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Are You Trusting the Lord with THIS?

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5 / / / “Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us…” Psalm 62:8

   “Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.” Psalm 2:12

   “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Hebrews 11:6

     “Trust me with ALL things,” the Holy...

The Queen of Worry

   “Casting all your care [anxiety in some versions]upon him; for he careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:7

If anyone knows how to worry, I do. I can have fear about just about anything. I can worry incessantly if I’m not careful. I am so prone to fear I can’t imagine a day without it. If anyone were to be named the queen of fear, I could be. When I don’t place my trust in God and His Word moment by moment, and protect my heart from fear and worry (Proverbs 4:23), and seek to be filled with His Spirit...

Sometimes You Need to Make a U-Turn

“If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.” Jeremiah 26:3

“Sometimes you need to make a U-turn,” a beloved friend said. I was exiting her office, and, daydreaming, I didn’t know what she was referring to. But as soon as I heard her, I knew the Lord had given me a message.

Why do drivers make U-turns? Sometimes we’re driving down the highway, trying to get to the right...

Little Ways to Serve God Big

   “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:” 1 Peter 5:6

In a world ever focused on big things, big goals, big dreams, big resumes, big jobs, big promotions, big money, big accomplishments, big achievements, big awards, big bragging, big validation, big egos, big pride, big aspirations, etc., it can be easy to fall into the mentality we can’t possibly serve God, or do anything significant in serving Him, can never measure up to doing what t...

The TRAGEDY of COMFORT

   “Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.” Deut. 10:20

In a day and age when comfort is sought like a hot commodity, in a culture in America and perhaps in other nations too in which comfort – not to mention pleasure – is desired and yearned for and pursued like it’s an enormously high if not highest priority in life, is it any wonder that I have heard time and again from people serving the Lord that they became or have be...

A Beautiful Reminder from South Africa

   “Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory,…” Psalm 119:1

When a sweet sister in the Lord in South Africa told me God had used some of my writing to reach her heart, I got a beautiful reminder.

In my first few years in ministry, completely untrained, raw, and in passionate pursuit of the Lord and my life’s calling, I made some grave errors. One of the most serious was I looked to much of modern day American Christianity, churches, ministries, Christians, and Christian...

Do You Know You’re Future?

   “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.” Psalm 37:23

“So are you excited about knowing you’re moving forward?” I asked a sister in the Lord whose work life was clearly moving full steam ahead after a great, and long, investment of time and care she had poured into it.

“Yeah, but I’m not sure how my future is going to look,” she said.

I couldn’t help but laugh. Not to mention understand. Shouldn’t we know our future? Shouldn’t we be able to figure it...

Sticking Around with Loved Ones

   “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

Before I had even finished publishing the little devotional the Lord had laid on my heart called, “Stepping Back from Loved Ones,” His Spirit moved upon my heart compelling me to write this one. Why? I knew immediately. Just as much as the Lord might lead us to step back from a loved one for His purpose for His glory in His love, He might also lead us to stick around with loved ones from whom we...

Stepping Back from Loved Ones

   “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Ecc. 3:1

It was indescribably hard when the Lord led me to step back from a loved one. It was not the first time He had led me to step back from a loved one, nor likely the last. The last thing we may want to do is to step back, to step away, to remove ourselves from someone we love dearly, whether for a season, or permanently. But our relationship with the Lord must come above all our other relationships bec...

What Will You Choose?

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20

“I’m...