Get Your Ground Ready
“But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown” (Matthew 13:23)....
View ArticleRecognize Your Worth
“If you are so numerous,” Joshua answered, “and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and...
View ArticleIn the Right Place, but With the Wrong Spirit
“Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, ‘Why are you thinking these things?’” (Mark 2:8) As I read our text for today, I was...
View ArticleDon’t Miss God’s Blessings
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not...
View ArticleForget About Tomorrow
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34). As a child, I can remember watching the television show “One Day at...
View ArticleA “Good” Thing May be a Bad Thing
“The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down and he died there beside the ark of God” (2 Samuel 6:7). A friend recently reminded me, that just...
View ArticleStay Close to People Who Are Walking With God
“I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses” ( Joshua 1:3). Every now and then you’ll become a recipient of a proximity blessing. Sometimes God will bless you through the...
View ArticleGod Can Take Care of You Wherever You Are
The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you” (Genesis 26:2-3). Sometimes God places...
View ArticleStay Put and Let God Bless You
“Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him” (Genesis: 26:12). One of the things that I’ve discovered about God is that it doesn’t take Him...
View ArticleThe Importance of Receiving Direction
“Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before” (Joshua 3:4). It’s imperative to receive direction when you’re embarking on a new area in your life. It’s to your...
View ArticleExcuses Cause Delay in Spiritual Progress
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (John 4:9). Too often we offer excuses as a means of justifying not doing what God has...
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