Ever asked God for an answer, a healing, or a rescue from difficulties and to this point haven’t gotten an answer from Him? Maybe not so much as a “Got your message and will get back to you.” And then silence and the strong feeling that nothing is happening! We have been given the […]
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“For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” II Corinthians 4:16-18 NLT What do we do when the news we continually see and hear forces fear into our hearts and almost hurts to get a deep, satisfying breath? What happens when bad news […]
I Need To Get Close
While preparing to teach our home Bible study on the names of God, for some reason I chose the name Abba to look at first. I wasn’t even aware of why that one out of all the electrifying names that give us a glimpse of who He really is … why would that one […]
Don’t Fear What’s Behind You
Don’t look now, but there’s danger behind you! It’s easy to feel like a runaway semi is in back of you and just about to close the distance and squash you! We are being ganged up on; there’s no doubt about that. There’s the rancid, hot breath of government stupidity behind us, threatening to […]
Religion or Relationship?
Jesus was not irreligious, yet He often had to interrupt religion to accomplish his purposes and gain the hearts and trust of His followers. Religion is man’s attempt to connect with God, and man works very hard at it. Many religious people deny themselves, batter themselves, sadden themselves, bores themselves half to death and […]
It’s Preposterous!
Don’t expect easy assignments from a God this big! What if God says something preposterous to you? What if He expected something of you that was totally absurd and almost laughable? What if his instructions were totally unreasonable and outrageous? Guess what! When God talks and we listen, we can almost be assured that […]
Don’t Write “The End” Until It Is
It may never been this dark, this lonely, this hopeless before. But God remains fully God and you remain forever His loved and chosen child. It was a quiet, relentless building terror. It wasn’t like the door being broken down with invaders rushing into my life. Its stranglehold actually began as a prayer… a request for […]
Names and Neighborhoods
You will miss what I’m saying in this devotional unless you stop right now and read Joshua 19:10-15. (I trust you did that and are back.) Did you ever wonder why this seemingly unnecessary list of ancient cities is part of the Bible that God needed us to have?’ Is […]
The Blame Game
“People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord.” Proverbs 19:3 NLT It takes unmitigated gall to put God on the defense stand! we sow seeds of unfaithfulness in a relationship, then shake our fist at God when that relationship fails we sow seeds of indifference in our […]
But It’s Just a Stick
Don’t know what to do with that stick in your hand? Give it to Someone who knows how to use it! It’s startling, but we seldom conceive of the difference God will make in a situation! We should know better. We’ve been around long enough to see that when God is combined with any […]