Often when I’m struggling with something, God will give me a passage to help me through, especially if I feel “stuck”–as in, I can’t let go of the feeling or situation. Yesterday I was angry with someone and even though I prayed about it repeatedly and before bed, I woke up thinking about the incident. …
It’s A Wonderful Life is my favorite Christmas movie. I watch it almost every year on Christmas Eve as I wrap presents. (I’m a bit of a procrastinator.) The movie wasn’t initially meant to be a Christmas movie. It wasn’t even very well received when it was released in January of 1947. Over time, though, …
But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”Luke 11:28 ESV Please join me this week in praying for God to show you what you can do to become a “doer of the Word.” Pray that He shows you who to contact this week and that …
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.Romans 2:13 ESV Please join me this week in praying for God to show you what you can do to become a “doer of the Word.” Pray that He shows you who …
If you’ve done the tasks this week, how’s that going? Have you gotten any reactions/feedback? I’m sure the lives you touched were made better by your outpouring of love and that you’ve planted seeds this week. Pray that those seeds will be watered. I prayed throughout the day yesterday about the texts I sent out …
We don’t have to travel the world on foot in order to spread the gospel like Paul and the apostles did. We can transverse great distances online. We can see each other online or on our phones no matter how far away we are and in a lot of instances, no matter the location. Additionally, …
Today let’s all commit to doing a random act of kindness. It can be as simple as a text or phone call or as difficult as doing something outside our comfort zone. Whatever God calls you to do today, be a doer, not a hearer only (James 1:22). “For a good tree does not bear …
What do you do with God’s word? Do you hear it on Sundays (or on Christmas Sunday and Easter Sunday only) and then spend the rest of your week living as if you have no idea what the Bible says?ORDo you take what you’ve learned and try to apply it to your daily life? This …
Do you remember the old Ma Bell commercials? James 1:22-25 (ESV) says:But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at …
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.Matthew 9:36 ESV Please join me this week in praying for compassion. Let’s pray that we show compassion to everyone we meet and that each one of them shows compassion to everyone they meet, and …
