It’s in the waiting that refines your patience. It’s in the listening that refines your ear to hear what needs to be heard. It’s in the praying that refines your character and builds your relationship with GOD growing closer to HIM. And it’s in the frustration that we learn all of this lesson due to … More HABAKKUK THOUGHTS
Speak to the LORD today and have a conversation. Maybe we should all kill our busyness and then make it our business to talk endlessly to GOD! Because the LORD’S presence is always with us. HE never leaves us. We drift. We get distracted and we don’t remember HIM when we should. REMEMBER HIS GOODNESS … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
We all face hard things……..some of us have that hard thing continuously in our view. When we look at the life of CHRIST HE endured hard things too. But every day HE went out to a quiet place and spent time with HIS FATHER. There is a way we all want to go and then … More AND THIS HARD THING…….
There are people who have what you could call gutsy faith. They really are those who will go the extra mile and even two to show GOD’S love for people, whatever that may be. They have truly lost their life…….to find it just as CHRIST said: MATTHEW 10: 39 “WHOEVER FINDS THEIR LIFE WILL LOSE … More GUTSY FAITH
Having steadfastness is having a firm belief, a determination, having our eyes fixed upon the ONE who died for our sins, JESUS CHRIST. And so in this new year are you remaining steadfast in what you are facing? We all face life’s problems in different ways…….but HIS way is truly the best way. There is … More REMAIN STEADFAST
If you are like me………you don’t enjoy pain. Pain can be physical, mental and spiritual. There is a deep pain that happens within us that can be far more damaging than we can imagine, but only if we allow it. GOD has us in HIS perfect provision, but often we need to wrestle honestly with … More HONEST WRESTLING
Our wants and our needs are two different things. Sometimes what we want may not be good for us. And often what we need we tend to ignore. GOD knows our best needs and supplies them sometimes without us even knowing. Often what I want, GOD doesn’t supply and for good reason. What I want … More WHAT IS TRULY NECESSARY THIS YEAR FOR US
I love wide open spaces that seem to go on forever. I remember the saying that on a clear day you can see forever. Where we are and where we live does have a limit. And so do we as human beings. BUT GOD AND HIS PROVISIONS AND HIS SOVEREIGNTY ARE LIMITLESS! I don’t know … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
My memories as a child bring me back to when my parents and I would drive downtown to look at the beautifully decorated windows in department stores along Michigan Avenue in Chicago. I was just a kid looking in those windows with all the cute villages and toys displayed so brightly. Oh how I wanted … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
And this too……..is GOD’S mercy, HIS loving presence when we need it most. It is quiet and it is gentle. And I look for it now, in doctor’s offices and waiting rooms. Like you, I need peace of heart and mind. Because……my mind races with the “what ifs?” That is what a cancer diagnosis will … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
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