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✨ For the LORD’s Portion is His PPL

There are moments when a truth doesn’t just sound good—it settles you. Lately, it’s been this: “You know me.” Not as a question. Not as a fear. But as a realization. We read in Deuteronomy 32:9: “For the LORD’s portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.” And if we’re honest, that’s hard to fully take in. We’re used to reaching for God as our inheritance. But here, God flips it: We are His. His portion. His inheritance. Known… and still chosen When David responds to God in 2 Samuel 7, after being promised an everlasting kingdom and a Father-son relationship, he says in awe: “You know Your servant.” And what’s striking is this: This is before Bathsheba. Before Uriah. Before plotting Uriah’s murder and having him killed. David isn’t speaking from a place of recovery— he’s speaking from revelation. “You know me… not just who I am, but who I will be—what I will do… and You still said that. You still promised. You still committed to being my Father and establishing my king...

🥂 My Cup Runeth Over

There are moments in Scripture that don’t just inform us—they expose something. Not about us first… but about God. One of those moments is when David is sitting before the LORD in 2 Samuel 7. God had just spoken to him. Not correction. Not reduction. Not a reminder of his past. A promise. An everlasting kingdom. A Father-son relationship. A future that stretches far beyond David’s present reality. And what makes it even more striking is this: David had already been told he would not build the house of God because he had shed much blood (1 Chronicles 28:3). That’s real. That’s on the table. And yet… so is the promise. 🙇🏽‍♂️ “Is this Your way with man?” David’s response is not strategy. It’s not planning. It’s not “what do I do next?” He goes in. He sits. And he says: “Is this Your way with man, O Lord God?” In other words: “Is this how You deal with people?” Because what he just heard doesn’t match what we would expect. We would expect limitation. Measured response. Careful distance....

🌍👑 On Earth as in Heaven

“Seek first the Kingdom of God…” We’ve heard it. Quoted it. Even built disciplines around it. But what if Jesus wasn’t talking about priority of effort … What if He was talking about clarity of sight ? 👁️ Seeking Is Seeing To “seek” the Kingdom is not to chase something distant. It is to recognize what is present . “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Not coming. Not eventually. At hand. Within reach. Available to be perceived. So when Jesus says “seek first,” He’s saying: “Learn to see from this reality first.” Because once you do… everything changes. 🧠 Recognition Changes Everything We don’t live from what we don’t see. And we don’t rest in what we’re not convinced of. But when the Kingdom becomes clear— when the will, mind, and intention of God come into focus— Something happens within us: Striving gives way to rest Confusion gives way to clarity Fear gives way to peace Not because we tried harder… But because we see differently . 👑 Jesus Was Locked In Jesus didn’t move uncertainl...

🌵 Hence, the Wilderness

There is a verse in Deuteronomy where God warns Israel that when everything starts going well — when the houses are built, the wells are full, the vineyards are producing, and silver and gold are multiplied — they must be careful not to forget the LORD who brought them out of Egypt. It is a strange warning when you think about it. God is essentially saying, I intend to bless you so much that it will become dangerous for you. Dangerous not because of enemies, but because of forgetfulness . That thought changes how we look at the wilderness. We often think the wilderness is a sign that something is wrong, that we missed God, that we took a wrong turn somewhere. But in scripture, the wilderness is not a mistake. It is the Spirit’s leading . The Spirit led Israel into the wilderness. The Spirit led David into the wilderness. The Spirit led John the Baptist into the wilderness. And the Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness. If the Spirit leads there, then the wilderness cannot mean we are of...

🪨 Walk Before Me and Be Tamiym

In Genesis 17, God appears to Abram when he is ninety-nine years old and says something that many of us have misunderstood for a long time: “I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou perfect.” When we read the word perfect , we often think of flawlessness, moral performance, or never making mistakes. But the Hebrew word used there is tamiym , and it does not primarily mean flawless performance. It means whole, complete, entire, sound, intact . It is a word used for things that are not broken, not divided, not lacking. So when God told Abram, “Walk before Me and be tamiym,” He was not telling Abram to try harder. He was calling Abram into wholeness . This reminds me of the way God speaks in Genesis 1. When the earth was dark and formless, God said: “Let there be light.” He did not say, “Try harder to become light.” He did not say, “Work toward becoming light.” He said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God speaks in a way that creates what He commands . So when He says to...