Month: July 2025

Did you know that dynamite has a long shelf life? It can sit on a shelf for a long time and not lose its power. The length of time on the shelf for dynamite does not diminish its power, though it may sit there waiting year after year after year.

Did you know the word of God is like dynamite, it may sit on the shelf of your bookcase, or in the holder on the pew in front of you at church, or on the app on your phone. It may sit there, but it does not lose any of its power, no matter how long it sits there.

The only thing dynamite is waiting for is a detonator. What if you are the detonator that will unleash the power of God’s word in someone else’s life? What if they’re filled with power, but they need a detonator? Dynamite will sit there, full of power, but unable to operate by design until it is detonated.

Jeremiah 23:28-29 says “Let these false prophets tell their dreams, but let my true messengers faithfully proclaim my every word. There is a difference between straw and grain! Does not my word burn like fire? says the LORD. Is it not like a mighty hammer that smashes a rock to pieces?”

The word of God is powerful, it is explosive, but it is not destructive, it is reconstructive. We are the detonators that release the power of the word of God. As we open our mouth and prophesy the word of God, pray the word of God and preach the word of God, we detonate the explosive power of God’s word in people’s lives.

What if you are the detonators that people are waiting for? What if they are powerful, anointed, prepared for purpose, and you will be the spark that activates the power in them and through them? Everybody wants to be dynamite and you are, but you are also a detonator for others. May we detonate the power of God inside of each other, by speaking the word of God over each other. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I have a friend of mine named Carmen, who shared with me one time that we affect our development emotionally if we do not learn to crawl before we are forced to walk. Crawling is an essential part of our development as people.

We as the body of Christ have been crawling for a long time, for God has brought us through some deep valleys, across some rough rivers, and led us through some dry wildernesses. But it was all needed for our development.

Now it is time to not just walk, but to run. Not for the sake of speed, but as a sign of wisdom that was gained in the early developmental stages of the body of Christ. We cannot remain on our knees crawling along through life, we must stand up on our feet.

The apostles and prophets understood the call to stand up. The prophet Ezekiel said when he encountered the spirit of God he fell face down and the Spirit of God told him to stand up, so he could speak to him. The apostle Paul exhorts us in Ephesians 6 to stand and keep on standing. The apostle John saw visions of God and fell down, but the angel told him to stand up. There is biblical precedence for us to stand up.

We are being invited to the next stage of our development as the body of Christ, it is time to stand up; To walk; and to run. Stand in your identity, walk in your authority and run with wisdom. Proverbs 4:11-13 says, “I will teach you wisdom’s ways and lead you in straight paths. When you walk, you won’t be held back; when you run, you won’t stumble. Take hold of my instructions; don’t let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life.”

Friends progressing through development is what freedom feels like. Stand up, we have ground to take, people to serve, love to give and receive. Crawling felt like mobility, but wait until you start walking and then running, it is a whole new way of advancing the kingdom of God together. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

There was a trend for a while when students would paint rocks and put nice sayings or scripture verses on them and leave them in various locations. Those rocks you may have walked passed and didn’t know it, or you may have seen them and know what I am talking about.

This morning, I was at the park very early this morning walking the dog and as I was praying and processing out loud with the Lord, I began to thank Him as He revealed to me what He was doing in a challenge I am facing. As the praise rose from my heart out the doors of my lips, I saw a rock with blue paint on it and wondered what the saying on it was.

The rock said, “The pain that you’ve been feeling can’t compare to the joy that is coming. Romans 8:18.” I grabbed that rock and knew it was a word of encouragement for me and added value to the praise I was giving to the Lord for the challenge I have been facing.

Once home, still smiling at the rock the Lord put on my path, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “Even the rocks cry out!” I giggled and began to sing a new song to the Lord saying, Yes, even the rocks cry out the truth of God, yes even the rocks cry out.

Friends, I do not know what you are going through, but I am here to remind you that even the rocks cry out on your path to encourage you that God sees everything, hears everything and works everything together for the good. It may not feel good, but it is working things together for the good. Maybe you need to hear the voice of the rock crying out, like I did, so this one is for you as it was for me as well.

Trauma, grief, pain, it is real, it hurts, it is a loss that is hard to process, but my friends, they all must have an expiration date on them. Trauma was not supposed to become an identity; grief was never to be long-lasting; pain is not meant to remain. When we make a culture out of these issues we face, we actually perpetuate, normalize and continue in them, rather than process through them so we can come out on the other side of them.

Biblically the Hebrew people were told to grieve seven days for someone that died, seven days. God put an expiration date on grief. Why? Because grieving past the expiration date causes more issues than we even realize or recognize. Trauma is a bad memory we keep playing over and over again in our head. If we never process through the trauma we will continue to self-sabotage our relationships with new people in our lives. Friends, we must have an end date for these issues.

We have created a counseling culture in which now it is normal to say I am triggered; I have trauma; and it is real, no doubt about it, but when is the expiration date on these issues? Israel struggled with the same thing, they have four months a year that were fasting months to mourn past memories that we very challenging for them nationally and personally. But God said through the prophet Zechariah, those things you are mourning have expired and God gave a new command.

Zechariah 8:18-19 “The word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

God is wanting to turn our mourning into dancing, our sackcloth into joy, but we want to hang on to past seasons, past hurts, past experiences and they are hindering us in the now that God is inviting us to enjoy. The hurt is real, the memory is legit, the trauma happened, I know, but friends, when are we going to start living again? When are we going to start loving again? When are we going to start enjoying the new people in our life now who didn’t do that to us? We can’t change the past, so when are we going to let it go, so we can live, feast, fellowship and follow the Lord into the abundance of everything He has for us? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org