Outrageous Courage: What God Can Do with Raw Obedience and Radical Faith

After Jesus Himself, you can have no greater treasure than friends who will take a bullet for you and who are willingly to pour out any amount of time, resources, strength and affection for you. I would not be who I am and where I am today without these friendships.

Though we pleaded with her not to leave, she went back to him and back to her old life. It was heartbreaking to see her make that choice, but in the end we just had to commit her destiny to the Lord and trust that her story was not over, even if our part in it was.

“Spend yourself.” That was it. I got up and looked up the phrase in my concordance. Isaiah 58:10 says, “Spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed”

Do not get me wrong—I do not flippantly wander into dangerous situations or war zones just for kicks. I just know that when God speaks to me, He is going to fulfill His word. Everything about God is supernatural, so walking with Him inevitably launches us into a supernatural lifestyle. And I know that if I go where He sends me, it is always going t

To be honest, if the Lord had given me any more information about the escalating conflict and all the hazards involved, I probably would not have gone. I have come to realize that if I ask Him something and He does not answer me, there is often a good reason! The truth is that we do not need to know all the details. We just need to trust the Man wh

You were worth Jesus’ obedience, and He is worth yours. He really did it all for you. His love for you is deeper and more personal than the most devoted mother for her baby; more than the most passionate lover for his beloved. When such love overtakes your life, it leaves no contenders. And the surest way to be overtaken by His love is to pursue Hi

with spouses and family members and living with freedom and joy such as they had never known. For me, one of the main themes of this season was learning to live in the freedom of being a daughter who, like Christ, was responsible simply to see and hear what the Father was doing and join Him at His invitation—no more, no less. I was not to be deceiv

One of the central themes that began to emerge in my early years in Weaverville was the importance of obedience, of listening to the Lord’s voice at all costs and knowing that what happens in the end is not my responsibility. Rather, it is my responsibility to obey and to let Him take care of the details. As

But love suffers long, and Jesus draws near to the brokenhearted.