Here in AZ it is funny how you can prune a desert bush down to nothing and it will grow back lush and full. The first time our landscaper did this to all of our tall bushes in our back yard I had a heart attack thinking now they will never grow back. How could … More PRUNED FOR GREATER EFFECTIVENESS
About that waiting you are doing right now………learn to embrace it and to be alright with it. Waiting is a good thing, not a bad thing. Our society however hates to wait for anything really. Patience has all but disappeared. My pup Emma does a lot of waiting and as I watch her, I know I … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
Are you spent this morning? Maybe at the end of your rope? Are you feeling like it’s another day that the world is taking everything from you? Maybe you feel grief from a recent loss or maybe you are facing a diagnosis you did not ask for. But whatever you are feeling this morning, I am … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
We really do have all we need. If you are in CHRIST, you have all you need. Did you know? The world tells us we need more and more. But striving for the world’s stuff and philosophies will leave you discontented and unhappy. They are dead ends. But if JESUS is your LORD and your … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
I don’t know about you, but I woke up weary this morning. We all have days like this, days where it takes every ounce of our being to just get out of bed. But then I read this in my devotional this morning from OSWALD CHAMBERS: “IT IS A POSITIVE CRIME TO BE WEAK IN … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
We may often feel alone, but truly we never are. JESUS looks upon us and even prays for us. Imagine the time that JESUS spent being alone with HIS Father and praying. But HE also spent time with the disciples. Imagine HIM sharing HIS heart and HIS love for them. The disciples must have been … More JESUS PRAYS FOR US
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
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