How We Can Pray for Our Nation

  we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. (Daniel 9:5 NKJV) Our presidential election is only days away, but our nation’s problems will not end on November 4th. In fact,...

A Cup of Suffering for a Cup of Blessing

    My cup runs over.  (Psalm 23:5c NKJV) Almost one year has passed since Covid attacked my body. It drained me of all strength and left me feeling like a limp dish cloth. I didn’t run much of a fever, and thankfully, I never struggled for breath like so...

Choose Joy

  My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials James 1:2 NKJV Joy usually doesn’t show up in a doctor’s office, unless you’re getting good news. Joy flees when strife arises in families. There’s certainly no joy when depression sets in, and joy...

An Unceasing Prayer

  Pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you 1 Thes. 5:17-18 NKJV   What does it mean to pray without ceasing? We have to sleep. We have to work, and we must keep our eyes open while driving. How is it possible...

Guide Dog Tales: the Problem with Rushing God

  “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Hebrews 6:14-15 NKJV I’m sure you never had anyone warn you not to get ahead of yourself, or have you? Typically, I walk...

Does God Care When I’m Depressed?

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”.” (1 Kings 19:4 NKJV) When it feels as if...