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…

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along!!

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty (snobbish, high-minded, exclusive), but readily adjust yourself to [people, things] and give yourselves to humble tasks. Never overestimate yourself or be wise in your own conceits. Romans 12:16 (AMP)     Relationships are tough to be in at times, but not impossible to master. When I…

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…

Get Up!

Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a Jewish festival. 2 Near Sheep Gate in Jerusalem was a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It had five porches. 3 Under these porches a large number of sick people—people who were blind, lame, or paralyzed—used to lie. 5 One man, who had been sick for 38 years, was…

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…

You Can Win This Fight!

The struggle is real! Yes, we all have struggled in maintaining a Godly lifestyle at one time or another.  In the midst of the struggle the temptations we battled seemed to win out over our self-control.  It is not always easy breaking free from strongholds and mindsets that have held you captive for so long,…

There’s Greatness Within You!

God didn’t give us a cowardly spirit but a spirit of power, love, and good judgment.  2 Timothy 1:7 (GW) Why am I still here? This is your daily cry as you ponder the deep dissatisfaction with your state in life. Yet, you choose to do nothing about it.  You blame everyone else for why…