Thank you for re-posting this, Pam. It’s beautiful and resonates with what I’ve been meditating on recently, even waking up this morning considering the state of things today about how the enemy comes to “steal, kill and destroy” …

It was in considering how blind or comfortably numb Christianity is – denying the presence of the Holy Spirit / Christ within their very being – body temples – and relegating Him to a building on the other side of town; from 24×7 communing with Him who lives within us and in whom we live and breathe, we relegate Him to an hour a week. Ostensibly we give Him all, and all that He has and His Father has, is ours as well, yet we cast our crowns at His feet – yielding back our wonderful inheritance. While men fleece the people of God for a tenth and invest it in the things of the world (land, buildings, camps, conference centers, religious services, etc.) – things about which Jesus said “the sons are free” from having to pay for these things …

Truly the church today is the victim of identity theft, material theft, and abuse …

Thoughts like this come when considering my writings … and converting them to a podcast(y) type of medium … the trite short devotionals will no doubt be welcome – but what of the revelations that do what Ephesians 6 talks about: “wake the sleeper and command him to rise from the dead” … do we realize that passage is telling us we’re asleep at the wheel and as dead? When resurrection comes, are we ready for stone-moving miracles before us? Will those who placed us in the tomb and continue to guard it run in terror when the glory raises us to life? Is that why in another passage, it puts the Church at the very gates of hell with determination to go through them and defeat the enemy where he is enthroned?