Jesus had a refuge—a safe haven—He retreated to when His life was in danger.What does His choice reveal about where best to find sanctuary in times of trouble? What is the significance of the hiding place He used for an entire season? How can we discern the difference between a true and false refuge?Removal of our false refuges is the first step towards achieving our life’s calling—the divine purpose for which God created us. Yet all too often we fail to recognise how we’ve...

'A captivating and gorgeously written tale of nostalgia and renewal' Sophie Hannah'A warm and heartfelt examination of what attracts us to others and what keeps us connected over the years' Catherine Simpson'A perfectly woven story of past and present friendships' Valerie GriffinApril Zarney was ten when her best friend, Elena, disappeared. It was July 1974 and rumour was that Elena's family had headed back home to wa...

Many words exist in the rich and varied cultures of our world that are simply untranslatable from one language to another. Unusual and unique customs require detailed explanations in order to make sense to outsiders. In the worst-case scenario, the meaning of one word in a foreign tongue has a diametrically opposite sense in another.The Hebrew word for submission is a case in point. Its Greek counterpart fits into an entirely different thought-framework. Despite Paul's car...

Forgotten Covenants #1What's in a name? Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But is it just an arbitrary label? In Scripture, name covenants were the embodiment of identity, destiny, power and purpose. So why do so few of us come into the calling prophetically breathed into our names.Award-winning finalist in the International Book Awards 2011 and Bronze Medallion winner in the e-lit Awards 2012.

'In a life full of books and not enough time to read them, I never read a novel twice. This one I will' Clo CareyWinner of the Irish Novel Fair 2021A compelling story of family, secrets, identity, and a reminder that love and life can surprise you… right until the very end.When Alina’s son, Fin, traces his long-absent birthfather, it’s the catalyst for decades of secrets to implode in Alina’s neatly ordered life.With the sudd...

Retaliation, reprisal, retribution-many of us express the ferocity of our encounters with the spirit of Leviathan with such words. Most believers are stunned by savagery of the backlash they experience, and are baffled by God's seeming failure to intervene.Reparation, recompense, restitution, restoration-these promised corrections to injustice are smashed just as they seem within reach. Why does this happen?As we examine Scripture, we find that Leviathan is an officer of Go...

A companion volume to God's Panoply: The Armour of God & the Kiss of Heaven.When armour-bearing is mutual-carrying marks of loyalty and covenantal defence on both sides-our relationships fulfil God's intentions for the Body of Christ. But whenone partner opts out of mutuality, a counterfeit covenant can arise-where submission becomes subjugation, not uplift.We can be drawn so gradually into the counterfeit covenant we don't even realise it's operational. In...

Lilith is a threshold guardian with many aliases, including the war-monger goddess Anat of Zaphon. She is a vampiric spirit who specialises in dispossession and necromancy. She also claims rulership of appointed times as well as dwelling rights within us. By blocking the processing of shame, she tempts us towards narcissism or addiction.The conflict between her and Jesus began at Cana and went on even after His return from the dead. Many prophets surrendered the fullness of their c...

A companion volume to Dealing with Python: Spirit of Constriction.The most significant of the threshold points of life is the doorway into God’s unique calling for us. He invites us through covenant to fulfil the destiny and purpose for which we were born.However, many of us fall at the threshold, rather than pass over it. We experience unremitting constriction, wasting, retaliation and forgetting—to such a degree that it’s easy to doubt the promises of God.

Rachab, the spirit of wasting is not hard to overcome if you've first mastered the spirit of rejection. However, she's not going to take defeat quietly, so she marshals the other threshold guardians in a combined assault. Their primary agenda is to ensure we're tied up in an unbreakable double bind.As we examine Scripture, we'll note that the double binds mentioned there always involve denial of access to the atonement. We can't lose our salvation, but we can lose some of its tempo...

‘What’s to stop me killing you and taking the Powers?’ The giant raised the sword. ‘All I see is a dwarf, a pony and seven children, none of whom is even remotely capable of resisting the might of Uller Princekiller.’For centuries, the knights, dwarves, giants and sages of Auberon-Zamberg have been intent on a single quest. They’re all searching for ‘The King Who Guards the Gate’. Prophecy speaks of him as one of seven protectors who will defeat the armies of night and overcome the...