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Feeling Loved?

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other crea...

365 BLESSINGS: Blessing #8

“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Luke 11:13

Why is it that when we pray to God that some of us tend to ask Him for some things but miss asking Him for the greatest things of all? We are so prone to asking for physical things, aren’t we? For the material and tangible. For the stuff we can see, touch, taste, feel, etc. To get more. To have more. To feel better. To be strong...

God’s Message of LOVE

Every once in a while God gives me a personal message so powerful, so clear, so emphatic, so convicting, and so life-changing that I feel compelled to share it with others with the exact words His Spirit spoke to my heart. I pray in Jesus’ name that He will use this message as mightily in your heart and life as I desire Him to do so in mine. Please read it slowly. Carefully. Please don’t leave the message behind as simply something you read that can now be forgotten. Please take the message w...

The Love Bracelet

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” James 1:17

“And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”” Acts 20:35

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”” Luke 6:38

My be...

Totally Broken

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27

“But I will sing of Your power;
Yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning;
For You have been my defense
And refuge in the day of my trouble.
To You, O my Strength, I will sing prais...

Not Where My Flesh Wants to Go

“For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Cor. 6:20

When I re-read a correspondence I sent some friends, several words really stuck out to me.

Not where my flesh desires to go. Where He is sending me.

Wow! Had I written that? Absolutely! What was shocking about it? Not that my flesh didn’t want to go somewhere. I have an enormously long history, including in my years believing in Jesus as Lord, of wanting to go my own way. And,...

Rejection Guaranteed

“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” 2 Tim. 3:12

“And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.” Mt. 10:22

““If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” John 15:18-19

If you hate rejection as much as I do, and have as...

365 BLESSINGS: Blessing #6

“who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,” 2 Tim. 1:9-10

Five words in the scriptures above are breathtakingly beautiful – not to mention powerful and amazing – but so easily missed if you hurry throug...

365 BLESSINGS – Blessing #7

“Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” Phil. 4:4

Have you ever had one of those days, or times, or even whole seasons of your life, in which you feel anything but thankful? Like no matter how hard you tried, it was seemingly impossible to find an ounce of gratitude in your heart given your current life’s circumstances, challenges, etc.? Oh my goodness! I sure have! I actually went through years of brokenness during which I could barely fathom how I could be thankful given wh...

365 BLESSINGS: Blessing #4

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!…” 1 John 3:1

Can you fathom that the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, God almighty, Creator of the universe loves us so much He wants to be our Father and for us to be His children? Do you realize that because of His holiness and righteousness and sovereignty and perfection and because of our sins and ungodliness and unrighteousness that every one of us humans is bound for forever apart from God...