Stepping Outside the Comfort Zone

It happened that four lepers were sitting just outside the city gate. They said to one another, “What are we doing sitting here at death’s door? If we enter the famine-struck city we’ll die; if we stay here we’ll die. So let’s take our chances in the camp of Aram and throw ourselves on their…

Risk Takers

“What do you mean, ‘If I can’?” Jesus asked. “Anything is possible if a person believes.”24 The father instantly cried out, “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!” Sitting here reminding myself of what God has already spoken to me and finding it hard to remain firmly fixed in my faith.  Don’t get me…

The Power of Encouragement

Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up.  Proverbs 12:25 (NLT)   We live in a world that has become filled with mayhem.  Every side we turn there is a school shooting, a kidnapping, a family on the brink of falling apart or even a suicide as we have witnessed days ago….

Are You Fully Surrendered….

How often have you allowed a few days, weeks, months to pass before reading the Bible? How often have you pursued your own desires and the pleasures of this world? How often do you bring your thoughts under control of the Holy Spirit? Does your life reflect the will of your Heavenly Father? It’s time…

What If I Am The Real Enemy

The sick man answered Jesus, “Sir, I don’t have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I’m trying to get there, someone else steps into the pool ahead of me.” 8 Jesus told the man, “Get up, pick up your cot, and walk.” 9 The man immediately became well,…

Moving Forward

Exodus 14:15-17  (AMP) The Lord said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward! 16 Lift up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the Israelites shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. 17 And I, behold, I will…

Trust Issues

Psalm 46:10a (NLT) “Be still, and know that I am God! Be still; these two words are not always comforting to a rescuer like me. It is hard sitting back and watching the ones you love suffer. Feelings of helplessness begin to take a hold of me as I sit back wanting to reach out and…

How Do You Handle Pressure?

 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord, and teach out of Your law, 13 That You may give him power to keep himself calm in the days of adversity.        Psalm 94:12-13 (AMP) Have you ever taken the time to think about how you handle pressure?   Do you…

Be a Seeker

But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.     Matthew 6:33 AMP While reading Beauty for Ashes by Joyce Meyer, the above scripture stood out to me in a new…