Until Jesus is enough, no person, place, or thing will ever be. Slow down to reflect.  Lord, am I still anchored in You or have I drifted? Being stilled in that quiet, God reminds us of something simple but pretty deep. His fixed, unchanged truth is rock solid. But all of us on occasion look to people to fill silence, we look to relationships to soothe the ache of emptiness. We look to achievement, seasons, titles, platforms, routine, anything to make us feel whole. And it works for a minute until it doesn’t. Psychologically, this is what happens when we attach our sense of safety, worth and identity to external sources. The identity we assume comes from voices in this world, not God’s voice. The limiting beliefs are just stories we heard and repeated. God tells us the truth, so choosing to be still and listen is wise.  The words He tells us do edify our spirit with a truth that never changes. There once was a time that I thought I wouldn’t be able to live a life based on faith in God. There was a time I doubted that I’d be able to be accepted for who God created me to be. There was a time I did not believe I could be loved. Because of God’s living and active Word, what I once doubted — became my reality. The difference between people who live in victory and limited believers is that the victorious people see possibilities, while limited believers only see obstacles. Stop doubting what God says is truth. “I am adopted, I am His treasured beloved.”

Our words shape not only our identity, but our reality, therefore, we speak positively to program our subconscious for victory. Our speech programs what we will physically and emotionally experience. Our words command our minute by minute listening heart and subconscious.  Each time we say, “I’m tired, I’m broke, I’m sick, I’m unliked, I’m depressed!” Our brain believes it. God’s Word tells us how to think. “Think whatever is true, lovely, or praiseworthy.” Know and accept that God sees us as His perfect, redeemed, Holy Spirit filled, exceptional child! Take that truth in deeply! Repeat this and believe, “I am God’s beloved and wherever I am, He is. He knew me before I was born, and He has equipped me with power from on high. I am enough, I am never alone, and my Father listens and rejoices over me. Opportunities are coming my way. I am learning and growing daily. I walk in victory. I am grateful and blessed.” These are words of truth.  God’s will for us is very good. He delights in us as we accept His plan to prosper us as our thoughts become actions that create a wonderful reality. So choose words wisely because our heart and subconscious was wired by God to listen and obey. The moment that a soul drifts away from truth, our nervous system panics. We feel abandoned, anxious, unstable, empty, not because something is wrong with us, but because we asked something temporary to do the job of something eternal. The Scriptures instruct clearly. Jeremiah 2:13 “My people have committed two evils. They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters and dug out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”  In other words, we keep running back to broken containers that can NEVER hold what only God provides, living water. “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” Matthew 12:34 This Word from God emphasizes that what is in our hearts and minds will ultimately be reflected in our words and actions. Our speech is a direct indicator of our inner thoughts and loyalties. God hears every word, is He pleased? Do we serve the kingdom of God or evil with our words? Listen to His whispers and obey gladly.

The hard hearted woman at the well said to God, “You are perfect and I am but a wretched woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,.but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4 The woman at the well had looked into the eyes of Truth with a broken heart. Jesus met her with grace and spoke to her higher self. To accept who we are in His eyes is to understand the two versions of self.  She shifted from self judgment to the acceptance of truth. The two parts of self is the old ego self and our new higher self. The ego self complains about all things, sees only mistakes, has a scarcity mindset and lives in a victim mentality. The higher self is grateful and sees joy in every moment, grasps onto lessons and sees opportunities with a mindset of abundance. The enlightened self takes responsibility for each thought. It acts to create God’s will with gentleness and self-control.  Ego reacts, as the submitted to God self responds with grace. Our ego self looks for problems. Our higher self searches for ways to extend grace to others and self.  Ego blames, as the obedient higher self reflects. Ego competes, the higher self elevates. If a soul is always triggered, on edge and always trying to prove something, that is ego or pride talking. If we find ourself quiet in a PAUSE to zoom out, we CHOOSE peace over performance.  Humbly we submit to the Holy Spirit power that disconnected souls deny. We do not rise by force, we rise by awareness of He who abides within us is greater and trustworthy.

Limit your consumption of what the world has to say. Until Jesus is enough, people will disappoint us. Places will always feel temporary, things will always lose their shine. And here’s the part that we don’t like to admit. When Jesus isn’t enough, we place pressure on people that are not responsible for our peace. We expect broken people to comfort us, to validate us, to rescue us, to fill the ache God is trying to heal. That’s not love, we burden others with our love leaking container, our human unquenchable need. Jesus said in John 6:35 “I am the bread of life, whoever comes to Me will never grow hungry and whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty.” Not occasionally satisfied, not temporarily full. When Jesus becomes enough, something shifts inside us. We stop clinging, we stop chasing, we stop needing people to stay in order for us to feel secure. We then love deeply without attaching desperately. We give freely without needing to be repaid emotionally. We walk away from what hurts without feeling guilty because our source of truth says “Walk this way”. 

How treasured is our faith in Jesus? 2,000 years before Jesus was born, Abraham saw the substitute, the foreshadowing of how God would provide a future sacrifice. Abe rejoiced at the thought of Jesus. John 8:56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.” In the old testament people were saved by faith in the unseen sacrifice. In the new testament we are saved by the visible sacrifice. AMEN Psalm 62:5 “My soul finds rest in God, my hope comes from Him.” To trust God is not weakness, it is wisdom and strength.  When Jesus is enough, relationships become a gift, not a lifeline. Seasons become lessons, not identities. Scripture is our daily Bread, not a sugary substitute. We stop asking people to be God in our life and we stop being crushed when they can’t make us whole. Until Jesus is enough, soul’s will always feel like something is missing. But when we choose Jesus as our sufficient Rock, we realize that nothing more was ever needed because Jesus is enough! The moment Jesus becomes the Source of all things in life, everything else can finally take its rightful place, below Christ. Choose to serve God with every thought, kind action, and gift He gave. Prioritize serving others, while breaking free from old patterns by enforcing your limits. This is not selfish, it is wisdom. If choosing to serve the higher self feels uncomfortable, that means Holy Spirit is filling a void. Guilt is not our guide. Guilt comes from an old voice that echoes shame. But Holy Spirit reminds us that there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. Our wellness is a priority so that we can serve from an overflow of His goodness. Rest in Jesus — renews us for His purpose. Stop explaining why rest is needed. Set boundaries to refuel because our energy level matters for the Kingdom and that His joy may be complete in us.

As believers look around at this world, we don’t see progress. We see evil increasing and truth being mocked. We hear what God calls good being called evil, and what God calls evil being celebrated. We witness families breaking apart as children are abused. We cry as many hearts grow cold. 2026 is the most incredible time to be alive as an adopted, sealed child of God because the day is coming when evil will not have the final say, deception will actually be silenced forevermore, and tears will be wiped away! Jesus defeated evil forever. The day is soon coming when our belief in Jesus will result in seeing our Lord face to face, in glory forever.  With deception advancing, many believers wrestle with “how long, oh Lord?”  These days are celebrated because soon is accelerated. The darkness is not proof that God is losing, it is His written promise being seen in the daily news.  His mercy clock is running out just as our Father said it would.  Before the return of Jesus Christ, evil lawlessness will increase and abound. Talking heads deceive many  as the spirit of Antichrist is making wild claims. In Awe of God’s mercy and long extended patience, we watch not in theory, but in real time.  Praise God as every crime scene makes His promise shine brighter. As the world offers less hope, our anchor of hope becomes unmistakable. When the world grows colder, His love feels warmer. And as the world grows darker, His light becomes impossible to ignore. Wisdom is to consider why? If this world were comfortable, and if justice always prevailed, if peace ruled the nations, if truth was honored and righteousness was rewarded, we might just forget how desperately we need Jesus. But this broken world reminds us daily that the planet we live on is temporary.  As citizens of heaven, we are just passing through and this is not our home. We are not waiting for governments to fix this. We’re not waiting for technology or AI to save us, and we are not waiting for culture to wake up. We are waiting for our King Jesus to rule and reign! The closer that His return draws, the more the contrast sharpens. The Antichrist will rise, but only because Jesus Christ is coming. As cunning deception slithers, the Truth  enters unshakable! The darkness rages, but it will never overcome the Light of this world. It makes sense that the church would have to be removed so that darkness will have its way in the tribulation. So, what an incredible thing to live in a generation that will never pass away, but live forever in glory with our Promise Keeper, Jesus our Messiah!  We aren’t just reading prophecy or studying history. We are watching scripture come to life. February 2026 is profound, not because of what the world is becoming, but because of the One who is coming to rescue us from it. This isn’t a time for fear, it is time to lift our eyes, because the same Bible that warns us about the darkness also promised us a future so glorious that no amount of suffering in this present time can ever compare to it. AMEN

Revelation 1:3 “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.” We protect our time in His holy presence like it’s the most precious gift. Our Prince of Peace issues His grace and peace during the darkn times, and in the best of times. Our highest self keeps Jesus as our priceless ASSET. The Holy Spirit is in our finest luxury moments. His peace is the most expensive gift we have ever been given. Jesus Himself is the Spirit we possess, and our sacred relationship with Him is not negotiable. We discount His holy presence whenever we entertain lies by the voices  who drain us. With gifted authority we righteously ban energy vampires. Our passenger, the Holy Spirit abides within and He leads us away from whatever is erosive and toxic. We emit His pure transforming radiance. He refines our rough edges, and we submit to His selection of who we allow intimate access. In 2026 we honor His presence in the same way we would welcome royalty.  Enjoy the peace He gives in the midst of all the noise and chaos.

People poison themselves by holding onto bitterness.  We are commanded by God to love others, and ourselves, as He loved us back into His arms with  forgiveness. Forgiving others is obedience, forgiving yourselves is an act of overdue grace. Lay down the burden of all invested time bomb emotions. The words exchanged, the actions, the bad behaviors are all past, and covered by the blood. Only obedience is rewarded with the blessing of His peace.  Our loved ones respond in kind, or they choose to keep the heavy burden of unforgiveness. Choose to walk in the Spirit of forgiveness where there is zero room for resentment. Our Father knows what is best.  Just like Jesus did, draw a tight circle of friends around you. Don’t give everyone access. Say no with grace. Our tender elegance empowers the boundary with angelic protection.  A soul’s quiet sustaining superpower is the Holy Spirit. He needs regular quiet time so we can hear His whisper. He is the Helper who assures us that our emotions do dictate direction, wisdom does. He pricks our conscience to step out of drama, and rise above it. We don’t reflect chaos as our mirror is Jesus. Move with confident grace and certain intention. Evil distracts us with selfish pleasures, while the Spirit directs our minds to focus on what Jesus did for us, and is now doing behind each confusing scene. People see us stay calm when everyone else melts in the fire. We honor our limits without raising our voice. We issue mercy with compassion and protect our peace. Phoebe led with gentleness, not urgency.  Acts 2: Peter raised his voice to address the crowd “Listen carefully to what I say. ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people.” Men will see visions (Iran 2026) men will dream dreams. Both men and women will prophesy. God will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ The patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. Exalted to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” AMEN

To grow in greater grace, we must recognize patterns of stinking thinking as Holy Spirit points out voices that are not His. Maturity comes as we unlearn the limits assigned by family, old teachers, and friends.  The Bible teaches us new patterns of thought to fully embrace. At some point, naming our past stops being healing and starts becoming a cage. Our childhood abuse is not our identity. We died to our old nature and we put on our spotless, forgiven, transformed nature. Our growth begins the minute we realize to unlearn what kept us feeling invisible or insignificant. To heal is not forgetting our past, we simply choose to walk in the Spirit of God in spite of who we once were.  After a certain age in Christ, we are no longer a product of our environment or how we were raised. Liberation comes from recognizing that what triggers us, causes us to grow.  We are empowered to rightly choose how we respond to blind scoffers. Wisdom teaches us that a SOFT answer is BEST. Nothing can steal our peace unless we allow it. The anger or sad button is only pushed by us.  The Holy Spirit liberates us from any right to be ever be offended. We humbly choose to pray about what triggers us.  We then confess the truth that we mostly trigger ourselves. We realign with God and assign zero blame.  There is no justified reason to hold onto bitterness. We must NOT forget that God chose us to be His peace makers.  We refuse to become enslaved to an old worldly pattern of bad behavior.  As a new creation in Christ Jesus we respond with His mercy, grace and quick forgiveness. We prayed for patience, so we use stressful encounters to exercise our faith in He who dwells within us 24/7. We submit to God as He is the rocket fuel that makes our life great. We decide to reflect Jesus and that nobody can trigger us. By the grace of God, we take responsibility of our thoughts as the Holy Spirit nudges and cheers us on.

Fasting is essential to get a spiritual reset. A by-product of fasting and prayer is that our physical health improves in multiple ways. Fasting is the key to gain a heavenly perspective.  If a soul feels disconnected to God, or if hearing His whisper fails your ears, fast from food while feasting on His Word. There’s a reason why they took fasting out of some translations of the Bible.  The pharmaceutical companies do not want you to know that fasting is the way to get healthier and to prevent diseases. Artificial intelligence erases what it has been programmed to delete  Fasting is the way to get closer to God, so the AI version minimizes that fasting works. The Bible is real and God is real. Fasting is a way to reset with the whole truth. First off, food is replaces the Comfortor. Food is a common world way to connect with others. We gather around a table after church to eat. We meet up with friends at a cafe that does not restrain our eating. The enemy is at work 24/7 to kill and destroy us with every kind of addiction.  Jesus and His disciples walked long and ate maybe once a day. We are an overfed, over stimulated generation. Commercials are designed to seduce us to eat and over indulge. The quality of restraunt food is marginal. The oil used to prepare it is poison. Today there are new diseases born out if the food we inhale.  The food pyramid is upside down as it promotes three meals a day. God’s Word will reprogram our mind, but we must exercise the fruit of the Spirit, and not bite the apple of temptation. Fasting and prayer bring us closer to God. Holy Spirit fills us up until we are fully satisfied with the One who is ever sufficient to meet all our physical and spiritual needs.

Eating God’s word leads to a life of love, health, and a prospering soul. A mind of Christ ever expands to embrace the fullness of God. We gladly prioritize the feeding of our inner spiritual man. If the healer is living in us how can we declare we are sick? If the Provider is our roommate, why do we speak lack?  The God who spoke the universe into existence is lives in us. Agreement with the Author of all Scriptures gives us confidence in limitless possibility. As we digest the Word of God and allow it to assimil, we speak with the divine authority we were given. God’s ability becomes our ability as we walk and decree and agree in faith. Think with the mind of Christ. A soul ruled by its  selfish flesh is easily offended and holds grudges. The Spirit ruled soul loves to please God in agreement. They are so full of God that only love overflows through their speech and actions. Thet walk in health and recognize that sickness is an outlaw without a legal right to dwell in the temple of God. Any symptoms are met with authoritative speech. Without panic, they speak to the symptoms and demand realignment with God’s Word. As a temple of the living God, we do not beg God to heal,  we command the sickness to leave in the name of Jesus. Eternal life is the nature of God.  Our Father stated that His Word never returns void, and we trust His Word implicitly. God is faithful and God His divine nature dominates our body, mind, and spirit. His nature flows through us and the watching world is astounded by our faith!  Romans 8 “Creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God.” Therefore, we stop starving our spirit and begin feasting on the living, active Word. We are over feeding our body 3 times a day while we feed our spirit once a week! We are in covenant agreement with the Creator of all that is, and is to come. Decree in faith. “I will not live by bread alone. I will not be ruled by what I see on the news.  I will not be ruled by the symptoms in my body.” I decided to set aside time daily to feed my invisible, inner man. I shut off the noise of the world and I open my Bible.  I don’t just read it, I eat it, I chew on it. I soak my spirit until it changes the way I think, talk, and act.   I thank my Father for giving me His daily bread. I am His edified Ambassador with the life of God, the Zoe pulsating in my spirit.  He lives in me, and I in Him. I rest in the integrity of God’s word.  AMEN

The Lord commands the prophet Ezekiel to eat a scroll that contains words of lamentation, mourning, and woe. Ezekiel 3:1-3 “And He said to me, ‘Son of man, eat whatever you find here; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.’ So I opened my mouth, and He gave me this scroll to eat. And He said to me, ‘Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you, and fill your stomach with it.’ Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.”  To obey, we digest, we internalize God’s message to us. It is our responsibility to proclaim, to decree, to believe God at His Word. The imagery of eating the scroll suggests that God wants us to fully understand intellectually as well as assimilate His Word deeply in our spirit.