronted their extortion from the Church. Was that an example of sowing and reaping? In Acts 12, King Herod is suddenly struck dead by an angel because he seized the glory for himself instead of giving it to God. Sowing and reaping?
Brat: For the record, a decade ago my local Episcopal church withheld their diocesan tithe through legalistic loopholes. I confronted the church at the local and diocesan levels and even took it to the national level and unilaterally they ignored my whistleblowing and proceeded to implement stonewalling. Talk about leveling mountains! If they’d felt I was such a non-threat, then why take these extreme measures? Since the Church hasn’t held herself accountable and recompense is supposed to come in this season, then what’s a girl to do? I’ve seen apostles and prophets fall dead (and so have you with Bob Jones, Kim Clement, Billy Graham, Elie Wiesel, Rabbi Johnathan Sacks, and others[5]) and I’ve seen children struck dead so the Churches will know that God searches hearts and minds. But I have yet to see the repayment according to deeds. (Revelation 2:23) There is no sanctuary.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): Are you in the midst of trying so hard…that you have lost touch with a LOVING GOD who provides?
Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): There’s no doubt that these dramatic outcomes were a result of individual sin and disobedience. But I believe they go far beyond merely sowing and reaping. I believe they were manifestations of God’s judgment upon specific – and very public – acts of defiance and rebellion. As a result, the fear of the Lord fell on the land (see Acts 5:5). And this happened AFTER the cross.
Kristen Leigh Mitchell: But apocalyptic literature also reminds us that there are larger social and systemic processes at play in our world, which “invisibly” and insidiously conspire to deceive people in order to justify and maintain the conditions of marginalization, oppression, and injustice. Through political institutions, media, religious cultures, economic systems, maladaptive psychological defense mechanisms, and everyday group dynamics, these larger “forces” have a power that stretches far beyond the scope of single individuals to foster widespread confusion, suffering, and pain in ways that are difficult if not impossible to root out. [6]
Steve Shultz (30 Nov 20): Every person on Earth has been in an intense mental or spiritual battle, and right now, this is especially true for God’s people.
RevelationMedia (30 Nov 20): When we get into difficult situations in this life, by our own choices, or because of choices made by someone else, we will often feel the pain of the situation. There are consequences to sin, and we may still need to endure those consequences, even when we are rescued and forgiven for the sin. The Lord will always forgive when we repent, but we often need to make amends to others for our failings in this life.
Dr. James W. Goll (30 Nov 20): But too many people stop in the middle.
Steve Shultz (27 Nov 20): Warning and CAUTION!
Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): Do you think we could see these kinds of demonstrations in the days to come? Do you think God would actually render justice in this manner in our day and time? Or do you think we are beyond that kind of supernatural intervention or “righteous judgments?” Personally, I’ve had a growing premonition that we will see similar manifestations of heaven’s involvement in the near future. I believe God is going to render justice upon those who have deliberately defied Him in the open – in very dramatic ways.
Jeremiah 5:3 Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): This isn’t because Jesus didn’t do enough on the cross. It isn’t because God’s mercy is insufficient. It’s because Jesus paid the ultimate price with His life, and His Father refuses to allow that sacrifice to be mocked or manipulated for personal gain. Even God has limits on what He will allow to be condoned and perpetuated when marked by Lucifer’s unrepentant greed.
Brat: Personally speaking, having the gift of mercy sucks. I feel the pain from all sides and still offer it even though it is mocked. I don’t do this because I am a masochist, but because those are the eyes though which I see; that is the heart which beats inside of me.
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): It’s OK to wrestle. And sometimes, it actually helps when you can read that those who clearly hear God speak to them all the time – STILL HAVE TO WRESTLE with real life issues of worry and concern.
Brat: When I went to other churches for help, I was accused of “church shopping,” and then of not forgiving. But that wasn’t it at all. I was sent on a mission by God, but they couldn’t stop long enough to listen to the issue in order to reconcile. They turned it into a character smear. For some reason they felt threatened and projected their anger and fear onto me. Then they started locking arms with other churches, prophets and rabbis to make a fortress out of their brotherhood to protect their religious empire. The louder and clearer I got, the more severe the lockdown became. Ultimately, that was made manifest in the earth with the COVID lockdown. This was a bizarre inversion of “on earth as it is in heaven.” But this was the ‘second heaven’ war zone and not the bliss that we normally associate with Heaven.
Helen Cobanov (21 Nov 20): Many voices have woken up in this season to pray, intercede and praise in all that God is doing! Your voice is making a HUGE difference to shift the atmosphere, tearing down strongholds and seeing His Kingdom come here in Earth as it is in Heaven![7]
Kathi Pelton (24 Nov 20): Then I saw others who insisted on functioning the way that had always done before. They were still trying to take the lead (in their personal Christian life, in family, in ministry, in business and in government). They immediately began stepping on Jesus’ feet and getting all tangled up in his steps. What was designed to be a dance suddenly became a wrestle. It will be a much harder path for those who do not draw near and let the Lord lead.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): I expected him to ask if he could pray for me to break off this attack on my life.
Brian Simmons (30 Nov 20): I Hear His Whisper…”The world’s fury will not break you.”
Dr. James W. Goll (30 Nov 20): Have you ever flown off the handle? Have you ever lost your head? Have you ever been defeated right in the middle of your hard work? Have you ever experienced a loss that you just couldn’t fix? Have you ever forgotten until the mishap occurs that what you had lost was actually borrowed? Your life is not your own, you know.
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): I think we need to really hold onto this memory of how vulnerable and exhausted this year has made us feel, how uncertain and tremulous the future can seem when the present is drained of security and comfort.
RevelationMedia (30 Nov 20): Even with experience and knowledge, Christian and Hopeful are still guided away from the straight path. In the same way, even when we have experience and knowledge, we will still continue to stumble and fall. There is never a point in the Christian life when we can become complacent. Christian and Hopeful should have known not to follow the Flatterer. They were vulnerable to deception, and they failed to follow the instructions given them by the Shepherd.
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): Welcome to the collision of despair and joy that is, quite simply, what it is like to be here, to live and die here, in this time and place, looking for signs of heaven.
Kathi Pelton (24 Nov 20): As we keep our eyes fixed upon his, our feet will easily follow.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): This Christian walk is an equal opportunity walk. If one has to wrestle, we all have to wrestle. This makes us able to encourage one another and sympathize with each other.
Dr. James W. Goll (30 Nov 20): Perhaps you can’t get even a glimpse of the door of hope, so you sit down. I know; I’ve done it. But if you believe that the valley is only a way of passage through to the mountain heights, the only logical thing to do is get back up and keep moving again.[8]
Rabbi Shaul Leiter (30 Nov 20): One night often transforms into a stay of a few days. Over the years, thousands of these backpackers have returned to Ascent to continue their journey to connect to themselves and our people.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): Instead, he said, “I think that is far more common to all of us than you would believe, Steve!”
RevelationMedia (30 Nov 20): This kind of deception is much more subtle than Apollyon’s previous attack in the Valley of Humiliation. Instead of attacking from the outside with a brutal battle, he sent his Supervisor to coerce and deceive the pilgrims from the inside.
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): Because this feeling, this deep mixture of grief and hope and determination? THIS is the real experience of Advent, this has ALWAYS been what Advent pointed to—not just a cozy wait by the fireside with tea and cookies, not a pop-psychology pause for self care in between bouts of frantic consumerism, but this type of waiting, the real kind, the grip the arms-of-your chair kind, the same kind that precedes medical test results, the kind that you feel when a loved one is serving in combat or as a first-responder, the collective waiting of the downtrodden and the poor throughout human history, the heaving cries for justice, for relief, for solace; the waiting for a letter than never comes; the wordless tears that stream down your face when you think nobody is looking.
Steve Shultz (30 Nov 20): Be of good courage…HELP IS ON THE WAY!
RevelationMedia (30 Nov 20): One of the King’s Heralds appears, and frees Christian and Hopeful from the web that they are caught in. When they are rescued this time, they are not spared the pain from their fall. Hopeful calls out after falling to the ground with a thud, “That was painful!”
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): Welcome to the time when bits of light pierce the shadows, when small kind gestures might save a life, including your own. Welcome to the humble, lowly shape that true love takes when it is stripped of its finery.
Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.
Kristen Leigh Mitchell: The Greek word apokalypsis means “revelation” or “unveiling.” Apocalypse is about vision and about perception. The apocalypse is marked by a transformed and spiritually-informed way of seeing that pierces through the veil of deception, egocentrism, fear, and confirmation bias that pervades our everyday life in “the world” and prevents us from confronting the truth about ourselves, one another, and God. The day of reckoning that the New Testament writers wrote about was a day of ultimate truth-telling, a day when “the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.” This is a day when all people everywhere will finally have eyes to see and ears to hear, and will be given the chance to turn from their narrow ways of thinking to walk in the way of Christ, which is the way of humility, and love, and justice, and peace. This new reality that the early Christians longed for was conceived of as “a new heaven and a new earth,” characterized in the second letter of Peter as a place “where righteousness is at home.” This is the ultimate paradigm shift that would fundamentally transform the way that human beings operate on this planet.
When Light Came In (01 Dec 20): But the joy is, too.
RevelationMedia (30 Nov 20): Immediately following this proclamation by Christian, another man appears. Dressed in white robes, this wizard greets the pilgrims warmly. “I’m just beside myself with joy to meet you!” First, he makes it seem like he is a pilgrim on the King’s path himself! Offering to walk with them toward the Celestial City, he heads opposite of the light. Christian questions him, “But, the light of the City seems to be coming from over there.” The man replies, “Or so it seems!”
Rabbi Shaul Leiter (30 Nov 20): Kathryn, I wish you could be here with me to see the joy in their eyes. Tsfat and Ascent have a magical effect. It is beyond words.
Darren Canning (29 Nov 20): I understand prophetic language and know that this represents covenant and blessing from God. There is also that fantastic Scripture about the Rainbow Angel who is described in Revelation 10. I call him the “Rainbow Angel” because the passage describes him appearing with a rainbow above his head (Revelation 10:1). I will share verses 5 and 6 which say:
“Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to Heaven. He swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created Heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, ‘There will be no more delay…'”[9]
Brat: A decade ago, I took the scroll from that angel and ate it at Seacliff on the Southern California coast. The scroll was sweet at first and then it made my stomach sour. It wasn’t at all like eating Panda Chinese sweet and sour chicken. Hypocrisy is difficult to stomach.
Nate Johnston (01 Dec 20): “After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, and they were restraining the four winds so that no wind would blow on the land, on the sea, or on any tree” Revelation 7:1
Brat: It’s like all of heaven is holding its breath for us.
Dr. James W. Goll (30 Nov 20): Don’t Stop in the Middle
Nate Johnston (01 Dec 20): Two weeks ago as I was waking up I heard in my spirit, “The winds of change are about to blow! The winds of change are about to blow!” Then I saw in the spirit 4 angels that like this scripture were positioned on the 4 corners of the earth holding back winds that were being readied for an appointed time. The winds were the winds of revival, awakening, justice, and recompense and they were being positioned like horses at a gate ready to be unleashed upon the earth. It was the 4-fold response of God to the enemy’s plans that have been wreaking havoc on people on the earth causing them to falter and crumble. In the winds were the power to resurrect what looked like it had died in 2020. This was the reinforcements of heaven to where it had seemed as though all was lost and people were at the point of break-down and giving up.
When Light Came In (01 Dec 20): [This was] the reason why concentration has been like picking up pieces of water. Why there are tears that swell in my throat, waiting for permission. Why the smell of pine makes me miss ten years ago, when I was in denial, before I opened eyes to the crumbled reality of what life had become.
Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): The waiting that can only be satisfied, can only be fulfilled by something other than our own feeble attempts at virtue or self-soothing or control. The waiting for God; the waiting for the holy, vivifying, sanctifying, tender terror of God, who will annihilate our forgetfulness, who will consummate our longing “as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil.”
Revelation 16:9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify Him.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): Right NOW, it’s still called today, this very minute. That means you need encouragement and so do I.
When Light Came In (01 Dec 20): As I sit in the warmth and glow of the lit tree, it comes to me.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): I said to him, “Sometimes the warfare is so strong that sometimes I feel like I’m a complete fraud – a fake Christian!” And I elaborated with a few more sentences.
Kristen Leigh Mitchell: The ancients understood that such an “unveiling” would necessarily entail a dissolving of our current ways of seeing and being – our false pretenses of power, our illusions of security, and the ways in which we idolize earthly leaders and celebrities as gods. A “revelation” on this scale would also require a dissolution of the social, political, economic, and religious powers that conspire and collude to deceive the masses and maintain those delusions. It would expose the “strongmen” of this world for what they truly are: poseurs of Divine power who are in fact cowards and slaves unto death. On this day, God alone is revealed as the Creator and Source of all life, having a power that stretches far beyond whatever earthly powers any one individual might grasp for themselves within their short lifetime. Those with the will to witness to the truth, even at the cost of their own suffering, are the ones who are revealed on that day as truly strong.
Nate Johnston (01 Dec 20): In fact even right now let the winds blow away the words and witchcraft warfare of 2020 that have swirled around you. You don’t need to carry any of it, the sheep bites, the character assassination, fear, opposition, and weariness. The winds are here to clear the air over you and clear the air where the mainstream media has spread lies, fear, and hysteria that has only increased the witchcraft warfare against the church.
Brat (03 Dec 20): Even as I write this, we are experiencing gale-force Santa Ana winds. They have been blowing all night with such strength that the windows and the house itself are shaking!
Isaiah 40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.
Wanda Alger (16 Nov 20): Two years ago the Lord gave me a prophetic word about Facebook. He said “…the Tower of Babble must come down!” In my journal, dated January of 2018, I wrote: ““FACEBOOK will become increasingly hostile to conservative voices, but the Lord is going to use this pressure to compel leaders to de-centralize their communication to home bases. The goal is to establish holy ground where you are. The TOWER OF BABBLE MUST COME DOWN. This stronghold of our mind, will, and emotions, must bow to the greater purposes of God.” [10]
Brat: I just couldn’t get through to any of them, even though I wrote to most of them. God, have mercy on us all.
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): Guess what? No prayer he might have prayed would have been more effective than what he had just said to me. It was like the Scripture from James 5:16, “…confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed…”
When Light Came In (01 Dec 20): Dog curled at my feet, I’m safe. A partner who thinks and loves deeply, I’m found. The children, all healing in their own ways, I’m proud. Pursuing passions, I’m inspired.
Brat to Sophia (02 Dec 20): For me, part of working with the opportunities God gives me was to also set my boundaries with God like I would with any relationship. When the Holy Spirit kept getting me up at night or keeping me up later than I could handle on a regular basis, I started negotiating with God to make a relationship that was reasonable. I didn’t want God to think I wouldn’t do anything He asked. At the same time, I wanted a say in our relationship, too. “In a partnership, You don’t wear the other out in Your love and excitement to be with her,” I told Him. “Just as You don’t want me to always come to You with my Honey-do list, I don’t want You to always come to me with what You want me to do. I love and cherish Your insights. I want to record them. That’s my job. At the same time, I just want to spend time with You.” After we talked about it, God let me sleep and only on rare occasions will He drag me out of bed to write something down, because He knows I won’t remember it in the morning.
RevelationMedia (30 Nov 20): We must guard against wanting to take the credit for our Christian journey ourselves, and acknowledge that it is by God’s grace that we are saved, and it is by God’s grace that we stay on the path and do His will.
Brat: A wife is not supposed to be a carbon copy of her husband. She is supposed to bring of herself into the relationship. Over time a wife may resemble and act like her husband, reflecting the one she loves, but that doesn’t make her his robot.
Pastor Steve Dittmar (01 Dec 20): Jesus came to serve. “For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves” (Luke 22:27, NKJV). The One who serves. But Jesus did not operate from inferiority, but completeness. He knew that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rising from the supper to lay aside His importance and gird himself with a towel to wash His disciple’s feet. (John 13:1-17)[11]
Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): God is love, but He is first of all HOLY. He knows we can never truly know Him or see Him without holiness (see Hebrews 12:14). It’s His perfect love that compels Him to act and make this distinction clear. If that doesn’t cause the fear of the Lord to be known, I don’t know what else will.
Brat: God’s holiness unties our sandals (Mark 1:7) for we are standing on holy ground in our current apocalypse. Hasn’t religious “deafness” already killed millions? If so, then the truth is this: the Word is already fulfilled!
Paul Keith Davis (from seven years ago in “Unique Day” 04 June 2013): “It is our prophetic proclamation to begin to fulfill Revelation 4:1 and Jeremiah 33:3, as many saints call upon Him that He will begin to show great and awesome things which we presently do not know. The truths associated with this reality are quite significant and provide the keys that unlock prominent mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Brat (07 June 2013): If this doesn’t show and unlock mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven and God’s plans to get the word out on earth (and break the Crystal Fortress of the Church-as-Institution,) then I don’t know what will.
Revelation 20:10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Steve Shultz (01 Dec 20): Make it your purposeful goal to be a good student of the Word of God. With the Word in your heart, it’s hard to go wrong. Without it, it’s hard for anything to go RIGHT.
Isaiah 40:9 Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, do not fear; say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”
Dr. James W. Goll (30 Nov 20): I’m grateful to report that years ago my cancer miracle happened in Zion, IL. I had to endure some extremely difficult and expensive treatments. I also had some powerful prayer afterward. But as I sat in a small examination room, uncertain of what I would hear, my doctor matter-of-factly told me that my cancer was gone.
Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): Thoughts?
Brat: God, may the “cancer” of Jezebel also be gone from our world!
Helen Calder (27 Nov 20): After encountering God, Elijah went on to anoint Elisha, his successor, and Jehu—the very one who would take down Jezebel![12]
Isaiah 40:10 See, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Brat: Thank God for the Jehu’s in God’s kingdom who do not tolerate Jezebel! They are not tortured by mercy.
Pastor Steve Dittmar (01 Dec 20): Leadership in the kingdom is maturity in Jesus Christ. It’s taking a lower place, that others cannot yet bear. It’s giving away what others do not possess. Leadership is Jesus; living in Him, being loved by Him, and doing all for Him.
RevelationMedia (30 Nov 20): She responds, “Sometimes, Hopeful, a rescue means wounds.”
When Light Came In (01 Dec 20): I am somehow more broken and whole at once than I’ve ever been. I’m seeing more of all of it. Sometimes it’s too much to keep in one heart. Today is one of those days. And so I sit, let it float by and press in and stir what’s been waiting. I receive this. I choose it. This is new life.
Isaiah 40:5 Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all people shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
Steve Shultz (29 Nov 20): From that moment to this, I have never felt that level of fakeness like I used to feel. I had literally been healed through his confession of his own weakness in that same area.
Kathi Pelton (24 Nov 20): I choose the dance and I pray that you will too! It is time to draw very near— take his hand, and fix your eyes upon his— let the dance begin.
Isaiah 40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead the mother sheep.
Dr. James W. Goll (30 Nov 20): “What? Could you repeat that?”
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[1] Rev. Phil Hooper (29 Nov 20): The Wait: A Sermon – By Another Road
[2] Prism Ministries (28 Nov 20): Bridle Your Tongue! (prismministries.org)
[3] Nate Johnston (01 Dec 20): THIS DECEMBER – THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE BLOWING! – Nate & Christy: Everyday Revivalists (nateandchristy.co)
[4] Wanda Alger (30 Nov 20): https://www.facebook.com/wanda.alger/posts/10224362188224794
[5] 10 religious influencers who died in the decade: 2010-2019 (religionnews.com)
[6] Kristen Leigh Mitchell: http://modernmetanoia.org/2020/11/23/advent-2b-apocalypse-now/
[7] Helen Cobanov (21 Nov 20): THE BATTLE HAS BEEN GREAT BUT DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR VOICE (hislighttower.com)
[8] Dr. James W. Goll (30 Nov 20): The ElijahList – Prophetic Words and Prophecies (#24658)
[9] Darren Canning (29 Nov 20): The ElijahList – Prophetic Words and Prophecies (#24657)
[10] Wanda Alger (16 Nov 20): https://wandaalger.me/2020/11/16/prophetic-declaration-over-social-media-and-the-spirit-of-unbelief/
[11] Pastor Steve Dittmar (01 Dec 20): Secret Place – Servant Leadership; Vol. 16 – Issue 51 – 12/1/20
[12] Helen Calder (27 Nov 20): Your Lowest Point is Your Launching Pad (enlivenpublishing.com)
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