Well, I will tell you first what you DON’T do. You DON’T sit down and give up! This is exactly what Satan wants you to think should happen. He wants you to believe you are no good and not useful for the cause of Christ anymore. Don’t buy that pack of lies. Let’s take a …
What’s Turning You Away?
We all have that one thing that draws our attention. But what we allow it to pull us away from makes all the difference. While reading in Deuteronomy 13 this morning, as Moses was talking to the children of Israel, this chapter really stuck out to me. Read along with me. Verses 1 ¶ If …
Encourage
Encourage -“To give courage to; to give or increase confidence of success; to inspire with courage, spirit, or strength of mind; to embolden; to animate; to incite; to inspirit. “ as defined by Webster’s 1828 dictionary. Everyone of us have the ability to lift someone else up. We may not think we have much to …
The “I” Disease
Have you been looking for something and search everywhere only to realize later that it was right in front of you the whole time? You weren’t really focused. It’s the same with our husbands and children and we may even say “open your eyes, it’s right there!” Haha we all know that mom knows where …
What’s your excuse?
It’s been said that witnessing to another person, or sharing the gospel, is simply one poor man telling another poor man from whence he got his bread. If you purchased some life changing remedy for something, or a gadget that made your life insanely better, wouldn’t you want to shout it from the rooftops? We …
Looking back to move ahead
16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I …
A study on sheep and shepherds
So many times in God’s word we are referred to as sheep and He is our good shepherd. We all can visualize what that relationship looks like. We are the ones who need the shepherd’s constant guidance and care. But I wanted to really study out a sheep. What are their characteristics? And I also …
From a pillow to a pillar
Well, it was in this very place, without complaint, sleeping on a pillow of stones, that Jacob received a vision and promise from the Lord himself
Be the remnant
Through every dispensation of time, God has always provided a remnant of his people. Those who are left behind to carry on, they are blessed of God, taken care of, provided for. Those who he deals kindly with when all around them is going crazy.
A reminder to love one another
The commandment to love one another is possibly one of the hardest lessons from scripture for us to learn and live out in our lives. Dozens of times in the New Testament alone we are told to love one another. God must have known we needed the continual reminder! In the book of 2 John …