When we don’t understand When evil is all around When we pray for healing and the person dies When we are struggling with _______ (fill in the blank) When we feel afraid When the darkness seems to be closing in When it looks like the devil is winning When people are deceived When we feel alone When we don’t think we can take one more step God is still WITH YOU! He is still in control and doing what is best and reigning and ruling from His throne. He can see and understand EVE

God made this promise to Moses and the other Old Testament prophets, and to us as His adopted children, the promise is even greater! Jesus came and lived with us, experienced life and death and redeemed us from that death. He told us to follow Him and to do as He taught us: to love God and love all people. Then, He extended the promise to us: “If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you fore

We look for all kinds of ways to live as Christians but we tend to over look the fundamental way: obedience. I hear, “Jesus is the fulfillment of the law so we don’t follow the law, we follow grace,” or some kind of variation of this. But that’s not what Jesus said. He said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” John‬ ‭14‬:‭15‬ Simple truth, impossible to walk through without His help - so, in the next verse, Jesus said, “And I will ask the Father, and he will give

God leads us through the whole spectrum and gamut of emotions to mold our hearts to see and love others more like Jesus does. Following Jesus is giving Him our hearts and trusting Him to do what’s best! Do you really trust Him with your heart? #trustinthelord #lovelikejesus #childofgod goodgoodfather #jesuslovesyou #shalom #yourjourneytobeingwhole #dailydevotional

As you look back on the year - as we all tend to do on New Year’s Eve - don’t despair! God is still on the throne, He didn’t mess things up or forget something! He doesn’t waste our trials and hardships and He doesn’t waste our joys and triumphs either. He works it ALL to our good when we love Him and follow His purposes. And, even when we’re marching to our own drum, God is with us then, too! There is nowhere we can run from our God who loves us and pours out grace for us! #

The first thing to remember each day… each minute… is that YOU are beloved by God! He loves you like crazy and values you more than you do yourself - really. You were worth Jesus sacrifice and you are still more valuable than anything money can buy. Remember this as you face your day. Whatever you face, whatever is going on, God is with you and He has equipped you for your situation and circumstances as long as you’re leaning on Him. No Lone Ranger stuff! Remember who God say

I am a witness to this! I have experienced some whallops of storms that turned everything upside down - Ones I didn’t think I could survive. I couldn’t see what God was doing in the midst of it, but afterwards, the sun came up in a new day with new hope and bad circumstances were past. I’ve witnessed the same thing in the lives of my sons. Huge storms that were painful to endure have brought new days of great joy. The key, hold on to Jesus, look up to God - He will help you.

He’s alive!!! Jesus is still alive and He is still working and moving among us. He is always interceding for us and His love for us is everlasting. No greater love has ever been or will ever be than His love for each one of us! #hesalive #jesuslives #jesuslovesyou #childofgod #resurrectionsunday #easter #yourjourneytobeingwhole #shalom #dailydevotional

Jesus had a choice, and He always chooses to forgive us when we repent - He forgives us even when we aren’t aware of it sometimes. Think about that. He forgave those who crucified Him and hurled hateful words at Him while He was dying on the cross. He forgave you and He forgave me. His redemption and salvation is inclusive of all our sins, not just the ones we remember. We may still face consequences for them, because God set up a hierarchy of authority for a reason and becau

God loves YOU so much that He sacrificed what was most precious to Him to redeem you from death and hell. Then He adopted you and made you His child, and you are most precious to Him too. YOU are God’s precious child and there is nothing you can do or say to change that. Meditate on Gods love for you and spend time with your Heavenly Father today. He is always there, waiting for you to love Him back. #john316 #godlovesyou #jesuslovesyou #savedbygrace #childofgod #goodgoodfath

Do you really understand the covenant you have with Jesus? Covenant in the Bible is the most serious commitment and promise possible - and it’s an exchange. First you exchange your cloaks - your coverings - this says that all you have belongs to the other and all that the other has belongs to you. Then you exchange weapons - your strength for the strength of the other one’s. The commitment is to provide protection anytime,anywhere. Then you cut your wrists and pressed them to

I saw this in a @louiegiglio children’s devotional. We should all pray this simple prayer… every day! Ask to be quick to forgive, quick to be compassionate and slow to judge. We ALL need grace! “The Kingdom of Heaven belong to those who are like these little children.” Matthew 19:14 #pray #grace #childlikefaith #jesuslovesyou #shalom #yourjourneytobeingwhole #dailydevotional

How do we win the battle against evil? Against the evil one? By Jesus sacrifice to redeem us and our testimony of that fact. That’s our most powerful stand - just proclaim the Lord Jesus and what He has done for you, and you’ve won. The hard thing is that it may bring you to heaven sooner… When this was written, Christians were being persecuted and executed for their testimonies - but that also means that they were in Paradise with Jesus much sooner - don’t forget, that isn’t

Three very powerful words… I believe Jesus is saying this to us whenever we ask, are repentant or are ashamed. I also think that we struggle with receiving His grace and forgiveness though. For some reason, we tend to continue to punish ourselves and reject grace. Do you do that? I remember when I really started walking in His grace and not just receiving His forgiveness, but actually forgiving myself - that’s when you start walking in the spirit of freedom! Free from sin and

Seeking God isn’t something we learn from others. It’s the same as when we pursue a person we love. We make them a priority, we change our schedule just so we can talk to them or see them. We go out of our ways to do nice things for them. Our Father, Savior and Holy Spirit are always available to listen and to help us. They love us with this kind of passion and intensity- after all Jesus died for each one of us and He knew our name even then. How will you seek the lord today?

“Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.” Eccl 3:11 We have been “pressed but not crushed,” tossed about by this world and the pitfalls and pain of life. Yet, God fills us with the fullness of Himself in spite of it all. He restores us, keeps us, provides for us, heals us, forgives us, and makes us whole again - so that nothing is mis

“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” Psalm 139:16 NIV God chose you, and God chose me. He chose us knowing full well that we were going to mess up, hurt people, be hurt and sometimes feel like giving up. He knows when we’re trying to “be strong” by ourselves and when we will lean on Him as we always should. He is always waiting for us with His heart full of love and His arms open. Our God is our

God is on the throne of heaven and He rules the universe. He sees each one of us all the time. He hears each one of us all the time. He has plans for our future and hope all the time. Sometimes we we doubt this and our faith is shaky - but God doesn’t have any doubts about us and His faithfulness has no end. When you need faith, or wisdom, or love, or joy, or peace, or forgiveness, or the strength to forgive - Our God is happy to pour it out on you with His grace and mercy. G

Sometimes following God is often only knowing one more step, without being able to see any more of the path. God’s plans and purposes are always going to include our growth though - He always has the big picture in sight. He wants us to be and do all He has created us for - that is my prayer every day. #transformation #createdonpurposeforapurpose #discipleship #goodgoodfather #jesuslovesyou #shalom #onespiritonechurch #dailydevotional

This is one of my favorite verses and it is also the most challenging! Jesus said that we must, not that we should or could, but that we MUST “Love the Lord our God with all of our heart, mind and strength and to love our neighbor as ourself.” Later, He said that He was giving us a new commandment to love one another the same way He has loved us. Geez! Jesus love for us is unfathomable just as God’s love is. We cannot imagine how wide, deep or great His love for us is. So, ho