…you who have been borne by Me from your birth…and even to hair white with age will I carry you. – Isaiah 46:3-4, AMP There are times in life when you feel utterly alone. Perhaps everyone has indeed abandoned you. Perhaps no one has. Regardless, you feel deserted, depressed, and useless. You have failed at attaining… Continue reading When you feel utterly alone, remember that God is with you from cradle to grave.
Category: Leading
When running the race, be intense, aggressive, and don’t hold back.
So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours. – 1 Corinthians 9:24, AMP As I watched my daughter’s soccer game today, I noticed a trend among many of the 8-year olds scattered around the field. All of them were aggressive in defending their goal from the attack… Continue reading When running the race, be intense, aggressive, and don’t hold back.
Just know that God may not define success and prosperity the way you do.
Save now, we beseech You, O Lord; send now prosperity, O Lord, we beseech You, and give to us success! – Psalm 118:25, AMP When you, like the psalmist, pray for success and for prosperity, what exactly do you picture in your mind that success and prosperity look like? Money? Leisurely living? Souls saved? Souls discipled? A… Continue reading Just know that God may not define success and prosperity the way you do.
Don’t give up on the vision just because it has grown a little dim.
Where there is no vision, the people perish… – Proverbs 29:18, KJV What happens when the bright, shining vision God has given you turns dim? God has shown you the work He made you specifically to do, and when you first saw it, excitement and awe filled your soul. You understood clearly what it was… Continue reading Don’t give up on the vision just because it has grown a little dim.
God loves it when you behave because then He gets to give you stuff.
No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. – Psalm 84:11, AMP God may withold something from us for a number of reasons. Perhaps what we desire is not good for us, and we are just not mature enough in The Lord to realize it. Perhaps what we long for is something… Continue reading God loves it when you behave because then He gets to give you stuff.
God has no tolerance for man’s prejudice.
…but God has shown and taught me by words that I should not call any human being common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean. – Acts 10:28, AMP Prejudice infects humanity all across the globe. Some prejudice is rooted in hatred of a different skin color. Other prejudice is grounded in jealousy of and envy for the greater wealth… Continue reading God has no tolerance for man’s prejudice.
Be ready to be inconvenienced.
But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Rise and proceed southward…So he got up and went. – Acts 8: 26-27, AMP The day before Mother’s Day 2011 I had a thought pop into my mind. My idea was to drop everything I was doing, hop in the car, and drive four hours to… Continue reading Be ready to be inconvenienced.
Once God has given you the go-ahead, get on with the work He’s told you to do.
Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee. – 1 Chronicles 22:16, KJV The movie Shenandoah, starring the late Jimmy Stewart, tells the story of widower farmer Charlie Anderson and his family during Civil War times. Although not an overtly Christian movie, the story demonstrates how the prideful Charlie learns just how… Continue reading Once God has given you the go-ahead, get on with the work He’s told you to do.
Why don’t you wait until God can join you?
Then they were quite willing and glad for Him to come into the boat. – John 6:21, Amplified Bible We make the Christian life harder than it needs to be. In John 6, Jesus had just finished feeding the five thousand. In order to avoid being seized and made king after this miracle, Jesus withdrew… Continue reading Why don’t you wait until God can join you?
Hold on to God while the fog clears.
Life can be confusing at times. Although we can be confused when good things are happening to us, the confusion surrounding such times isn’t problematic; it’s welcome. It is the confusion that surrounds the hard times in life that is difficult to bear, and when assaulted by such confusion, we need something sure to hold… Continue reading Hold on to God while the fog clears.