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Sunday, June 7, 2026

HEAVEN

For those of us who are fighters, what’s more thrilling than winning a battle against the enemy of God’s people? Not much, right? And yet Jesus tells us in Luke 10 that there is something even greater.

“And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, Behold, I give unto you power over all the power of the enemy. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven” (Lk 10:17-20).

What does that mean? Well, for one thing, there will be no more battles to fight in heaven! Everyone who’s born again has true peace and joy to look forward to forever.

Revelation 21:4 tells us, “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”

And Isaiah 65:25 paints a beautiful picture for those of us who are animal lovers: “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock.” In the Bible, there was a donkey who talked to a prophet, so many of us believe that in heaven, animals will be able to talk too, and what stories they will tell!

According to our Lord, heaven is something we as Christians need to focus on at least as much as we focus on fighting those battles.

It’s dangerous to be a warrior without taking time to revel in the hope of heaven.

If we spend most of our time getting all hyped up over the battles, what about when there are no more battles? If we’ve not practiced just being happy in the Lord’s presence, we might not know what to do with all the free time.

King David of the Bible was a warrior, and yet his psalms are salted with verses in which he basks in the visions of heaven. Look at Psalm 16:8-9, “I have set the Lord always before me: Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.”

The concept of going to heaven is not a new one. David, way back in Old Testament times, knew from God and His written Word that he would be with the Lord forever. “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever (Psalm 23:6).

And in Psalm 21: 4, David refers to himself when he says: “He [I, David] asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days forever and ever.” David knew he had forever with the Lord, and we need to be equally at peace, knowing it too.

And lastly, “Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God” (Psa. 146:5).

It’s no secret that the world’s in a mess, and we are the ones letting God work in us to fight against Satan for the health, deliverance, and blessing of God’s people. But let’s take at least as much time to be happy in the Lord, focusing on the great reality of being with the Lord forever in heaven. It’s what Jesus said we should do.

In fact, it wouldn’t even be a bad idea for us to memorize some of those verses about heaven and about being with the Lord forever. We can put one or two in our list of scriptures we pray every day, or we can write them out and put them up in the bathroom. With all the negatives that bombard us each week, we might benefit from having some heaven to focus on!

Love, Carolyn

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Sunday, May 31, 2026

HOW TO GET BETTER AT LISTENING TO THE LORD

I went with a friend to a Bible Study. I didn’t know anyone except the person who invited me. Haven’t been around new people in quite a while, so I made a big effort to remember people’s names, but out of five, I only remembered two. But I’m glad I made the effort because it means a lot to a person when you remember their name. The Lord remembers all of our names, and the Apostle Paul tells us: “Therefore become imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father] (Eph. 5:1 AMP). So I want to get much better at remembering people’s names!

We let ourselves get distracted by our own thoughts, rather than listening with our full attention to what the other person is saying. God puts certain people in our paths for many reasons: to bless us, to teach us, to wake us up to something new, or so that we can be a blessing back to that person.

Many times, we get so busy thinking about so many things that our brains either race into the future or reflect on the past, instead of staying in the present. The result is that we miss out on quality time just listening to each other. We’ve forgotten how to have a conversation.

What if we slow down enough to really listen to each other? Besides practicing consideration and love for each other, it’s great practice for listening to the Lord.

First John 4:20 says: “For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” I could say: “For he that listens not to his brother who he sees, how can he listen to God who he doesn’t see?”

Listening is an act of love. If we want to get better at hearing from the Lord, we can take steps in the right direction by practicing listening to one another.

When we make the effort to listen to someone, we don’t want to let our minds take a selfish trip to the past or an anticipatory trip to the future. We want to do our best to let our hearts and minds engage in the present. A conversation with another person is not all about us. It should be about learning about the other person and loving them with God's love. Getting to know their name is a good first step in showing them God’s love.

Love, Carolyn

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Friday, May 29, 2026

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Sunday, May 24, 2026

DELIGHT

A friend wrote this to me: “The Bible says that for everything there is a season. There have been so many seasons in my life, and they have bridged the gamut from absolute disaster to delight beyond my wildest expectations. But in this season, right now, I am beginning to experience the harvester and the sower passing each other. My prayer requests and heart's desires are beginning to run and chase me down. This is so new, the baby is still crowning on the way out.”

As it says in Amos 9:13: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt [that is, everything heretofore barren and unfruitful shall overflow with spiritual blessing] [AMP].”

This is what God spoke to the Israelites after they’d spent a long time in captivity and struggle. They yearned for deliverance and the blessings they’d once known. I think we all go through times when we yearn for better times, without so many struggles, a purer time of happy days and more delight.

The Message Bible translates Amos 9:13: “Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. I’ll make everything right again for my people: They’ll rebuild their ruined cities. They’ll plant vineyards and drink good wine. They’ll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables. And I’ll plant them, plant them on their own land. They’ll never again be uprooted from the land I’ve given them. God, your God, says so.”

That’s exciting, and I believe that’s what’s happening now for God’s people around the world. We can expect restoration. “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed” (Joel 2:25-26).

And new things: Isaiah 48: 6-7 says: “From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known. They are created now, not long ago; before today, you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’”

And Isaiah 43:19: “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”

These new blessings that God and the Lord Jesus have for us are so new that we won’t be able to attribute them to anything but the sheer magnitude of God’s love for us. We are going to start getting more prayers answered and new blessings before we even get the requests out of our mouths. I’ve started to see it happen, so I expect it to spread.

Start writing down your delight list today 😊. I think it’s going to be a long one!

Love, Carolyn

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Sunday, May 17, 2026

STRETCHING OURSELVES TO LOOK OUTSIDE THE BOX

Research in Quantum Mechanics has shown that an electron or a photon of light existing in a wave form changes into a particle form when observed. The remarkable double slit experiment studied the nature of subatomic phenomena. A photon of light was to pass through two slits. When it was not observed, it acted like a wave. But when observed, it behaved like a particle.

This is very much like how the Lord communicates with us. Wisdom from above is all around us in wave-like quality, ethereal, and sometimes, we don’t quite grab it. But when we observe these peripheral thoughts, they become like the particles: clear, substantial, and real enough to affect the way we think and act.

To bring that Godly knowledge or wisdom into our reality, we have to look outside the 9 dots of our own finite minds. I’ve often found that heavenly revelations are literally floating at the edges of my peripheral vision.

I can be going along in my own thoughts, and all wound up in work or people’s problems or any number of other things, but I just know that there’s something else I’m supposed to see.

The Lord wants us to look outside of the box. The phrase “thinking outside the box” originally comes from the popular “nine dots” puzzle. I’ll show you. Here are the 9 dots:

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The goal of the puzzle is to connect all 9 dots using 4 or fewer straight lines, without lifting the pen and without going over the same line more than once. The key is to go beyond the boundaries to link all dots.

Thinking only within our limited frame of mind reminds me of a funny story about a guy I worked with. Brian needed to get new glasses. I asked him about his new glasses, and he told me the ones he had before were super fancy, all the bells and whistles, all the special features, and everything. When he went to the store, excited to get his new glasses, he put them on, and he hated them. He found that the frames were way too small, and he didn’t like seeing only through that little space. So, he had to send them back.

Like Brian, we want to see the big picture, and as Christians, we want to see it from the Lord’s point of view.

Isaiah 54:2 says: “Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.” I think we can take that metaphorically, as well as what it says in 1 Chronicles 4:10: “Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me!”

I think one of the biggest Holy Spirit blockers is that our minds are too full of other stuff, and we get preoccupied with it all. We need to find a way to ease our minds and slow the frenzy, so that we can even begin to look to the side for the things of the Spirit.

Everyone will find their own way to do this. Some people speak in tongues to calm their minds. Some take a hot bath. Others do deep-breathing exercises or other forms of exercise. I’m sure you can think of at least one thing you can do that helps calm your frenzied mind. And if not, pray for the Lord to show you some alternatives to try. “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it” (John 14:14).

Some friends have said their best time to hear from the Holy Spirit is in the morning, somewhere between sleeping and waking. I tend to agree. But the Holy Spirit’s messages sometimes just hang there at the edge for days or even weeks until I’m calm enough to realize it’s there, and then I turn to observe. The results are always great.

God took a world that “was without form [worthless, confused] and void [empty, ruin]” (Gen. 1:2), renewed it, and made it beautiful. If He could renew a whole world, He can renew you and me.

It’s so worth it to look outside a small frame of mind and outside the 9 dots of carnal thinking. Let’s look rather to the truths He puts in our peripheral vision and “stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords” (Isa. 54:2).

Love, Carolyn

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