As many are looking forward to this season with great joy, there are just as many who wish the holidays would pass quickly because it is too painful. The same is true of the birth of Jesus. While Mary, Joseph, angels, shepherds, and kings will savor fondly the joy of Jesus’ birth, thousands of families in the surrounding area will mark it as the anniversary of the horrific night their young son was massacred by Herod… great hope and great pain all in one story. In 2 Kings 4:8-36 there is a beautiful picture of hope in the midst of…
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Shouts of Joy In Hard Times (Psalm 30)
God often speaks to me early in the mornings in a word, a phrase, or at most one sentence. One morning my impression was simply “Psalm 30.” These promptings are…
Prayer For Your Wife
These prayers are personalized Scriptures that will challenge men to pray for their wife from head to toe. (If you are single, pray for your wife-to-be. You can pray for…
Prayers For Your Husband
These Scripture-based prayers will challenge wives to pray diligently for their husband. (You can pray for sons and the other men in your life using this prayer. Single women, can…
The Best Intercession Team Is At Your Disposal
When crisis comes, it is a natural instinct to reach out to others to ask them to pray for us. We are told to pray for each other in Scriptures. There…
Blessing Of The Fruit Of The Spirit
Blessing Of The Fruit Of The Spirit “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Gal. 5:22-23). The fruit of the spirit…
Declaration Of Release
We are selfish by nature. Nobody had to teach us to want things our way. When someone doesn’t do things our way, we try to change them, to make them…
Dry Bones Praying
You may be standing in a desperate situation in the battle of a lifetime. You may feel that you are in the darkest storm of your life. It seems that…
Who You Are Because Of Who He Is
I don’t know your story and you don’t know mine, but we share a common theme. We are driven by the search for true identity, a desire to be understood…
You’re Alive Be Strong
Listen with your spirit to the Word of God. “If Christ is in you…your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from…
The Only Question We Need To Ask
The daily news can sound rather hopeless. There are wars and rumors of wars, global warming, a failed economy, personal financial ruin, the threat of epidemic, and the list could…
True Freedom
July 4th in the United States is Independence Day — a time when Americans celebrate words like independence, liberty, and freedom. We as humans often pride ourselves on our independence…
Journey Of God’s Deep Healing – Psalm 42:11; 103:1-5
Hear God’s Word for you in Psalm 42:5,11; 43:5. “Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet…