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I have experienced weakness and I have cried out for help in desperate situations. I have needed to be told over and over again by the Lord to not be afraid. I have needed…
God is your guardian, separating you from evil. So, why do bad things happen to us?
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…
Believing and accepting that you are loved by the Father will in turn affect your feelings for Him. Commit to knowing Him more intimately and accurately through His Word, and your affection for Him…
Test this question: What if God's only gift to you were his grace to save you. Would you be content?
The bandit of joy is Fear. Fear of death, fear of failure, fear of God, and fear of tomorrow. His arsenal is vast. His goal? To create cowardly, joyless souls.
“God already sees you as perfect in him.” Based on my own ongoing and painfully slow transformation, I jokingly asked my friend if she ever wondered if God might need glasses.
Jesus calls Christians to words and actions that go far beyond civility, even civility. His call is life altering, indeed it is death to self.
All of us will be walking in more of the Luke 4:18-19 (NKJV) ministry of
"...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
Oh, I want to be transformed, I want to be more like Jesus. My scripture calendar deeply convicted me the day I read this powerful verse from 2 Corinthians 3:18
When Jesus says, “do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body what you will wear…Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or…
“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen,” and the squawking magpies remind me to not only see the souls’ longings, but also hear them. I am called to be…
When we know who we are and what we have been called to, we are less prone to let the opinions of men deter us from that path. At the end of the day,…
Remember God’s grace is His loving-kindness and mercy given to a person without him or her deserving it. His grace is more than this though. 1 Corinthians 1:4-8 is where Paul unpacked it for…
During the drought of 2011 I kept checking on the creek. I dreaded the day I would reach the bridge, peer over and find the flow of water had stopped, but it kept flowing…
To whom it may concern, rest in the One who is compassionately aware of concerns, reigning over them, long-suffering, on-time, able to do exceeding, abundantly above all that we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).
“So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit
“Because of the LORD’S great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.
Prayer: Great and Mighty God, bless me with greater trust that you are nearby and long to help. Dear Father, bless and empower me to be the person you want me to be.
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…