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4/28/26 The Fight

Are you fighting for your marriage? Are you standing in the gap for your children as they war with the world and its ways? You should be!

I am privileged to have a wonderful daughter who’s definitely aware of what’s going on around her. She has a heart for the lost and hurting, and notices the desires and mindsets of people, especially those her age. Often she comes to me deeply concerned for her generation. She’s seeing the result of the indoctrination some of them have received over the years, and how they are now exchanging the truth for a lie. Many are lost and terribly confused regarding direction for their lives.

I’m also honored to have been given a calling to work with men and their marriage relationships. It amazes me how much warfare you and I, as husbands and fathers, encounter as we daily endeavor to simply keep our families together, let alone work with them so they can come to enthusiastically serve the Lord.

Make no mistake; we are at war. It may not be visible at times; but be assured that the enemy is waiting at every turn, attempting to control each decision we make and marshaling his forces to win in every challenge we face. He is out to destroy our marriages and make our children numb to the things of God. Fight from your knees!

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

4/27/26 What God Has Planned

“Do not become weary in your work for Me. Do not give up when your heart is tired of the warfare. I will never allow anything or anyone to destroy what I have planned for your life. Battles rage against you because of the plans that I have for you. You are garrisoned all around, so the enemy takes notice of your life. As intense as the battle in the heavenlies is, My forces are much stronger than all that comes against anything you do. There may be small inroads that attempt to hinder you. There may be some detours that I will allow for My purposes, but the end result will always be the same. You will win if you keep coming to Me. This day come to Me. Allow Me to give you the peace and rest that is needed so that you can continue. Be still with Me. You are Mine! I am El Shaddai!”

Psalm 46:1 AMP

God is our Refuge and Strength [mighty and impenetrable to temptation], a very present and well-proved help in trouble.

Jeremiah 29:11-13 NIV

11) “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

12) Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.

13) You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

Our Father always arrives in the nick of time. He always finds a way for us to be able to make it another moment, day, month, or year. In the past, I would often ask Him why He would not give me the abundance needed to overcome all the daily pressures that come my way. One day He responded this way: “Then you wouldn’t need Me continually. You are too immature for Me to allow you to be left on your own.”

I love how my Father in heaven loves me. I am continually in awe as He changes me, holds me, and protects me from myself. We grow weary. He never does. We fear. He has none. We become discouraged. He becomes our strength. He is truly our provider and very present help when we need Him.

Thank You, Lord,

Jim Corbett

4/27/26 Don’t Be Deceived

In today’s world, there are many opportunities to see the deception many people function in. People fight for things that are firmly against God’s Word with rabid zeal, unable to see the impact their ideas have - especially in eternity. As a husband and father, you must know God and His Word, or you will be deceived and become a blind guide for your family.

The most fascinating - and at the same time most horrendous - thing about deception is its insidiousness. I apologize for sending a two dollar word your way, but it makes the point so well. The word "insidious" has several definitions - awaiting a chance to entrap; harmful but enticing; having a gradual and cumulative effect; and developing so gradually as to be well established before becoming apparent.

Satan is no fool. Without God on our side, we are no match for him. Deception is a major weapon in his hands and all you need to do is look around you to see how well it's working - and that's in regard to what you can see. Don't be fooled; you are not invulnerable. I believe one of the enemy's tactics is to throw a blatant deception your way, which you catch; and then sneak an imperceptible (extremely slight, gradual or subtle) one through the back door.

It is only the grace of God and His keeping power that saves us from deception. Yes, we must know our God and His Word intimately, but we must also have childlike faith that He will reveal the deception to us - sometimes before and sometimes after the fact, depending on what He wants to teach us. It's our only hope.

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

4/25/26 It Will Not

“You are running out of time before your world changes drastically. The enemies of the cross and all that it stands for are marshalling their forces. They are planning their strategies to fulfill their plans. Although they are ultimately planning and scheming their way into doing what I have called into being long ago, anyone who is not close to Me will soon have no answers. I have told you to prepare. Some of you are listening and seeking intimacy with Me. Others of you have become foolish in your hearts, thinking that your comfortable world will continue forever. It will not.

“Your resistance to My warnings is disobedience. You know better. It is sin. It is selfishness. I warn you because you once had an open heart. I need to use you when there are no answers other than My answers. You need to be able to keep your head when others are losing theirs. You need to point many to Jesus. If you are not preparing to know Me intimately now, I will not be able to use you then. Wake up! Repent of your selfish ways and begin to understand your position in Me. I need you to grow up.”

2 Chr. 16:9 NIV

“For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him...”

Esther 4:13-14 AMP

13) Then Mordecai told them to return this answer to Esther. Do not flatter yourself that you shall escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews.

14) For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise for the Jews from elsewhere, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows but that you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this and for this very occasion?

Proverbs 29:21 AMP

He who pampers his servant from childhood will have him expecting the rights of a son afterward.

Isaiah 48:3 NIV

“I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.”

We, as Christians, need to continually discern the difference between the urgent and the important. The urgent is everything that distracts us from doing the perfect will of God. It is anything that fills our days with incessant needs that have little eternal worth. Most of it is simply called daily life. Although we obviously need to address life’s situations, we must shake ourselves loose from those things that are unnecessary, those things that are redirecting us from our participation in the Lord’s will.

The important is anything that God considers worth focusing on. As far as the Lord is concerned, important things have eternal worth. They are the reason we have been called into His presence. They are the reason Jesus died. They are the reasons we seek the Lord to find our portion in His plans.

Teach me what is important to You, Lord,

Jim Corbett

4/25/26 What’s Going On?

A while ago, my family and I had the opportunity of having the Lord seemingly remove just about everything from us for about two-and-a-half years - friendships, finances, ministry. Sometimes it felt as if even His presence had left us. What were we going to do with that? We'd be the first to say that we spent a lot of the time simply surviving. If I could go back, that would be something I would like to have changed.

Thank What impression did we make on those around us? It's hard to say because hardly anyone seemed to really want to talk about it. It probably didn't make any sense to most, and those that decided they "knew" what God was doing with us walked away. I don't think the world found our circumstances so strange, but the church did. (Isn't that interesting?)

Being relieved of most everything you're used to gives you the opportunity to ask yourself some valid questions. What is my picture of God, and is it accurate? What is suffering and how does God use it with those who are His? The point I'm coming to is that we, as a body of believers, need to have an accurate picture of God and an accurate view on His working in our lives, especially if we're going to share them with others. Being "blessed" continually is not an indicator that all is well, just as suffering is not necessarily an indicator that you're out of God's will.

The life of the believer here on earth is a totally submissive crucified life. God knows what it will take to accomplish that in each of us. Do we blow it along the way? Yes. God has taken that into account in His dealings with us. Keep going. God is in the business of putting an accurate picture of Himself in your life, not only for your sake, but for the sake of others. And isn't that an answer to your prayers?

"Lord, please don't take me out of the refiner's fire until Your goals are accomplished." That's hard to pray, but so rewarding!

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

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