To Take the Hand of God

Category: Spiritual

  • Press In

    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, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21. The word of God is living and powerful, and sharper…

  • Our King of Glory Is Sovereign

    Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16.  Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Ephesians 5:14.  This morning in our early morning prayer group, we did a Visio Divina where we looked at 2 pictures and shared what…

  • Gather Us To You Lord

    And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. Exodus 33:14.  Do we truly consider how very personal this psalm, Psalm 23, is to us in our times of need? When we go through a dark valley where we can’t see and where a grayness presses in all around us –…

  • You Went Before Us To Show Us Your Love

    The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy. Psalm 19:8 The Message Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord. Psalm 31:24. NKJV Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the…

  • God Will Lead You Faithfully

    Since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 1 Thessalonians 5:8.  A remarkable thing happens when we turn to our Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit. We have His attention. He has our attention. Now this…is…eternal life: that they know you, the…

  • Present and Accounted For

    You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. John 5:39, 40.  How do we begin to understand? Yesterday in church we were all there when two young men were baptized and I…

  • Let God Guide You Forward

    A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not…

  • How Great Is Our God Most High

    Beyond all question, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory. 1 Timothy 3:16. You asked, “Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?” Surely I spoke of things…

  • 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…