Many people are facing giants and intimidating battles right now even as the waves of God's glory are advancing daily. The enemy knows his time is short and you can sense and feel his frantic attempts to disempower the people of God. Recently as I pondered my own giants and how I would defeat them, God led me to read again the story of David and Goliath. I was encouraged to remember that David was confident in his God because He chose to remember how God had been with him in the past to conquer the lion and the bear. "The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine." I Samuel 17:37 David chose to look at what God had d
Recently the Lord has been speaking to me from the story of Elisha and King Johoash in 2 Kings 13:16. In the story, Elisha was sick and would soon die from the illness. But, he had one more prophetic assignment or act to be a part of before leaving the earth. This was not just any act, but a very strategic prophetic act that carries significance for us even today. In reading through the stories of the Bible, it becomes clear that God uses people who are willing to engage with him in seemingly "foolish" acts to accomplish His purposes and will. In this story we find a king and an old prophet shooting arrows out a window. But, their faith along with their obedience to perform the prophetic act
