“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” We find this scripture in Nehemiah 8:11. Some of the children of Israel had returned to Jerusalem from exile from other countries. After rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem, the priests brought out the Book of the Law of Moses and began reading it and interpreting it to […]
Have you ever studied the people in the Bible and wondered at their faith and how they believed so solidly in God? We have all these amazing examples of people who believed in God, and many of those people did great things. There was Daniel in the lion’s den and David defeating Goliath and Joseph
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Do you find waiting to be easy? We can wait in traffic, in a line, at a doctor’s office, for a movie to start. Some people wait impatiently. They are usually the ones pacing, and or driving everyone else crazy desperately trying to make the waiting end. There are also those people who sit more
I think with every promise there is a process attached. Joseph was a prime example of this very thing. In Genesis 37 it says that Joseph as a young man had a powerful dream from God about his brothers and family bowing down to him. In other words he dreamed of greatness. When he shared
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Have you ever wondered about the rainbow? The rainbow is spoken about in the Bible a couple of times. In Genesis 9, the rainbow is first spoken of as a symbol of a covenant between God and Noah that He would never destroy the Earth again through flooding. I think this is interesting because before
One of my favorite scripture verses for a long time has been Psalm 37:4. The NKJV says, “Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.” I would say the reason the scripture originally caught my attention was the, “And He shall give you the desires of your
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Dressed in my wedding gown, I stared out into the parking lot of the church from the darkened Sunday school room. Surrounded by toys and the familiar smell of crackers and Lysol, I began to wonder if the caterers had arrived. As I watched people begin to arrive for the ceremony, thoughts began to race
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Have you ever thought about the resurrection power of God? It’s powerful, right? Jesus was crucified and paid the ultimate price for our sins so that our broken relationship with God could be restored. That in itself is pretty powerful, but then three days later God raised Jesus from the dead. God restored life to
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I think Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I know there is a lot of hustle and bustle and activity but there is also a lot of quietness. Maybe it is because it gets darker earlier and there are Christmas lights to light up the darkness both inside and outside our homes. There
The story of the crippled man at the pool of Bethesda is an interesting story in the Bible. The story is found in John 5. In Jerusalem, there was a pool which was called Bethesda. There were five porches around the pool and in these porches lay many sick people hoping for their miracle. According
