Dear God, help me understand your unfailing compassion for the world, and for me too. I confess that I am as messed up as people around me, and am desperately in need of your redeeming love. Keep from me a smugness of heart that would hold back my own compassion for others. Amen.
Read more..Father, You are an ever present help in trouble. You have created us and know our tendency to fear, but You ask us to turn to You because You want to help us. Thank You for Your love, mercy, peace, and strength. Amen.
Read more..A crisis can bring doubt, especially if the Lord is not responding as quickly as we might like Knowing who God is enables us to trust Him through the crises of life.
Read more..It’s the promise of a life beyond this broken one, a far better life than we have ever known that we must cling to in this uphill journey.
Read more..We have been set free! We are delivered from law, sin, and death. We have been set free to serve God and share in his grace eternally. So how will we use that freedom?
Read more..King David said in Psalm 16:8, “I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”
Read more..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.
Read more..Forgiveness is for us, not our offenders. It releases us to live in freedom and to learn from the hurts in our past. But it’s not for weaklings; it makes us stronger.
Read more..Let not the cares and worries and man's approval, concerns for things of the world bring choking bondage hard to let go; but only Let not the cares and worries and man's approval,
Read more..Grief is more than losing a loved one. We grieve the loss of anything that was important to us, including a home, a career, or our health.
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