Scripture:  Jeremiah 29: 10-14 - For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will liste...  Read More

Scripture:  Romans 5:1-5 – Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have  peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope....  Read More

Scriptures: (Psalm 23:4) Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For YOU are with me; YOUR rod and YOUR staff, THEY comfort me(Isaiah 43.2) When you pass through the waters, I WILL be with you; and through the rivers they shall not overflow you, when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flames scorch you.There comes a time in ...  Read More

Scripture: John 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, [and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,] full of grace and truth.When I was in Memphis, riding around with friends one rainy evening in 1979, I had no idea what was to come.  We were on break from classes, and I would have been content to see a movie, grab some pizza, and call it a day.  They...  Read More

Scriptures: (I Tim. 6:14c, 15, 16)…until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, which he will manifest in His own time, He who is the blameless and only Potentate (Sovereign), the King of Kings and Lord of lords, who has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen be honor and everlasting power. Amen.A few days ago, my husband and I traveled by car to southern Virginia. Al...  Read More

Scripture:  1 Timothy 4:6-11 New International Version (NIV) -  If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. 7 Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8 For physical training is of some value, but go...  Read More

Scripture: Colossians 3:1-5 (NKJV) -  If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things, which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. 5. Therefore put to death your...  Read More

Scripture:  Isaiah 30:18-19 – And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, ...  Read More

Scripture:  Romans 3:17-18 - And the way of peace they have not known.  There is no fear of God before their eyes.It has been said that there are three types of people in this world:  those who are afraid, those who don’t know enough to be afraid, and those who by God’s grace know their Bible, (and I would add) its Author!  Living by fear, as we commonly define the word, should not be the habitual...  Read More

Scripture:  Hebrews 12:25-29 - See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal o...  Read More

Scripture: "THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH" Psalm 119:105"I don't want no bible, mister."That's how our little moment began, during a Gideon distribution of bibles. There he was, all sixty or so pounds of him, standing before me, as I managed the sharing of bibles with other folks nearing me. He might have been about 7 years old by appearances, and as best as I can recal...  Read More

Scriptures: Psalms 115:3 -  Our God is in heaven and does whatever He pleases! Isaiah 46:10 - I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying, My plan will take place, and I will do all My will! From generation to generation, man has never ceased to put God in a box. Our thoughts and ways are not like Gods’ no matter how man feels about the path he is on. Man m...  Read More

Scripture:  Isa. 42:9a:  “Behold, the former things have come to pass and new things I declare;”In the Process of Time – God Does a New Thing, the theme for the Women’s Ministry 2020, but little did I know how much this theme and verse would begin to be experienced. The coronavirus, the home going of my sister in Christ, Jan Terry after serving Christ together for 48 years, being a caregiver for m...  Read More

Scripture: Romans 12:2 (NKJV) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.We live in a society where many things have been deemed okay. However, many of those same things are not okay by God’s standards. As followers of Christ, we are charged with living in the “world” but not ac...  Read More

Scripture:  Philippians 2:1-8 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not eve...  Read More

Scripture: Mark 4:38, 39 (TLB) - But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow.  And they awoke Him and said to Him, Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?  Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!”  And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.There is much, dear saints, to tempt us to fear these days.  Over the past three decades alone, we’ve no doubt h...  Read More

Scripture:  John 8:42-47 -  Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not s...  Read More

Scriptures: (Isaiah 62:12) And they shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.He Sought Me – He Sought Me Not – He Sought Me – He Sought Me NotQuestion …. Who sought who ………..Did  you seek Him or did He seek you?The scriptures clearly teach that we love Him because He first loved us. (1st John 4:19) What a profound true state...  Read More