Pastor Lucy Paynter Daily Insights

In this era of instant happenings and fast world, the delay can be frustrating.  In the current normal, we have to wait in line for our turn in the mall while maintaining the required social distance.  As we waited for our turn to get in the grocery store and shop today, I thought of how sometimes all that is needed in our spiritual walk is patience. 

When it comes to our personal battles, as Christians, it isn’t guess work.  God has clearly shown us in the Bible the battles that we should engage in and the battles that we are promised to win!  Following are just a few:  1 Cor. 15:57:  “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”  We are promised victory in every battle, if we go “through” our Lord.   1 John 5...

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Join me today as we pray together.

Shame is a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. “Shout for joy, O barren one, she who has not given birth; Break forth into joyful shouting and rejoice, she who has not gone into labor [with child]! For the [spiritual] sons of the desolate one will be more numerous Than the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord. “Enlarge the site...

♧ Affliction shall not rise up the second time. Nahum 1:9 KJV This is one of my favorite Promises, I claim over my life. ♤ Prolonged battles can be exhausting. Going through one can deflate your eagerness to Praise. ◇But understand that if you are in such a position, praise brings Refreshing. So don't ask for how Long? Just praise and be renewed! #PerfectedPraise #Praise in the Prolonged Battles....

So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouched down to the earth and put his face between his knees, and he said to his servant, “Go up, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” Elijah said, “Go back” seven times. And at the seventh time, the servant said, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea....

We need each other. Let support one another. Raise my hands when I am tired. Help me to keep going.

People can get hurt, physically and emotionally—which can then lead to spiritual hurt.  Proverbs 29:11.  Fools vent their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back.  Name some situations or circumstances when it’s okay to feel angry.  Remember to focus on the situation, not a person or group of people.   Examples could be cancer, injustice, pollution, or similar things.  Anger affects people in dif...

Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. Isaiah 10:15. Ecclesiastes 10:10 NIV If the axe is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.

Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord , and that thought upon his name. Malachi 3:16 KJV And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9 KJV But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. 2 Thessalonians 3:13...

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my memb...

And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 1 Kings 19:12

And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire;...

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord And whose trust is the Lord. “For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit

 “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” (Rom. 8:28. As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today” (50:20).

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." – ...

Matthew 5:37 New King James But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, Refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will listen and answer them; I will say, ‘They are My people,’ And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ” Zechariah 13:9 AMP. “Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place where they refine gold. Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is smelte...

Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. - Psalm 62:1

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified.”

But as for you, be strong; do not be discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”

The Lord God is mighty save.

We shall overcome be encouraged.