Daily encouragement for Christians
As Christians, we are set apart. We are here as ambassadors recruiting people to become citizens of heaven. We are supposed to be different. So why do we often desire to live like those we are sent to recruit? Israel, the first people group to be set apart, had God as their leader, their ruler; […]
Do you trust the Lord to guide you safely and provide all you need for your journey? The Israelites did not. They continually looked back, longing for what they had left in Egypt; the land that was so horribly abusive to them. No matter how many miracles they witnessed they thought God would fail to […]
Do you remember a specific time that you were humbled by something? One time for me was around 2010. My husband and I owned a business that was not financially where it needed to be and I had to apply for a food card. In those days you had to physically go into the DHS […]
I used to attend a Messianic Jewish church led by an undeniably Spirit-led rabbi. At one Shabbat service, the rabbi made a statement that rattled me for a moment. I don’t remember his exact words but he told the congregation, emphatically, that anyone who had been attending regularly for a year or more and had […]
Hate the sin, not the sinner. Have you ever heard that before? It appears to me that in our efforts to prove we don’t hate the sinner, we have begun to celebrate the sin with them. As Christians, we are being labeled as supremacists with phobias if we do not embrace the self-indulgent sin the […]
“Anyone who thinks he is religiously observant but does not control his tongue is deceiving himself, and his observance counts for nothing.” (James 1:26) What does “religiously observant” mean to you? Do you realize that Jesus taught religion as relationship? I think about James, the younger brother of Jesus, and wonder what sort of relationship […]
Where is wisdom found? It depends on the type of wisdom you are searching for. There are two types and they are contrary to each other. “For God’s ‘nonsense’ is wiser than humanity’s wisdom.” (1 Corinthians 1:25) Do you have a need for things to make sense? In 1980, my first husband and I were […]
I recall watching a movie, although I don’t remember the name of it, where a professor said to his class: “If God is real let him punch me in the face,” or something similar to that. A student came down the stairs and approaching the professor, punched him square in the face. Perplexed, the professor […]
Can the power of our words and attitudes be stressed enough? Do you think before you speak, while you are speaking, or after you have spoken your mind? Perhaps you have chosen not to think at all. I’m trying to teach my grandson the importance of being kind and polite while choosing his words. While […]
Have you ever tried to help someone understand that fearing the future is a lack of trusting Father? Trust is hard for most of us. We’ve all had times that people have let us down. Sometimes we may even feel let down by God when we’ve asked or even begged for something specific with no […]
