Tag: hope

  • God’s Love Is Life

    God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Psalm 46:1-3. Happy are the people whose God is the Lord!…

  • The One Thing Needed

    When they arrived, they called the church together and related all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles. Acts 14:27 NRSV. He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of…

  • Deep Calls To Deep

    And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. John 14:16-17 NKJV.…

  • Certainty/Uncertainty

    The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. Proverbs 18:10. This psalm, Psalm 33, speaks to me of the uncertainty in our souls and in this world steeped in turmoil…and…of the certainty in our Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit. For the word of the Lord…

  • Let Our Praise Be For God

    Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? Luke 17:18. I could understand many things in our chapter, Job 29. Job laments what he had that is now lost. He begins so well giving all to God. How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, when his…

  • A New Dimension

    So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Colossians 2:6-7. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by…

  • It Begins With A Lie

    You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call on you. Psalm 86:5. The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29.  A man’s mind plans…

  • The End of Fear

    What Child Is This: What Child is this who, laid to rest,On Mary’s lap is sleeping?Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,While shepherds watch are keeping?This, this is Christ the King,Whom shepherds guard and angels sing;Haste, haste to bring Him laud,The Babe, the Son of Mary. Why lies He in such mean estate,Where ox and ass…