Offended or Up-ended?: Where Is Your Focus?
Blessings Friends, Obedience to God is like working out. Sometimes it’s fun and enjoyable, sometimes it’s difficult and challenging, and then sometimes it’s downright excruciating! But always it brings strength and growth. About a week before we went to Fruitland Bible Camp this summer, I was sitting at the altar in prayer, when I heard God […]
God Has Your Back!
Blessings Friends, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”—Jeremiah 29:11 It’s easy to get so wrapped up in our day-to-day survival that we lose sight of who God is. Because we don’t see Him […]
In the Trenches: God’s Standard Goes Before Us
Blessings Friends, “For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.”—John 17:19 This is part of Jesus’ prayer for His disciples and ultimately us, the longest recorded conversation between God and God! Of course, the prayer was for our benefit, since The Father knew very well why His Son was sanctifying Himself […]
YOU: A Poem of Surrender
YOU Though confusion blackens my world, I will hold fast to Your hand You are my eyes Though a sea of lies roars around me, I will know the truth You are my ears Though my heart is pierced with sorrow, or my body wracked with pain, I will sing Your praise You are my […]
Lessons From Job: Knowing God’s Heart vs. Knowing God’s Mind
Taken in part from CarePages, April 16, 2010 Blessings Friends, Job 38:2: “Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?” What is it in our nature that makes us think we should be privy to understanding? Is it some remnant of the forbidden fruit? That grievous lie that led mankind to believe they […]
Power in the Blood
Taken in part from CarePages, February 3, 2010 Blessings Friends, I have been doing a lot of thinking about miracles lately. I guess I’m still trying to fit The Devine into my limited brain. Yesterday was a pretty achy day for me and I began to wonder if I would ever see a day without […]
Completion
Blessings Friends, Some people may wonder who I am and what brought me to create this blog. Briefly, in September of 2009, I was struck down (literally) by excruciating pain in my right hip, which robbed me of the ability to walk, sit, sleep . . . . An MRI revealed a tumor about the […]
Journey’s End–Just the Beginning
Blessings Friends! Matthew 5:6: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled. I was going to post more fasting info this time, but I didn’t get it done before my surgery, and I’ve now concluded my first forty-day fast, so I thought it more appropriate to talk about that. […]
Growing Pains
Blessings Friends, Jeremiah 33:3: “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” What an invitation! The question is, are you ready to know great and mighty things? My prayer for a deeper relationship with Christ has yielded some interesting results. Sunday evening, our […]
Children of the Living God
Blessings Friends, Today’s promise is 1 Peter 2:1-3: “Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” I had a dream that my youngest daughter and […]