When God’s plan overwhelms me, it can be frightening. If you are overwhelmed, you feel you can’t handle the task you have been given. When the Lord told Moses He was going to send him to free the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt, God’s plan seemed too big. Like many of us, Moses was …
Have you ever meditated on the fact that “God desires to work through you?” Why would God want to work through us if He does not need our help? God does not need our help and that is a true statement. He wants to work through us because that helps us grow and mature spiritually. …
Will God rescue me? Have you ever cried out to God to rescue you from a situation you were in? How did God respond? How many people did God rescue today when they cried out to Him to save them spiritually? What does this tell us about God? I remember hearing a testimony many years …
We know God hears our cries, but at times it doesn’t feel like this is true. Not long ago a friend who was a believer in Jesus died after a battle with cancer. Untold prayers went up to God to bring healing. Didn’t God hear these prayers? Instead of being healed, he died. How do …
God invites us into His Presence. The word invite means “to request the presence or participation of.”[1] An invitation always begins with someone else. Moses had been a shepherd for 40 years in the land of Midian since his exile from Egypt. What began as a normal day with his sheep suddenly changed when the …
I am always amazed when God surprises me with a second chance. Have you ever been surprised by receiving a second chance? How did that feel? How did you respond the second time? There is something about being given a second chance when the first time did not go well. You may not have deserved …
God is at work during our rebellion, and I am an example of that. After college I moved away from home and dropped out of church. I would only attend church when I visited my parents. In a spiritual sense it was a low point in my life. I was attempting to find my way …
What does growing in compassion look like? Have you ever desired to grow in compassion? If you have it is a sign the Holy Spirit is working in your heart. God desires to transform you from the inside out. When I first became a pastor, I was blessed by working with another pastor who had …
We can be eternally thankful that as believers in Jesus we don’t get what we deserve! The Lord did not have to send His Son Jesus into the world, but He did. Ephesians 1:4Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his …
What is experiencing God’s mercy like? That may not be something that we think about, but where would we be without it? The ministry of Jesus was filled with acts of mercy. From acts of healing and forgiveness to meals shared with those disliked by society Jesus was filled with mercy for His people. Have …