Some seasons feel confusing, painful, or endless, like God is silent or the path makes no sense. In today’s Daily Bread, we lean into John 13:7 (‘You may not understand now…’) and Romans 8:32, remembering that the God who gave His Son will graciously give us all things. Hope, trust, and perfect peace are waiting on the other side of the wilderness.
Category Archives: Spirit Messages
In These Escalating Times: Prayer, Prophecy, and the Call to Look Up | Daily Bread
In these escalating times of prayer needs, job losses, and global unrest, God is calling us to greater clarity and conviction. As signs converge toward the rapture, stay anchored in Scripture, look up, and hold fast to hope. A prophetic encouragement to praise in difficulty and keep your eyes on Jesus.
Solitude, Scripture, and What It Actually Builds | Daily Bread
In this reflection I explore how the biblical wilderness — the desert seasons of solitude with God — is not punishment but a tender invitation where false things fall away and deeper strength is formed. Drawing from Hosea, the Gospels, and my own recent sense of being drawn into quiet, this post connects Scripture with the kind of growth that happens when we step away from noise.
The Truth About Your Feelings | Daily Bread
A conversation with a friend I love became the doorway to a truth I didn’t fully understand myself until I took it to God in prayer. We think we know the difference between the devil and God because we were handed a picture as children, an angel on one shoulder, a devil on the other, good feelings and bad feelings marking which one we’ve chosen. But that picture is incomplete, and it left me unable to help my friend see what I was actually trying to say. This post is the tool God gave me instead, a way to finally understand feelings for what they are, where they come from, and how to tell the difference between what is righteous and what only wears righteousness as a costume.
Prophecy Without the Panic: Before You Build the Bunker | Daily Bread
You can run to and fro through scripture and still go hungry. The motion itself doesn’t feed you. And that’s the thing about prophecy. It was never meant to produce the panicked running to and fro it often seems to. Prophecy is meant to produce people who stopped running long enough to wait, who waited long enough to receive, and who received enough to rise. The wise will understand, not because they were smarter or more studious, but because they asked. Because they stopped. Because they let the Word do what the Word does when you give it room.
The Fourth Cup | Daily Bread
Someone told me to look up the fourth cup. So I did. What I found locked into place something I had already sensed was true – that there is a literal thread running from the upper room straight to the cross, held together by a cup Jesus deliberately did not drink. This is not symbolism. This is the most purposeful love story ever told.
Presence, Not Passage: The Hours We Don’t See | Daily Bread
Everyone I know has said it at least once this year: “Where is the time going?” But I’ve been sitting with a different question lately. Not “where is the time going,” but “when did we stop paying attention to it?” Because I don’t think time is actually disappearing. I think we are.
Root → Rupture → Rest: What Striving Couldn’t Do | Daily Bread
I had nothing left to offer. No performance. No effort. Just the raw and quiet reality of a woman too tired to try anymore. And that is exactly where God met me. I thought I knew and loved stillness before that moment, but in that stillness, something began to change that all my years of striving and even meditation had never touched. I was not led away from my faith. I was led through the fog of it, until I could see it clearly for the first time.
It’s All Nonsense, Except Soul | Daily Bread
The people who are willing to honestly acknowledge when something feels deeply wrong are often the ones closest to real clarity. Not because discomfort or suffering is somehow noble in itself, but because the courage to sit with that unease, to follow the questions all the way down instead of numbing them or pushing them away, is exactly how truth begins to find us.
What Hard Seasons and Scripture Taught Me About Feelings | Daily Bread
Your brain is constantly scanning, analyzing, and assigning meaning to your circumstances, and then producing a feeling based on that interpretation. The feeling is real, but the interpretation is not always accurate. In short, our brains often lie to us. Feelings are data, but they are not always reliable data. This is not just theology. It is neuroscience. And it matters enormously for the Christian.
Jesus, Satan, and the Last Supper | Daily Bread
There is a moment in John 13 that most people read right past.
After Satan entered Judas, Jesus looked at him and said, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”
Jesus wasn’t speaking to Judas. Judas had already betrayed Him. Judas’ deal was already done. In that moment, Jesus was speaking directly to Satan, giving him permission to proceed. Satan was the one waiting for the word.
The enemy thought he was winning, but he was only ever doing what he was told. That understanding changes everything about how you read the cross… and if this hits you the way it hits me, it morphs your love, your respect, and the whole depth of your devotion to Him to levels you never imagined existed, and changes everything about how you praise Him.
Three Habits That Block God’s Voice | Daily Bread
There’s a particular kind of ache that comes when you feel like your prayers are hitting the ceiling. You’re not walking away from God. You’re calling out, but you can’t seem to hear Him.
The Bible doesn’t leave us without an answer to this experience. It tells us how to position ourselves to hear God, and if the problem is positioning, then the positioning can change.
The Double Portion: What Shame Is Really Pointing You Toward | Daily Bread
This morning someone very close to me said something that stopped me mid-morning and opened a conversation about one of the most misunderstood experiences in both human psychology and the Christian faith: shame. I considered what shame actually is, what it’s actually for, and why God never intended for us to make it our home.
If you are dealing with shame over your past behavior or choices, make no mistake. Shame is not meant to be wallowed in. It is meant to point us toward conviction and guide us forward into righteousness. It is a signal, not a sentence. A starting line, not a finish line.
God wants to restore you, just as He promises to do for Israel. The question is not whether He is willing. The question is whether you will allow Him to work in your life, or whether you will let shame block the blessing He is already holding out to you.
The Image of the Cross: Curse or Blessing, and What Are You Living? | Daily Bread
Someone told me recently that wearing a cross is a sin. “It’s a graven image, a violation of God’s law.” But a careful study of Scripture tells a very different story.
The second commandment was never a prohibition against every image or symbol. It was a command against worshiping created things as gods. God himself commanded images to be made, each one pointing toward His glory, His presence, and His provision… and ultimately toward the cross.
Christ broke every curse the law carried through His sacrifice, fulfilling what none of us ever could. The cross around the neck of a humble, spirit-filled believer is not an idol. It is a symbol of redemption, freedom, and the good news of salvation. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, and we are commanded to carry that truth into the world.
Speaking Truth Is Not the Same as Judging | Daily Bread
To say “don’t judge” sounds humble. It sounds gracious. But underneath it is a confusion that quietly does harm to the very people it wants to protect. Speaking truth is not, in and of itself, judgment. And the kindest thing anyone can do for someone caught in sin is not to make them comfortable in it — it is to point them toward the One who can wash it clean.
Sunday Sessions | One Gospel, Two Roads (Or, The Argument I Once Used Against My Own Faith)
Many years ago, I tried to use this exact argument to prove my father’s faith was built on sand. I was wrong. Thirty years later someone posted it online and asked anyone to disprove it with scripture. I hope this answers their invitation well, and helps whoever reads it.