Coffee Talk with Linda Davis

What a powerful thought! Christ died for us to be united as one regardless of differences, coming together as one for the purposes of empowerment in the Kingdom of God. When we choose to allow division and strife to remain in our hearts and in our actions and aggression toward one another we are minimizing the works of the cross and all Jesus endured for both our freedom and our unity. I've been meditating on the book of Ephesians and it is all about Unity. Being one with Christ, being one with one another, being one in marriage, being one in prayer and all to overcome the wiles of the devil and birth forth God's purposes in the earth. Few pointers from Ephesians but I encourage you to read the whole book, it's not too long only six chapters. Jews and Gentiles were separate and saw each other separately and very much different from one another. There was a dividing wall of hostility between the two, between the circumcised and uncircumcised. God brought unity to a...

I was on a prayer line this morning and while someone else was praying that we not give up our birthright I heard the Lord say "What is your bowl of soup? Everybody has a bowl of soup." We need to know and recognize what our bowl of soup might be so we can overcome it and not let the sweet fragrance of what we desire grow and get stronger to the level of overtaking our focus and our positioning. It's the sweetest trick out there that the enemy has. He convinces us in our minds we can't survive without the soup we desire, we will surely die if we don't have what we want in that moment and everything else becomes insignificant to us in that moment. Let me give you an example of what I am talking about in case you are unfamiliar with Esau and his bowl of soup. In Genesis 25:29-33 Esau can't see anything other than his momentary situation... Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary. 30  And Esau said to Jacob, “Please fe...

Whenever a scripture verse starts out with "therefore" we have to read back a little and see why it is saying "because of, for that reason, since..." Hebrews 12:1-2 starts  off  "THEREFORE THEN..." I really like The Message translation: "Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus , who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there , in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your s...

The condition of our hearts matter most to God. We try to mask our hearts, our hurts, our disappointments, our shame, our struggles, we try to cover these things to others by putting a smile on our face while our hearts are cracking open from dryness from one end to the other. Like a dry and barren desert yet we carry on like all is well. We most certainly cannot fool God and if people are walking in the knowledge that the wellsprings of our lives flow from the conditions of our heart and people look past the smile they will see the pain, they will see a veil is being held up (usually in self-protection mode.) God desires to wash away all in our hearts that was never intended to be there. Let Him come in and flush out all the debris that still remains in your heart. We are never "beyond" a heart flushing. Even yesterday some new debris could have settled in, a word spoken, a word not spoken, an oversight by someone dear to us, an expectation unmet that left disappointment. ...

I was spending time with God this morning and I heard "do not cast your pearls before the swine." I'm pretty familiar with the scripture and it surprised me a little so I decided to study a little deeper into that verse to see exactly what God was saying. This scripture is in Matthew 7 and I believe to get the full meaning of what is being said in scripture we need to read around it. What was going on, what else was being said, what place did it come from. This is all part of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus just finished telling the people (and I'm paraphrasing) don't judge others, don't be a hypocrite, don't criticize because in the same way you exam others you'll be examined! Jesus is also saying don't go after the speck in your brother or sister's eye when there's a plank in your own. Pretty direct and intense and truthfully I think we forget that a lot and we critique everyone that doesn't completely line up with us but that'...