My prayer for America, in this season and at this hour, is that we shall soon begin to see the days of His power so that the people will be willing — willing to do His will, to carry out His purpose, and to have the ancient ruins of the heart rebuilt. 🇺🇸
May God write His laws on all hearts, so that no one will need to remind their neighbor of them.
I pray that all of this will be accomplished swiftly, without distractions or disunity, and ultimately with the supply of the Spirit.
Building a prototype and skipping AWS credits entirely. They run out, then you’re stuck chasing more.
Instead: 5 Raspberry Pis. 3 for compute, 1 for the primary DB, 1 for the failover DB + Redis cache.
Full write-up coming soon.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
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Read-worthy contribution to the "Is Kafka a data store?" debate, by Babatunde Fashola (@Fasholaide).
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My take on healing is this:
Jesus healed them all.
If we are truly operating by the power of God, then healing should remain our expectation. We should not lower what Scripture says simply because our experience has not yet caught up with it.
At the same time, I believe we have to understand our role properly: we are managers; God is the Boss. He is the One who heals, and He determines the method, instruction, and timing.
That means you can pray for one person in a particular way and see immediate healing, then do the exact same thing for someone else and see nothing happen. That does not automatically mean God is unwilling to heal. It may mean we need greater discernment concerning what God is doing in that particular situation.
I have thought deeply about why we do not consistently see all the miracles we read about in Scripture, and I keep coming back to two things:
1. We do not always listen in order to perform.
Jesus healed blind people in different ways. He did not reduce healing to a formula.
That tells me that different situations can require different instructions.
Consider Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist. If someone had prayed for him while he was unable to speak, nothing may have happened, not because God lacked the power to restore his speech, but because his condition was temporary and purposeful.
A discerning minister would have needed to recognize: this is not yet the time.
Sometimes the question is not, “Can God heal this?”
The question is, “What is God doing here, and what is He asking me to do?”
2. Consecration matters: individually and corporately.
“…that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”
— 2 Peter 1:4
The desires of this world introduce corruption, not merely sexual lust, but ambition, appetite, distraction, pride, and everything else competing with the life of God within us.
And I do not believe the power of God necessarily rests upon one pastor or prophet in isolation.
You may see one person publicly performing miracles, while behind that manifestation are people praying, fasting, interceding, and living consecrated lives.
There is individual consecration, but there is also corporate consecration.
Faith matters too.
But none of these things should cause us to rewrite the biblical expectation.
Matthew 8:16 says He “healed all that were sick.”
Matthew 12:15 says, “he healed them all.”
Luke 6:19 says virtue went out of Him and “healed them all.”
So the answer, for me, is not to lower our theology to match our experience.
It is to keep believing what the Word says while growing in faith, discernment, consecration, and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.
Our experience should rise to meet the Word, not the Word be brought down to explain our experience.
AI psychosis is real.
Speed and quality are still very much inversely proportional. We keep wanting them to move together, but the constant that makes that relationship directly proportional hasn’t been built yet.
And that constant is definitely not AI. Something else has to be built to fundamentally mutate the relationship between speed and quality in the way we so badly want.
Met a young man on my flight reading A.W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God. It turns out he just preached at the RCCG National Convention I attended! Spotty internet kept me from sharing my full Tozer list from my Kindle/Audible then, so putting it here for future reference:
When God tests us, may we pass in the way He desires. When Abraham passed the test of offering his only son, God saw that Abraham would withhold nothing from Him. The measure by which Abraham was tested is the same measure God holds Himself to:
“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” Romans 8:32