I never cease to be amazed at how the Bible is woven into every part of our every-day lives, many times unnoticed. I spoke with a writer friend the other day and showed her last week’s blog about the “if” and “then” in the II Chronicles 7:14 scripture. (“If the people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their…
“The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him” (Lamentations 3:35 NASB). I marvel at what God does when we wait on Him in prayer. When we listen to His heart and then pray His desires, we see mighty things happen beyond what we could ever dream or expect. In late February and early March this year, the Lord began to urge me to pray for Him to “reveal hidden things.” When I…
Over a year and a half ago, Ardythe Kolb and I decided to write a 365 day devotional. We have been friends and sisters in Christ for over 40 years. We divided the project this way: I sent Ardythe the scripture and the ending prayer, then she wrote the devotional and sent it back to me. I formatted it and in November 2012 we published it. Near the end of the year I helped her write some of the devotionals….
This Sunday, our church held our annual “Walk to the Manger.” In the preparation for this moving drama, the director asked us during the song, “Deliver Us,” to think of things the people cried out to God, for deliverance in Bible times; and then to think of the things we needed God to deliver us from in the here and now. At one point in the presentation, a high priest declares the Isaiah 9:6 scripture which reads “For a…
Psalm 107:20 says, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” God sends us His word, and for the most part, we tend to leave our Bibles on the shelf. Unread. Collecting dust. How can we obey His word if we don’t even know what He says? What His conditions are. How can we seek Him if we don’t know Him? How can we know Him if we don’t read His love letter to us?…
Some people ask God for healing, don’t receive it, shrug their shoulders, and go away disappointed. We need to look deeper into God’s word. Jesus told us in Matthew 7:7, “Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” In the original Greek, those verb tenses read like this: “Ask and keep on asking; seek and keep on seeking; knock and keep on knocking, and it shall be…