Scripture: Matthew 5:44 - But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,I have been searching for an alternative remedyHow do I dodge and escape loving my enemies?Surely, my purpose is to aim to please the LordYet, God commands me to love my enemies, but I avoidI’m willing to praise the Lor...  Read More

Scriptures: (Luke 22:19) And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them saying, “This is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”(John 11: 41b-42) And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You, that You have heard Me.” 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that yo...  Read More

Scripture:  John 10:27-28 - My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.So many people think that we work for o...  Read More

Scripture:  Lamentations 3:22 – It is the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.Often, we go through trials or hard times.  Is it our reasonable service?  Jeremiah, referred to those times as dark times, not strange, though.  We use phrases, such as, “that almost took me out”, or “that almost blew me away”.  So, what prevented that awful event from killing every...  Read More

Scripture: Galatians 2:16–21 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. 17 “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ ther...  Read More

Scripture:  Ps. 100:4 - Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise.  Be thankful to Him,  and bless His name.  For the LORD is good.Have you ever had the pleasure of working with someone whose natural inclination seemed to be unending thankfulness?  I have.  There was a woman with whom I worked several years ago; she seemed to enter each day with a spirit of thanksgiving!  ...  Read More

Scripture:  “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”Most adults have had some experience with and understand, what is described as a firm foundation. For my experience, with a firm foundation, refers to a physical structure that is built so secure that it stands through adverse conditions. Such sound structure can’t be easily shaken under pressure. O...  Read More

Scripture:  Ps. 139:3 (NASB) -You scrutinize my path and my lying  down and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. If you are like me, we have been to quite a few funerals in our lifetime.  We’ve sat there in the pew, pensive, somber in mood, maybe even a bit contemplative about the reality of our own inevitable “farewell-for-now” service.  Of course, it is only an “F.F.N.” service if we’ve t...  Read More

Scripture: (Genesis 1:26-27)  God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.Psalm (139: 13-14) Fo...  Read More

Scripture:  I Corinthians 6:19-20 -  Do you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?  You are not your own; you were bought with a price.  Therefore, honor God with your body.In the Old Testament, God chose to dwell in the tabernacle and later in the temple.  In the New Testament, God surely doesn’t choose to dwell in the temple, since it ...  Read More

Scripture: Titus 3:5-6 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our SaviorThe Lord has given me a righteous bathI am blessed beyond what I could ever think or askInitially, I was blinded from the unrighteousness that cove...  Read More

Scripture: (Psalm 119:89- CBS)  “Lord, Your Word is forever; it is firmly fixed in Heaven. “The Bible is a book of history and facts that in itself proves that there is a God who created all things. Most importantly, the Bible is the Word of God. The Holy Bible contains the mind of God and His will for our lives (James 1:18). The Word of God refers to the God breathed scripture and also to the per...  Read More

Scripture:  Matthew 5:1-3a - “And seeing the multitudes, He, Jesus, went up into a mountain: and when He was set, His disciples came unto Him: and He opened His mouth and taught them, saying, ‘Blessed…’.  Matthew 5: 1-3aWhen ‘the best is yet to come’, as  that modern expression goes, and when the promise seems aligned with the trend of facts, we tend to persevere differently, especially when the p...  Read More

Scripture: Psalms 34:1-3 - ‘I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His Name forever.’  THANKSGIVING [or its synonym gratefulness] while not written at all, verbatim, in any of Psalm 34, is nonetheless felt throughout the readin...  Read More

Scripture:  Galatians 5:22, 23, 25 - But the fruit of the Spirit is LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH, MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE: against such there is no law... If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  For real y'all, if any given day of the week I got straight 'A's in all of the above 'classes', I would be ecstatic, as I'm sure any Bible-hoping Christian w...  Read More

Scriptures: (1 Chronicles 29:11b) Yours is the Kingdom O LORD, and YOU are exalted as head over all.(Psalms 46:10) Be still and know that I am GOD; I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth!(Isaiah 12:4b) Praise the LORD, call upon HIS name; Declare His deeds among the peoples, make mention that HIS name is exalted.(Philippians 2:9-10) Therefore GOD has highly exalted Him...  Read More

Scripture:  II Cor. 4:7-18 - But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manife...  Read More

Scripture: Psalms 16:11 (NKJV) - You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.                                               What do we do at “pit-stops” in the midst of a road trip?  We approach them with specific purposes in mind, don’t we?  We are continually conscious of the fact that the pitstop is not our final destinati...  Read More

Scripture:  Psalms 27:13-14 (CSB) – I am certain that I will see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.  Wait for the Lord, be strong, and let your heart be courageous. Wait for the Lord.David was obviously going through a trial, but he was confident that in his life, God would see him through.  David knew what it was like to wait for the Lord.  He was anointed as king at age 16, but he di...  Read More

Scripture:  Romans 8:26 says “Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”Our lives are lived in seasons and restlessness is a by-product of the season of change. When the Lord begins to expand your border, He will stir up your nest to move you out of ...  Read More

Scripture:  Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;The Lord knew I would need a partner for spiritual warfareHe provided the Holy Spirit for conditions that would be unfairHe gave me a sword also known as the Holy BibleIt encompasses His wisdom and discernment for His disciplesSo, I’ve already taken heed from the Lord’s commands and d...  Read More

Scripture: Acts 10:34 -35 - Then Peter opened his mouth and said, “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. 35 But in every nation, whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.Prejudice, by definition, is about making judgements or having an opinion about the characteristics of a person, place, or thing in order to rate them as inferior, superior, good or bad. Racism, how...  Read More

Scriptures: Ephesians 5:15-16 CSB - “Pay careful attention, then to how you live – not as unwise people but as wise – making the most of the time, because the days are evil.”Time that we have been given is a gift from God, and no one living knows how much time each one of us is allotted. God is the only one who knows how much time each of His created being has on the earth. It is His desire that w...  Read More

Scripture:  Mark 16:1-6 - 'And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome had brought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him [Jesus]. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, 'Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?' And...  Read More