The Bishop’s Mind: Christian Wisdom, Daily Devotionals & Empowering Messages for Kingdom Living

  Sowing Into the Spirit: Why Shame Is Not the Solution                                                                       "Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life."   Galatians 6:8 (KSB)    In the Kingdom of God, there's a foundational principle that governs how we live, thrive, and experience God's best. Sowing and reaping. This divine law isn't based on wrath, curses, or attacks from the enemy, it's based on the choices we make daily.  Our lives reflect the harvest of our thoughts, words, and actions. The apostle Paul tells us plainly: we can either sow into the flesh our ego, our lower consciousness, our sinful nature or sow into the ...

  Work It: How Galatians 5:9 Teaches Us to Co-Create a Risen Life     "A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough." Galatians 5:9 (KSB)                                                             It works if you work it. It doesn’t work if you don’t and nobody else can do the work for you. You have to work it yourself.  In Galatians 5, the Apostle Paul uses the image of yeast working through dough to symbolize how even a small principle or influence can shape the entire course of your life. He likens the journey of spiritual transformation to the making of bread: you co-create with God, applying divine principles, allowing them to spread through every area of your life until you rise into your full, God-ordained potential. Yeast or leaven, as it’s called in older translations has power. But...