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THE SHIFT
Now that I’ve spun my wheels in the mud of flesh,
Heavily bogged down by the weight of worldliness.
I have lost my strength and failed the test.
I didn’t wear Your armor or choose what was best.
No longer filled with the Joy of the Lord that empowered me
Because I was busy appeasing the flesh with worldly things;

Avis Sparks
3 days ago3 min read


Nurturing the Garden of Humanity: Cultivating Hearts and Minds
From the beginning, God gave humanity the responsibility to cultivate and tend His garden. Jesus later teaches that we are a part of His garden and our hearts are like soil, capable of receiving seed and producing fruit (Matthew 13). That means we have stewardship, a responsibility over our own hearts and influence over the hearts of those entrusted to us. God calls us to help create lives that are healthy, fruitful, and well-tended.

Avis Sparks
Aug 44 min read


Let God Narrate Your Story
In our lives, we may have started out with our parents' voices, the world, and our desires, narrating our lives. However, upon receiving salvation, God wants to be the only voice that continues and consistently narrates our lives.
God wants to be the One who sets the tone, directs the path, reveals the plot, and uncovers the hidden, infusing His wisdom, grace, peace, comfort, and joy along the way.

Avis Sparks
Jun 234 min read


His Story
God did not lose His attention to detail or His penchant for forethought when it came to writing your story and creating your purpose. So, where does that leave us? Using the Word of God that has been written, we are prepared and trained to embody the character He has empowered us to have, and then we should faithfully fulfill the purpose He has chosen for us to complete, to His Glory and our benefit.

Avis Sparks
Jun 94 min read


Focused Faith: God Cares
In our journey of healing and deliverance, God wants to show us what is possible in Him and then invites us to experience it. We know what is possible because when we read scripture, we see Jesus performing spiritual, physical, and emotional healing and deliverance. And we do not have to question whether healing and deliverances are for us because He died so they would be available to us.

Avis Sparks
Jun 14 min read


Permission to Feel
God wants us to be aware of who we are and what we are dealing with because He wants to minister to us where we are and not where we think we should be. God cares about every part of us. And He is not ashamed of our emotions, nor does He look down on us because we struggle. Instead, He cares and is moved with compassion, wanting us to bring them to Him so that He can comfort, guide, strengthen, help, and heal.

Avis Sparks
May 244 min read


Place Your Oxygen Mask First
Let us begin to prepare our hearts and minds for the restoration and freedom that God wants to establish in our lives by building our faith, repenting, receiving and giving forgiveness, and releasing the things in our hands that have had us preoccupied and hindered from receiving Christ’s healing and deliverance, which will usher in abundant life.

Avis Sparks
May 206 min read


Shine Bright
Walking in the Light, with a repentant soul, and shining bright, it is not about how much we can get done or accumulate while on this earth. It is about guarding, nurturing, and delighting in the connection with God that enables us to get things done and to prosper in various areas of our lives. God wants to see us being a blessing and impacting the world around us, but that does not change His initial desire and will for us, which is to be in intimate connection and relation

Avis Sparks
May 65 min read


One Bad Apple
God is merciful to us; He does not leave us in ignorance, rather it is willful or the lack of understanding. He warns us because He loves us. We must pick out the spoiled apples in our lives and take care of this precious life God has given, so that we can flourish as He has intended.

Avis Sparks
Apr 145 min read


Walking in the Light
We must explore the tension between who we were in darkness and who we are now called to be in the light, so that we do not allow the darkness to invade our days. Jesus expressly reveals that He is the Light and that when we walk in Him, we will not walk in darkness but will instead experience the beauty of His light in our lives.

Avis Sparks
Mar 314 min read


My Determined Purpose
Jesus was always working to prepare people for purpose. Even when people came to Jesus for physical healing and provision, He always spoke of the salvation of the soul. However, is soul salvation our purpose? “No.” It is the provision God has given so that we can again walk in purpose like Adam and Eve initially did. Jesus wanted people to have full access to God and know Him as we are known (1 Corinthians 13:12).

Avis Sparks
Feb 184 min read


Consider Your Ways
God is calling us to consider our ways, realign ourselves, and see the importance of cultivating a relationship with Him in operating in the Spirit so that we remain in Him and stay fruitful.

Avis Sparks
Feb 103 min read


Awake O' My Soul
God has so much He wants to reveal to us and talk to us about through His Spirit. However, we cannot hear, see, or experience what God saying and preparing if we are asleep to the Spirit. We can only see and understand the things of God when we are awake to His Spirit.

Avis Sparks
Jan 203 min read


Search Me O' Lord
We must be humble in seeking God so that our hearts can understand who we are through God’s perspective. God knows us better than we know ourselves. As we ask God to search us, we seek a true understanding of who we are and where we stand, so that we can set aside the things hindering our walk with Him toward everlasting.

Avis Sparks
Jan 184 min read


The Path to Glory
The daunting yet precious journey of experiencing God's glory.

Avis Sparks
Jul 25, 20252 min read


Don't put "But" where there is an "And."
We can add doubt where there should be expectation and action by placing a “but” where there should be an “and.” The promise of God is...

Avis Sparks
Jan 20, 20232 min read


In an Instant
In an instant, isn't that how we wish and even at times plead that God would move in our situations and on our behalf? As we find in...

Avis Sparks
Dec 2, 20222 min read


Repressed
The struggle may be great, but God is greater. Let God be your source of help, strength and guidance during those hard and oppressive times

Avis Sparks
Nov 18, 20224 min read


Expectation
We can expect answers and fulfillment after we talk to God because we have a relationship with Him of Father and child.

Avis Sparks
Nov 4, 20223 min read


#IcanbecauseHeisIam
As Christ redeemed believers, we have been blessed with the Spirit of I am and from His Spirit comes our enablement to do the good works...

Avis Sparks
Aug 6, 20213 min read


Well, with My Soul
Our wellness is in our connection and dependence on God. Christ came to give us rest for our souls even with the troubles around us.

Avis Sparks
Jul 12, 20212 min read


A Pace with Grace
It has been said, “Slow and steady wins the race.” However, I believe a more valuable phrase would be: Let God set the pace, and He will...

Avis Sparks
Jun 4, 20212 min read


Appetite
We all have an appetite, a desire, to fill a need be it physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. An appetite is normal and healthy and...

Avis Sparks
Feb 18, 20214 min read


Our Message
And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains....

Avis Sparks
Jan 22, 20212 min read


You Have What It Takes
As a believer, you do not have to question: Can I overcome? Will I be able to get past this? Will this stronghold cause me to walk the...

Avis Sparks
Dec 20, 20203 min read


It's Grace
It’s not Black, White, or Gray, it's Grace. When defining moral boundaries, somethings seem to be clearly right, and other things are y...

Avis Sparks
Nov 20, 20203 min read
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