She perched herself on the wall and we chatted for a while.
Birdsong
Finding His Way Back
Sometimes his depression was not clinical, but rather, circumstantial…
When Death Nearly Took Me Out But I Got Revelation Instead
When friends repeatedly suggested I write about this and share it publicly, I physically nodded ‘yes’, but inwardly recoiled—“no”. And that’s how it stayed for over two months, until this morning…
Wearing Accusation? Nope.
The ‘accuser of the brethren’ likes to remind us of our pasts. That’s his job. Title. Deed. Who he is. The thing is, he speaks from a space of delusion and theatre. He tries to guilt us into becoming who we ‘were’, which is the exact opposite of what Jesus does.
Gossip
Gossip. It’s sparked into flame by someone who knows a partial truth about a person or situation, by intrigue or offence, or by divisive intent; then it’s fuelled into fire by others who want to know about it but who have no business knowing it in the first place…
Neely.
Neely rolled to her other side, still curled in a ball. Hugging her pillow and semi-unconscious, some part of her mind became aware of other people in the room. But how could there be? It was the middle of the night. Maybe she was just imagining it. And yet, there was light pressing through her eyelids. How was that possible?
A Seed and the Unseen
Faith bound by the limitations of intellect is not faith; it is assessment and conjecture based on the evidence of things that are ‘seen’ and the flesh of circumstances…
Russ in the Biergarten
As my friend entertained with all manner of songs and instruments in the background and people chattered away over dinner, I was seated at a long white table under a fruiting mango tree that had light bulbs strung in a row under its branches. The biergarten was buzzing…
The New Day
I have chewed over this dream for some time now. My closest friends know about it (or parts of it) but I now feel to write it down and make it plain so that they who read it may run with it (if they wish).
Love Will Cover
This is a true story. Last night someone phoned and asked me to write and share this story, so that she could add to the growing awareness of these issues. I have changed the names and locations in order to protect everyone involved…
Sozo Gardens
There’s an abundance of Kingdom reality in this one word alone, just waiting to move from the unseen into the seen…
The Power of Encouragement
Am feeling really strongly the power, the life, the hope —the aroma of the Spirit of God—that embraces hearts when encouragement floods a space…
What Is Prayer?
We are IN Him and He is IN us. He is closer to us than our next breath. He is our dwelling place. Our hiding place. Psalm 90:1 says, “Lord, YOU HAVE BEEN OUR DWELLING PLACE — throughout all generations.”
From Revival to Inhabitation
The preaching of ‘revival’ seems to make a special reappearance in every generation, but what about ‘permanent inhabitation’?
Clothed in Spirit, Dressed in Light
What if the ‘you’ who lives deep beneath your appearance wasn’t actually hidden away by your flesh way back in the Garden of Eden? Was your flesh even noticed in the Garden of Eden to begin with? Or was something greater—more real and far more eternal— noticed by others first?
Right Here and Right Now
It’s kinda a fun study to take a few minutes to watch a non-believing church service. (For example, an atheistic church service: They can be found on YouTube.) It’s interesting to watch it with eyes wide open to what looks like ‘rightness’ and same-same patterns of church, yet it is (simultaneously) sad that the absence of the person of Yeshua can be felt…
Creativity Rising
I love how creativity has a tendency to bypass mindsets whilst it simultaneously opens hearts. I can remember stopping in front of an abstract painting one day (years ago) and weeping from…
Undignified
The sound of gongs fills the space. Empty clanging, metallic noise. It is the sound of head-dwelling and heart avoidance; a mechanical absence of love…
Heart Connection
The interactions were shallow. Information-based. Void of heart. Third or fourth-hand experiences but never inspired from within…
Opinions Are Not The Truth
Opinions are not the same as truth. Opinions are fluid personal judgments which follow or rebel against the shifting sands of public discourse, belief or culture. They are ‘here’ one minute and over ‘there’ the next. They are always changing, never dependable, and can tend to be feelings-based. Andrew Wommack says, “opinions are like noses: everyone has them, but there’s usually a couple of holes in them…”
Translated, Transformed Co-heirs
Jesus has ‘translated’ us from the tyranny and oppression of the kingdom of darkness into His Kingdom of light, where we walk in the completeness of His Name, the fullness of what He did, and within the power of His authority (Colossians 1:12-17). We are not of this world; we have been born again from above…
Light Bringers
Off in the distance, smoke rises. As bombs are dropped, distant voices rise above the roar of rubble and death. Some voices plead for attention, for drama, for fear and for failure….
LOVE
I am sad that people still fall victim (myself included) to clever predatory language perpetrated by divisive media outlets, tertiary institutions and professors, and political orators. Intellectualism has risen to god-like status. (I’m kinda writing free here… let’s just see where this leads.) Our own understanding gets us into a lot of trouble at times. … Continue reading LOVE
Worship From A Place of Wonder
I remember sitting at the piano as a kid, feeling the ivory keys beneath my fingertips and the resonance of the notes moving around me; the hammers hitting the strings and creating a tangible hum…
Who Told You?
Good question… who told you?
Thankful
I’m done living in a perpetual future-casting mindset. I am learning to rest in ‘my now’.
Identity
Identity is not a label. It is not who or what others say you are. It is not a bank account, a medal, a persuasion, a job or an ability…
Cyber Hearts
How often do we try to fill our need for true human interaction with shallow social media ‘knowledge’ about someone instead of taking the time to create a genuine in-person connection with them?
My ‘Now’
We often live life from the perspectives of past or future, but how often do we stop to enjoy the moment we are actually in? How often do we stop to enjoy and be thankful for our ‘now’?
Is Failing Really Failure?
Is failing really failure, or the opening up of an opportunity or invitation to learn?
Set Them Free
Let go of micromanagement and watch the people in your team begin to dream, create and achieve, through the gift of freedom.
Joy Changes Things
When you shine, child of God, the atmosphere reflects that shine.
Reflecting.
Reflecting over life today, and taking some moments to be thankful to Yeshua for answered prayer, his protection and guidance, and for hope—for who He is as well as what He does.
I See
I see the beauty of Papa’s heart reflected in creation. I see the gold of His motives in the sunset and His grace spilling out across the sea…
The Mob Mentality
When initially the sheep had been still, all was calm. But now they were bolting left, right and centre, the ground was stirred up. Just the sounds of their moving hooves was breeding fear among them. Panic was begetting panic. Literally, because they were so focused on the non-existent fear of it all, they didn’t have time to stop, think, or even assess if what first began the raucous mob behaviour was even “a thing”…
From Anxiety Into Peace
Sweaty palms, uncontrollable shaking, heart racing, self fragmenting. Restriction squeezing breath from lungs. Not seeing through eyes, but rather, through panicked, crackling frequencies of flick-flick-flick-flickering light… but there is a way out.
The New Has Come
The old has gone and the new has come. Yesterday’s buds (revelations, being wise in our own eyes, churchianity, christianese, and ‘right’ inspirations) are now withered, and are being pruned away for fruitfulness. Newness is budding on the branches of the Vine.
Still, Small Voice
…most wars are incensed and driven by propaganda through news media sources, entertainment, and (now) social media algorithms… but do we need to oblige propaganda in this way?
Child of God
Being a child of our Heavenly Father is simple: we get to place our hand in His and copy what He does.
Into The Unknown
I don’t know how it happened, but slowly, like a dripping tap and without me being even a teensy bit aware of it, my eyes had wandered from Jesus and onto a plethora of other things. I had lost my first love. The flame in my belly had waned to but a few coals and the flicker of life had all but disappeared…
New Landscapes
How do we see the new spiritual landscape we already intuit by the Spirit of God? Where is it? And how do we get there?
And Suddenly
I was in the heart of Melbourne sitting in a Max Brenners, enjoying the company of two brilliant friends and the exorbitance of chocolate deliciousness (!), when something landed on my head. Thinking it was a bug, I did a miniature freak-out dance as I attempted to swipe / flick whatever was on my head, off…
Freewiting || No Filter
Child within, we are in a time where the paper kingdoms of the world are being brought down. Are you ready to be you again? Are you ready to dream again? Are you ready to stand in your place of freedom and just.be.you? I can’t wait to see you partnering with ushering in the new.
No More Ghosts And Shadows
Ghosts and shadows plague tormented minds: Haunted phrases run on loop until insanity nears; They trickle from ceilings, crawl through windows and slink through open doors. Mental assaults from yesterday unravel and dismember peace: “You will never find love because you will never be worthy of it.” “You have no ability—you lack everything required to function.” “Nothing is all you are, and nothing is all you will have….”
