What Are You Wearing This Halloween?

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37 NKJV Millions of kids all over the world will trick-or-treat today! I remember the excitement year after year of choosing the perfect costume. It was the one time each year, I could be …

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Need Someone To Come To Your Rescue?

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 ESV Whatever trouble you are facing today, know that God is right there with you; He wants to help you and give you strength! He is your refuge, the safe place you can run to when …

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We All Have To Make A Choice

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:10 NASB Herein lies spiritual truth: there is a God who loves you, who took on human flesh at the expense of great personal sacrifice, then lived  a …

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One Day At A Time

So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34 NASB Jesus encourages us to focus only on today, for tomorrow will take care of itself. There’s a lot of freedom in that thought. We don’t have to …

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Give Thanks

Pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 NIV Why would God want us to give thanks in all circumstances? Could it be that we need to constantly counter the enemy’s voice by reminding ourselves of all that …

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What’s Growing In Your Garden

I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I …

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Where Is Your Focus Throughout The Day?

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.  Psalms‬ ‭16:8‬ ‭ESV‬‬ There’s a quiet confidence that accompanies a life focused on the Lord. It’s not that the Lord spares us from difficult times, things go wrong in everyone’s …

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Love Never Gives Up

  After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” Barnabas wanted to take John, called Mark, along with them also. But Paul kept insisting that they should …

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Why Wait To Pray?

Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. Ephesians 6:11 NIV Many of us wait until we face a serious challenge, whether it be financial, spiritual, relational or emotional, to firmly grab hold of the weapons the Lord has given …

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What Can You Do?

She did what she could. Mark 14:8a NIV While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head. …

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God Hears Every Conversation

“I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Matthew 12:36-37 ESV Jesus gives us fair warning that we will give an account for every …

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Why Worry?

“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” Matt 6:27 NIV Worrying can be a huge distraction from one of our single hardest tasks as Christians, keeping our eyes on the Lord in all circumstances. Jesus makes simple, what we tend to complicate. Why worry? …

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Don’t Let The Enemy Take You Down

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. Ephesians 6:10-11 NIV The Bible makes it clear that we have an enemy who wants to pull us away from God …

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God’s Spirit Brings Life!

The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the …

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It Is Not Too Late To Repent

“Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” Jonah 3:8b-9 NIV These words were uttered by the king of Nineveh after learning, …

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Are You Satisfied With Life?

And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. Isaiah 58:11 NASB We live in a land of scorched places; …

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