Jay Garden
Some of the encouragement that shapes us most seems small at the time. A teacher notices potential, a mentor offers advice, or someone believes in us when we doubt ourselves. Yet those moments can stay with us for years.Clara Schumann (1819–1896) is remembered as a pianist, composer, and teacher whose...
HANANIAH
English has one overworked word for love. We "love" our spouse, pizza, a movie, and God with the same four letters. Greek was wiser — it had several words for different kinds of love. And the one the New Testament reaches for most is the rarest and most radical.The agape...
David M ClarkRejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, ESVLet me tell you about a woman who thanked God for fleas.Her name was Corrie ten Boom. She was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp...
HANANIAH
When life gets heavy, most of us don't need more words — we need the right words. And often the most steadying thing we can do is take a verse of Scripture and simply pray it back to God.This guide gathers bible verses to pray over the specific, named moments...
HANANIAH
When someone you love dies, words mostly fail — your own, and other people's. What helps in grief is rarely an explanation. It is something quieter: a presence, a hope, a few true words you can hold.The Bible offers exactly that. The short comforting bible verses for death of a...
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The Bible was written in a world where women's voices were often unheard, their names often unrecorded, and their actions often credited to men. And yet the book that emerged from that world refuses to leave them out.It tells us about Eve, who first received the promise. About Sarah, who...
HANANIAH
There's a kind of loneliness that doesn't come from being alone. It comes from being unseen by the people who should see you. Used and then forgotten. Talked about, but never quite talked to.A pregnant Egyptian slave named Hagar knew that loneliness very well. She'd been handed over to a...
Lisa Wesley As we celebrate Passover and the Resurrection of Jesus, let’s look at how these two are intimately linked; a portrait of what has already been fulfilled and a prophetic picture of what is yet to come.PESACH literally means to “pass over” and is a celebration of freedom and liberation from...
Lisa Wesley I am the Lord, the God of ALL mankind. Is there anything too hard for Me? Jer 32:27What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the FIRST of the signs through which He revealed HIS GLORY; and His disciples believed in Him. John 2:11Jesus replied "What is impossible with...
Lisa Wesley The shepherd’s rod was both an instrument of offense and defense—essentially a two-foot club. It also served as a vital tool under which the sheep passed for inspection and counting.As the sheep passed under the rod—a symbol of the Word of God—the shepherd closely examined them. He would run the...
Sarah Freymuth
… make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. – 1 Thessalonians...
Lisa Wesley 
Many times people confuse talent and anointing. They describe a talented preacher, teacher or singer as someone who is “anointed” when in reality, they are just very talented communicators. People also confuse an emotional response they may have to someone as a sign of the anointing when it is really...
Lisa Wesley 
He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. (2 Cor 1:4)God may currently be allowing certain things to happen to you this very moment, not because of...
Lisa Wesley 
"And the heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron" Deut 28:23The "heavens are brass" is a common expression signifying a sense of spiritual dryness, a lack of divine favor, or the experience of unanswered prayer. In Deuteronomy 28:23,...
Lisa Wesley 
“The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3: 17“We are living in unprecedented times.” I have lost count of the number of times...
Lisa Wesley 
It’s been almost a year since the Lord told me I would be leaving my foxhole. At the time He said this to me, I had been feeling like I was buried beneath a barrage of enemy fire for quite a while so I interpreted foxhole to mean a hiding...
Lisa Wesley 
I prepared a devotional to share with you on forgiveness. As I was reading it over, ready to publish, Holy Spirit stopped me and told me to take a look at the picture (above) that I intended to share as a part of the devotional. “What do you see in...
Lisa Wesley "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty"...a phrase we often use to indicate someone going beyond what is required or expected of them; your "duty" consisting of carrying out your assigned tasks / mission / responsibilities, as a part of a team. I was thinking about this term and how...
Lisa Wesley The last couple of weeks have been especially tough. I can't point to any change in circumstance, but rather a change in perspective that weakened me. A while ago our prayer focus centered around anxiety and the necessity of "taking every thought captive." We studied 2 Cor 10:3-6 and true...
Lisa Wesley A word for those who are pressing in… ‘I will come to you as the dew.’ I heard these words whispered to me this past week, and as is often the case, I needed to press in to see what God was speaking to me…to us. I first need to...