I am reading Breaking Free by Beth Moore. It’s the 1st book I’ve read by her and I find it to be a good study. Here is a gem from today’s reading. “God has carefully and graciously allowed some of my fears to come true so that I would discover that I would not disintegrate. [...]
“God’s compassion is bigger than the threats of other people. This, of course, is difficult to see at times. It takes eyes of faith to see God’s strong arms of compassion and anticipate deliverance in times of trouble. But God’s goodness to us is always close, and we need to practice seeing it.” Edward T [...]
I’m still working on 12 Extraordinary Women by John MacArthur. Yesterday, I was reading the chapter on Anna. It spoke of her prayers and fasting. Then John MacArthur says, “Abstaining from food per se has no mystical effect on anything spiritual. But fasting with prayer reveals a heart so consumed with praying, and so eager [...]
So many times we look at our problems and say “If God loves me why doesn’t he do this?” or “If God loved me he wouldn’t allow this.” I listened this week to a seminar from a woman who had suffered greatly. The following sentence stuck with me this week: Calvary’s cross forever removes the [...]
I’ve been making myself get up earlier in the mornings. It really does help the day go much more smoothly and I get so much more done! This morning, I caught the end of Adrian Rogers Love Worth Finding. This quote got my attention. “There is enough time in each day to graciously do what [...]
“He does not need to transplant us into a different field, but right where we are, with just the circumstances that surround us, He makes his sun to shine and his dew to fall upon us, and transforms the very things that were before our greatest hindrances into the chiefest and most blessed means of [...]
I cannot tell how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation. I never knew how bad a heart I have. Yet I do know that I love God and love His work, and desire to serve him only and in all things. And I value above all else that precious Saviour in whom alone I can [...]
Today on Haven, the program was on Ruth Bell Graham. I did not really know much about her. I do admire how she supported her husband’s ministry. They shared some talks she gave to women. One thing she said gave me chills. She was talking about St Augustine (whom I also don’t know much about!). [...]
“One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. [...]
“Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long [...]
