“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives…” ~Isaiah 61:1 NKJV~ There is probably no other reason that I have called upon my God more than to…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Love and Happiness
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. ~John 10:10 NKJV~ The devil is a sneaky guy. Literally. When all of his attempts to pull your love away from God fail, he tries…
Read more Today’s Pondering~All’s Well That Ends Well, but then there’s this…
So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” ~John 8:17 NKJV~ Holding onto opinions about a person based on something they did in the past is not walking in love. Yet, there are so…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Love changes everything…or at least it should
A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. ~Luke 7:37 NIV~ I used to wonder sometimes, will there ever be a time when I don’t feel like this woman? Having come through a long…
Read more Today’s Pondering~All things alabaster…
On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. ~Acts 16:13 (NIV)~ This is my first major post of the new year for this blog and I have prayed…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Break my heart for what breaks Yours…
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. ~1 John 5:14 NIV~ I didn’t write much throughout the month of November because I was struggling with the notion that I had nothing to say. I was caught up in a process of trying very…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Willing to obey
But He was speaking of the temple of His body. ~John 2:21NIV~ I am overweight. I have been for many years and only recently have come to accept that this is a part of me that I cannot change. God can change this; I cannot. You see, part of my weight comes from years of…
Read more Today’s Pondering~From the inside out…
For in Him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge— God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. – 1 Corinthians 1:5-7 (NIV)~ The sooner I…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Nothing Like the Real Thing…
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7 (NIV) I believe that the worst thing we can do as Christians is to constantly preach a guilt-invoking message to those…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Heavy lifting…
Lately, it seems like whenever a person speaks up for the good of something, they had better be prepared to be treated like crap. With that in mind, those of you who have thin skin might want to pull in your tails, because I’m about to step on them. When you are friends with someone,…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Find out who your friends are…