THE GALA LIGHTHOUSE

Confess your sins to each other when you pray (James 5:16). Quick, trite or repetitive prayers do not reveal what is really going on in your heart. Wordsmith your prayers much like you would any other conversation. If you said the same thing over and over again to your spouse, your marriage would grow stale and shallow. The same is true of your prayers. Keep them fresh, and take your time to say w...

We can use prayer as a way of opening our hearts to God, not as a being living in an extra-dimensional heaven, but as the wellspring of creative energy within us and the universe. By quieting our minds, we can open ourselves to experience this divine ground directly.

Prayer in the Hebrew Bible is an evolving means of interacting with God, most frequently through a spontaneous, individual, unorganized form of petitioning and/or thanking. ... In these instances, such as with Isaac, Moses, Samuel, and Job, the act of praying is a method of changing a situation for the better.

La naturaleza infinita de Dios significa simplemente que Dios existe aparte de, y no está limitado por el tiempo o el espacio. Infinito significa “sin límites:” Cuando nos referimos a Dios como “infinito,” generalmente nos referimos a Él con términos como omnisciente, omnipotente, omnipresente, etc. Omnisciente significa que Dios lo sabe todo, o que Él tiene un conocimiento ilimitado. Su conocimie...

Después de leer el pasaje de hoy, ¿puede nombrar al hombre a quien Juan dirigió esta carta? Sería conveniente que tengamos en cuenta a Gayo, porque Juan lo describe como un anciano amado que andaba en la verdad, que actuaba fielmente en lo que hacía, y que amaba a los desconocidos que visitaban la iglesia. Aunque esta carta fue escrita a Gayo alrededor del 90 d. C., la primera mención de él en la...

Imagínese que alguien le pregunta si Dios ha sido bueno con usted. ¿Qué es lo primero que le viene a la cabeza? ¿Piensa en cosas materiales como una casa o un automóvil? Esas cosas son excelentes, pero aunque no tenga ninguna señal externa de sus bendiciones, todavía puede decir que Dios ha sido bueno con usted. La bondad de Dios se expresa por medio de su misericordia. Por lo general, hablamos de...

Determined to succeed, Garfield worked as a carpenter and part-time teacher while attending Geauga Academy, located in Chester, Ohio. He supported himself with a part-time teaching position at a district school. From 1851 to 1854, he studied at the Eclectic Institute in Hiram, Ohio, and earned his living as a school janitor. In 1854, at the age of twenty-three, James entered Williams College in we...

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness!” (Psalm 100:1–2). Sometimes I just get so amazed. People will say, “I don’t think you should be talking about the pursuit of joy. I think you should be talking about serving Jesus and obeying Jesus.” I say, “What Bible do you read?” “Serve the Lord with gladness!” Serve the Lord with gladness! This is not rocket science....

This world may be uncertain, unstable and always changing but our God is not.  God is the same yesterday, today and forever. People are going to disappoint us and let us down.  But God does not change. He is rock solid.  His promises are reliable. His word stands true for eternity and his love endures forever. We can trust God when the future seems uncertain because God is consistent and constant....

The Church of God is like a Mighty Army with one Commander,Jesus Christ, Marching to the rhythm of His grace.

Keep your eyes on Him,press ahead, and discover the power of His priestly Ministry to your soul. Our Heavenly High Priest identifies with our needs and strengthens us in time of need.

Those Viewing your Photos cannot see your heart, but God can. Make sure He finds in you a heart that is pursuing Him

In Matthew 6:24, Jesus says we cannot love both God and money. Each is a powerful master and motivator. But we can prove which one comes first in our heart through the following actions. 1. We tithe.  “‘Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour dow...

Job is blameless and upright, a man of such integrity that even God likes to show him off. If anyone deserves blessings, Job does. Yet one day God puts him to the test. Job”s life falls to pieces; calamity of every kind descends upon him. Raiders sweep his fields; his livestock are captured or destroyed; his servants are put to the sword; a house collapses on his sons and daughters and kills them...

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. Hebrews 13:17

1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Philippians 4:6-7 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. (John 15:13–15)

Proverbs 4:23-27 – Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips

Titus 2:1-10 1 But you should talk in a way that is consistent with sound teaching. 2 Tell the older men to be sober, dignified, sensible, and healthy in respect to their faith, love, and patience. 3 Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in their behavior, teaching what is good, rather than being gossips or addicted to heavy drinking. 4 That way they can mentor young women to love their hu...

I’ve been on a number of mountaintops in the US in my time, and I can tell you that not much grows up there. The summits of mountains are bare rock and lichen. That’s not where you would normally find an abundance of grain. But Solomon, who wrote Psalm 72, asked God for “an abundance of grain . . . on the top of the mountains,” to characterize his reign as king. If grain on the mountain is so unus...

 EXPERIENCESRESOURCESRELATIONAL JOURNEYBLOGABOUT US GIVE  BACKWHO WE AREWHAT WE DO NEW RESOURCES: TWO ROADS OUT NOW! What To Do (and Not Do) When You’re Feeling Spiritually Numb  If you haven’t been here, you will be. It’s just a part of the ebb and flow of life. At some point we find ourselves feeling a bit disenchanted. A bit distanced. A bit…apathetic. We don’t want to read our Bibles. We don...

In John's Gospel, the phrase is attributed to Jesus speaking with the Samaritan woman whom he meets at Jacob's Well in Sychar: "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water" (John 4:10).

We may be familiar with the phrase “witnessing for Christ,” but do we know why we should witness for the Lord and how we should do it? Witnessing for Christ means simply telling others what we have personally seen and experienced of the Lord Jesus. When we received Him as our Savior, our first reaction might have been to tell our best friend all about our salvation, that is, to witness to them of...

The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. ... The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. Remember, apart from God we cannot do anything

Jesus taught, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). Though none of us are perfect, we can all look to the life of Jesus Christ as an example of what we should strive for.