Speak to My People who are Yet to be My People
Something God had recently put on my heart is to “speak to My People who are yet to be My People.” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6 Jesus is the only way, my friends, and He’s looking...
A Little Encouragement Today – Your Leaf Shall Not Wither
Like it always has, discouragement came in like a pent-up flood and reared it’s ugly head. But praise God... in times like these, He has trained me to go straight to His Word. This time, it was impressed upon my heart to pick up and read a small book from David...
Get Your Eyes Off the Monsters
Are you worn out... tired in body, mind and spirit? Do you feel beat down, with unanswered prayers that seem to dangle from the ceiling? Of course you do. We all feel that way at some time. Delayed answers to prayers aren’t refusals. Let me say that again,...
Stop Looking At Your Watch
The same scene probably played over and over in Moses’ mind; the day he killed an Egyptian. He was only trying to deliver the Hebrew from the oppressive Egyptian overseer... “Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his...
Not You… Only Me
So often we complicate things. God wants us to keep things simple. I know that I tend to over think things; I can get myself to the place where I feel that I have to make things happen for myself... kind of making sure I’m doing all the right things and thinking the...
“You Try to Escape the Pain…
... yet God sees tender compassion for other sufferers finding birth in your soul." That's great, but what about me? Who's going to nurse my soul with tender care and consideration? Am I just a visual aide? A walking billboard, if you will? I’ve been...
It’s the Little Foxes
Again and again, my heart is captured by simple awareness of the love that God has for me. But oh, sometimes IT IS NOT that simple! Why is it so hard for me to comprehend the depth of love that God has for me -Lori Laws, while I can preach His love to everyone else?...
God, If You Don’t Show Up… I’m Sunk!
Delays. For some of us, the most difficult ingredient in suffering is time! Short lived, sharp pain is easily endured, but one can become very weary when suffering drags on year after monotonous year. Let’s be honest... A heart can lose strength and without the...
Greater is the Ministry of Thorns than the Ministry of Thrones
Just a quick encouragement for you today - it just so happens that whatever thing that is in your life today causing you to stumble... causing the pain... causing the disappointment... causing the grief, is most likely the very thing God is using to give you a great...
The World Can Never Take It Away…
So can you feel it? Do you know what I mean? Something happens in the center of your soul; that’s where the Holy Spirit lives, and He’s constantly whispering something ever so gently to each of us... Stop your striving, “Be still and know I am God.” Psalm 46:10. ...
Thinking Like Jesus About Disability
Hi everyone. I came across this video teaching, and thought some of you would like to see it. It's really amazing - it's truly a miracle that when you come to the end of yourself... you find Jesus! Hope you enjoy 🙂 (it takes a few seconds for video to start)...
Pity Plus Action
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." Matthew 5: 7 The fifth beatitude is all about true love and true compassion. True mercy is something so uncommon in our society. In this beatitude, Jesus is describing mercy as a quality of citizens of the...
Entering Into His Rest
Are You in His Rest? That’s right. Do you dwell in the secret place of the Most High? “One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in...
What God Can Do with a Broken Life
Today I was reading a commentary on the life of the prophet Jeremiah, and here are some things that really stuck out to me... God is a master at giving us object lessons and visual aids. He told Jeremiah to go down to the potter's house. That’s a strange place for a...
The Fight is So, So Worth It!
“If you are suffering according to God’s will, keep on doing what is right and trust yourself to the One who made you, for He will never fail you.” 1 Peter 4:19 Trouble never comes to any of us unless it brings rubies of wisdom or nuggets of gold in its...
Hath God Said?
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” Genesis 3:1 The way it usually works with Satan is that he tries to make...
Prepare to Meet Your God by Joni Eareckson Tada
"I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account." Ecclesiastes...
Choose for Yourselves This Day Whom You Will Serve
And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we...
“Who is this one? Look at her now. She arises from her Desert of Difficulty Clinging to her Beloved.” Songs 8:5