Scriptures: (Prov. 3:5, 6, NKJ) Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding: (v. 6) In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. (Ps. 36:11) In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do with me.Quote: The times when you and I can’t trace His hand of purpose, we must trust His heart of love.We are subject to stay with a tour g...  Read More

Scripture:  James 1:6 “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.”Someone has said “Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs!” There was a time of oppression in the land of Israel during the time of the Judges and the Angel of the LORD sought a man, Gideon, to bring deliverance from the Midianites. Even though he wa...  Read More

Scripture:  Matthew 8:26 – Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?  Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.  The hymn “Jesus Savior, Pilot Me was written especially for sailors -- using words that they were familiar with --  chart, compass, and the need for a competent pilot to guide them over the tempestuous seas.  Edward Hopper was born in New York on Febr...  Read More

Scriptures: (2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJ) 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 temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (Ephesians 1:18)…the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the Saint...  Read More

Scripture: John 4:23 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  Hebrews 10:19-23 -   Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And hav...  Read More

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17 - Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man ...  Read More

Scripture: Psalms 39:4 (NASB) - LORD, make me to know my end, and what is the extent of my days.  Let me know how transient I am.Recently I read that “There are four things you cannot recover:  the stone after the throw, the word after it is said, the occasion after it is missed, and the time after it is gone.” That said, are you a person that consistently considers and values your time?  Can you ...  Read More

Scriptures: (2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJ) 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 temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (Ephesians 1:18)…the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the Saint...  Read More

Scripture:  Psalms 16:11 -  Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.    .Isaiah 43:2 - When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.     Philippian...  Read More

Scripture:  John 14:29 (NKJV) - Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you will believe.   Many years ago I heard a preacher say that he daily read God’s Word and afterwards the daily newspaper.  He said that he needed, as do all Christians, to be reminded from the Holy Scripture of what God says is happening and SHALL happen in this cosmos; he then read the newspaper to s...  Read More

Scripture:  Matthew 28:18-20 - And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.Philippi...  Read More

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:19-  That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.The rules for God’s forgivenessIt’s only obtainable through sorrow, confession, and repentanceRepenting by owning up to what I’ve doneConfessing by asking for forgiveness through the SonIt completely blots out th...  Read More

Scripture:  Mark 4:33, 34 (NKJV) - And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.  But without a parable He did not speak to them.  And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples.Jesus the Christ, during His first earthly visitation, was obviously THE Master Storyteller!  Consider His parable about a fig tree which was devoid of fruit as He ...  Read More

Scripture:  John 10:9, 11 (NASB) - I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out  and find pasture…I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the  sheep.       I love movies.  Sometimes the novel version is so engaging that someone produces a movie of that story.  Where applicable, it’s always exciting to compare the two depictions.  I o...  Read More

Scripture: John 4: 26, 28-30, 39, 41 -  "Jesus saith unto her, 'I that speak unto thee, am He.'...The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men 'Come, see a man, which told me all things which ever I did: Is not this the Christ? Then they went out from the city and came unto Him... And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him for the saying of th...  Read More

Scripture:  John 4:37 - And herein is that saying true, One soweth and another reapeth.One might call it serendipity, to engage the day as if ordinary and find it to unfold gloriously... but then to have the usual days characteristics, and to face them with the usual expectations of "same ol' gravy, warmed-over", as the saying goes, would be poor regard of our daily blessing. If one is not careful...  Read More

Scripture: John 19:28-30 - After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!” 29 Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth. 30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spiri...  Read More

Scriptures: (Corinthians 5:21 NKJ) For “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”  (Isaiah 53:6). “All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned every one, to his own way, And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Rom. 5:8) But God demonstrates His own love towards us, while we were still sinners,  in that  Christ died fo...  Read More