When You Cross That “Jordan” Into Your Promises…

When You Cross That “Jordan” Into Your Promises…

Joshua 1:9, “Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Even crossing over your “Jordan” and heading into your “Promised land” can be intimidating if you don’t...
You Can Do It ~ Make Sure To Set Your Priorities

You Can Do It ~ Make Sure To Set Your Priorities

Judges 8:4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. Are there things that you feel called to do or things you would really like to accomplish sometime in this lifetime and yet you are...
Don’t Be Discouraged ~God Is Still Working

Don’t Be Discouraged ~God Is Still Working

Psalm 37:34,  “Hope in the Lord and keep His way.  He will exalt you to inherit the land;” Don’t lose hope!  Keep striving for what you know God wants to do in your life!  Remember Jeremiah 29:11-13,  “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to...
Are You Anticipating Great Things To Come This Year

Are You Anticipating Great Things To Come This Year

Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” So, how are things going so far?  What is your anticipation for this new year?  Are you excited and full of hope...
Don’t Limit What God Is Calling You To…

Don’t Limit What God Is Calling You To…

Numbers 18: 8,  “Adonai said to Aaron,  “I myself have put you in charge of the contributions given to me.  Everything consecrated by the people of Israel I have given and set aside for you and your sons; this is a perpetual law.”   When I was reading this, this...
Allow Him To Teach You How To Trust Him More

Allow Him To Teach You How To Trust Him More

Romans 9:31-32,  But the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of the righteousness, have not attained their goal.  Why not?  Because they pursued it not by faith as if it were by works.  They stumbled over the stumbling stone.  There’s no way anyone can...
Hope For The New Year

Hope For The New Year

Isaiah 43:1-3a, But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers,...
“Be Strong ~ Fear Not”

“Be Strong ~ Fear Not”

Isaiah 35: 3-4 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.  Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not!  Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God.  He will come and save you.” We all have the desire to be...
There’s No Going Back

There’s No Going Back

Philippians 3:13 -16,  “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.  But one thing I do:  Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward...
What Do You Have Planned?

What Do You Have Planned?

Joshua 1:7-9,  “Only be strong and very courageous being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you.  Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.  This Book of the Law shall not...
Your Part In His Plan Is So Important ~

Your Part In His Plan Is So Important ~

Romans 13: 11-12,  And do this, understanding the present time:  The hour has already come for. You to wake up from your slumber because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.  The night is nearly over:  the day is almost here.  So let us put aside...
Look Forward With Anticipation

Look Forward With Anticipation

John 16:33. “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.  In the world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” It used to be that when the New Year was approaching everyone was filled with great expectations...
Luke 2: 1-21 ~ The Reason We Celebrate

Luke 2: 1-21 ~ The Reason We Celebrate

Luke 2:1-21 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee,...
He Wants To Pour His Love Into You

He Wants To Pour His Love Into You

Isaiah 9:6, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:  and the government shall be upon his shoulder:  and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. How exciting is that?  Let it sink...
No Time For Rest?

No Time For Rest?

Matthew 11:28,  “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” As much as God wants to empower you to do all that you are called to do He also wants to give you rest.  Rest is very important to God.  It is mentioned over and over in the...