This is so brief it can hardly be called a post. I just believe somebody needs this phrase today that came to me while I was enjoying His presence. "Never let a circumstance defile your purpose."

I've been thinking about this phrase lately. You can begin a movement without affecting the culture, but without a culture, the movement is not sustained.
In 1924, GK Chesterton wrote the following: "What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves."
And this is why revival culture is so important.

I received a question on whether or not love and hate can coexist. Here's my response.

Love directs hatred toward anything that interferes with love. It is in the mere existence of love that you develop the passion to defend it. Why would you "take a bullet" for someone you love? Because you "hate" the bullet that threatens to destroy them. You have nothing against the bullet as it is, but rather when it's misused you are passionately willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to counter it's misuse. Hatred (in the context of coexisting with genuine love) is the passion to defend love, not destroy it.

God's wrath is aimed at whatever interferes with His love.

So in light of this, I pose a question back a you. Did Jesus die on the cross because He hated sin or because He loves us?

Look at the words of Jesus in Matt 7:23 and ask yourself this question. What does God not know? He has a higher value for a dynamic relationship with you than in you having a dynamic ministry. Rather than a warning to be feared, recognize the invitation to intimacy. There is a movement here where He’s taking us to from being “the Father” to “Father” to "Abba/Papa/Daddy". Intimacy does not decrease His holiness for holiness is not held captive by formality. Just as a father rewards the honest transparency of his child by giving him more wisdom, it is your articulation of intimacy that positions you for revelation from your heavenly Father. In your speech, you create the communication that invites communion with the abundance of your heart. Here's what I did with this. I thought about what it would be like to pray like Jesus did in John 17 when He expressed His heart to the Father. So I got a cup of coffee, and sat outside one morning on the porch and said outloud, "Good morning, Papa. I'm so glad to wake up in Your presence..." And then it got personal. You can't even begin to imagine what happens when your value for dynamic relationship meets His.