A Key to Hope

I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope.  Psalm 16:8-9 NKJV Imagine someone handed you a key to a life filled with hope. You would...

How Do I Know When It’s Spiritual Warfare?

  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:12 NIV) My husband opened the oven door, and...

Highly Favored One

      And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one,  The Lord is with you; blessed are you among women! Luke 1:28 (NKJV)   Truly, Mary was a highly favored one since she bore the Messiah. Certainly, God would have given her...

What Can We Conquer Today?

    Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37 NKJV Today, I feel more like the conquered rather than a conqueror. Perhaps, you can relate. I’ve replaced the personal pronoun “we” with “I” and repeated the verse...

When God’s Grace is more Than Sufficient

  But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. (2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV) I didn’t recognize the phone number,...

God Says “Rest”

  He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. Psalm 23:2 NKJV When my doctor recommended taking naps, the chains of guilt began breaking. In my mind, naps wasted time. I viewed any kind of break as a lack of productivity. My...