God doesn’t want you to finish the year empty— He wants you to finish on FIRE.
Humility is seen, lived, and perfected in Christ. Humility begins with Christ, not us. Humility is not a human virtue we perfect; it is a Christ revealed reality we can receive.
Jesus came for two purposes: To represent the Faithful God, the God whose face was smitten because of another god and to present us to the Father as the redeemed unfaithful lovers.
If you humble yourself towards Christ, God will highly exalt you like He exalted Christ. Because Christ humbled himself, God lifted Him high.
There are moments when God calls us to work, to serve, to labor quietly — even when no one notices. There are also moments when He allows testing — not to crush us, but to complete us.
In our life, we face oppression of every kind as defined and described above. But behind our oppression are the spirits of the same oppressors who oppressed Israel in the past.
Each “El” name is a different well, but all flow from the same Living Water – Jesus Christ, the fullness of God’s revelation.
When love anchors your IDENTITY, you discern Christ even in disguise.
Every one of us has faced moments that felt like a pit — a dry, empty place where joy has drained out and hope feels distant.