Just a Little Time for Hope – June 2, 2017 – How much time do we spend hoping and wishing? How much time do we spend planning and giving thanks? Most people I have met over the years, including myself, spend more time on the first question than on the second. Would you agree? The problem is, that hoping and wishing are usually empty thoughts that stem from lack of worthiness or possibility. Worthiness and lack of possibility are wishes without action. God likes action! Too many people wait for something to happen and then figure out their reaction with passive Read More
Category: Daily Devotions
If…Then
If .. Then May 31, 2017 If/then statements have ruled the world forever! As parents, it’s how we raise our kids and our dogs. It was an if/then statement that changed the world from what it could have been to what we know and live by today. It’s because Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that our lives are limited in years, there are feast and famine, disease and prosperity. God is the master of all things in our lives, we know this. IF we live to glorify Him, THEN we will have Read More
Expectations and Brokenness
Expectations and Brokenness – May 27, 2017 – Judgement, expectation, and pity are all attitudes of inequality; as well as comparison, brokenness, and condemnation. Too often though, the first group of attitudes are outward and the second group are inward attitudes. Outward attitude generally comes with some level of anger or resentment, while the inward attitudes often stem from worthiness. Outwardly, we can “bite our tongue,” but inwardly, that voice is like a foghorn that pierces every thought. We are told we should “take every thought captive,(2Cor 10:5)” and to think on “the fruit of the Spirit…self-control (Gal 5:22-23).” It Read More
Death’s Honor
Death’s Honor – May 26, 2017 – Death is always an emotional event. My question is how do we honor the ones that we feel we have lost? This is a prideful statement. I say prideful because we haven’t lost them, they are not misplaced like a set of keys. We hold them in our hearts and in our memories. We honor them by remembering them as we go about our days. This is a grieving process, and time will heal the wound into a scar. We dishonor them when we stop living our lives to the best of our Read More
Depth of Dysfunction and Grace
Depth of Dysfunction and Grace – May 25, 2017 – My reading this morning has so much depth when I started reading the scriptures. I recommend everyone read and study Romans chapter 1. Paul clearly portrays the sinful spiral of life that we live in. Our lives resemble living in a hurricane. By choosing to follow and serve Jesus, God gives us a lifeline escape path from the very eye to the calmer outer edge waters, and then ultimately, the calm cove waters of eternal life. Everyday we have the choice to let go of the lifeline and get sucked Read More
Loving Eye
Loving Eye – January 20th, – When God is present in our lives, His Holy Spirit guides & directs our activities, actions, & opportunities. He has His “loving eye on us” always. If we do what God wants us to do, we will be satisfied and have “purpose, meaning, and joy.” (Photos of Our Daily Bread daily devotionals)
How I trust Him
How I Trust Him – January 22, 2017 – I’m sitting in a conference and the speaker just asked us, “Do u stay in your head, or do you get out of bed (and make the day you want)?” What are you telling yourself you want today? In the chorus, instead of singing, “Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him, How I’ve proved Him o’er & o’er,” Ask yourself, “Jesus, Jesus, do I trust Him? Have I proved Him o’er & o’er?”