When It Seems Like Too Much
“God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need Him. We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake.” Psalm 46:1-2 Message Bible Sometimes you carry stuff around that you have no business carrying and it wears you out. There are 4 things that will help you: 1. Commit: The bible tells you in Proverbs 16:3 (NASB), “Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be established.”The word “commit” literally means to roll your burdens, your thoughts, your plans on the Lord. The results are in His...
read moreBe a Depositor of God’s Goodness
“Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.” Philippians 2:4 Message Reach out, be a healer, be a restorer. Get outside of your comfort zone. Pray for somebody. I love what Joel Osteen says, “Your job is not to judge, your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something, or to decide who is right or who is wrong. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken and to heal the hurting.”Too often we become so self-focused on...
read moreLooking Through New Glasses
“Then Jesus made a circuit of all the towns and villages. He taught in their meeting places, reported kingdom news, and healed their diseased bodies, healed their bruised and hurt lives. When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke. So confused and aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd. ‘What a huge harvest!’ he said to his disciples. ‘How few workers! On your knees and pray for harvest hands!'” Matthew 9:35-38 Message Bible What do you see when you look at the crowds? Do you simply see a man standing...
read moreHe Understands Your Pain
“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:15-16 NASB He’s been there. He’s been here – and He understands your pain. The stunning idea is simply this: God, for a time, became one of us. Does this promise matter? If you ever wonder if God listens, He does. If you ever wonder if the Uncreated...
read moreA Safe Place
“God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need Him. We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake, step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.” Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God -of-Angel-Armies protects us.” Psalm 46:1,10 The Message Bible Notice what our Father says, “Step out of traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.”In other words – stop, take time to get off the...
read moreCut Out the Excuses
“There is a little boy here, who has with him five barley loaves, and two small fish; but what are they among so many people?” John 6:9 Amplified We so often get hung up with the “buts” in our life. In this case, the crowd is so large and the lunch is so small. How in the world is this going to help? You see, we get so obsessed with the idea that bigness and the spectacular are the only things that can make an impact. We need to cut out the excuses: no buts this, no buts that. Just give what God has gifted and skilled you with and the miracle...
read moreIn My Father’s Lap
“A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not approach you.” Psalm 91:7 NASB When my children were small, I would come home from work and they were always there to meet me at the door, saying, “Daddy, Daddy, Daddy.” I can remember the many times they would climb into my lap and seem perfectly content because they were in their daddy‘s lap. That is what we need to be: perfectly content sitting in our Heavenly Father’s lap, focusing on our Father. In our Father’s lap there is rest. In our Father’s lap...
read moreA Realignment For Your Soul
“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Psalm 42:5 NIV in the course of a day’s time it is so easy to get out of spiritual alignment and become consumed in our minds and emotions with the challenges we face. Here David is speaking directly to his soul – that is his mind, his will, and his emotions. In the midst of his discouragement, David is telling his soul to get back in alignment with God for God alone is our hope. I will yet praise Him for...
read moreTuned In
“O My soul, wait in silence for God only, for my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be shaken.” Psalm 62:5-6 NASB Here David is speaking to his soul: that is his mind, his will, and his emotions. And he Is saying, “Soul wait, slow down, be quiet.” But where do you find silence? Everything around us seems to be moving so fast and it seems so noisy. One option to find silence may be to get up really early in the morning, but there’s another kind of silence. It’s where you tune out everything else...
read moreWhen Adversity Comes Knocking
When adversity enters into your business or home, the key is how you respond to it. Often you may find yourself reacting in fear or anger and worry begins to take over in your mind, followed by doubt. All of this can really play havoc with your mind. I would encourage you to strive for a “can do” faith attitude that says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,”Philippians 4:13 NKJV. And “Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world,”1 John 4:4b NASB. And a further response would be as the Psalmist says in Psalm...
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