In our day and age, the Samaritan woman might have been someone we would condemn. Maybe we would point out the error of her ways rather than reach out to her in love. But what did Jesus do? He loved h...
If you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. Matthew 6:14
I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever! But You raised my life from the Pit. Jonah 2:6
Hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Romans 5:5
He showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. Revelation 22:1
He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4
God knows each of you and cares for you just as He cared about Mary. He knows your name; you belong to Him (Isaiah 43:1). No matter who you are or what kind of baggage you carry with you, no matter wh...
God is who He says He is. God can do what He says He can do. I am who God says I am. I can do all things through Christ. God’s Word is alive and active in me.
God has so much for you, Dear One. And, yes, seasons will come when He requires so much from you that you feel like you can’t bear it. You do have a choice. You don’t have to do it His way. You can ch...
God can prevail and bear wonderful fruit from an unequally yoked couple as we will see, even though their lives are often more complicated than they had to be.
Forgive me for turning too many things into competitions. For being so fixated on what I don't have that I leave the gifts You've given me underdeveloped and much less effective than You intended them...
Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother.
With her through an angel that someone nearby could relate. The two women had one important predicament in common—questionable pregnancies, sure to stir up some talk. Elizabeth hadn’t been out of the...
We have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionab...
Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred
If we change the way we think, before long our thoughts change the way we feel.
You, my Lord, are the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. You will not grow tired or weary, and Your understanding no one can fathom. You give strength to the weary and increase the...
You, my Lord, are a warrior; the Lord is Your name. (Exod. 15:3)
You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Exodus 20:9–10
You and I have each experienced times when we’ve prayed our hardest for two different people to be healed of physical illness. One is delivered on earth; the other is delivered in heaven. We’ve also p...