Lead Me To The Rock — The Psalms demonstrate many times how our hearts can find peace, direction, and healing in God’s presence. It shows that God has designed a victory for those who wait on Him. He wants to make us unshakeable, meaning He wants to remove everything that isn’t of Him in our…
What the Heck Just Happened? – God is calling His Church to purity and power. The world no longer has tolerance for an impure, disingenuous, powerless Body of people claiming to represent Christ, but missing Him entirely. Sometimes He interrupts the ordinary with extreme moments to capture our attention draw us to respond in deeper…
Getting Ready for the King — As part of our preparation to rule with Him, God has a specially designed cleansing and pruning process. He wants us to be open to His process. He wants to make us beautiful to Him. The Church often stands in opposition to God’s purification process by praying only for…
2022 Celebration Sunday — River of Life celebrated the wins of 2021 and outlined the focus and direction of 2022. We celebrated the grace of God that flowed through ordinary people. We also encouraged the Body of Christ that their efforts, prayers, and love matter on so many levels. They are doing well! People in…
Clean Hands, Pure Heart – When we are walking in holiness and transparency before the Lord, we find freedom to experience Him in closeness and intimacy. Three things that can affect right-relationship with the Father are impure hands or heart, idolatry, lies. The devouring fire of God mentioned in Scripture, is driven by His intense…
Freedom of an Attitude Adjustment – Our worship is so much more than our songs. Our songs summarize and reflect the heart of our lifestyle worship. Usually a struggling ability to express worship in God’s presence indicates a struggling desire in the lifestyle worship. So, approaching God’s presence to worship means aligning one’s attitude properly…
God’s Building, Our Response — The Lord has the sovereignty in all things and can step into broken places to make a way whenever He desires. He knows how to make things work together for good. Christians were born for the day of adversity, not for luxary. We were designed to deploy into the hostility…
Resistance and Pressing Through — God deeply desires to impact communities through those willing to partner with Him. However, there will typically be resistance to those willing to seek such an impact. In fact, the church itself may at times resist a move of God. Understand that the pursuit God’s Kingdom is messy and offers…
Love Like a Fire — Christ cares for the world and wants to bring freedom, hope, and healing to it through His church. The church of our nation generally loves God, tries to live a good lifestyle, but often does not burn passionately with love for Him. Jesus loves the church immeasurably, and He will…
What Jesus is Doing on the Earth — Jesus is training His people not to resist Him. He is leading the charge with the blessing of repentance among both the godly and ungodly alike. He wants nothing to stand between us and Him. He gives His people a lifestyle of hearing His voice and refreshment…
