Today’s Scripture: Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” John 4:10 ESV How often, although we know the “gift of God”, we fail to ask Jesus for living water? We become so focused on the flesh, our thirsts for ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: Create a clean heart in me O God.
Today’s Scripture: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 ESV How comforting to know it is God who creates a clean heart in us. Like David here in Psalm 51, I offer my unclean heart to God. I know, despite my efforts, I cannot create a clean heart nor renew the right spirit within me. I am thankful to ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I visit with God.
Today’s Scripture: Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” Luke 7:16 ESV These people in Luke 7 had just witnessed Jesus raise a dead man. Because they were following Jesus they saw this miracle and realized God had visited them. They were filled with glory and ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I believe what Jesus has told me.
Today’s Scripture: I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. John 14:29 NIV Really, Jesus has “told” you? I can hear the cynical or those yet to recognize Jesus’ promises questioning the validity of the Jesus experience. For me it has happened. “It” has happened so often that I no longer doubt. I ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I love from God’s love.
Today’s Scripture: Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:11 NIV God’s love is perfected in us. I have come to recognize my love and God’s love. 1 John 4:16 describes my experience in my quiet time this morning. “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: My heart is full with God.
Today’s Scripture: You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Matthew 12:34 ESV Once again an odd verse for us to affirm what we desire. We are told in this twelfth chapter of Matthew that what is abundant in our heart is what we will speak. Don’t you want your heart to ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: My soul knows the wonder of God.
Today’s Scripture: I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:14 ESV What my mind cannot grasp, my soul knows. David stated in the sixth verse of this 139th chapter of Psalms that “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.” We can try to ... Continue Reading »
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