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 the...

Jesus Loves Broken People

  “I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment.” Ezekiel 34:16 NKJV She was tossed aside. Nobody wanted a puppy with an...

Taking Up the Shield of Faith

Taking up the Shield of Faith Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1 NKJV) Do you know the root cause of almost all your problems? It’s not your husband or your job. That’s the fruit of a much bigger problem. The...

Expect An Answer

  Now Peter continued knocking; and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.    –Acts 12:16   Peter had been imprisoned by Herod, and the church was in constant prayer (Acts 12:5). The night prior to his execution date, Peter was chained...

Self-Care for Anxiety at Christmas

    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) I’ve been there...

Finding Our White Space

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, Hebrews 12:1 NKJV Rest the arm. Those were the doctor’s...