If you’ve contacted me about linking your blog to mine, it will be done when this site gets updated. I’m also working on posts for the rest of the year for all my blogs, and finishing up “How to Hope at the End of The Rope” is part of it.
Enough about my personal updates. Time [...]
Hope listens to the Lord
Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” Abiathar brought it to him, and David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.” [...]
Waiting on God
Why, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, O Israel, My way and my lot are hidden from the Lord, and my right is passed over without regard from my God?
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not [...]
You know I have a pastor’s heart, so you know I’m going to try to find a way to tell you “The coal goes out when it’s removed from the embers, but it burns bright when it’s close to them in the fire.”
And you’re right, as I studied the Word I found some verse that [...]
But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Jude 1:20 (New International Version)
A person who speaks in tongues is strengthened personally 1 Corinthians 14:4 (New Living Translation)
Did you ever notice Paul wished everyone would speak in tongues? Read 1 Corinthians 14:5 a little slower, and stop [...]
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts;
then I will meditate on your wonders.
My soul is weary with sorrow;
strengthen me according to your word. Psalm 119:27-28 (New International Version)
When you need hope, pray the Psalms. Start reading anywhere and read until you get to one that speaks to your situation, then camp out there for a [...]
The Bible promises:
Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God,
and keep the vows you made to the Most High.
Then call on me when you are in trouble,
and I will rescue you,
and you will give me glory.” Psalm 50:14-15 (New Living Translation)
And Nehemiah pointed out:
Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those [...]
David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
1 Samuel 30:6
In the middle of the tragedy, when his men were talking about stoning him. David strengthened himself in the Lord.
When you’re [...]
Here’s how to stop living offended at God. I’ll give you the means to not only heal the root wound that are the reason that you’re offended, I’ll give you tools to live daily live out being un-offended at God.
We live in a world that was once the enemies. Jesus won the battle at the [...]
I’m in debt to Bill Johnson for giving me biblical words to express how we need to relate to God when things happen that just don’t make sense in light of His nature or character.
John the Baptist declared the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, knowing the
Anointed One would release the prisoners. But then he sat in prison and doubt started to set
in. He sent his disciples to ask his cousin if he had gotten it wrong and Jesus responded:
“Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel
preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”
Luke 7:22-23 (NKJV)
John was sitting where he did not expect, facing something he did not want.
We could almost say he had the right to be offended at Jesus. And Jesus said “happy is the
one who is not offended because of Me.”
Here’s how we can choose to live un-offended at the Father:
Agree to live without what He withholds.
Give Up Your Right To Understand so you can have the peace that passes understanding
Look To What He’s Doing, not to what He hasn’t done.
These concepts are discussed more in “Life Above the Negativity – from 10 minutes a day.”
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