Thanking God for the Good and the Evil

It’s funny how my first Bible memory verse has stuck with me all these –what? Sixty-four years or so? I Thessalonians 5: 18. I can still see my dear mother sitting down and reading it to me and helping me begin to memorize it. I can still see her loving hands gently placing the black…

His Ways Are Within Our Heart’s

Our hearts are as our conscience which causes us to know if something does not seem right it allows us to step back and weigh if something is of God or not. In the book of Romans we learn how our heart’s show us if we are obeying the Lord from the heart so sin…

Latter Day Mockers

                                                                            Isaiah 28:16-22 KJV(i) 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a…

What do you want from God?

Although Jesus clearly said those who follow Him will face hardships and trials in this world,still, so many Christians claim success and happiness is the sign of God’s blessing and your spiritual state. They say if you do the right thing, everything will be good, people will like you and you will be successful. At…

Setting our heart’s to understand

There is more than one place in scripture where we learn that if a persons heart is converted unto the Lord it will then understand His ways and be healed!(Acts 28:25-27),  And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the…

Be Still, Be Patient–Waiting for God in the Telecommunication Age

Tweets, tiny phones, and instant electronic mail producing photos of friends’ faces in vibrant color–friends you’ve been longing to see and couldn’t until the seeming miracle of telecommunications in the 21st Century happens upon you.  It’s intoxicating to ride this speeding bullet we now call our life,  careening now down through time at the speed…

The signs of a true christian

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord…

…With Me from the Beginning

(from journal entry, 12-8-21) It was early morning, and I was still in bed. I opened my eyes, and the first thought that crystalized out of the foggy dream mind was – “The Beginning.” The “beginning?” Why was I thinking that? Then another thought came that answered the question: “… with Me from the beginning.” With…