Thoughts By John Grant

2020-11-24

Pray, Watch and Give Thanks

Paul focuses on three words that should sum up the Christian’s everyday life. They are “pray, watch and thankful.”

2020-09-26

Greater Things

Regardless of how difficult the times, those who have been born again by the grace of God, redeemed and forgiven by the blood of Christ, adopted into God’s heavenly family, indwelt by and sealed with the Holy Spirit, given an eternal home in Heaven and empowered by God for significant service have no right to be anything but optimistic.

2020-09-15

Seeking the Kingdom

What do you seek most in life? Often it is possessions….. things ….. that cause us distraction and become our mission. Our possessions require maintenance and steal our time and energy.

2020-08-19

Listening to God

I once heard someone say that if we have only ten minutes to pray, we should spend the first half listening and the second half petitioning.

2020-07-04

Something for Everyone

Something for Everyone by John Grant. Discovering our gifts from God and then using them to our utmost.

2020-06-15

What Pulls Your Strings?

Who’s in control of your life? Who’s pulling your strings? For the majority of us, it’s other people – society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community.

2020-05-14

Full Confidence

Today, as someone who is saved, you can have full confidence that what awaits you in heaven is far better than anything this earth has to offer. Lord, thank You for the invitation to live with You forever. I confess my sins and surrender my heart and life to You again. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and impart to me assurance of salvation. Amen.

2020-05-06

Calming the Waters

We all go through storms in our lives. Some are fierce and we feel like we are about to sink. We look for places to run and hide and avoid the storms, but they follow us everywhere we go. We can’t escape.

2020-04-07

The Size of Our God

“When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.” Psalm 56:3 when you have God, you have everything. And when you give others the knowledge of Him, they can have Him too. And when lives around you are transformed, all the stuff you were busy with doesn't seem as important any more.

2020-03-07

The Balanced Life

Sometimes God gives us enough difficulties to help us appreciate the joys of life. He gives us the hard times so that we may enjoy the good ones. Times of trouble are times for spiritual growth.

2020-02-27

The One Who Sees It All

God has given us freedom of choice and is grieved when we sin against Him. He wants us to do right and most important of all, He wants us to accept His Son so that we may have eternal life with Him.

2020-01-21

Pressing Undo

Whenever we make mistakes, we should always be looking for how to right our wrongs as best we can. Sometimes it is embarrassing. Sometimes it is expensive, but it is always the right thing to do.

2019-12-15

Peace on Earth

As we enter this yuletide season amidst a fallen world of strife and conflict, we should be reminded about what Jesus said about peace. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you."

2019-09-29

Trust Jesus in the Darkest Times

Our lives can change in an instant when we are faced difficult situations. The key to working through it is to turn to and trust in Jesus.

2019-09-10

The Tongue

The tongue does a lot of physical things for our body, but I believe that the prime gift God gave us with our tongue is to edify the saints and spread the Word to the sinners.

2019-08-01

Hit and Run

God wants us to face our problem situations and work them out. With His personal presence in our lives, and His wonderful promises of help and encouragement, we will begin to see His hand at work in our lives,

2019-07-17

God and Comfort

Just close your eyes and imagine that God too has a message board in Heaven and on it each day He writes that His goal for the day is to make you and me as comfortable as possible.

2019-06-07

Inner Beauty

"...but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. “ 1 Peter 3:3-4

2019-05-01

It’s All about Forgiveness

It opened in theaters recently and my wife and I attended the second night. The movie is October Baby, a story about a college girl who learns she was the product of a failed abortion and goes in search of her birth-mother and her life.

2019-03-12

Perseverance

What about perseverance in your spiritual life? Do you press on for spiritual growth and maturity with the same zeal as you pursue the secular goals and focus of your life?

2018-12-21

A Christmas Message from Our House to Yours

by John Grant (John Grant is a former Florida State Senator and is a practicing

2018-11-21

Redirect

.When I feel all alone, I should redirect myself to Hebrews 13:5 “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” God is aware of and concerned with every aspect of our being … physical, mental, emotional financial, and perhaps most important of all spiritual

2018-10-01

Overlooking the Obvious

Have you ever been in the position of looking for something you need and not being able to find it? It happens to me all the time, but then I call for my bride, who can find anything and suddenly there it is. I'm sure it wasn't there before. I couldn't see for looking.

2018-05-31

Unto the Least of These

“He will reply, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” Matthew 25:45