Thirsty For Something Specific?

Thirsty for the Lord “As a deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.” Psalm 42:1 How is your life going?  Did you obtain all your dreams and still feel something is missing?  Did you search out all the pleasures of this world and still feel an emptiness?  This [...]

Testing The Heart

“Examine me, O LORD, and try me; Test my mind and my heart.” Psalm 26:2 How are you really doing with lusts of the flesh, with insecurity, with trusting in the Lord, with your thought life, with your anger, with your pride?  The key word in that sentence is “really”.  Sure we can all say [...]

Burdens Of Our Brothers

“Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.  Be of the same mind toward one another, do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly.” Romans 12: 15 -16 Let’s face it, we live in a very selfish world.  A world where people only care about themselves, their feelings, their [...]

Making Choices Pt.2

Joel 2:25 The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this great destroying army against you. Last time, I talked about how we have to act out in complete faith and trust in [...]

Making Choices

Making Choices Romans 14:23 “But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.” As I said in earlier entries, we are not to be concerned with the individual will for our lives; rather we should look [...]

Jonah Paid the Fare?

Jonah Paid the Fare “But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.  So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.”  – Jonah 1:3 In [...]

The Will of God Pt.2

The Will of God, Pt. 2 What is the will of God? The thing that you should have been praying for in the beginning of your Christian walk? It is simple; God wants you to be saved, spirit-filled, being sanctified, submissive, suffering and thankful: 1 Timothy 2:3-4, “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants [...]

The Will of God Pt. 1

The Will of God, Pt. 1 Who am I going to marry? What college am I going to go to? Where am I going to work? Is this the right thing to do? Am I going to mess up? Should I talk to this person? Where am I going to live? These are the questions [...]

Thorns of Life

Thorns of Life 2nd Corinthians 12:7-10 “To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is [...]