They had a chance to know everything dark light strength weakness perfection imperfection to understand pain but never be injured to know of sorrow but never undergo grief to fathom the human tapestry as it is woven with divine perspective from above but now, as the serpent promised they would...
Love is what has guided me for decades and I find that the moments I lose the grace to love, I spiral downwards a bit. I want to be charitable but my energy is such that I cannot always be. This will be a task to focus on in the coming weeks and months. Service is one way to...
9. You’re being guiding: You are being given strategic steps to take in a complicated situation. Even though you may not understand how all the pieces are coming together, by God’s grace, you have everything you need to persevere. As Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to ...
thathe has supreme authority and absolute power over all things. And yes he is very much active, despite our perplexity. Scripture says, God works “all things according to the counsel of his will” (Ephesians 1:11).
This is one of those passages of Scripture that lingers in the air and echoes in the mind long after it’s been read. There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God. That’s one reassuring promise. There’s no one else who can make a promise like that and keep it. ...
27Scripture says that God “has put everything under his control.” It says that “everything” has been put under him. But it is clear that this does not include God himself, who puts everything under Christ.28When he has done that, the Son also will be under God’s rule. God put...
When you pray to Christ as the Alpha and the Omega, you are praying to the One who is, who was, and who is to come. He is our all-sufficient Lord, who will not fail to complete the good work he has begun in us. Key Scripture: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and...
Just as there is a “simplicity” in Christ, there is a simplicity in the deception. Satan’s deceptive scenario presents a false “God” and a false “Christ” who are allegedly “in” everyone and everything—thus providing the false foundation of a false one-world religion. ...
It delights Me that you want to be more aware of My presence. Know that I take deep pleasure in every occasion you turn your attention toward Me. Know too that beautiful transformation is taking place within you each time you do, because you can’t spend time in My presence and not gro...
Anything God commands of us is so that our joy may be full. —Beth Moore, quoted inValues for Life Scripture presents a number of principles that contribute to our fullness of joy, including: POSITIVITY(Philippians 4:4) GRATITUDE(Psalm 126:3) ...