Oceans in the Desert

By Kathi Pelton This morning my friend, Gypsy Dallas Smith, posted a story on her Facebook page that someone else had written. This story summed up many conversations that I’ve had recently with believers who are not living their promised abundant life that Jesus came to give them. Unfortunately, many of these believers have created…

THIS IS A STORY OF SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO ME SIX YEARS AGO— God is saying, “This is for now.” I hear the Lord saying that this will be happening to many again. I also felt that it is a message to our Jewish friends to encourage them that many of the Israeli hostages will…

By Kathi Pelton I had a vulnerable conversation with someone who was struggling with some areas of captivity in their life, as well as struggling with a lack of intimacy with God. This individual had been wrestling this captivity with human strength and when that did not bring the freedom he desired, he would back…

By Kathi Pelton In Matthew 12:33-37 God gives us an amazing way to gauge the condition of our hearts. What is that gauge? It is the words that come out of our mouths. “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasures brings forth good,…

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Our Thanksgiving Blessings To You “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High.” Psalm 50:14 We want the offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord for His beautiful body— which is each one of you who are reading this. We give thanks to Him, for you are…

By Kathi Pelton The Lord keeps speaking to me about the word “resistance.” We look at resistance as something to be rebuked (“The enemy is resisting me from moving forward.”) and yet is that to be our first response? Is the resistance an opportunity to grow and be strengthened for this new season? When a…

By Kathi Pelton If there is one thing that I know beyond a shadow of doubt, it is that God’s love and affections for us are extraordinarily greater than we can ever imagine. I believe that when we finally stand before Him and begin to comprehend the depth and heights of His love— we will…

By Kathi Pelton My prayer for you today is that no matter what battle you are facing and no matter how fierce the storms is— that you would be fully fitted with the gospel of peace. The peace of Christ is what gives you calm in any storm and amid all chaos happening around you.…

By Kathi Pelton In 2 Kings 6:1-7 we read the story of when Elisha miraculously recovered the iron axe head that had fallen into the water and sunk. One of Elisha’s disciples had borrowed the axe and while cutting down a tree to make a broadened place for Elisha and his disciples to dwell, the…