Please click on this link Streams in the Desert after opening this page, where I am guest blogger today. Our expectations are usually much better or much worse than what we actually experience. God wants to train our imaginations to be like His.

The way we are made requires many parts. However, a small rudder guides a large ship. So it is with the tongue. We have a large heart, but a small tongue expresses life or death. James, the brother of Jesus, tells us it cannot be true that we curse and bless with the same tongue, from the same heart. Jesus said that whatever comes out of us, that is what is in our heart.
So, this describes the architecture: a heart full of something, and a tongue that speaks what is …

“….this is the Kingdom of Heaven and this is the Gospel of the Kingdom–My Presence; My Fellowship.”

There is unprecedented opportunity. There is unparalleled risk. More people live today than in all of history. Perhaps half of all humans ever are alive today. There are billions of sheep and they are harassed and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd; and they are hungry. Develop a network.

“So, the preparation is to want My change, not fight it; to embrace the new things I am doing and in new ways. Some will disagree. That is like the group in a bike race called the Peleton. It is safe to ride in that group. However, no one can win the race in the peleton. The winners must break out. That is not “safe” the way it feels, but it gives freedom to those who are willing to go away from the place called “safe” that is really a prison.”

The Lord is saying that he wants to talk to his children. He was sad that they are like sheep without a shepherd. He wants to call them to himself.

“Speak to me my people. Let me know your hearts. Let me know your troubles, but also tell me your joys.

I’m delighted, Bob, that you are are writing this blog and sharing your most intimate moments with me. I want people to know the truth and to be set free by the truth. Speak my truth to my …