2025-08-31
Divine Delays
“We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.” Psalm 33:20 God’s timing is always with your best in mind.
Read more..“We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.” Psalm 33:20 God’s timing is always with your best in mind.
Read more..When we obediently use the talents God has given us He takes that offering and uses it to His glory to call others to Him.
Read more..If we seek an experience—an emotional high—rather than God, we will become disappointed.
Read more..You may be going through a fiery trial at this very moment. Suddenly an over whelming situation is added and you feel as though tomorrow will never come.
Read more..A shepherd knows his sheep intimately and will go to great lengths to find a lost one, nurse a sick lamb back to health and protect and care for his flock. The Lord does the same for us..
Read more..Holding onto pain is like living with a thorn lodged in your heart that needs removed. Sometimes that means intentionally choosing to let it go even when that seems the most difficult thing to do, and yet you know for your own well-being it has to be done.
Read more..One night, a tiny infant and her crying two-year-old sister were left motherless. A hot water bottle was needed to keep the baby warm.
Read more..An isolated feeling of loneliness crept into her soul. Did God even understand? Doubts of her belief in God’s love began to crowd her thinking.
Read more..If we don’t allow Jesus to set our compass (course) each morning, we can begin heading slightly off course. It may seem insignificant today and even...
Read more..“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and He answered me.” (Jonah 2:2) Try to see each roadblock as a new opportunity to follow God’s path for your life.
Read more..Unbelief is an obstacle in our life, like a stone rolled over an entrance. It can keep us from knowing God.
Read more..You Need God. Each time we face a choice to nurse unforgiveness and bitterness or receive the offense as an opportunity to grow in God.
Read more..God needs you and me to Carpenter with Him through His Son Jesus Christ, by studying the word and applying it to our daily lives.
Read more..Susan yelled at the kids. She didn’t like doing it but it seemed to be happening a lot lately. “A soft answer turns away anger but harsh words stir it up.” (Proverbs 15:1)
Read more..“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah29:11 (NLT)
Read more..Release your life and all your mistakes to God. Release your sin to Him. Answer the longing in your heart and know that you qualify to enter into a relationship with God… not because of you… but because of Him!
Read more..Distortion is subtle. It’s much the same with our hearts. Jagged edges pop up of resentment, anger, negativity, self-pity and any number of little things we rationalize away.
Read more.."May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us so that your (God's) ways may be known on earth, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him".
Read more..Three lessons I have learned from dandelions. Be bright and cheerful all day long. Be tenacious. Live above the circumstances.
Read more..Jesus never asks us to be foolish, but he does demand total commitment. Sometimes dedication to him appears foolish to onlookers
Read more..Recently, I received an email with this question. “Why is it important to pray?” Here was my response:
Read more..The words caught me off guard. “Oh Lord, we have come here today to be changed by you… please change us.”
Read more..Not only can we think about God, but he thinks about us! David seems almost overwhelmed by the concept of God’s unwavering attention being focused on his children. He describes God’s thoughts as not merely cerebral; they are precious.
Read more..I was alone. It was night and I was in a hospital ward after a four-hour back surgery. Even though I was on pain killers and heavily sedated from the anesthetic, I couldn’t sleep. I felt afraid.
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