The Year of Double Blessing
Friday, March 21, 2025
Shannah is the Hebrew word for year. It comes from the Hebrew ‘shnay’ ‘Shnay’ means ‘two,’ but can also be translated as ‘the doubling.’ For in Hebrew a year is supposed to be a doubling… an increase. Peter wrote that the qualities of God in your life must be increasing. It’s not enough just to go from day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year. You have to increase. For every year is a ‘Shannah,’ an increase, a doubling. What will you do with this year? Don’t seek to just get through the year. Seek to increase in what is good. This year, your love, joy, peace, faith, strength, and confidence must increase, and not only increase, but double. The Lord doesn’t just give us joy, He doubles it. He doesn’t just give us love, He doubles it. He said, “I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” So don’t worry about what the year will bring. It’s a ‘shannah.’ Use it correctly, and you’ll not only have life, but you’ll have it more abundantly. In fact, you’ll have it double.
From Message #433 – The Shannah
Scripture: Isaiah 61:7
Today’s Mission – Make it your aim not just to go through this day, but use this day to grow in the Spirit, in love, and in righteousness.
The Miracle In The Bread Box
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough in your life; enough money, enough time, enough affection, or enough anything? The Lord’s Prayer says, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Do you have daily bread? You’ve probably got more than just daily bread. Chances are you have enough for the week. You may have bread enough for a few weeks. But the Bible says to pray for just daily bread. Thus daily bread is sufficient for your life. Anything beyond daily bread is extra. So if you have daily bread, consider yourself blessed. Many people don’t have even that much. But if you have bread beyond the day, then you’ve got more than enough; you’re more than blessed. Get back to the basics. If you’re saved, and you have daily bread, you’re beyond blessed. Start giving thanks for what you have, and you’ll have joy, you’ll have enough. Give thanks for all the blessings, and you’ll have more than enough. You don’t need to go any farther to find out if you’re blessed than your kitchen bread box.
From Message #888 – Extra
Scripture: Ecclesiates 5:18
Today’s Mission – Today, give thanks for your daily bread and give thanks for everything else as extra.
Heaven’s Enclave
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Philippians 3:20 says, “For our citizenship is in heaven from where we also wait for a savior.” The Greek word behind the word citizenship specifically referred to a colony of people living according to the laws of their native country outside their native country. So even though they weren’t home, they were living as if they were. What this reveals is that you are citizen of heaven, not earth. Heaven is your native land. And even though you are not presently living there, you are to be living on earth as if you were living in heaven – not ultimately subject to the laws of this world, but according to the laws of heaven. This is an incredible truth – You don’t have to be bound any more by the laws of this world, the laws of sin and death, guilt, failure, frustration, anger, regret, or fear. You don’t have to submit to any bondage. You are not of this world. Live by laws of heaven, the ways of heaven, the rights of heaven, the privileges of heaven, and the freedom of heaven. For you are a citizen of heaven!
From Message #482 – As It Is In Heaven
Scripture: Romans 8:7
Today’s Mission – Today, choose to live unbound by the laws of the flesh, and of sin and death, but live by the laws of heaven.
The Interruption of Heaven
Friday, March 14, 2025
Few people like commotion, trouble, or change. We seek peace, situations of no commotion. But if you really want a place where there’s no commotion, go to a cemetery. That which is dead does not cause any commotion. But light coming into darkness causes commotion. So the life of God coming into a dead world is going to cause commotion. When Messiah came into the world, He created a stir. When He came into Jerusalem, He caused a commotion. God’s presence causes commotion. If He’s come into your life, then there’s got to be commotion. Don’t seek to walk a commotion-free walk, or to live a commotion-free life. It will end up dead! Rather, what you need is something to get stirred up and get turned over a little bit. Let God interrupt your routine, let Him shake you out of it. Fix your eyes on God. Forget the rut, and forget the routine. Let the presence of God come fresh in your life. Let it cause a commotion! Stir it up! Because God wants to bring the cemetery in your life… to life!
From Message #526 – A Holy Commotion
Scripture: Revelation 3:2
Today’s Mission – Today, seek to be especially open to be interrupted by God’s voice, God’s leading, and God’s purposes. Let your day be stirred up by His presence.
The Day of Completion
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
God finished the work of creation on the sixth day, then rested on the seventh, the Sabbath. The sixth day is the day when work is completed. Two-thousand years ago, God again labored on the sixth day… on the cross. On the Hebrew calendar, the sixth day comes to an end as the sun sets. So it was then that Messiah finished His work, Friday afternoon, just as the sun was going down. Why? Because the sixth day is the day when one’s work must be finished. So on the cross, He said, “It is finished.” Then He rested. What does this have to do with you? Most people live in a state of incompleteness, a state that is never finished, never enough, and always needing more. But Messiah labored on the sixth day so He could finish all that is unfinished. He died to give you the gift of completion. Find your completion in Him. Take the unfinished issues of your life and bring them to the cross and say, ‘It is finished.’ Then you, as did Messiah, can likewise enter into the blessings of the seventh day.
From Message #125 – The Sixth and Seventh Day
Scripture: Revelation 21:6
Today’s Mission – Today, cease striving and rest in your completion in His complete work.
The Day of Completion
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
God finished the work of creation on the sixth day, then rested on the seventh, the Sabbath. The sixth day is the day when work is completed. Two-thousand years ago, God again labored on the sixth day… on the cross. On the Hebrew calendar, the sixth day comes to an end as the sun sets. So it was then that Messiah finished His work, Friday afternoon, just as the sun was going down. Why? Because the sixth day is the day when one’s work must be finished. So on the cross, He said, “It is finished.” Then He rested. What does this have to do with you? Most people live in a state of incompleteness, a state that is never finished, never enough, and always needing more. But Messiah labored on the sixth day so He could finish all that is unfinished. He died to give you the gift of completion. Find your completion in Him. Take the unfinished issues of your life and bring them to the cross and say, ‘It is finished.’ Then you, as did Messiah, can likewise enter into the blessings of the seventh day.
From Message #125 – The Sixth and Seventh Day
Scripture: Revelation 21:6
Today’s Mission – Today, cease striving and rest in your completion in His complete work.
The Merging of Baal
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Baal was a Canaanite god that competed with the Lord Yehovah. Archeologists have found ancient pottery in Israel that reveals that the ancient Israelites joined together Jehovah with Baal as the same god. They merged the two into one. So one of the greatest dangers for God’s people isn’t the overt worship of other gods, but the joining of Jehovah to Baal; the joining of the Lord to other gods. Many ministers start out serving God but end up serving success. Many ministries start out serving the Great Commission but end up serving the god of money. Others confuse God with prosperity, power, status, blessing, and success. You can’t serve God and other things, other gods. Purify your walk. Purify your goal. Purify your motives and your heart. Breakaway from serving a mixed god and come back to the God of your salvation. Because your walk is too precious to be wasting it by serving Baal in disguise.
From Message #937 – The God of a Thousand Faces
Scripture: Luke 11:36
Today’s Mission – Examine your goals and motives today and seek to act, move, and live out of pure motives and a pure heart for God’s will and purposes.