Today’s Scripture: Galatians 5:14 ESV For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." One word sums up everything. Love, is it the one word you can focus on today? Do you have a major decision to make today? Are you facing death and destruction? Do worries and fears weigh you down? Are you looking for ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: In You O LORD I put my trust.
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 71:1 NKJ: In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. I want to live my trust as much as I feel it or state it. Do I say I trust the LORD yet live like I trust the things of man? Yes, there is confusion there and like David my desire is not to be put to confusion nor cause confusion to others. The ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: My need for God blesses me.
Today’s Scripture: Matthew 5:4 NLT; "God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs. Jesus tells us we are blessed when we realize our need for God. Here on the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches us what we really need. The human experience teaches us that neediness is weak. Jesus however teaches ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I am thankful God seeks me.
Today’s Scripture: Ezekiel 34:16 ESV; I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. “So will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.” ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I am going where God has shown me.
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 143:8 ESV; Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. “I should go.” These words jumped off the page as I praised God for His steadfast love in the morning. If I have already experienced His love in a past and present sense, could I ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I arise and call out to the LORD.
Today’s Scripture: Jonah 1:6 ESV; So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us that we may not perish.” Do you need a wake up call? How could Jonah be asleep during such a storm as this? How can we? My good friend Julian sent me an obscure text early ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I find the comfort of God in quietness.
Today’s Scripture: Ecclesiastes 4:6 ESV; Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. We have a comforter. Will we be still long enough to find this comfort? Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes 4:1 that the people had no comforter but He also tells us we will find our comforter in the quietness. We can ... Continue Reading »