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December 18, 2025

I Kings 1:1-53, Acts 4:1-37, Psalm 124:1-8, Proverbs 16:24

“At about that time, David’s son Adonijah (his mother was Haggith) decided to crown himself king in place of his aged father. So, he hired chariots and drivers and recruited fifty men to run down the streets before him as royal footmen. Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time – not so much as a single scolding! He was a very handsome man and was Absalom’s younger brother.” I Kings 1:5-6

Let’s unpack this! If you remember, Absalom was trying to get the people away from his father because he wanted to be king. He had a deep hatred toward his father because David did not correct his half-brother Amnon when he raped and disgraced Absalom’s sister Tamar. As a result, Absalom sets Amnon up and he dies. Now we see Absalom’s younger brother, Adonijah, trying to usurp David and take the throne from his brothers before David is even dead.

David was a man after God’s heart. David was a worshiper. David struggled as a parent. Did he have too many wives, too many children? I don’t know their family dynamic, but I do see that He was not a disciplinarian. He did nothing to correct his children and tragedy followed. Children need boundaries. They are too young and inexperienced in life to make quality decisions. Discipline helps tutor them throughout their younger years. (I am not speaking to abuse, but to normal correction given as a means to guide a child.) A nurse has to give a shot to prevent flu. A doctor cuts on a patient in order to repair another part of the body. Just so, a parent has to be able to inflict some pain in order to bring healing in an area of the child’s life that if left unaddressed will cause greater pain in the future. Discipline helps a child to slow down and take stock of their actions. Correction teaches children about consequences. If David had just sat down with his children to speak to them about things they were doing or had he administered a little corporeal punishment, he may have spared his children heartache and premature death.

PRAYER: Lord, help me to develop boundaries in my own life. I pray to know how I can guide my children or any other children in my life in order to set them on a positive path. Help me not to turn my head when I need to see and do something. Lead us Lord. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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Pastor Ricky and Jeannie Sinclair

From Ricky’s book, Miracle-at-Large, Ricky became an evangelist spreading the word of God through his testimony. He was a fire. He would go in, light it up and encourage people in the places he shared his testimony. When you’re an evangelist, you breeze in and breeze out, and you don’t have to worry about hurting anyone. But that was the start of the ministry. His evangelism was birthed from the book that came out, which gave him a platform. People started following us and we gave them resources and suggested churches to get plugged into. However, we developed a following of people that would not go anywhere else but honestly, it was not in our heart to start a physical church.

With us not wanting to turn people away, we started meeting together as a prayer group and started having a little teaching within the prayer group. But then, we were bursting out of our living room. Our house could squeeze 30 to 60 people in it butt here was not much you can do in it anymore with people wall-to-wall. We had John Mayers and his wife leading worship through singing and playing a guitar. We had all the elements for church, which led to people pressing us to start a church and they wouldn’t go anywhere else. With us growing but not ready for a church, we had to look into bigger spaces and started with one conference room in a hotel. However, we eventually consumed every conference room in the hotel as we continued to grow.

As we grew, we saw a lot of gifts and opportunities. As a result, we wanted to start a physical church where everybody was included and invited. Even if they seemed like they didn’t fit into a“traditional church”, they would be accepted at our church. I sought God and God spoke to my heart and said, “I want you to start a church and I’m going to send everybody that is like you to the church. You will have a church and they’ll be other churches, too. There will be people that I send to those churches, but you will become your own individual church with the people that I’m creating and building for your church.” That’s how we became our own identity and individual church with our own personality that God established because God put this in Ricky’s heart. Everyone from various backgrounds would be welcomed as family and they would have a place for them to go to church in a family… MiraclePlace Church.

Here we are still standing today with the same message from 2001: Everyone from various backgrounds are welcomed as family and this is a place for you to actually go to church in a family… Miracle Place Church in Baker, LA. Come as you are, You Belong Here!