“…for the spirit of heaviness; Isaiah 61:3 KJV There’s a heaviness in the hearts of many … even solid Christians. You can often feel it in the atmosphere. This weight is the spiritual equivalent of COPD. It affects our spiritual lungs and robs us of breath. We sigh a lot and feel as if […]
Archive | November, 2019
Scriptures For ‘Dark and Stormy Nights’
“For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.” Psalm 18:29 KJV “It was a dark and stormy night …” So began Snoopy’s every attempt at writing a novel. But wouldn’t that be an opening statement in many of the stories of our lives? […]
God’s Good ‘Suddenlies’
God can and does move quickly when it suits his divine purposes. Some things take time … others don’t have time to resolve themselves. God’s watch shows only one time – ‘the fullness of time.’ That’s the time when everything is in the right place at precisely the opportune time for God’s plan to […]
God’s ‘Suddenlies’
In a previous devotional entitled “Microwave Christians and a Crockpot God” I lamented that God seldom moves as quickly as we like and as we do. “Why can’t He keep up?” Indeed. However, once we’ve determined that God’s timetable is actually better than our own, we can turn to the other side of God’s […]