Month: February 2026

The faithful, saving God

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I’m ready to tell the story….

I had been living in hospitals for the better part of 10 weeks as my Mom experienced three life-threatening emergencies in two months. I was exhausted in every way – physically, emotionally and spiritually. And then my Daddy was hospitalized. After staying in the hospital with him for a week I went home for a night so I could take a shower and sleep in a real bed. The next morning I woke up to a phone call that my Daddy had been moved to ICU and put on a ventilator. I got off the phone and screamed at the top of my lungs. But as I drove to the hospital, I got mad. The spiritual weakness and fatigue that had plagued me for the previous two months began to lift. The enemy had overplayed his hand and his plan to overwhelm me that morning backfired. I settled into that ICU room. I began to pray aggressively over my Daddy as he lay there sedated and intubated. I bound the devil and all his works. I prayed the Scriptures over him and the promises of God. I prayed on one side of that bed and then the other. On the third day in ICU, they removed the ventilator and put him on a BiPAP machine. He was no longer sedated. I continued to pray not just for my Daddy‘s healing, but primarily for his salvation. For 83 years he had seen no need in his life for a Gospel or a Savior. I desperately needed that to change. Quickly.

And then the moment came. I don’t know how to describe it, except to say the entire atmosphere in the room shifted. It was charged with a thick intensity. It was more than just the sound of machines and pumps. It was as though I could feel the warfare in the room, and I sensed the Holy Spirit saying to me, NOW NOW NOW.

My Daddy was wearing a full face mask, and the sound of oxygen being pumped into that mask was loud. But I put my mouth to his ear and I preached the gospel to him. As at other times, I called him to a decision. And this time the answer was yes. On December 9 , 2025. I had a great privilege of leading my Daddy to faith in Christ. Over the next 10 days I saw sweet little evidences of the reality of a work of God. At 8 AM on December 20, 2025 my Daddy left this world and stepped into eternity. A glorious eternity.

I was with him as he took his final breath. Through the tears, I lifted my hands to heaven and thanked God for his mercy.

Today my Daddy would have been 84 years old. Happy birthday in heaven Daddy ❤️

The power of a made up mind

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In our prayer meeting Tuesday morning, someone shared briefly about the power of a made up mind. I felt like that was such a word from the Lord. Far too often we go through life like it’s a lazy river, just floating through the years wherever the current takes us. One day we spend some time with the Lord, then the next few days we don’t. Our lives are marked by inconsistency, and they bear the fruit of it.

I fully believe that the Christian life is empowered by grace, but that must be balanced by Philippians 2:13 which says that God works in us to will and to do for his good pleasure. Our will is involved in the process.

We‘ve got to make up our mind that we’re not gonna waste our life; that we aren’t going to scroll our days away; that we are going to burn for Jesus; that we are going to dig into the word of God until we have squeezed every bit of revelation out of it; that we’re going to pray until fire falls from heaven; that we are going to believe God until we see promises come to pass; that our life is going to make eternal impact for the kingdom of God.

If you don’t make up your mind that you’re gonna have these things, then you will live and die without them. I don’t want that to be the testimony of my life. Don’t let it be yours either.

Make up your mind.