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

Scripture:   Numbers 21:8 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.Okay. It is interesting to note of this pericope, such a presentation preceding, perhaps even laying the groundwork for one of the most familiar texts in the Bible, John 3:16, "For God so loved the...  Read More

Scriptures: (Psalms 44:18,22 NKJ) Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps departed from Your way; (v. 22) Yet for Your sake  we are killed all day long; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.There are times when we experience trouble or is caught up in a web of despair. Then we are brought to a deep and sincere need to call on the Lord to send light (His light) and truth. His divine ...  Read More

Scripture:  Psalm 51:17b “A broken and a contrite heart these, O God, You will not despise.”The Japanese have an ingenious way of changing the color and appearance of birds and animals. For example, white sparrows are produced by selecting a pair of grayish birds and keeping them in a white cage, in a white room where they are attended by a person dressed in white. The mental effect on a series of...  Read More

Scripture: Psalms 101:1 (NKJV) I will sing of mercy and justice; to you, O Lord, I will sing praise.Hymns are spiritual songs. A hymn is a lyric poem, reverently and devotionally conceived, which is designed to be sung and expresses the worshipper’s attitude toward God or God’s purposes in human life. Hymns are usually simple, genuinely emotional, poetic and literary in style, spiritual in quality...  Read More

Scripture:  Psalms 90:12 – Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.I Corinthians 7:29a – But this I say brethren, the time is short. Ephesians 5:16 -  Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.In the midst of this pandemic, many people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed and fearful of the unknown of what is to come.  After all, we have never experienced this COVID-19 pand...  Read More

Scripture:  Deuteronomy 30:20 – TLB - Choose to love the Lord your God and to obey him and to cling to him, for he is your life and the length of your days.The power to choose seems to be one of the most underutilized powers in many a saint’s spiritual arsenal!  Many of us go about our daily lives on a kind of “automatic pilot,” allowing our emotions, moods, other people, (especially some prickly ...  Read More

Scripture:  2 Timothy 1:7 - For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.Afflictions and cancers exist frequently around the worldThe victims include men, woman, babies, boys, and girls Fear has taken over the hearts of millionsOur faith is overshadowed by emotions and feelings Not that I shouldn’t be concernedBut, He who is in you is greater, than he wh...  Read More

Scriptures: (Matthew 6: 9 (b) Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be YOUR name,(Ezekiel 36:23) And I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations will know that I AM the LORD, “says the LORD GOD, when I AM hallowed in you before their eyes”.In today’s world the name of a Person will always be noted in history, based on h...  Read More

Scripture:  Ephesians 6:1  NKJV - Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  John 14:24-25 - Jesus replied, Anyone who loves me will obey my teachings.  My Father will love them, and We will come to them and make Our home with them.  24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teachings.  These words you hear are not My own; they belong to the Father who sent Me.  NIVWhat does...  Read More

Scripture:  Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye who hope in the Lord.You could  say that what we have now is an unexpected [undesirable] stimulus package in Covid-19, the Corona virus pandemic.  A stimulus is an occurrence which by its irritating, threatening, attractive, or pleasurable features prompts a person, or persons, toward a change of thought, orie...  Read More

Scriptures: (Exodus 19:5,6 NKJ) Now if you will carefully listen, to Me and keep My covenant, You will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine, (6) and you will be My kingdom of priests and My holy nation.As little children, living with our parents, there were rules that comprised of things that we were deterred away from partaking of or its practices. We can ...  Read More

Scripture:  Isa. 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 flame scorch you.”As I looked in the dictionary, I was very surprised to see so many words that highlight “self” which is the welfare, interests or characteristics of a person.  God created us in Hi...  Read More