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If you have ever experienced anything of God, you have heard Him say, "I love you."  He loves you; hear that always.

Live in the strong patience of your faith so you will be able to overcome all the things that you believe might have a chance to overcome you.

I pray that 2024 is full of the blessings of God for you and your life.  Look ahead to that with the great assurance of God’s faithfulness to want the best for us.

Will you make room in your life and a place for some swaddling cloths and a manger?  Jesus may show up at the inn of your life at any time, and He may do so without reservations.

Let’s spend this Christmas Eve with a song in our hearts as we acknowledge what tomorrow means.  O Holy Night indeed.  Christ our Savior is born.

Washing us is one of the key reasons Jesus came to us.   He didn’t come to do a job, He came because He cares about each of us.  And because He cares about us, He cares for each of us.

God never plays the game of hide and seek with us.  We are never alone, and God is never absent from the place we are at the present.  If we seek Him, we will find Him.  It’s not hide and seek with Him but seek and find.  We find Him because we are never alone from Him.

If you do something with what you have, then the Lord will do what you cannot do.  

The gods we create are not the same as the God who created us.  

As you get your Thanksgiving Day started for 2023, do so by first thanking the Lord for thanking God for being our God.

Let’s learn to soften ourselves as we live in the most difficult of times.  A soft answer turns away wrath.  The harder we make life for ourselves, the harder life will be for us.  Anyone can be your enemy if you treat them like they are an enemy.  Let’s learn to respond to hard things with better things.

When He says no to you, perhaps it’s because your grace tank is almost empty, or your humility tank is almost empty, or your thankfulness tank is almost empty.  Whatever it is, be grateful that when He says no, He always has something better to offer that we didn’t ask for.  He fills your tanks with something powerful!

When He tells you something hard to believe, just remember, yes, He really means it.

Lord, open our spiritual eyes that we may see the army of angels ready to do battle for us in our natural lives so that we can serve you more with our spiritual lives.  

A great harvest awaits you when as a believer you think like a farmer and sow the things in life others will value.

If you have to say more than you understand, others will see you for your foolishness.  If you cannot learn to be quieted it is likely you have learned to be like one who seeks more to do your own work through God rather than to allow the Lord to produce the fruits of His work in you.

All we need is faith in Jesus to do for us what all the hope in man will never do.   There are times when we need restoration more than we need anything else.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.  But fools despise wisdom and instruction.  People with hardened hearts despise learning more and they reject more instruction.  Let’s pray that this is not who we are.   Let’s learn to use what keeps us from learning as a way to help us grow in what we know and in how we learn.

Ask the Lord today to show you your ways and be ready to be transformed from your thoughts to His, from your actions to His, from your views to His, and from your life to His.

The Lord shares enough for us at the time to see that if we can be obedient to the things we understand, we should also be obedient to the things we do not understand.  If it comes from God, it makes sense to obey what we do not understand.  In doing that, He helps us make a great catch while others just toil in their own efforts.

Giving is important, but we may not have much in the way of material things.  When we are a well, we always have something that others can draw from to sustain part of their lives.

Jesus will never stop chasing after you with His offer of giving you Life more abundantly.  Stop trying to live your life on your own.  Let Him catch you so He can fill the river of your desires with His life of abundance which He offers everyone.  This is what is Life.

When you ask God how to move, God will show you what to do. We may feel like there is no time to ask how, but God is all the time we need.

When you are humble and grateful, it does not matter what you have or how much you have.   With the Lord it is always more than enough for you to live abundantly.

Use your challenges to free you from the things that hold you back.  There is a bit of health in your sickness; there is a bit of patience in your impatience; there is a bit of confidence in your fear; there is a bit of control in your lack of control.