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
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…….
In the past and sometimes even now, I tend to think I need to give GOD only my best. My best words and actions and self. But then it happens because life happens and I am overwhelmed with problems and worries. This past year for our family has not been easy. Cancer hitting twice in … More GIVE HIM YOUR BEST AND BROKEN TOO
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
So here we are with a New Year and New beginnings. I don’t know about you, but these days right after Christmas and New Years can bring me down. As much as I know and trust GOD for new beginnings, it’s the uncertain that gets me. And then there is the dailyness of it all! … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
I have a sweet and wonderful friend who tells me each morning that she is “sipping and thinking of me.” We started with this endearing text exchange with one another quite a while ago and we still do it. Just knowing she is sipping her coffee and reading her devotions makes me feel that she … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
Let’s face it…….we all have fears. Today more than ever with the world out of control our fears can take hold of us and render us useless, not only to ourselves but to those around us. FEAR……..sit quiet enough and let it take hold, now name it! What is your deepest fear? The only way … More FEED FAITH – STARVE FEARS
That saying about “don’t sweat the small stuff” is so true isn’t it? Why do we let the small things get to us? And then there are those big circumstances that really throw us for a loop. ECCLESIASTES 7: 14 “IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL, AND IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY CONSIDER……” Consider … More ADVERSITY HELPS US CONSIDER
IF………..it’s such a little word and yet put on the beginning of a sentence or exclamation it can mean so much! SMALL WORD……..BIG IMPLICATIONS! If can mean: in the event that or on the assumption that or on condition that. It can be used as a function word to introduce an exclamation expressing a wish. … More IF
KEEP LETTING GO………it’s an ok thing to do this, this daily letting go of the stuff of this world. Letting go is a continuous action, a perseverance that GOD gives you because it is in our nature to hold tight to material things and the people around us. But as scripture tells us, all is … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
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