We are all works in progress (WIP’s). We do not have to be perfect to receive God’s love. God’s love is immeasurable and is like no human love that we can ever encounter. For many years I could not grasp that God loved me right where I was. I believed ...
Read More »Prayer: Ask With Persistence
Jesus taught his disciples how to pray as he knew that they would need to know to be persistent. From time to time we need this reminder as well. Luke 11:9 says to ask God and it will be given to you, “So I say to you: Ask and it will ...
Read More »Our Hope: Who Do You Listen To?
“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers” (Psalm 1:1). We often listen to those who are not quite who they pretend to be, or who we perceive them to ...
Read More »They Waited And God Came Through
Faith still requires our allegiance today. (Hebrews 11:6) Our wonderful God is at work in our lives even when we don’t see it, as was experienced by Walt and Annie in the early 2000s. (Psalm 27:13-14) Walt was a country boy who loved talking to God. One particular day while ...
Read More »Prayer God Delights to Answer
Remember the Disney movie, Aladdin? Soon after the cunning thief had discovered the genie, Genie began listing the rules for Aladdin’s three wishes. “You can’t wish for more wishes!” I’d never thought of that, then as suddenly as the brilliance of it dawned on me, Genie declared such wishing out ...
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