To Take the Hand of God

Category: Spiritual

  • Our Path With God Strengthens Us

    O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still. Psalm 83:1.  There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear…1 John 4:18.  I was reading from my new devotional, You Are The Beloved – Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living, by Henri Nouwen; and on this day (Feb. 2), Nouwen…

  • The Peace of God’s Steadfast Love

    And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” Luke 5:30-32. Cast all your care upon…

  • Our Prayer For Hope

    The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. Proverbs 4:18. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Psalm 25:5. I have set the Lord always before me; because…

  • Through the Eyes of God’s Love

    How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119:103-105. We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that…

  • Let God’s Love Be In You

    If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 1 John 4:15-16. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these…

  • The Lord Is Our Hope and Strength

    For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 1 Corinthians 3:9. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14.  David lamented in Psalm 12 all that was…

  • God’s Love Is Our Safe Place

    We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s…

  • Only God Can Heal

    For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:13, 14.  There are times when it’s difficult to read Scripture and especially the psalms. Reading Psalm 10 is too close to all of the evil…

  • Give Praise to God For He Is Our Strength and Help

    When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice. John 10:4-5. I pray also that the eyes of your heart…

  • You Lead, Lord – I Follow

    Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning,…