This post is dedicated to my step daughter. Jazz I want you to know that I believe in you baby. I know that God has a good plan for your life and as you surrender your will for His, you will see many changes in your life. Not that you won’t have hard times, in …
“It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about …
“I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you …
“O Jacob, how can you say the LORD does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights? Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths …
“And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t …
2 Corinthians 4:4 says that Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. Although Satan is the …
I love gardening. I find it so relaxing. I enjoy planting seedlings in small pots and watching them grow under the sunlight. As they grow, their roots start filling up their pots… they to need more room to grow so I upgrade them to a bigger pot, more suitable for their needs. Sometimes they immediately …
James 1:25 says, “But if anyone keeps looking steadily into God’s law for free men, he will not only remember it but he will do what it says, and God will greatly bless him in everything he does.” I truly believe that the secret to living a successful Christian life is in reading the Word …
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 28: Simply Trusting Him The Lord hears His people when they call to Him for help. He rescues them from all of their troubles. The Lord is close to the broken hearted; He rescues those whose spirits are crushed. The righteous person … Continue reading »
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 27: A Sacrifice Of Praise Through him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. Hebrews 13:15 (NLT) I love … Continue reading »
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 26: I Believe Lord; Help My Unbelief “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!” Mark 9:24 (NLT) There is a story in the Bible about a father who brings his son to Jesus to be healed. His son had been … Continue reading »
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 25: “Why Are You Afraid? Do You Still Have No Faith?” When Jesus woke up, He rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then He asked them, “Why … Continue reading »
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 24: Trust In the Lord But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently … Continue reading »
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 23: Living In Peace Is Not About Having The Answers “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and” the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in … Continue reading »
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 22: Is Anything To Hard For God? “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind; is there anything too hard for me?” Jeremiah 33:27 (NLT) Our troubles, temptations, strongholds, and enemies are not too big for our God. Often times I … Continue reading »
I have been in the hospital for the last couple of days facing a brain tumor, therefore I have not been able to post any articles lately. However, I am feeling well this morning. It is amazing! I feel the need to try to get some of the posts that I have pending to be reviewed in my … Continue reading »
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 20: Change Your Perspective “He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and [selected] young men … Continue reading »
Battling Worry: Words of Encouragement – For Such A Time As This Day 19: He Isn’t Mad At You-Embrace His Love I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus … Continue reading »
