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Diappointment With God
“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” Psalm 18:2 NKJV Because of these interesting and unusual times, many people are disappointed and are at the point of…
It’s Time to Grow Our Faith
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust is a subject that we can turn to again and again. All of us can use more faith. There is…
Rest in the Midst of Exhaustion
I hear these words daily, “There is so much going on!” If we aren’t careful, we will become exhausted from the busyness and the negative energy surrounding us. God knew these times would be. He has provided a way of escape. We have the responsibility to narrow our focus. The…
Don’t Count Me Out!
“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.” Matthew 20:16 KJV Our world is in turmoil, to put it mildly. During the twenty-first century, our technological age, the social climate in our world should be improving, particularly in the United States….
You Must Fight for Your Purpose
“Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight…” Psalm 144:1 Some people have the temperament of a fighter. They don’t mind fighting, and they will provoke conditions to incite conflict. People with a warring temperament aren’t happy or fulfilled until they…
Stuck in the Familiar
“…And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her” Ruth 1:14 (NKJV). No one would argue that we are experiencing uncertain times. We didn’t choose it; we found ourselves in the midst of it. The case with Oprah, Naomi’s daughter-in-law, was different. She refused an opportunity to start a…
Will You Take a Stand?
“But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven” (Matthew 10:33 NLT). In 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a stand against police brutality and racism by kneeling during the National Anthem. When the National Anthem is played or sung,…
Can Revival Begin With You?
“Then the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book….
It’s Our Winning Season
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 1 Timothy 6:12 It has been a long time since I sat in a movie theater, so I had to reminisce…
Watch Those Thoughts
“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV) Ralph Waldo Emerson is given credit for the saying, “Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and…
