2026-03-31
How to Convince Your Heart that His Arm is Not Too Short
Remember: His arm is never too short, and His hand can reach even the tiniest trouble.
Read more..Thoughts By Bethany Hayes
2026-03-20
Love Works
Mary received the praise of Jesus because of the LOVE that accompanied her ‘work.’ And her sacrificial act of love was recorded as a memorial to her.
Read more..2025-12-17
What God Already Gave: His Son
When God the Father sent His son, He sent a gift to us. Jesus wasn't placed in a manger because He was itching to know what it was like to be a baby. He didn't beg His Father to let Him come to earth to go fishing or to build things in a carpenter shop. God gave His Son to us.
Read more..2025-10-20
What If. . .?
We are all prone to ask the complicated “what if” questions. But shouldn't we be dwelling on what we already know
Read more..2025-07-16
Set in Stone
Have you ever said, “Well, nothing’s set in stone.” For centuries, man has laid down counsels. But “The counsel of the LORD stands forever, ...
Read more..2025-03-30
Lessons from a One-Legged Sandpiper
Lord, Help us not to cave into our circumstances, but to see them as opportunities to run the race with an endurance that only comes from keeping our eyes fixed on You.
Read more..2024-11-06
Grand Theft
I would never take something that belonged to someone else. Then, I read in Scripture that I am not my own. I don’t belong to myself. I am God’s.
Read more..2024-07-27
What is Greatness?
True greatness is determined by what GOD has done in our lives. “GREAT” . . . .because of what God is making us to be.
Read more..2024-07-05
If God Were to Answer Your Phone Call
Sometimes life throws curve balls and hands us difficult decisions, and we just want to pick up the phone and let God tell us what to do.
Read more..2024-02-13
God is Satisfied
We fret. He is calm. God is not pacing the floors, wondering what’s going on, biting His fingernails, or dissatisfied with our lives and the world in general.
Read more..2024-01-14
Obstacles or Pathways
Have you ever asked the Lord to draw you closer to Himself -- then, found an overwhelming trial lying between you and that closeness?
Read more..2024-01-04
A Simple Promise for a Hurried Life
I just spent an unhurried weekend in an unhurried town with a good friend who’s never in a hurry. Coming from a hurried town and a hurried life, slowing down didn’t come easy. Until slowing down was required—slower than I realized.
Read more..2023-12-26
Lord, Make Me Like That
Lord, Make Me Like That. Like a tree planted by a river, finding a constant source of life and nourishment. Like a tree spreading out its roots to that source, reaching for that which will make it strong.
Read more..2023-11-15
Prayer: The Great Exchange
Prayer is the great exchange—need replaced by peace even when the need still exists. Prayer places the trial in Another’s hands and knows His faithfulness will stand the test.
Read more..2023-09-03
Expectations
Expectations. We all have them. We may call them by a different name – hopes, dreams, visions for the future, a reason to set goals today.
Read more..2023-07-22
Why God is Smiling at You
God is pleased with us based on what Christ did for us; never because of what we do for God.
Read more..2023-07-16
STEPS and STOPS
We can never determine all the why’s of God’s leading. But we know this . . . His own, silent answer to our why’s have a greater meaning than we could ever comprehend.
Read more..2023-07-10
How to Get There When You Don’t Have a Road Map
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with my eye.” (Psalm 32:8)
Read more..2023-06-20
What God Already Gave: Forgiveness
Forgiveness that forgets. When the sins God already forgave haunt you, remember. He forgot.
Read more..2023-06-17
When You’re Waiting for the Impossible
"Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” Jeremiah 32:27
Read more..2023-05-20
Where Peace is Found
Are you looking for peace this Year? Why do many Christians lack peace?
Read more..2023-05-15
When We Dare to Let God be For Us
“Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. . . Rest in the Lord.” (Psalm 37:5,7)
Read more..2023-05-09
Open Wide
Imagine if a baby bird decided he would rather fend for himself. How far would he make it from the nest? How soon would he require the sustaining influence of his mother’s care again?
Read more..2023-05-05
What’s on Your Mind?
Guarding our thoughts, being sober-minded, and meditating on eternal truth will produce a transformation the Bible calls the “renewing of the mind.” (Romans 12:2)
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