After seeing the talented computer skills of her 9-year-old grandson, an admiring grandmother enthusiastically told her grandson, “You are amazing!” Surprisingly, the little boy immediately replied, “No. Only God is amazing.” After reading this little story, I was taken years back into time when my step grandmother set before me a perfect example of giving God all the glory due to His name. If you were to imply that someone was “good”…. or that she in anyway was “good,” she would immediately correct me and let me know that, “No… ONLY God is good!” As I grew more in knowledge from my Bible, I realized that my grandmother learned this…
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Five Encouraging Bible Verses About Facing Life’s Storms
I thought it might be fitting to talk about the topic of storms this week as the news has been warning us constantly about storms. Bringing back the memories of my childhood, my dad loved to go out on the front porch to watch a storm. I’d stand next to him and peer up into the dark sky to see the flashing lights and hear the crackling thunder — and the frightening loud booms. Storms were exciting to my dad. Standing next to him, I’d feel secure while sharing his passion and excitement of the present storm. Now most of you may be shaking your head, wondering why in the…
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I will be GLAD in the Lord
Turning on the news these days does not seem to bring me much gladness. Have you ever come away feeling happy and uplifted after hearing about fires, floods, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis, violence and other catastrophes from all over our world? I suspected not. Me neither. The good news is that our meditation of our Heavenly Father is sweet. It can bring calmness as we can ponder on all the goodness of God. Our meditation of Him can bring peace as we think about all His wonderful promises written in His Word. We can also turn to the last book of Revelation and read the end of the story. We…
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Love Jesus ALL Year Long! (Christmas in July for Jesus)
At Christmas time, Christians tend to focus more on Jesus. We talk about Jesus being the wonderful GIFT to our world…and how much we should LOVE Jesus. As Valentine’s Day approaches…we speak of LOVE and remind others to also LOVE Jesus. By the time July comes…we’ve moved on…we busy ourselves in summer activities. And with school just around the corner, we start thinking about shopping for clothes, school supplies and other related activities. It’s a good thing to enjoy the many seasons of life, but it’s also easy to let our focus stray away from spiritual things the busier we get. What about having a “Christmas in July for Jesus”…
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Help My Unbelief!
Just how BIG and MIGHTY is God? Really, think for a moment… and seriously try to answer that question. Whatever your answer is — you’re wrong! He’s bigger and mightier than even that! 🙂 Our human mind often struggles to understand or grasp the wondrous love and power of our Heavenly Father. In saying that, we often allow “unbelief” to seep into our thoughts and hearts. A friend sent me an email last Friday, as an encouragement. She’s also the one that inspired me to write this devotional about the topic of “unbelief”. She had been reading 2 Kings 4:8-17. In this reference, we read about a woman from Shunem, who often…
