If you could love me enough to believe me when I tell you that I AM for you and stand in that faith . If you could seek me for every need, trusting that I will always do the most loving thing possible .. If you could walk in paths as I guide you, with your eyes on me...
Dear Father, I know that Today is better than Yesterday, but not as good as Tomorrow. I have left the land of strife; No troubles do I borrow. I place my hand in Yours, and ask that You lead me every day, into pathways of Hope and Promise; Only You, Father, know the...
"Perfect love casts out fear." (I John 4:16a, 4:18a) My newborn son was only two weeks old when suddenly one night, a horrific headache hit me and wouldn’t stop. Hubby took me to the emergency room, thinking that with the right meds he would just bring me back home....
I met a lonely widow woman the other day. She had a visitor staying with her, a paying guest, to support her and her son in their time of financial stress. The paying guest was generous and they felt safe while he was with them. They felt he somehow protected them...
"Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me." (Psalm 50:15) Down in the Florida Keys there’s a bait and tackle shop named Capt. Hook’s. It’s crammed full of fishing ‘stuff’. Small signs are on the walls, like “I’ve only got one nerve...
“Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done. An angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him.” (Luke 22:42-43 NIV) A traumatic event in my life many years ago led me to pray these simple but difficult words of...
"The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, 'Go down to the shop where clay pots and jars are made. I will speak to you while you are there.' So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he...
"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then...
"Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them (again) and said, 'Peace be with you!'" (John 20:26) The door slammed shut. We were having dinner, and even with the animated chatter I could hear it bang closed. When we have...
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the...