There is power in the tongue, power in the words we speak.  To encourage someone is actually to put COURAGE into them. I want to master the art of encouragement. I want to be a people that encourage the heart and not the hands; that encourage people in their identity, calling and destiny rather than the acts they do. I want to be someone that is generous with my words, that when I see something God is doing in someone I speak it out because that truth brings life, it builds people up, it literally begins to shift something not only in the persons spirit receiving the encouragement but...

I thought I would write a blog with facts and details about our life here in Swaziland that we might overlook because they are our everyday life now but will hopefully help paint a picture for you of our home here in Swaziland.   –          We stay in a small rural town called Tinbutini, 30 minutes outside of the city Manzini –          We stay on a homestead in a hut on awesome bunk beds –          We have electricity!...

Sitting in on a revival last week at the church, something one of the men speaking said stuck out to me. “God doesn’t know this place, Timbutini, so we must meet him half way.� He said. While I understand the point he was trying to make it stuck out to me because of just how wrong he was about that. Not just for the obvious reason that God himself created this place and the people so he of course would know, but also because of the atmosphere that resides here and that little something that the people themselves possess. Anyone, non-believer or believer, cannot deny that there is...

“I believe that your hope for growth, meaning and fulfillment as a Christian is based on understanding who you are — specifically, your identity in Christ as a child of God. Your understanding of who God is and who you are in relationship to Him is the critical foundation for your belief system and you behavior patterns as a Christian.â€� (from Victory Over the Darkness)   Over the past couple seasons of my life the Lord has pressed on my heart the importance of realizing our identity in Christ; seeing ourselves and others through his eyes and walking tall as children of...