Our articles are created to cultivate your spiritual health. The focus is to help you prepare your field — your heart — a for the best possible yield.
How our articles are put together
Through our online publication, The Cultivator, we regularly publish devotionals that equip servant-leaders. At publication, we publish each article here on our site to provide wider distribution to readers like you.
How to use these articles
You can use these articles devotionally to grow in your spiritual life. Or read them with an accountability partner or your small group. We hope you will also send links to others you know who can benefit from them. These articles can be used in any order. Each stands alone.
Each one includes:
- A short, thoughtful message
- A Growth Point, which sums up the message
- Scripture upon which the message is based
- Prayer Points for you to use to apply the message further
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Access
Access: Don’t Put Off This One Thing You Can Do Today
Access: Tap Into the Great I AM
The Ultimate Government Takeover
Accountability
Love & Trust: A Hot House for Transparency
Adversity
Clearing Life’s Hurdles, Part 1: Check Your Stride
Clearing Life’s Hurdles, Part 2: Obstacle or Opportunity?
Armor For Daily Battle
Armor For Daily Battle, Part 1: Get Your Gear Ready
Armor For Daily Battle, Part 2: The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Leave Vulnerable
Armor For Daily Battle, Part 3: My Hands Are Full – and That’s a Good Thing
Armor For Daily Battle, Part 4: Follow Your Heart or Guard Your Heart?
Armor for Daily Battle, Part 5: Are Your Shoes Slip-Ons or Tie Ons?
Armor for Daily Battle, Part 6: Live a Lie or Tell the Truth?
Armor for Daily Battle, Part 7: Stir Up or Build Up?
Armor for Daily Battle, Part 8: Do You Understand the Fight?
Authenticity
Paper or Plastic? Part 1 – You May Rip
Paper or Plastic? Part 2: Plastic is Artificial
Change
Change: Is It a Pain or Is It a Gain?
Distress and the Most Common Lie Told During Change
Loss During Change: Is It a Gift?
Navigating Transitions, Part 1: Cloud? What Cloud?
Navigating Transitions, Part 2: How to Follow the Cloud
Stress: Your Body’s Response to Change
Choices
Choices: 2 Principles in the Choice for Change
Choosing Gratitude, Part 1: How to Choose Gratitude
Choosing Gratitude, Part 2: Act Grateful to Feel Grateful
Choosing Your Filters: You Get What You Pay For
Christmas Choices, Part 1: He Chose to Come
Christmas Choices, Part 2: Two Ways to Receive God’s Gift
In or Out? Choose Your Filter and What It Lets Through
Communication
Complacency
Are You Desperate — or Distracted?
What’s In Your Neglected Closet?
Zeal v. Indifference, Part 1: Getting Chilly? Take Your Spiritual Temperature
Zeal v. Indifference, Part 2: How to Bring Your Zeal to a Boil
Conflict
Conflict Resolution in a Bottle
Is It a True “Come to Jesus” Meeting?
Fruit
What To Do When You Want More Fruit
Giving
God’s ROI, Part 1: Do You Expect a Return When Giving to God?
God’s ROI, Part 2: How to Know If You’re Giving As God Leads
Gratitude
Leadership
Did You Salt Their Oats? How to Develop a Thirst in Those You Lead
Impartation: You Can’t Give Away What You Don’t Have
Is Leadership a Product or a By-Product?
Succession Planning, Part 1: Is Your Plan Reactive or Proactive?
Succession Planning, Part 2: What Experienced Leaders Need to Know
Succession Planning, Part 3: What Young Leaders Need to Know
What Do You Mean You’re Not a Leader?
Love
Love Wins, Part 1: What “Love Wins” Means
Purpose
A No-Fail New Year’s Resolution
Individuality or Conformity: Which Do You Value Most?
Your Purpose: Mary’s Song = Your Song
Relationships
Relationship Reality Check: Do You Compete or Complete?
Relationships: Who Is In Your Twelve?
Spiritual Health
Core Balance: Can You Stand on One Foot and Not Fall Over?
Do You Visit God Like You Visit Walmart?
The Prescription for the Winter Blues
Spiritual Health: Where Does the Rubber Meet the Road?
Your Spiritual Operating System: An Update Is Available
Service
Serving God, Part 1: Are You a Well or a Pipeline?
Serving God, Part 2: The Tale of Two Ministry Teams
Serving God, Part 3: How to Know You Are Putting God First
The Great Deception in Serving
The Sower Series
Your Heart: Fickle or Fertile Soil? Part 1 – Those Pesky Birds!
Your Heart: Fickle or Fertile Soil? Part 2 – Rocky and Rootless
Your Heart: Fickle or Fertile Soil? Part 3 – Ouch! These Weeds Prick and Choke!
Your Heart: Fickle or Fertile Soil? Part 4 – Productive Planting
Transformation
Mind-Heart Connection: Mind You … You’re Meddling With My Heart
Transformation: Why a Caterpillar Fights His Way Out of the Bag
Values
Identifying Your Values, Part 1: Did You Check Your Moral Compass?
Identifying Your Values, Part 2: Twin Trails That Reveal What’s Really Important to You
Identifying Your Values, Part 3: Do Values Change Over Time?
Witness
An Urgent Ambassadors’ Briefing from Headquarters
The Great Commission Series, Part 1: Senders – A Cheering, Hearing Squad
The Great Commission Series, Part 2: Keep the Go-ers Going
The Great Commission Series, Part 3: Converts – More Than Just Numbers
Work
The Best Way to Measure Your Job Performance
Help Wanted: Would You Be Tapped for This Team?