Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you … (Colossians 4:12) It is easy to promise to pray for someone and then fall into hypocrisy by failing to actually pray. I know I have done that many times!...
For who scorns the day of small things? (Zechariah 4:10)“Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much.” (Matthew 25:23) Am I humble enough to accept small assignments from God? Or am I holding out for the chance...
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is...
This is what He showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand. And the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a...
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23-24) You do not have, because you do not ask God. (James 4:2) Life was comfortable in...
Immediately the father of the boy cried out, “I do believe! Help my unbelief.” (Mark 9:24) We believe … but we don’t, at the same time. Why? We want to know God, and that’s good. He wants to be known! But we somehow begin to pretend that we can fully comprehend...
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. … What a wretched man I am! (Romans 7:15,24) The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your...
always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 5:20) What if all we got today was what we thanked God for yesterday? I didn’t thank God for my good health yesterday; it’s gone today. I forgot to thank Him for air...
O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter hidden things, things from of old – what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the...
All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned, the king has but one law: that he be put to death. The only exception to this is for the king to extend the gold scepter to him...