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The best way to know the difference is to pray.Normally, when I am struggling to know the difference between my will and God’s will, the moment I begin to pray, I immediately know the answer. It’s just not always what I want to hear.Another way to know the difference: God’s will is normally going to cost you something right then, but pay huge dividends later. It’s going to fill you from the inside out.My will normally leads me to the easy way out, and brings me immediate gratification, but will …

This is a question I often get in direct messages.You know, if we have a question that we can’t find a true answer to, sometimes it’s worth going back and making sure we’re not asking a broken question -- in other words, we are not asking a question that is not true. In this case, that’s what we are doing.God doesn’t let some live and let others die. We all die. It’s not God’s fault.I think God had a hard choice to make a long time ago. Would he allow love to exist, which would require that he …

The other day I posted a comment on a page and got attacked by some people in their responding comments.One lady trying to calm the situation commented, "Remember... we are all God’s children." One of my worst fears is that I will mislead someone so I pray that everyone does their due diligence before taking everything I say as fact. However, when I hear something that I believe will mislead others I feel compelled to correct it. Please understand that I am in no way a bible scholar but the Bibl …

I wanted to share this because, with all that’s going on around us right now, I am hearing that record numbers of people are struggling with depression.I’ve got to tell you, I thought never in a million years would I be struggling with this. I thought I would be the last one to be dealing with depression.But 19 years ago, when I realized how deep a depression I had fallen into, I struggled to get out of it for about 18 months, before God led me out.I had no idea how to get out and if I had had s …

Take a stand. Do not let go!“Depression – My Turning Point” is the follow-up to my first Instagram video and email to you on depression. Go back and watch the video or read my first email to you on depression, if you haven’t seen them. The videos are posted on 2 Instagram pages. Click here: @shieldsofstrength or @JohnKennedyVaughan I wanted to follow up because I had hundreds of comments on that first post on depression, and I just know there are so many people who didn’t comment, who are fi …

This question is important. I am seeing this happen everywhere – people becoming what they hate.How do you become what you hate?No one thinks they’re going to become what they hate, and they very seldom realize when they are becoming what they hate.But the way you become what you hate is by hating the people who hurt you. You hate your enemies.When we hate, we become the problem.It’s okay to hate sin and it’s okay to hate what people do. It’s just not okay to hate the person(s).We are to love o …

The way I used to think I was putting something in God’s hands, was by coming to a point that I couldn’t take it anymore. I didn’t know what to do anymore. I would give up and say, Lord I am just going to leave it in your hands…whatever happens, happens.But that’s putting it in the hands of chance.If you are going to put something in God’s hands, this is how you do it. You know what God’s Word says about the situation or circumstance you are facing. You choose to trust His Word more than you do …

My first thought is to give them a fist in the face – that’s the old Kenny reacting; but Jesus says turn the other cheek.So how do you sort that out?I’ve struggled with this for a long time, but love does what is truly best for others without regard for itself.The truth is if you truly love someone who is abusing you, you don’t want them to act abusively to anyone, and you will not enable them or help them to abuse anyone including yourself.So, if you love them, you do what’s best for them. You …

This is a serious falsehood.This subject gets me more 'unfollows' on Instagram than any other, but please think about it. It’s not my truth but it is a truth that set me free.Anyone who tells you to love yourself first doesn’t understand love. Neither did I for half of my life.Until you love yourself, you can’t love others is one of the worst lies we have ever been told. It’s like the perfect lie.The truth is if we love ourselves, we can’t love others. Because love puts something first. If I put …

How Do You Change People?We can’t really change anyone, but Jesus can, and sometimes he lets us be a part of that change.There’s only one way to change people: that’s from the inside out.You’ve got to change the roots of a tree to change its fruit. If you change the roots, the fruit will take care of itself. If you fight the fruit, try to change people from the outside in, what needs to be changed just keeps getting worse.It’s like pruning the tree. If the roots are rotten, we can do all the pr …