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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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
I am sure you have heard the saying the joy is in the journey. I find this to be true if it is a pleasant journey, if I know where I am going, who is going with me, and how many bathroom/snack stops I get to make along the way. In other words, I find
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Thanksgiving is really a position of the heart. Have you ever thought about what it means to bring the sacrifice of praise? In the Old Testament, the sacrifice was given to make retribution for sin. There were specific rules and procedures in how the sacrifice was supposed to look and when it was supposed to
Did you know you were created in the image of God? That is what the Bible says. In Genesis 1:27, it says God created man in His own image. That means we carry a part of God. None of us are God of course and our understanding of God only increases as we spend time
