Scripture: May He grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill your whole plan! – Psalms 20:4 (NASB) With the advent of a new year comes new desires, hopes, and aspirations. The psalmist acknowledges God as the source of the realization of our dreams. We should thus daily seek the Lord and ask Him to align […]
Scripture: “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” – Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV) God created the world and knows all things that have passed and are to come. How incredible is it that we have a direct line of communication with Him? Come to […]
Scripture: “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they […]
Scripture: “I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me”. – Psalm 52:7 (NASB) What do I want to become when I grow up? What is the meaning or purpose of my life? These questions are common in our culture but are not the questions that God wants us […]
Scripture: “The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments because this applies to every person.” – Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NASB) King Solomon tried everything under the sun to find happiness and the meaning of his life. We are subject to the enticement of a world that declares it has the […]
Scripture: “Who, being in very nature, God did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even […]
Scripture: “Pay attention Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to vindicate you. But if not, then listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.” – Job 33:31-33 (NIV) How often is our prayer time […]
Scripture: “Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.” – Isaiah 40:31 (NASB) Have you wondered how birds can migrate thousands of miles and never get tired of flapping their […]
Scripture: “See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” – Matthew 10:16 (NRSV) Will you accept a challenge in the new year to be more vulnerable? We exert a great deal of effort to avoid feeling vulnerable. In fact, we are […]
Scripture: “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” – Psalm 119:105 (NASB) Ask the Lord to show you the way. He is our Father. He cares about every decision we make. When God led the Israelites out of Egypt, He guided them through the wilderness for 40 years. […]
