Praise the LORD, all nations! Glorify him, all peoples! (Psalm 117:1) If dynamite comes in small packages, this Psalm packs quite the wallop. It's the shortest chapter in the Bible but the vision it p...  Read More

Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled. (Luke 4:21) This entire week has all been about the Mission of God. It's an old mission, one set in motion in the Garden of Eden and while sidet...  Read More

Declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all peoples. (Psalm 96:3) Human beings have a strange ability, and might I way a tendency, to take in information, intellectually process ...  Read More

All the ends of the earth have seen our God’s salvation. (Psalm 98:3 As humans, we have a tendency to see the glass half empty, the world darker than it is, and the future uncertain. Yesterday we reme...  Read More

I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth. (Isaiah 49:6) After the nations were dispersed at Babel and Abram (eventually God's people the Israelites) it...  Read More

Blessed be the LORD, my rock who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare. (Psalm 144:1) Strength comes in many forms, but in the Kingdom of God, it has a very particular form and feel to...  Read More

A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him. (Mark 1:27) By now we've well established the fact that the conflict and resistance in the cosmos exists in both...  Read More

I lift my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.  (Psalm 121:1–2) For two days now we have discussed the reality of spirit...  Read More

"Very well,” the LORD told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, do not lay a hand on Job himself." (Job 1:12) I know too many people who, as they begin to be exposed to the reality of...  Read More

When heaven feels silent and the battle feels hidden, Daniel 10 reminds us that God hears, God sends help, and unseen resistance never means He has abandoned His people....  Read More

The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the LORD. (Psalm 24:1) "Who is he, this King of glory? The LORD of Armies, he is the King of glory." I love the way this passag...  Read More

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens. (Ephesians ...  Read More