Wednesday's Word of Truth

Based on: Isaiah 58:8 (NIV) Then your light will break forth like the dawn,  and your healing will quickly appear;  then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Excerpt: If we could see what is coming up behind us, then we could prepare and protect ourselves. Since we cannot prepare and protect ourselves from what we cannot see, then we m...

Based on: I Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NIV)   Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Excerpt: God is trusting us to learn from our ill guided wants, needs, and desires. Spiritual maturity grants us the vision to see what God can see. Eventually, we get to the place where we don’t make God work so hard. We learn from ou...

Based on : Acts 27:18 (NIV) We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard. Excerpt:  Like the Apostle Paul, we too may be sailing in a broken ship in a raging storm. The good news is that God will speak to the winds and the waves of our lives. God will command them to be still. Our job is to stay in the boat and hold on to the precio...

Based on: 2 Corinthians 9:10-11 (NIV) 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. Excerpt: The Apostle Paul tells the Church at Cori...

Based on: James 1:16-18 (MSG) So, my very dear friends, don’t get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures. Excerpt: Truth can be te...

Based on:  Psalm 23:3a …he restores my soul. (NIV) Excerpt: My friends, we serve a Soul restoring God. If you need to be restored, then just make your way to that place where the waters are still. Find yourself a corner of calm and let God restore your Soul.

Based on: Phillemon 15-16 (MSG) Maybe it’s all for the best that you lost him for a while. You’re getting him back now for good—and no mere slave this time, but a true Christian brother!  That’s what he was to me—he’ll be even more than that to you. Excerpt: My brothers and sisters, stop waiting for the apology and claim your freedom. It is your freedom. The price for which was paid by the de...

Based On: Psalm 57:1 (GNT) Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful, because I come to you for safety. In the shadow of your wings I find protection until the raging storms are over.   Excerpt:   Late in the evening of September 5, 2022, I discovered an abnormality in my right breast. My first reaction was shock. My second reaction was disbelief. My third reaction was fear. Saints of God, i...

Based on : Luke 7:9-10 (NIV) 9 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel.”  10 Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well. Excerpt: When we exercise our faith it becomes a force that shakes the foundation of heaven. It disturbs the throne of Go...

Based on: 1Corinthians 10:13 (GNT)  Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test,  he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.   Excerpt:  For we have been kept by our G...

Based on: Psalm 143:10 (NIV) Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. Excerpt: It’s up to us. We can go on scratching, digging, and wallowing in unproductive places, or we can  pull up a chair in God’s heavenly classroom and allow our Souls to be opened up to the will, wisdom, and way of God.

Based on : Romans 1:12 (TLB) For I long to visit you so that I can impart to you the faith that will help your church grow strong in the Lord. Then, too, I need your help, for I want not only to share my faith with you but to be encouraged by yours: Each of us will be a blessing to the other. Excerpt: The gifts of Holy Spirit have no respect of person per degree, status, or credential. The only qu...

Based on : Philippians 3:13 (GNT) Of course, my friends, I really do not  think that I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead. Excerpt:  For many, an honest self-assessment will reveal an old pain that has continued to block our progress. I am a firm believer that if we do not conquer the traumas of our past,...

Based on : Ephesians 1:10 (GNT) This plan, which God will complete when the time is right, is to bring all creation together, everything in heaven and on earth, with Christ as head. Excerpt: Saints of God there is more. More than pain and suffering. More than war and conflict. More than poverty and lack. More than racism and hatred. There is a heavenly realm where what we know of earth and what we...

Based on: I Corinthians 15:58 (NIV) Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. Excerpt: God is notorious for showing up in unexpected, simple, uncomplicated spaces. And it’s the unassuming, uncelebrated moves in these spaces that create messianic moment...

Based On: Hebrews 6:1-3 (MSG) So come on, let’s leave the preschool fingerpainting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on “salvation by self-help” and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. God helping us, we’ll stay t...

Based on: John 21:6 (NIV)   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. Excerpt: ...this text reminds us that in God there is always another opportunity. When we have done all that we can do all is not lost. This is simply an opportunity for God to demonstrate the miracu...

Based on: Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV) There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven, Excerpt: If there is something in our life that isn’t working, we can change it. If there is someone in our lives who does not have our best interest at heart, we can distance ourselves from them. If we find ourselves in a place that is not conducive to our good, we can bust a move.

Based on : Mark 5:2 (NIV) When Jesus Got out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit came from the tombs to meet him. Excerpt: If you read the story, you will see that the demon is trying to convince Jesus to be kind to him saying, “Swear to God that you won’t torture me.” It’s like a man who beats his wife and then begs her not to have him locked up. The couple dance a deadly dance treading the th...

Based on: Joshua 5:14b (NIV) Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand… Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?” “Joshua 5:14b (NIV) Excerpt: It takes a wise journeywoman to know when to stop fighting and bow down to God. Sometimes the struggle of...

Based on: Isaiah 43:19 (VOICE) Watch closely: I am preparing something new; it’s happening now, even as I speak, and you’re about to see it. I am preparing a way through the desert; Waters will flow where there had been none. Excerpt: Anything that blocks us from God is captivity. And captivity always presents itself as something that we cannot get out of; no matter how hard we try.&nbsp...

Based on : Philippians 2:12-13 (NIV) Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Excerpt: It is this redemptive love of God that Paul says “works in” us to fulfill God’s purpose for ou...

Based on Acts 27:9-11 (CEB) Much time had been lost, and sailing had already become dangerous because by now it was after the Fast. So Paul warned them, “Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.” But the centurion, instead of listening to what Paul said, followed the advice of the pilot and the owner of the ship. Ex...

Based on : Psalm 94:17-19 (MSG) If God hadn’t been there for me, I never would have made it. The minute I said, “I’m slipping, I’m falling,” your love, God, took hold and held me fast. When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up. Excerpt: Saints of God, armed with a knowledge of God we will rise, and survive and thrive. Yes, when you turn on the news this morning you w...

Based on: Ezekiel 37: 6b (NIV) Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them…I will put breath in you and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” Excerpt:  Every now and then our lives can benefit from a fresh wind. That is the God ordained genius of Pentecost. It is the intentional outburst of heaven expressing a desire to give new life to dying or dead...