Day 37 of God’s Love for Us December 22, 2017 Today’s demonstration of God’s love comes from song by Matt Maher called “Hold Us Together.” I believe that God has used Matt and many others to write songs that point to Jesus. In this song, Matt points us directly to Jesus’ two greatest commandments, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. And “The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matthew 22:37, 39 NASB). Now Matt Maher’s lyrics that touched me to demonstrate Read More
Tag: Holy Spirit
Boiling Tears
What are tears that are left on the alter? What good are convulsive weeping tears? A few weeks ago I figured out the answer to these two questions and I wrote it out like this, in my mind were these words. “I am strong because you are with me. I am weak because I am still me. As the tears flow from my eyes, all I can say is “Thank You,” and pray “Tear down the walls that I have built and barriers that I hold on to that keep me from following and running after the plan that You Read More
Faith and Favoritism
Faith and Favoritism – June 30, 2017 – When you were a kid, did you get treated like the favorite, or the not- so favorite? I was an only child, so I was the favorite, at least in my home. What the world treated me like was sometimes an outcast, or better put, just outside the popular group. Occasionally allowed to join in, but almost never allowed to shine. As an adult, my job for many years was based on competition. Being in the right place at the right time. I took pride in my work, knowing that I did Read More
Forgiveness and Freedom
Forgiveness and Freedom – June 29, 2017 – To forgive or not to forgive, to be freed or be free? To reconcile or not? To bury the hatchet under ten feet of dirt, or to bury just deep enough to leave the handle sticking out? Those are the hard questions. How long we let someone else offend us is our choice. Forgiveness is not to set the other person at ease, it’s so that we can set ourselves at ease. Unforgiveness is like a weed in your garden of thoughts. Weeds don’t need water or fresh soil to grow, they Read More
Tempting Shortcuts
Tempting Shortcuts – June 28, 2017 – Temptation is as common as dust. Temptation comes when we choose lives that don’t follow God’s plan. When we choose the to make the things of the world more important than God. We all need to work and have families and have lives, but do we include God in those choices? To live a Godly life is to include Him in our relationships and our decisions. “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man.”(1 Cor 10:13) God desires to have a relationship with us, that is His plan. When Jesus Read More
Prayer and Relationship
Prayer and Relationship – June 26, 2016 – Hello friends. Where does prayer come from? In my opinion, prayer comes from one of two places, either our heart or our mind. Would you agree? Both have a level of belief. I also believe that prayers can come from both our heart and our mind. Generally speaking, prayers tend to go to God as a question starting with “could you”or “would you;” with an underlying question of “why this” or “why that.” Friends, we live in an instant gratification world where we think we have to know and understand it all. Read More
Hallelujah I’m Waldo
Hallelujah I’m Waldo June 7, 2017 Do you remember playing that game with your kids, “Where’s Waldo?” We used to get those seeking books out every night before bed and read and find Waldo. My kids enjoyed that when they were small. We would giggle at some of the people that we would find. In reality, we’re Waldo. God has that same view of us. We are right there on the page of the book that He is reading. We think we’re running and hiding, but God knows right where we are. He’s always seeking us. Seeking ways that He Read More