“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.” Psalm 100:4 I have noticed I don’t always come to God with a thankful heart and with praise. Sometimes I barge right up to tell Him something, or just ask for something right away. Would you believe…
Category: Devotional
When He Sees Me Coming
“O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation! Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.” Psalm…
Live In God’s Rest
We all have challenges in life. Even if everything is going well, all we have to do is watch the news for thirty seconds to find plenty of things to stress about, worry over, or make us depressed. Technology gives us a front row seat to the problems of the world. In spite of the…
Prescription For Peace
“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4: 6, 7 (NLT) Paul wrote the…
Saying Good-bye To Worry
“Don’t worry about anything; instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done.” Philippians 4:6 (NLT) “Don’t worry.” Two simple words; easy to say, but not as easy to do. How can we live without worry? It seems natural to worry. If we really care, there are…
Live Like We Are Moving
Shane and I have sold two homes during our thirty-three years of marriage. Putting a home on the market is not for the faint of heart. People traipsing through your home, peering into every closet, searching every nook and cranny to see if your home is worthy of becoming theirs. The cleaning begins and doesn’t…
Get In Line
God has been speaking to me about lining up with His Word and His specific plan for my life. He has been showing me changes I need to make. “Line up!” I heard inside my spirit, repeatedly, with great emphasis. And then, “If you don’t get in line, you are going to miss out!” A…
Planning For Children
“How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole…
The Power of Praise
Paul and Silas were in prison for preaching the Gospel. They had been stripped and severely beaten. As extra precaution, they were put into some type of inner dungeon, their feet in stocks. The jailer had been ordered to make sure they did not escape and he was taking his job very seriously. Paul and…
Time To Forget
My husband and I returned home one dark night. As he unlocked the door, I heard something. As I leapt toward the door, I realized it was only the neighbor’s lawn sprinklers. My husband laughed at my startled reaction. Earlier that day I was walking through our neighborhood and spotted a snake on the road….