It’s Too Easy To Forget… Write It Down!

It’s Too Easy To Forget… Write It Down!

1 Samuel 17:24-27, But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep.  When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth.  When it turned on me, I...
How Would You Feel If You Were In Jonah’s Shoes

How Would You Feel If You Were In Jonah’s Shoes

Jonah 3: 10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. There is so much packed into this little book in the Bible but we will start with “repentance”  It is...
Change Comes From Within

Change Comes From Within

Joshua 1:8,  This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it.  For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good...
Don’t Wait For Trouble to Arrive!

Don’t Wait For Trouble to Arrive!

Psalm 119:143, Trouble and anguish have found out, but your commandments are my delight. The time to learn to love spending time in the Word of God is before trouble and anguish find you.  Life is full of struggles and “trials” and on the other side of it, there are...
They Need Jesus!

They Need Jesus!

Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people devise a vain thing? Do you find yourself asking lately as you watch the news and see the craziness in the stores and on the roads; “what is wrong with people these days?”  As one of my daughter Danielle’s boyfriends...
A Dose of Hope!

A Dose of Hope!

Psalm 147:11 The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. Have you lost hope for your situation?  Are you feeling as though things are just never going to change and this is how things will always be? I would like to...
Listen and Follow All He Tells You To Do…

Listen and Follow All He Tells You To Do…

Jeremiah 42:15-16 “…then hear the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:  If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there, then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt,...
Better Be Careful Who You Are Agreeing With!

Better Be Careful Who You Are Agreeing With!

Matthew 18:19 “Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.” Who are you agreeing with?  Are you still making agreements with satan or have you lined yourself up with what God...
Remind Yourself of Who God Says You Are ~

Remind Yourself of Who God Says You Are ~

Joshua 1:9. “Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” If you are following God then you can know that He is with you wherever you go and through whatever you...
Your God Is Bigger…

Your God Is Bigger…

Isaiah 26:4. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. Have you ever heard of a “Leavarite Rock”?  I hadn’t either until my brother-in-law John introduced me to them when I was a teenager.  He’s a Science teacher so of course, he knows rocks...
How Would You Feel If You Were In Jonah’s Shoes

Is Your Busyness In Your Way?

Psalm 69:1-3 Save me, O God!  For the waters have come up to my neck.  I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.  I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched.  My eyes grow...
Don’t Wait For Trouble to Arrive!

Trust Him To Do What Is Best & Right

Matthew 9: 27-29  As Jesus went on from there, two blind men began following Him, shouting, “Son of David!  Take pity on us!”  When He entered the house, the blind men came up, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I have the power to do this?”  They replied,...
Obedience Must Come First

Obedience Must Come First

2 Samuel 21:14b And they did all that the king commanded.  And after that, God responded to the plea for the land. There had been a famine in the land for three years and David went to the Lord to see what was wrong.  God told David that there was a problem from...