“God helps those who help themselves.” As I was growing up, I heard this often. Many people felt certain it was a Bible verse; and if it wasn’t, they thought it should be. This quote is not a Bible verse; in fact, the scriptures reveal how God always makes the first move. He loved us…
Month: February 2018
A Woman of Faith
“It is the greatest joy of my life to hear that my children are consistently living their lives in the ways of truth!” 3 John 1:4 (TPT) This is one of my favorite scriptures. Raising my two children was the most rewarding thing I have ever done, and my greatest joy today, is seeing them…
Fix Your Mind
“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing….
Footprints of Jesus
Usually when I head out our back door, Solomon, our Golden Retriever, pushes ahead and gets out first; but every once in a while I sneak out when he is napping or otherwise preoccupied. When I do get out alone, you can be sure the next time Solomon goes outside, he sniffs and retraces every…
Be Still
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 46:10 (NKJV) Quiet is hard to come by these days. Even when all of the technology is turned off, our minds still may be filled with noise. The Passion Translation says it this way,…
Living Sacrifice
“Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but…
He Never Changes
“Lord, in the beginning you made the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will disappear into nothingness, but you will remain forever. They will become worn out like old clothes, and some day you will fold them up and replace them. But you yourself will never change, and your years…
How We Smell
“As far as God is concerned there is a sweet, wholesome fragrance in our lives. It is the fragrance of Christ within us, an aroma to both the saved and the unsaved all around us. To those who are not being saved, we seem a fearful smell of death and doom, while to those who…
Fear Always Hides
14 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a long trip. He called together his servants and entrusted his money to them while he was gone. 15 He gave five bags of silver to one, two bags of silver to another, and one bag of silver to the…
We Get What We Expect
Shae, our firstborn, cut her baby teeth earlier than most babies; and from the beginning, her bite wasn’t completely straight. She went on to lose her baby teeth early and had her 12 year molars before she was 10 years old. With each 6 month check-up, the dentist told us our daughter would need braces when…