Posts by Gary Hines

Many begin the new year with focused prayer and fasting, which is a great way to launch. As we face what’s on the horizon for 2024, making choices and decisions that will be strategic at many levels it seems that we need to live not only lives of prayer, but fasted lives.  Lives that are…

We are constantly confronted with choices and decisions.  Some are more important than others. I feel impressed of the Lord that 2024 is a year of strategic choices and decisions that will affect destinies.  With every choice/decision there are results or consequences that must be dealt with.  What I sense in my spirit is that…

In The Fulness of Time There are Chronos moments and Kairos moments of time.  God restricts Himself to Chronos  but opts to employ Kairos moments that effect Chronos.  So it was with the advent of Messiah, Jesus the Christ. In the “fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son” (Gal. 4:4).  As in…

The Indescribable Gift! Words seem shallow and futile when it comes to describing something so incredible that seems beyond belief.  The Apostle Paul found himself in such a dilemma while writing to the Corinthian believers concerning God’s “indescribable gift” in the midst of speaking about fiscal responsibilities for the fledgling congregation.    With all the upheaval…

Luke 18:39 (NKJV) Then those who went before warned him that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Luke records an encounter a blind man had with the Lord that graphically illustrates making the most of his opportunity.  There are many lessons in this…

Luke 11:13 (NKJV) If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Jesus continues the theme of persistence in prayer by encouraging us to ask, seek and knock. We’re admonished to ask (supplication, make…

Luke 11:8 (NKJV) I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs. On the heels of sharing the template for their request as “how to pray”, the Lord speaks an…

Luke 11:1 (NKJV) Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” There are many things the Disciples learned from Jesus, yet one thing they asked to be taught…

Mark 16:7 “But go, tell His disciples” This morning on my daily walk I wondered what it must have been like on that first post Resurrection Monday.  News had already traveled, and rumors were being confirmed with eye witness accounts of having seen the Resurrected Lord, Jesus – Lord of the living and of the…

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. In two days we celebrate the discovery of those first seekers that found an empty tomb, a broken seal, a stone rolled away, empty grave clothes and a folded…