We hope you enjoy this re-post from April 23, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team God…devises means so that he who is banished may not be an utter outcast from Him. – 2 Samual 14:14, Amplified Bible My mother’s relationship with her mother was extremely adversarial. For most of the last thirty years… Continue reading BEST OF TQFG: Do your part to mend the broken relationship.
Category: Love
When no one hears…
And the Angel of the Lord continued, See now, you are with child and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Ishmael [God hears], because the Lord has heard and paid attention to your affliction. – Genesis 16:11, Amplified Bible (AMP) Jennifer Unagnst grew up in a home filled with darkness and fear.… Continue reading When no one hears…
It might just be time for a dance.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; – Ephesians 5:25, King James Version (KJV) Last month I wrote about the failing health of my 91-year neighbor. He died a few days ago, and yesterday I attended his funeral. He accomplished many things in life, including serving… Continue reading It might just be time for a dance.
Child Rearing 101
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. – Psalm 127:3, King James Version (KJV) In his book 30 Lessons For Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans, Karl Pillemer reported the following advice regarding parenting:* What if there was one course of action… Continue reading Child Rearing 101
A wonderful pearl of wisdom for picking a great partner.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? – 2 Corinthians 6:14, Amplified Bible… Continue reading A wonderful pearl of wisdom for picking a great partner.
Thoughts on the death of Robin Williams.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. – Colossians 3:21, King James Version (KJV) For the past couple of days, fans around the world have been mourning the loss of actor/comedian Robin Williams, who took his own life on Monday, August 11, 2014. Williams, 63, had a tremendous career that stretched… Continue reading Thoughts on the death of Robin Williams.
Arise from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you!
Arise [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you—rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! – Isaiah 60:1, Amplified Bible (AMP) I have a 91-year old friend who just left… Continue reading Arise from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you!
We NEED the bad with the good.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider that God has made the one side by side with the other, so that man may not find out anything that shall be after him. – Ecclesiastes 7:14, Amplified Bible (AMP) As Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV) teaches us: To every thing there… Continue reading We NEED the bad with the good.
Would you be happy if you were rich beyond your wildest dreams?
As for the rich in this world, charge them not to be proud and arrogant and contemptuous of others, nor to set their hopes on uncertain riches, but on God, Who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for [our] enjoyment. – 1 Timothy, 6:17, Amplified Bible (AMP) If money buys lasting joy, then why was Wayne Huizenga, Jr. miserable? According to www.IAmSecond.com:… Continue reading Would you be happy if you were rich beyond your wildest dreams?
Faithful are the wounds of a friend…
Open rebuke is better than love that is hidden. Faithful are the wounds of a friend… – Proverbs 27:5, 6a In 1 Kings 20, God used wicked King Ahab to punish the equally idolatrous King Ben-hadad of Syria. The Lord intended for Ahab to destroy Ben-hadad, but in verses 32-33 we find Ahab sparing Ben-hadad’s… Continue reading Faithful are the wounds of a friend…