Month: January 2026

Doing life together is a partnership. As we learn to do life with God, we must know His part and know our part. The most effective relationships work when we know and do our part and allow the other person to know and do their part.

To do life together takes trust. The more you trust someone the easier it is to do life with them. The reason being is because you know they will do what they say they will do and they know you will do what you say you will do. There is no manipulation, control, fear, anxiety, or deception. Trust is the key to doing life with others.

As we walk with God, He is truth, He is light, He is hope, He is joy, He is life, He is authentic in the truest sense of the word. Trusting God should be the easiest thing we can do, but you can’t trust who you don’t know.

From Genesis 1 until now, God has wanted to walk with us, He trusts us, wants to do life with us, but we have a role to play in this relationship. Psalm 32:1-2 lays out this relationship perfectly. “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.”

God forgives our transgressions, covers our sins and does not count them against us. This is His role in this relationship. Our role is to live with no deceit in our spirit. We have been really good at letting God play His role in our lives, being forgiven, but we have not been good at letting the truth set us free from deceit.

Deceit is what has kept us from doing life with God and others. Deceit is the enemy of all relationships. If we do not love truth, no matter what lie that means we must address, we will not be able to do life with God or others, for our role is to have a spirit in which there is no deceit.

No wonder Paul said in Romans 12:2 do not be conformed, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. We must not go another day with the deceit in our spirit that is hindering our ability to do life with God and with others. Truth is the only way, not my truth or your truth, but God’s truth that sets us free. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Immediately upon awaking this morning the Holy Spirit said, “It is time to be circumcised again.” I knew this was a quote from Joshua 5:2 “At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again.” Now the question was is this personal or national and as I read the story in which the verse comes from, I knew this was a command for national circumcision.

We have crossed over into a New Year, Israel had crossed over into a new land. Upon arrival in the new, the Lord called for circumcision again. But why? Haven’t we been through enough? Can’t we get to possessing what has been promised? The answer is yes, so we must be circumcised again as a nation.

The wilderness period is over. We are in the new land God has for us. Circumcision in Joshua 5 is tied to promise realized, it is about rolling away the reproach of Egypt, it is about establishing and reconstituting our covenant identity as a nation. We cannot possess the promise until we are marked by circumcision again.

We need this nationally, because all those decades in Egypt/Babylon gave us a slave identity; unfulfilled promises or hope deferred that made our heart sick; and gave us a dependence on Babylon mentality, which caused us to live in survival mode. These things God wants to roll off of us.

Egypt trained us to survive not inherit. Being circumcised again is giving us a new identity so we can begin again. This circumcision is preparing us to possess all that God has for us. We must be circumcised again as a nation.

Once we establish our national identity, we will walk in national authority and then be able to access our national inheritance. This circumcision again is happening to many many nations around the world, not just one, but many. God is preparing nations to inherit what He has promised them.

Our new learning curve is to move from survival to inheriting and this shift will be massive, so it starts with circumcision, which will roll back the reproach of Egypt so we can enjoy this Psalm 126 year where we are like those who dream! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org