Weapons and Strategies

[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]We have 3 plum trees in our front yard. For years these trees put off beautiful blooms in the Spring. When the blooms fell a small fruit remained on the tree. Every year I thought, we will have a good crop this year. But the first Spring storm would knock the small fruits to the ground before they reached maturity. My husband threatened to cut down the trees, but I talked him out of it. For more than ten years this cycle continued. Beautiful blooms. Small, green fruit. Nothing.

Until one year I decided to pray for plums.

Sounds silly right?

Anyway, that year the fruit held on a little longer. But just when the fruit was almost ready for harvest, a southern thunder storm came and knocked the plums to the ground. Hundreds of them. Those little fruits made a mess. Yellow jackets swarmed as the plums rotted on the ground.

I almost gave up. But I continued to pray for plums. (more…)

We were created to have fellowship with God and each other. When there’s no fellowship, there’s no connection or communication. We feel alone, left out, and sometimes forsaken. During this time, the enemy can slip into our minds and convince us that we aren’t important to the kingdom. Because of Read more…