This post was written for me personally and for those who have come to me asking for prayer to be renewed. Take 5 minutes to offer a time of repentance and renewal by reading aloud or silently praying in your heart and mind. Another suggestion is to have communion as a family and take turns reading…

Psalm 8: 3-4 When I look at the sky, which you have made, at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places— what are human beings, that you think of them; mere mortals, that you care for them? After a difficult meeting in my family, we were driving home and the moon…

For whatever God says to us is full of living power: it is sharper than the sharpest dagger, cutting swift and deep into our innermost thoughts and desires with all their parts, exposing us for what we really are.  Hebrews 4:12 Do you believe that God’s Word is FULL of living power? Sharp and healing?…

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart. Jeremiah 1:5 God if You knew me even before You formed me in my mother’s womb then You must know me in all my seasons of life!  You were there, are there, and will be there.  Your…

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit–fruit that will last–and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.  John 15:16  

Every step, every lash, every nail and sword–Jesus took upon Himself suffering and sin. More personally–He took my suffering and sin. Once upon a time, I competed in pageants. My first pageant, I was a guest sitting in the audience, and I was thrilled to see, of all the girls, one was chosen, crowned, and…

All throughout God’s Word we see God’s work in families and patterns of behaviors repeating itself.  The most remembered is David and his son Solomon.  If you interview families they will share family patterns of alcoholics, sexual abuse, anger…  I was listening to a young man’s story of how he wanted a relationship with is…