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?”
God is our GPS
God is our GPS – Jan 24, 2017 – We can run, but we can’t hide from God. He sees us exactly where we are, in whatever situation we’re in, and He knows where we’re going. God can see around corners and infinite # steps ahead. But He also knows how He wants us to get there, and what He wants us to do. Loving as He is, He gives us those choices, until we ask Him for help. Once we ask for His help, He will plot our course like the best GPS, around all the dangers of life. Read More
Joy in the City
Joy in the City – February 1, 2017 – What do we see when we go about our day? What do we think about as we go about our day? We should look and seek joy in both. I do that by finding joy in all that I see that men have built, and how there is still nature in, around, and outside the city. This was my 1st Christmas in Denver, and I was amazed at the beauty in the different cities as they decorated the trees along the roads. Wow! I thought, look what the Lord has done! During Read More
Advocate
Advocate – February 3, 2017 – What does it mean to have an advocate? It means to have someone to fight for us, in our place. We can rest in the comfort of knowing Jesus is our advocate to God and the world. By accepting and knowing Jesus, we have a friend, we have hope, we have a way of asking for help and for forgiveness. God doesn’t hold grudges when we know Jesus. By knowing Jesus, we can “Cast our cares and worries on the Lord, and He will sustain us, He will not permit us to be shaken Read More
I Know Everything
I Know Everything – February 4, 2017 – How often do we think “I know everything”, or do we hear someone say that when we know better? Jesus has asked God to deal with us in gentleness, just the same as He is asking us to do with others. My 1st thoughts have been to tell them argumentatively how they are wrong or forcefully correct them. But then I wonder if that is the right course to take? Proverbs 17:28 tells us that “Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent.” I would rather be thought wise, than Read More
Jealousy
Jealousy – May 24, 2017 – Jealousy can be such a slippery slope. It can take your mind and subject your body to places and things that you had no idea about. It can lead to prison through theft and murder, or it can lift you to great riches and the love of money. “You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, Read More
Defending God
Defending God – May 23, 2017 – How do we think of God? As a protector, as a savior, or as someone who needs our protection? When we encounter someone speaking bad of God, of Jesus, we want to lash out, but the Lord will have His vengeance, it is not our responsibility. Two negatives added together do not make a positive. Its hard, and it takes mental thought, but we should respond as Jesus wants us to, with blessings and positivity. Then at least their negative will be diffused back to neutral. We would do better to respond with Read More