Prayer Journey — Your Hands

Your hands made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments. – Psalm 119:73 (NASB) It is hard to comprehend that you made me dear Lord; that your hands crafted me. It is such a personal thing to consider your hands created me; that you are personally involved in my […]

Prayer Journey — Confident in Who You Are

Leave behind that poor self image that others have burdened you with. Be confident in who you are in God. Learn to dismiss the opinions that seek to drag you down into the mud; seek to suppress you; seek to make you a failure. Don’t get caught up in the negativity of others who want […]

Prayer Journey — Masterpiece

But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. – Isaiah 64:8 Your hands, your touch, formed me. You placed your fingers on my life and crafted me. You continue to mold me with your gentle, loving touch. […]

The Unseen Results of Obedience

You are one person. It seems you have few resources. What can you possibly do to accomplish great things for the Kingdom of God? On our own, without God, we can achieve little. However, with God, we can achieve much — maybe not in our lifetime, but certainly across generations. For God is all about […]

Prayer Journey — What is my Purpose?

Then Job answered the LORD and said, “I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted (Job 42:1-2, NASB) You dear Lord can do all things. You created everything. You are intentional. Your purposes are righteous. Who can stand in the way of your will? I am […]

Questioning Your Motives

“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might (NASB).” So Deuteronomy 6:5 tells us. But what is our motivation for doing so? Is it to assure ourselves of eternal life with God. John 3:16 tells us, “For God so loved the world, […]

Prayer Journey — Accumulation

Dear Lord, in this life I have accumulated many things. Yet I am reminded this morning of what I have accumulated from you dear God. You nurtured my young faith decades ago, placing it in fertile soil and raising it up with the hands of your faithful. You have given me strength at times when […]

Impatient With God

What do you do when things are not going how you want them to? It seems life just isn’t going your way. The things you hope for and desire are unfulfilled and feel as if they will never come to fruition. It seems God has forgotten you. The Israelites suffered from this same anxious feeling. […]

Your Story of Faith

What is your story of faith? When we think of the people in the Bible like David and Moses, we know their story; how they struggled in life; their fervent prayers to God; their faithfulness even in distress; and their failures. We can read how they struggled yet remained true to God. Do people know […]

Seeing Good in Trials

It is hard to see the good when bad things happen. I have often turned to God in the middle of something tragic and asked Him, “Why?” I know God is always at work, but often I don’t understand the purpose of trials. Paul reminds us in Phillipians 1:12-14 that our struggles and trials can […]