Sustain Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. ––Psalm 55:22 Sustain : verb sə-ˈstān 1 : to give support or relief to 2 : to supply with sustenance : nourish The hardest situations are the ones with no resolution, or those that don’t go according to our own timeframe. […]
Choosing the Light (Day 2) Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word […]
Choosing the Light (Day 1) You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever. ––Psalm 16:11, nlt Jordy is almost always smiling. He’s the first person you see when you pull into the parking lot at church—with his reflective vest and […]
Power He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. ––Isaiah 53:2-3 As God’s men […]
Skeptical? Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. Do not scoff at prophecies, but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good. Stay away from every kind of evil. ––1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 NLT “I’m skeptical that they are actually going to do what they say.” Those were my words to a friend about an auto shop […]
Seven Men and a Net [Jesus] called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?” “No,” they answered. He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish. ––John 21:5-6 Peter had been […]
Assumptions Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. ––Proverbs 3:5-6 I don’t remember a lot about my seventh grade shop teacher, but I do remember a saying he used to write on the board: “When you […]
He Loved the Ragamuffins But you are not to be called “Rabbi,” for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth “father,” for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will […]
The Method and the Message I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ––John 17:14-15 When I […]
The Kingdom Prepared for You All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you […]
