"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us." 1 John 5:14 Cindy prayed to God night after night, "Why don't you ever show yourself to me? I want to know You."
Read more..So this year – I’m not holding back, I refuse to play it safe. I’m making a list and trusting in God’s power to enable me to keep them. And if I fail - it won’t be the end of the world. I’ll pick myself up, wipe the dust off and try again with God by my side.
Read more..What are we doing for the sake of the gospel? Are you praying? Are you going? Are you giving?
Read more..A glorious truth of Scripture is the certainty that if we seek after the Lord we will not be disappointed. Seekers are finders.
Read more..Poem by Margaret Mullings. You are Peace and Contentment!
Read more..The names given to Jesus tell a great deal about His ministry on earth 2,000 years ago. The scriptural names describing Him reveal who He was and is and will be for eternity.
Read more..Shivering and in pain, she struggled over the frozen countryside. But the night was so cold. Snow began to fall. Realizing that the time was near to deliver her baby, she took shelter under a bridge. There, alone, her baby was born on Christmas Eve.
Read more..Angels: we marvel at their words and authority, and we tremble at their greatness and awesomeness, but...
Read more..Could I honestly say, “Just give me Jesus”? What about my Christian community? Family? Books? Familiar worship? My culture? Career?
Read more..One evening as a boy studied the photo of his father he said, “I wish daddy would just step out of the picture and be here with me now.”
Read more..This is Christmas. This is Emmanuel: God with us. This is the advent - the coming of the Lord. God invading history. The one who invented it coming into it and submitting himself to all his own rules.
Read more..How interesting that God chose shepherds as recipients of the “birth announcement” of the Savior. Shepherds weren’t men who worshipped in sanctuaries with stained glass windows.
Read more..God's Plan for humanity....it was crafted in the halls of heaven and carried out on the plains of earth. Only holiness could have imagined it.
Read more..God wants us to treat each other as he has treated us, thinking of their needs and God's will before our own. Now that's one revolution I hope I get to see fully happen!
Read more..The shepherds were afraid when the angels appeared to them. Luke 2:8. Have you ever noticed God is always telling us to not be afraid? The Bible teaches...
Read more..Like Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds, we are so prone to fear. We’re afraid because we feel alone and forsaken, when we encounter the unknown, and when we face something bigger than us. Why we do not need to be afraid?
Read more..God is with us now, not just in thought or in theory or in wishful thinking. But in actual fact.
Read more..Ironic as it may appear, one of the hardest things to do is to be saved by grace. We take our free gift of salvation and try to earn it or diagnose it or pay for it instead of simply saying “thank you” and accepting it.
Read more..The message of Christmas is a call to look with fresh eyes at what Jesus brings to our lives every day!
Read more..Everything changes when we see the face of God. He came with tears, too.
Read more..Jesus sees you. He has been with you, watching you, walking with you. He has seen the pain, the struggle, the depth of your desire. He also sees you today, where you are working, where you live and where you love. Jesus sees you and He is wanting to draw ever closer as you spend your life in Him.
Read more..If prayer is truly a conversation, then we should listen for His response instead of doing all the talking.
Read more..A black hole. That’s what it seems like at times in our personal lives.
Read more..Psalm 37:3 “Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.”
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