Text: Ephesians 6:18 - "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;"Being a physician, especially a primary care physician, most of my ordinary day is spent having conversations with people, getting to know them a bit, to hopefully be more capable at knowing how to direct them toward options, how to co...  Read More

Scriptures: (Jeremiah 17:9-10 NKJ) “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”     Not a day passes that I am not reminded of the doings of people, in our churches, neighborhood, schools, community businesses, service workers, p...  Read More

Scriptures:  II Corinthians 4:18 - While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God m...  Read More

Scripture: (Luke 22: 3-5) Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. 4 So he went his way and conferred with the chief priest and captains, how he might betray Him to them. 5 And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. 6 So he promised and sought opportunity to betray Him to them in the absence of the multitude.Judas betrayed a man that he called friend. ...  Read More

Scriptures: I John 2:27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—an...  Read More

Scripture:  Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.There are various kinds of faith.  Two  definitions of faith in the Webster Dictionary are:  confidence or trust in a pe...  Read More

Text:  Luke 19:2-5 - There was a man there named Zacchaeus.  He was one of the most influential Jews in the Roman tax collecting business, and he had become very rich. He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowds. So, he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree beside the road so he could watch from there. When Jesus came by, He looked up at Zacchaeus, and called him b...  Read More

Scripture: Psalm 119:5 - Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.Four hundred and two years ago, in 1619, the first Africans were brought to America as slaves. By 1790, one hundred and seventy-one years later, slaves made up about 1/3 of the population of Georgia. The economy became more and more dependent on slave labor. As a result, slaves were forced to wor...  Read More

Scripture: I Peter 5:5-6 – Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders.  Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”  Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time…“This man also was with him” (Luke 22:56b); “You also are one of them” (Luke 22...  Read More

Scripture:  Acts 4:12 - Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.From Acts 3:1-10, many times a lame man sat at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple.  One day when Peter and John came to the Temple, the lame man asked for money.  Peter told the lame man that he didn’t have silver and gold, but what he had he would give him i...  Read More

Scripture:  Luke 7:44-46,50 - "And He [Jesus] turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, 'Seest thou this woman?  I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.  Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet.  My head with oil thou didst not anoint:...  Read More

Scripture: Luke 17:11-16 Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. 12 Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. 13 And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 14 So when He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it was that ...  Read More

Scripture: Deuteronomy 32:4 NKJ -  He is the Rock; His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. A God of truth (faithfulness) without injustice, righteous and upright is He.One of Moses’ songs/ poem was written in the last days of his life. It is recorded in the Book of Deuteronomy (32:1-43) , the fifth book of Moses. Those words were delivered  to an assembled Israelites gathering, just prior ...  Read More

Scripture:  Philippians 3:12-16 - Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of...  Read More

Scripture: 1 John 3:1a HCSB – … how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are!“There’s no shadow You won’t light upMountain You won’t climb up, comin’ after me …There’s no wall You won’t kick downLie You won’t tear down, comin’ after me …OH the overwhelming, never-ending reckless love of God!”Reckless Love, song by Cory AsburyHave you ever seen a doub...  Read More

Scripture:  Philippians 4:9 - The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.Have you ever heard someone say “Don’t do what I do.  Do what I say” ?  That’s a bad example for anyone to follow.  Sometimes we as Christians do not set the right example by our lifestyles – what we habitually do.  We don’t realize that people look at ho...  Read More

Scriptures: (Romans 16:17,18) Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. (V. 18) For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple. (I Peter 1:14-17) ..as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the ...  Read More

Scripture:  Psalm 119Prayer has an OBJECTIVERelationship with the Lord determines its EFFECTIVENESSWhere the heart stands is the biggest PARTUnderstanding the Lord’s position is where prayer STARTSBREAKING NEWS!I am not the star of my PRAYERSThe Holy Spirit reigns as my heart is PREPAREDHis biblical script demands high REGARDUltimately, this will determine my attitude towards GODPrayer is the aven...  Read More