This morning when I was out walking and talking with God, I asked Him a question that is a relatively new question for me to ask Him… and then I thought some more about why it took me over 30 years of prayer to ever think of it! Over the years, my prayer life has …
Philippians 1:6 says, “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it.” I grew up knowing that verse, yet recently the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to see the context of that verse, and how its truth is more powerful than I had realized. …
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Faith. For many years I have struggled with this word. Decades ago, I witnessed church leaders turn faith into a work — something that Christians are supposed to work to create and grow and obtain. Christians were condemned if they appeared not to have enough faith according to someone’s apparently random measure of judgment. These …
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Fellow Americans, Today, two men will meet. Two men who are deeply unpopular and who face high disapproval ratings. They come together from different backgrounds, races, experiences, and beliefs to begin to work together on behalf of our nation. Let us pray for them today, that God will give both humility and wisdom and enable …
A Post-Election Prayer for a very divided nation Read More »
Time is flying by. Wow. It’s been another interesting month. I am unable to share lots of details, and yet I want to share a little bit. The family member who had the heart attack… God worked a miracle. Many miracles, in fact, culminating in the doctor’s disbelief that his heart is now so healthy …
“Show me Your ways” and “Show me Your glory” are two dangerous prayers to pray. You might end up finding your life completely changed… (These are Moses’s prayers, from Exodus 33:13 & 18) Note to readers… if you are an occasional blog reader who only stops by here once a week or two, I’m sort …
Perhaps the timing on last week’s post was God-ordained. Here I am, praying for another nation’s millions, knowing that, as I pray, people are fighting for their lives. Knowing that they’ll be fighting for hope and courage and finances and joy in the days ahead. As I wrote last week, I can no longer pray …
I re-wrote yesterday’s post. Despite the fact that it was my most “liked” post ever…I think God wanted me to. The focus wasn’t right. So, regardless of how you felt about yesterday’s and what you did or didn’t get out of it, please re-read it, for I hope that what I was trying to say …
These last two mornings, I’ve begun my day reading news reports on Haiti and feeling my heart break. So many lives lost. So many more lives changed forever. To a small extent, I know what the people there are going through, for Hurricane Charley, the first of the eight hurricanes to strike Florida in ’04 …
(In a recent post, I wrote a little about the Five Love Languages, as written about by Gary Chapman in The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts. I explained how I found myself wondering if they apply to our relationship with God. This is an extra add-on to the seven posts I …