ABBY TRIVETT What if the breakthrough that has refused to come for years doesn’t need another year? In a resurfaced prophetic message from the late Kim Clement, the famed prophetic voice challenged believers to reconsider something painfully easy to lose after seasons of disappointment: the expectation that God can change everything suddenly. “God is a God of suddenly,” Clement declared. And his message didn’t stop with personal breakthrough. Clement prophetically spoke of na

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” -2 Corinthians 10:4–5 There is a battlefield closer than any nation or city—it is the mind. Thoughts are not neutral; they are seeds. What you allow to remain will eventually rule. The enemy does not always attack with events

Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” There are moments when the Lord does not whisper—He strikes. Not in rage, but in precision. Not to destroy you, but to shatter what has resisted Him. The hammer of God is His Word released with authority. It comes when cycles refuse to break, when pride calcifies into stone, when systems of darkness fortify themselves and dare heaven to respond. The hammer is not sw

“I will cool you insensibly, by degrees, by little and little.” At the end of one year, on the cusp of another, I remember the words that once haunted the soul of seventeenth-century pastor John Bunyan (1628–1688). He imagined the devil skulking nearby, not as a raging dragon but as a patient and calculating snake, as one who waits “until an opportune time” (Luke 4:13). “What care I,” the tempter says, “though I be seven years in chilling your heart if I can do it at last? Co

Gardening At Dove Cottage A couple of years ago, I kept having a digestive issue that consistently took me to the hospital. Severe pain in my side. Not appendicitis, but they kept telling me I had diverticulitis, but the pain was on my right side. In the meantime, my body was swelling, and my abdomen looked horrendous. On another trip to the hospital I was told it's your age and it comes with age. I could not buy that, I was in pain! One night it was so bad I drove myself to

I stepped into the lower garden a week ago, a tranquil space that often serves as my refuge from the chaos of daily life, and as I did, I was suddenly enveloped by an unexpected sound. It was an old mill grinding sound, resonating through the air with an eerie yet precise quality that seemed to echo the whispers of time itself. Then, amidst the gentle rustling of leaves, I heard a loud SPLAT, which startled me and drew my attention skyward. In that moment, I was gifted with a

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Soon after my wife and I purchased our first home, I tilled the entire backyard. It was a pretty good size. “You tilled the ENTIRE backyard,” my wife asked. “Well, yeah,” I said, “Now I won’t have to mow it.” “But you’ll have to weed it,” she quipped right back. And so amidst a lot of weeding over the years, I come to find there are quite a few parallels to taking care of a garden and life with God. When I was really young my dad had kept a garden, mostly to keep the grocery

This Fourth of July, America commemorates its “Supercentennial” anniversary—marking 250 years of being one nation under God. Throughout Scripture, the Lord often instructs His people to remember His acts of salvation, faithfulness, and provision (see Deuteronomy 4:9; Psalm 77:11). As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, I believe it is only fitting for us to reflect on the blessings of America’s legacy and the sacrifices that made those blessings possible. Two and a half ce

Because I spent most of my life traveling all over the country as I did ministry, I have had coffee in a lot of different places. I love a fresh, hot, robust flavored cup of coffee with cream and a tiny bit of sweetener in it. Most of all, it absolutely has to be fresh. Prior to K-cup coffee, we had all kinds of coffee brewing systems. When I grew up, it was a metal pot that you put on the stove and perked. The smell of that freshly perked coffee would permeate the whole hous