How do you know something is ready unless you test it? A few weeks ago I was driving down the road and one of the tires blew on the van and the rubber ended up tearing through the metal of the body and destroying the heater core. I was a few miles from home. […]
As a parent to 22 children, I can say I’ve seen a squabble or two. When you have broken people from eleven different families merged together, plus your own brokenness, there’s bound to be conflict. Recently my two boys were wrestling on the trampoline. It got a little rough; one of them ended up getting thrown […]
Oh, that our nation would experience such promises from the LORD! A nation led continually, with desires satisfied, even in the most scorched places. Prosperity and abundance that even our bones would be fat with marrow. Rather than hunger and scarcity there would be nutrishment as in a flourishing garden. It would be […]
It’s been a rough couple of days mentally and physically. Sick children, lack of sleep, car troubles, teenage attitudes, etc. people sometimes ask, “How do you do it?” And my normal response “sometimes not very well”. In all seriousness though, I strive to remember that the most important battle in life was already won. I […]
What do we do when the internal and external battles we face are overwhelming? We cry out to the one who is sovereign over all of it. For it is He who has the power to help us endure or change our circumstances. God is forever teaching us that we need not be overwhelmed […]
These were the first two verses of scripture I memorized. As a matter of fact I memorized them because that’s what I thought being a Christian was about; performing, memorizing and impressing others. Years later, I saw that God was preparing me for healing in the midst of great trials and that He was using […]
You can exchange anxiety for peace through prayer in faith. Too many times we ring our hands and waste energy “figuring” it out rather than rejoicing and trusting God. We get news of cancer, job loss, or other thing we deem as catastrophic and irrational care and anxiety sets in. “What am I going to […]
You can exchange anxiety for peace through prayer in faith. Too many times we ring our hands and waste energy “figuring” it out rather than rejoicing and trusting God. We get news of cancer, job loss, or other thing we deem as catastrophic and irrational care and anxiety sets in. “What am I going […]
We must open to a larger portion of scripture to understand these verses. Read James 1:1-8 This passage of scripture isn’t suggesting wisdom as just one more thing to add to the prayer list. If we look closely at the context, we notice that these verses are sandwiched between encouragement and instruction for those enduring trials. […]
As I ponder over the last couple of years, I can truly say it’s been one of the hardest and yet most rewarding periods of my life. I sincerely believed that I would have back pain the rest of my life and was slated for surgery. Through prayer, essential oils, meditation, and determination God overcame […]