When my brother was making it into town on business, my mother just had to do something. So, of course, she came up with a way to get him and her, along with yours truly, into a Thanksgiving extravaganza at her house. After all, he's not going to be in town next week.

The end result: I was one of the first people in the United States to have Thanksgiving dinner in 2019. Worth it, too. And my mother, who is 83, insisted on cooking the dinner. That's...

Revelation 4:1 - "After this, I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you..."

There is a constant and continual (unbroken) communion that we have been invited into. There is ascending and descending (John 1:51) always happening as we dwell with Him and allow a habitation of His Holy Spirit to be a river of life that flows to us and through us....

One of the newspapers I subscribe, The Times (won't be more specific) has a service that produces, in real-feel, newspapers going back to before the Civil War. The way it works is each page is replicated exactly as it was printed. Let's say you pull up the November 12, 1923 and see an article which interests you, "Incensed People Join in Demonstrations Hostile to Von Kahr" underneath the banner "Hitler Forces Rallying Near Munich...". So you click on the article, which...

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Micah 2:13 AMP - "The breaker [the Messiah, who opens the way] shall go up before them [liberating them]. They will break out, pass through the gate and go out; so their King goes on before them, the Lord at their head."

The Lord is going before you right now with new power to break things open for you -- the key to this is to keep moving forward and don't stop or look back. It is important to keep your eyes on the Lord and not the waves or the voices of discouragement....