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Too Busy?

“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.” Psalm 42:1 ESV

I have seen two great tragedies when it comes to being too busy for God. Both are like consumption, also known as tuberculosis. Per Wikipedia online, consumption is spread in the air, ordinarily affects the lungs, and is marked with breathing problems and other symptoms, and was called consumption because of the wasting away of a person. Potentially fatal, it can be treatable in this modern day normally ove...

The Blessing of People Letting You Down

     “My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.” Psalm 62:5

    The last thing I ever expected considering how often people have let me down through the years is I would feel compelled to write a devotional about the BLESSING of people letting you down. But God in His amazing love and mercy has countless times over the years used some of the hardest places I have walked as some of the greatest opportunities to grow me in my relationship with Him and to help others throu...

Do You Hear God Speaking to You?

   “Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.” Luke 15:1 / / / “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:” John 10:27

    Why did the publicans and sinners DRAW NEAR to Jesus Christ? To HEAR HIM. Is the Spirit of God convicting you? Please read on.

As an evangelist, I meet people continually. You might be surprised how many people who profess to be Christians DRAW NEAR to God to pray to Him, praise Him, worship Him, to hear sermons about Him, to...

Stay Away from Me

   “Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.” Luke 15:1-2 KJV

   “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.” James 4:8 ESV

If there are any words ever spoken that God deserves to say to this world, it is these four words. Stay away from me. A perfectly holy, righteous, sovereign God who cannot be in the presence of sin. A perfectly unholy, unrighteous, not sove...

HOPE for the REJECTED

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:3-5

 I have a loved one who has rarely ha...

I Will NEVER Talk to that Person Again!

“…Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;…” Mt. 5:44 KJV

What if the very person God wants you to love and help and share the Gospel with and give to and bless and serve and reach out to and speak to with kindness and listen to in humility and hug with heartfelt sincerity or anything at all for Christ’s name’s sake is the very person you want to have absolutely nothing to do with ever again o...

God, Why Can’t I Feel You’re Here?

     “Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.” Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” Then...

Will You Give Up Your Life?

   “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’” Mt. 7:21-23

“[That person] is not following me,” I sensed the Holy Spirit say to me one day in rega...

The Pastor Made Me Cry!

““My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.” Hebrews 12:5 ESV

The pastor at a church I attended for a Bible study made me cry one day. Not in front of everyone, but when we sat in his office together with the door wide open for all to see and hear. I was happy about the door being open because I learned long ago it’s wise biblically for a woman and a male pastor to never be behind closed doors alone without at least a window, but if you might...

Homeless People Smell

   “Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”” Luke 10:36-37 ESV

   “For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” James 2:13 ESV

    One day in church jam packed as usual with my homeless friends as this was a special weekly church service for homeless people, I took in a deep whiff of the pungent, d...