Category Archives: Restoration
Do your part to mend the broken relationship.
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 of my
God has a kingdom He’d like to give you.
Fear not, for I will surely show you kindness… – 2 Samuel 9:7, Amplified Bible Imagine for a moment that you are the king’s grandchild. Due to a horrible choice made by your grandfather, the kingdom has been ripped from
You’d better count the cost before you do that.
But Jesus said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go (enter) into peace [in freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin]. – Luke 7:50, Amplified Bible I remember learning on the first
What goes around comes around.
For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. – Galatians 6:7b, Amplified Bible Some years ago an older couple from the northern part of the country retired to sunny Florida. They moved into the
Give up that thing which God hates.
.…Achan…took some of the things devoted [for destruction]. And the anger of the Lord burned against Israel. – Joshua 7:1, Amplified Bible We all have something we love that God does not. At some point God will put His finger
God is better than a Netipot.
…out of the fulness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks. – Matthew 12:34, Amplified Bible I am allergic to just about everything God has created. Despite taking daily doses of an antihistamine, a nasal steroid, and
Flee your idols and return unto God.
And when…you…shall return to the Lord your God and obey His voice…with all your [mind and] heart and with all your being, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion upon you… – Deuteronomy 30:1-3, Amplified
God died because of you. But you are worth it!
The man shall kill the young bull before The Lord… – Leviticus 1:5, Amplified Bible Sometimes it’s hard to grasp the gravity of our sin because we don’t have to stare the consequences of our sin in the face. In
It’s easy to stick with God on the mountaintop. Can you stick with Him in the valley?
And Peter remembered Jesus’ words, when He had said, Before a single rooster crows, you will deny and disown Me three times. And he went outside and wept bitterly. – Matthew 26:75, Amplified Bible We are no better than Peter.
You’ve betrayed God before, and you will do so again. But He still loves you.
Judas, the betrayer, said, Surely it is not I, is it, Master? He said to him, You have stated [the fact]. – Matthew 26:25, Amplified Bible We are no better than Judas. At the last supper, Judas Iscariot looked Jesus