Our family has experienced an abundance of good things—sometimes in miraculous ways (like provision for employment through an astonishing string ofGod-incidences[1]), and sometimes in smaller-but-no-less-startling events, like the one described above. I’ve recorded hundreds of such moments in ...
A godchild is a person who has one or more godparents—people who have pledged to help with their upbringing, especially in a religious way. In some denominations of Christianity, when a child is baptized, they are sponsored by (usually two) adults who pledge to help in this way. Those...
GOD:Ministering to you in these ways has been My delight, ___. I do love to see you practicing My presence—asking for My help and connecting with Me through praise and prayer. As you draw near to Me, you experience wonder, quiet, calm, and warmth. ME:Thank you Father for these b...
God has promised to give us guidance but many of us have trouble finding God’s guidance. We want to be sure that we are in God’s will and we don’t want to take the wrong path. If you are confused about the issue of guidance and God’s will for you, you need to know that ...
“has its own terms of communion.” It is true in one sense that we can never drift beyond God’s love and care; but it is also true that, if we desire to remain in close communion with God, we must give him the perfect love and the perfect obedience which must ever go hand in...
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear;...
perhaps meaning “the being who is worshipped.” In Sanskrit, we findhu“to sacrifice” andhuta“one to whom sacrifice is offered.” Sanskrith– and Germanicg– go back to the same source, so that the phonetic correspondence is fine.Godturned out to be a noun derived from a past partici...
"Eloi" is a form of "Elohim," meaning "God," and "lema sabachthani" translates to "why have You forsaken Me?" This cry is a direct quotation from Psalm 22:1, linking Jesus' suffering to the Messianic prophecy. It highlights the fulfillment of Scripture and the depth of Jesus' ...
Time and again I’ve witnessed God’s provision and protection, his miracles and blessings. “All that I have seen has taught me to trust him for all that I have not seen.”[2] As other trust statements come to our attention, we can record them in our journals or in Notes on our ...
The call to "return" is a central theme in the Hebrew Bible, with the Hebrew word "shuv" meaning to turn back or repent. This is not just a physical return but a spiritual one, involving a heartfelt repentance and recommitment to God. Historically, this has been seen in the cycles ...