October - 2025

Tend to My Altar in You

When I asked the Lord about the one thing that was most upon His heart, I heard, 'Tend to My Altar in you.' This month is linked to altars. good and evil, being built or torn down. (Noah, Gideon, Jeroboam, etc.) All of these speak into the state of His Altar in us and how we attend to it, or not. The critical factors for fire to burn brightly in nature are these: Structure, Fuel, Oxygen, and Heat. Each of these have parallels in the spirit, and to rightly tend to the

New Beginnings Require 'ALL IN'

In this 8th biblical month there is extraordinary grace available for new beginnings - fresh starts. Assuming you could use one. All new beginnings must start with divine direction and favor as it was with Noah who 'found grace in the sight of the Lord.' We like that part, but as we dig down into the people, events, and scriptures linked to this month, we quickly discern a pattern: What must be left behind. Old patterns, models, relationships, resources, identities, an

Time to Trigger Consummate Thirst

Thirst was designed to be a powerful and primal survival instinct so we would fight to find a way to quench it. Yet when it comes to THE Thirst 'we are far too easily pleased' (CS Lewis) with trite and often dangerous substitutes. For Jesus - thirst was His strategy at the well, His invitation at the Feast, and His cry from the cross. (John 4,7,19) These encounters help us understand, engage, increase, and satisfy not only our thirst, but those of others, and t