1. Take no time for margins in your life. Fill your life with so much activity that there is no room to "Be still, cease striving, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). When we live in the tyranny of the urgent, we can be so busy that two-way conversation with God is not a priority. 2. Don't admit that you have any needs.
Read more..I have a tendency to love God’s Word, like I love potluck dinners! Let me explain . . .
Read more..Is God calling you to be a comfort to someone? Don’t shoo the thought away when their name enters your head. Pray for them. Then call them,
Read more..God has plans for your life. He knows everything about you. He made you. You can trust Him. He’s always right on time.
Read more..Cornelius was an officer in the Roman army. Both Gentile and bad guy. He ate the wrong food, hung with the wrong crowd, and swore allegiance to Caesar.
Read more..How my heart soars with joy and delight when He opens my eyes to the variety of created things He gives us.
Read more..unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:24
Read more..If you get bumped in life and find that a bitter root has been disturbed and springs up with in you, take action!
Read more..When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.” Psalm 27:8 (NKJV)
Read more..What's in your hand? What have you been leaning on all these years? Is it a natural ability? Is it a drug? Is it something you're good at? Is it your reputation (or lack of one)?
Read more..Even as a slave, Joseph trusted God and remained faithful and served diligently, showing Potiphar that God was real.
Read more..I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.” Philippians 4:12
Read more..Questions: Have you been struggling with despair? Are you relying on feelings instead of fact? How can you affirm God’s truth in your life today?
Read more..“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.” 2 Corinthians 4:7
Read more..Do you sometimes feel like you are not needed? You are. Paul explains that the body of Christ includes many parts — all needed and necessary.
Read more..My advice: Get into it! The deep things of God don’t just drop into our brains; they are placed there through diligent study.
Read more..“Examine yourselves to see if your faith is really genuine.” 2 Corinthians 13:5 What a difference it would make if we could take time every morning to focus on the thought. Christ is in me.
Read more..When asked to describe the width of his love, he stretched one hand to the right and the other to the left and had them nailed in that position so you would know he died loving you.
Read more..When I was young I thought a godly life meant avoiding things that others in town enjoyed freely. I was on the outside looking in as my youthful peers spoke of their first cigarette, drink, and engagements with girls. Their lives seemed carefree, and mine a burden.
Read more..Do you ever feel like God has not lived up to your expectation in some particular circumstance of your life? Perhaps you have believed… yet nothing has happened. When you feel confused and wondering if God has let you down, you have a choice to make.
Read more..The "Golden Rule" is so straightforward, isn't it? Sometimes we make things, especially religious things, far too complicated and complex.
Read more..Man needs nothing so much as he needs something to bring life together into total meaning.—E. Stanley Jones
Read more..As the self-existent One, God is worthy of our praise. Before the world began, He was; in this moment, He is; at any and every future time, He will be. He is holy and unique, unlike any other. God sits enthroned above all heaven and earth.
Read more..The Bible talks about the aroma that a believer, who is a captive of Jesus Christ gives off.
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