“Joy” a word that seems so distant when you are in the midst of grief. How can joy exist when your heart is breaking? Joy is a supernatural gift from God. Joy comes when we are aware of His grace and delight in His favor. It can only exist through...
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What is Your Priority? Our circumstances can shape our priorities. A woman who is engaged to be married may have all her attention towards planning a wedding. A student approaching graduation may have all eyes of passing examinations. There is nothing wrong with having goals and reaching for them....
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When the Japanese mend broken objects, they magnify the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. If you have a broken heart, the most valuable thing you can fill it with is God....
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When you have shut your feelings off for over forty years it is tough to feel and walk out the healing the Lord has for you. I read Psalm 19:12 today, “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.” I asked God to show me my hidden faults....
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How Simple: Only Ask Sometimes we want things so badly, but we actually forget to ask or make our wants known. God always knows our needs before we have them, but He wants us to ask Him for His help so we can acknowledge from where our help comes....
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Do you have a lawsuit going on as a result of a loss (death, divorce, job, or health)? if so, there may be mixed feelings. On the one hand you may feel that justice is being served, and on the other, a bag of mixed emotions confront you....
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Always Present When our burdens seem so overwhelming, God is always present whether we can “feel” Him or not. He has promised to be our protector when we trust Him, and tells us in Isaiah:43:2: “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through...
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She said come here, I have something to tell you. I leaned over with curiosity. She said, “I just found out that Jesus is God’s son. I did not know that. My father was a pastor and I am just now figuring this out.” This woman was eighty years old....
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New Beginnings As we look into a new year many make resolutions of change for the future. Usually by March of the year these resolutions are forgotten. But, when we want true change in our lives there is only one way to do it. We cannot change our...
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I am a planner and at the end of the year I like to set goals for the coming year. So here are my ten steps to a good year: Love God and your neighbor (Luke 10:27) Pray without ceasing (1 thess 5:17) Do God’s will (Mathew 6:10), not my...
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