Hi Brian!

I am no musician and I have never had a good singing voice, but for some reason Holy Spirit has always spoken to me through music! He has also often had me use certain songs to share the Word. This week this song by Brook Ligertwood (with Brandon Lake), Honey In The Rock, is what He has given me to share with you! I'm sure you've probably heard it, but it is a powerful declaration of God's provision for every need we will ever have! Here are the lyrics:

[Chorus]
There's honey in the rock
Water in the stone
Manna on the ground
No matter where I go
I don't need to worry
Now that I know
Everything I need You've got
There's honey in the rock

[Verse 1]
Praying for a miracle
Thirsty for the living well
Only You can satisfy

[Verse 2]
Sweetness at the mercy seat
Now I've tasted, it's not hard to see
Only You can satisfy

[Refrain]
There's honey in the rock
There's honey in the rock
There's honey in the rock
There's honey in the rock (Yеah)

[Verse 3]

Freedom where the Spirit is
Bounty in thе wilderness
You will always satisfy, yeah

[Chorus]
There's honey in the rock
Water in the stone
Manna on the ground
No matter where I go
I don't need to worry
Now that I know
Everything I need You've got

[Post-Chorus]
There's honey in the rock
Purpose in Your plan
Power in the blood
Healing in Your hands
Started flowing when You said it is done
Everything You did's enough

[Bridge]
I keep looking, I keep finding
You keep giving, keep providing
I have all that I need
You are all that I need
I keep praying, You keep moving
I keep praising, You keep proving
I have all that I need
You are all that I need
I keep looking, I keep finding
You keep giving, keep providing
I have all that I need
You are all that I need
I keep praying, You keep moving
I keep praising, You keep proving
I have all that I need
You are all that I need
I have all that I need
You are all that I need, yeah

[Chorus]
There's honey in the rock
Water in the stone
Manna on the ground
No matter where I go
I don't need to worry
Now that I know (I know)
Everything I need You've got

[Post-Chorus]
There's honey in the rock
Purpose in Your plan
Power in the blood
Healing in Your hands
Started flowing when You said
It is done
Jesus, Jesus, who You are is enough

[Refrain]
There's honey in the rock
There's honey in the rock
There's honey in the rock
There's honey in the rock

[Outro]
Oh, how sweet
How sweet it is
To trust in You, Jesus
Oh, how sweet
How sweet it is
To trust in You, Jesus
Oh, how sweet
How sweet it is
To trust in You, Jesus
To trust in You, Jesus
We trust in You, Jesus

HE provided for them under the Old Covenant, and OUR Covenant is so much better, more powerful and provided for by the BLOOD of JESUS! The message is, no matter what is happening in the world and BY the world, HE continues to provide for HIS people who put their trust in HIM! All that you and your family have sown into other people including finances, time, energy, wisdom, GOD is MULTIPLYING back to you in every area that you need! I am expecting that 2026 is going to be a year of GREAT FAVOR for you all! We love you all so much and we are very grateful to be a part of your lives! Here is that song!

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!

 Hi Brian!

As I was praying and reading my Bible Plan yesterday, Holy Spirit spoke to me about you. I was reading in Galatians 6,  verses 4-5 and verses 7-9:

4 Let everyone be devoted to fulfill the work God has given them to do with excellence, and their joy will be in doing what’s right and being themselves, and not in being affirmed by others. 5 Every believer is ultimately responsible for his or her own conscience. 

7 God will never be mocked! For what you plant will always be the very thing you harvest. 8 The harvest you reap reveals the seed that you planted. If you plant the corrupt seeds of self-life into this natural realm, you can expect a harvest of corruption. If you plant the good seeds of Spirit-life you will reap beautiful fruits that grow from the everlasting life of the Spirit. 9 And don’t allow yourselves to be weary in planting good seeds, for the season of reaping the wonderful harvest you’ve planted is coming!

 I have absolutely no doubt that you have been fulfilling the 'work' GOD callled you to do, not only in your buisness, but also in your home and family life. Sports has brought a whole new area of influence for both you and Kristine and you have SO touched people's lives, in some ways that you do not even know! THAT is being the Living Witness that the Word speaks of! 1 Peter 2:12:

1 Peter 2:12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

The real message that I felt about you came in verses 7-9, especially the last part of verse 9! for the season of reaping the wonderful harvest you’ve planted is coming!

I believe this to be TRUTH for you AND your family. Now AND in your very bright future! Here is Brandon Lake with "Kids" because YOU are one of HIS! 

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!

Hi Brian!

The word for this week is "confidence". We looked at a different Greek word translated "confidence" before. This time we will be looking at 1 Corithians 7:16:

2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things. KJV

This is the Greek word "tharrheo". Strong's Concordance says: to exercise courage. Thayer's Greek Lexicon adds: to be of good courage, to be hopeful, confident. The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament says: this word has the basic sense "to dare," "to be bold," "to be of good courage," "to be cheerful or confident," and then  "to trust in," "rely on," and "to be bold against someone or something," "to go out bravely to. I LOVE that our Father is expecting us to be BOLD and CONFIDENT in all aspects of life because of what we KNOW about HIM and HIS WORD! Paul had confidence in the people of the church in Corinth because of their obedience to the word of God. One of the greatest feelings for me is to KNOW that I am bringing joy to HIM when I treasure His Word and put my trust in HIM! Circumstances may not always appear to be in our favor, but our confidence in HIS promises will cause those promises to become REALITY! That brings to mind this verse in Numbers 23:19!

19 God is not a man, that He should tell or act a lie, neither the son of man, that He should feel repentance or compunction [for what He has promised]. Has He said and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken and shall He not make it good?

My prayer for you is that YOUR confidence in HIM will increase to the point that doubt will have no place and then you will see even faster manifestations of His promises in every area of your life! Here is Brandon Lake with "God Is Not Against Me":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!

 Hi Brian! 

I am SO sorry that I forgot your blog! We were in Duluth Saturday for a concert, then I was at the Vikings game and then yesterday our grandson had a basketball game and it just dawned on me that today is Tuesday! This week we will be looking at Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional. He is another person who wrote years ago and sometimes the language is a littl obscure, but usually always worth thinking about! 

The Impartial Power Of God

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. — Hebrews 10:14

We trample the blood of the Son of God under foot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation of the forgiveness of God and of the unfathomable depth of His forgetting, is the Death of Jesus Christ. Our repentance is merely the outcome of our personal realization of the Atonement which He has worked out for us. “Christ Jesus…is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” When we realize that Christ is made all this to us, the boundless joy of God begins; wherever the joy of God is not present, the death sentence is at work.

It does not matter who or what we are, there is absolute reinstatement into God by the death of Jesus Christ and by no other way, not because Jesus Christ pleads, but because He died. It is not earned, but accepted. All the pleading which deliberately refuses to recognize the Cross is of no avail; it is battering at another door than the one which Jesus has opened. “I don’t want to come that way, it is too humiliating to be received as a sinner.” “There is none other Name…” The apparent heartlessness of God is the expression of His real heart, there is boundless entrance in His way. “We have forgiveness through His blood.” Identification with the death of Jesus Christ means identification with Him to the death of everything that never was in Him.

God is justified in saving bad men only as He makes them good. Our Lord does not pretend we are all right when we are all wrong. The Atonement is a propitiation whereby God through the death of Jesus makes an unholy man holy.

I LOVE that last sentence! There is NOTHING that we humans can do to EVER deserve God's forgiveness! Every part of it is based SOLELY and COMPLETELY on JESUS and what HE HAS DONE! And it is ENOUGH! SO thankful for that TRUTH! Here is Brooke Ligertwood with one of my very favorites songs about what HE has done! "Ancient Gates":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!