Good morning! Sometimes, we have a moment of carnality. We compromise or give in to temptation and need restored. A broken heart and contrite spirit is something God does not reject. When sin breaks our heart and damages our relationship with God, repentance is the key to restoration. Knowing what you did and confessing it to Jesus is a good start. Asking for forgiveness and to be restored is next. Then, allowing His peace to wash over you as you receive His grace is importan

Good morning! I pray this prayer every day of my life and pray it over my family as well. I never want to compromise even for a moment. Compromise is how we end up in a backsliden condition without realizing it or knowing how we ended up there. Compromise is never found in a favorable way in the Bible and neither is tolerance. It is always surrounded by a negative connotation. It erodes the fabric of our character and gives an open door to the enemy to work in our lives. It m

Good morning! Being impulsive is one of the tools the devil uses to cause people to stumble. Doing things without thinking is unwise. Doing things without prayer is foolish. Waiting on the Lord is vital to staying in His perfect will. We don't have to react to everything or get in our feelings about things that trigger us. Learning to wait on the Lord is how we develop patience and perseverance. Faith rises in the waiting. Discipline yourself to wait on the Lord. In the waiti

Good morning! My dad taught me some lessons on permissive verses perfect will. My dad's will was that I do what he said so that I did not get hurt. I kept pushing and bugging and nagging him about something. He finally said, "Fine, go ahead but don't cry when it doesn't turn out like you think." Needless to say, I found out why you don't do certain things. That was a painful lesson on being in his permissive will instead of his perfect will. It is the same with God. He wants

Good morning! God is mindful of His people. He is mindful of us as individuals as well as a body of believers. He is thoughtful of us with intentional, specific thoughts of peace, hope, and a future. Do you agree with His thoughts He has towards you? Often, people think God is just an angry God who is vengeful and waiting to destroy His people the moment they mess up. But He is merciful, loving, and willing to forgive. We just have to agree with the thoughts He has toward us.

Good morning! The secret in this verse means counsil, counsel, assembly and intimacy with God. So, when you fear the Lord, you are surrounded by the governmental administration of God, the advisory of God, and the whole legislative body of God. This should give you great comfort and security. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are with you which is His covenant as He promised, "I will never leave you, nor forsake you." So, what is your response to this? Is it to stay focused on

Good morning! How often do you find yourself in a situation that you just really want to be over? Maybe it's a season, a trial, a sickness, a conflict, or turmoil in relationships. One of the hardest things to do is wait it out. Sometimes, we end up with unnecessary pain and prolong situations simply because we get in a hurry to end it. But what if you just waited on the Lord to breakthrough? And while you wait, He develops His patience in you to trust Him more. When we try t

Good morning! I remember being a teenager and thinking I knew it all. My dad managed a gas station and would also do mechanical repairs on vehicles. He had a tool for everything and knew how to use them. I thought I could do it better. I found out I was wrong. While working on my own car, I had my own way of trying to go about it. Dad came over and told me he had a special tool for that specific repair. I told him I got it. He tried to warn me, but I was too stubborn to liste

Good morning! God had done great things and mighty works to deliver His people. To keep them from repeating the same things that got them in bondage, He gave them strict commands to follow. Not because He is an angry dictator, but because He is just, holy, loving and merciful. He knows what is best even if we can't see it in the moment. His commands are for our benefit and for His glory. To be blessed, we must walk in His blessings. This means walk in His commandments which a

Good morning! Israel had always had a problem with idolatry. They chased after other gods which is why they always needed bailed out of bondage and slavery. Time and time again, God showed His sovereignty over every enemy and His love for His people by delivering them from calamity. They had a strong witness for who God is and how He delivers them. No other god had ever come to their rescue. No other god gave them deliverance. Only the one true God can do it and did do it. He

Good morning! King David wrote about his deep thirst in his soul that was greater to him than the physical thirst he had in the dry desert of Judah. There is a thirst that water cannot satisfy. Sometimes, we get taken to dry places to reveal what we are really thristy for. David knew where true satisfaction for thirst came from. He sought the Lord, the source of true living waters. Not only did God make water burst forth from a rock for Moses, but He gives water to the thirst

Good morning! The verse before this says He will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is stayed on Him. This verse tells us why you can keep your mind on Him and why it's important. Let me break it down. We can follow the imperative command to trust when we see how trustworthy He is. "The Lord" combines two names of God, one in a shortened form, to describe Him as "the self-existent one." Everything that exists came out of Him. So all the things around us we tend to trust

Good morning! This verse reminds me of a saying I would hear growing up that says, "Make hay while the sun is shining." It means to take full advantage of a good situation, favorable conditions, or an opportunity before it disappears. Don't procrastinate, don't wait, don't hesitate. So it is with this verse and having a relationship with Jesus. Too often I hear people say they will wait until they are old to repent and get right with God after they've lived a full life and ha

Good morning! Because Jesus raised from the dead, we have a living hope of eternal life. We don't have to wonder if we are good enough. Jesus is good enough and we can trust His work to speak as a testimony to the Father. This is how Peter starts his letter to suffering Christians who are facing intense persecution in a foreign land. Instead of first addressing the suffering, he reminds them of their Savior. He reminds them of the hope we have as believers no matter what the

Good morning! Being afraid of man will have you compromising obedience to God. You will question whether or not you are obedient to God based on what others will think or say about you or what they will do to you if you choose to walk in obedience. This is a trap because people will hold you hostage. They will excpet you if you compromise, but much like kidnappers, they will change what they demand for acceptance. You will chase approval while losing your character, integrity

Good morning! The Sermon on the Mount is arguably Jesus' most well-known and greatest sermon He ever preached. He covered a lot of ground and this is near the beginning of it. He warned many times throughout His ministry about persecution. He said it would be there if you followed Him and lived in the truth. He also gave us instructions for how to handle it. First, understand suffering for the gospel is a blessing. It may not always feel that way, but our attitude needs to re

Good morning! As we see the evidence of the return of Christ becoming more eminent, I see the warning of Jesus talking about those days saying, "the love of many will grow cold." We have to be diligent to keep His love in our hearts and to make it grow in abundance and not get icy cold. We should be growing in our knowledge of our Savior and the word of truth in the Bible to help us recognize the times and the lies of the enemy. We need to operate in discernment to know the m

Good morning! True followers of Jesus will not continue to practice evil. They walk away from that which Christ died to free us from. They do not run from the light, but run to the light and shine it brightly into the darkness. True children of light do not run from the light. Those who are not in the light hate the light because it exposes their deeds. They avoid the light and even try to condemn the light as if it is the one that is evil. Do you run to the light or away fro

Good morning! It's one thing to know about Jesus and all things in the kingdom, but it's another to know Jesus personally and have citizenship in the kingdom. The devil knows the word of God probably better than most Christians, but he definitely is not in a personal relationship with Jesus. Many people in universities have degrees in theology and teach in seminaries. But they produce a lot of atheists from their doctrines. Just because someone has a degree and a license to t

Good morning! Sometimes, we can get so mindful of our needs that we forget who supplies them. We trust our job, our skills, our budgeting, side hustle, etc. to provide. Often, we fall short of having all we need not because we were not hard working, but we lost focus. If we remember that God is our ultimate provider, then everything else falls under prioritizing His kingdom and righteousness. Seek this first and everything we need will be added to us. If we seek to have integ