Good morning! Sometimes, we deny God's peace to have rulership of our hearts because we cling to anxiety over things like it is our child. We were not called to worry, but to worship. We were not called to pretense, but to praise. What rules your heart? Are you stressed constantly? Do you try to convince yourself nothing is wrong but know that worry has consumed you? Let go of that which is holding your life hostage and let God's peace rule your heart. To rule means to umpire

Good morning! We are now in the advent season and we think more intently about Jesus and how God sent Him to earth to be born of a virgin, to live perfectly and die on a cross for all the sins of humanity. We also should be thinking of His second advent. He not only came once to suffer and die fulfilling the law and all prophesies concerning Him, but He also rose from the dead and walked out of the grave. Sometimes we get stuck at the cross and forget the grave. We should thi

Good morning! Reading this verse brings a Christmas song to mind that says, "Tis the season to be jolly." I know not everyone likes Christmas songs, but it is the season we think about the joy of Christ who came to the world to save us from our sins. That's reason to be joyful at any time of year! Jesus is the Rock of our salvation and the joy of our hope for eternal life. We just finished Thanksgiving and it is a time for us to reflect on the goodness of God's provision and

Good morning! I pray this verse over my kids every day, especially when they leave for school. They are surrounded by voices every day pining for their attention. I pray they have discernment to know which voices are godly and which ones are not. I pray this for you too. Too often we look for advice from people who do not share the same worldview we have through the lens of faith, the word and the Holy Spirit. We shouldn't seek counsel from ungodly people simply because we ne

Good morning! The word, "sanctify" means to separate from profane things and dedicate to God. It also means to purify. So, the word separates us from unholy, profane things to set us apart for the use of God. It purifies us from the guilt of sin and the evil desires of the flesh. We cannot do this for ourselves, it takes the word of God to work in us to cleanse, purify and dedicate for service to God. The word is truth and the truth is what makes us free. It keeps us from def

Good morning! When you live in a lie, you walk in darkness. When you believe the lie to be truth, you can't see the reality because of the darkness that blinds your eyes. You are like a person roaming through a dark house at midnight trying to feel your way around. If you've ever done that, you know it is difficult and even dangerous. If you use even a small pen light, you can more easily navigate without stumbling into things hidden by the darkness. God's word is the light w

Good morning! In 1 Corinthians 2:14, the Apostle Paul tells us that in our own natural thinking, we cannot understand the things of God. It takes the help of the Holy Spirit to open our eyes and our hearts to see and understand the things of God. The Apostle Paul knew the Scriptures like the back of his hand, yet he didn't recognize Jesus until Jesus knocked him off his horse on the road to Damascus. All those who followed Jesus seemed like fools to Paul. But after he encount

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving! The first Thanksgiving was not easy. There had been much struggle, sickness, toil and even death. The Plymouth settlers had to learn how to survive in this new land. The Wampanoag Natives taught them how to plant crops and live off the land. This brief period of cooperation lead to the settlers learning to navigate the strange new land to become efficient at survival. They were definitely thankful for what the Lord had provided through the

Good morning! As a Gentile, I'm thankful for Christ. Because of Him, I am have access to God, forgiveness of sins and hope for eternal salvation. I don't have to stand afar off and have been grafted into God's family. We don't have to trust some man to make atonement for our sins because of Jesus. He is our High Priest. He has made the final atonement needed under the law for sins. He has made a new and better covenant to redeem us from the law of sin and death. He lived perf

Good morning! Part of the will of God is to act differently than the world. Right now, the world is acting foolish like God isn't real and that life has no value. They are loud, rude, hateful, unthankful, violent, inebriated and lewd. How you react to this will reveal your alignment with God's will or not. We don't need to shout, scream, throw fits of rage and be violent towards those who act foolish. We can know what, why and in whom we believe and readily defend the gospel

Good morning! The Lord leads us by His word and through prayer. If you never open our Bible or pray, you should never expect to hear from God and know it is His voice trying to lead you. You will not recognize His will unless you read the document that contains it. The Bible has God's will revealed for us. An heir doesn't know what they have inherited unless the will is read. We are heirs and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17) as children of God. You don't know what you ha

Good morning! Too many people who have a big platform are coming out saying how they have given their lives to Jesus and been saved, which is great, but when there is no life change, did they really give their lives to Him? Holding onto the lifestyle that Jesus paid the price to free you from is not being saved. If we say we love Jesus, yet still live like the world, we have not been transformed. We do not bear the evidence of salvation if we lie about our conversion through

Good morning! God's voice is powerful. It is often likened to thunder in Scripture. When He speaks, things happen. At creation's beginning, He spoke and nothing became everything just at the sound of His voice. He does great things that we are still trying to figure out. He voice commands and everything has to listen. If He says "snow" it snows. If He says rain, it rains. He is the Lord. He is sovereign. He alone is God. What do you think would happen if He spoke over your l

Good morning! It is amazing that a holy, perfect God would invite sinful humanity to talk with Him and reason together. It is amazing He doesn't desire to immediately judge, but to offer an opportunity to be forgiven. He provided a way out of death. He provided atonement under the law and redemption under the new covenant. He not only buried and covered our sin, but provided Jesus to be the final sacrifice needed to complete the payment and punishment for sin. We not only hav

Good morning! In Joshua's day, there were many people groups who served many different gods they made for themselves. The moon gods, the sun gods, fertility gods, gods that required human sacrifice (often children) and many other pagan gods. He warned the people of God not to follow such things. In today's world, we still many people who serve pagan gods, idols and other gods they make for themselves. We have a lot of these practices assimilating into the church of God and ch

Good morning! Our culture and even the world are in political unrest. Division, wars, rumors of wars...we're headed into the the last of the last days. How we as the church respond will announce to the world and the enemy who we serve and is the Lord of our lives. How are you responding? We must be watchful and faithful in prayer. We must be petitioning heaven and interceding for earth. We must have a heart of gratitude despite all the reasons we have to complain. We must not

Good morning! Father God, having made known to us through prophesy His plan of redemption, fulfilled all that was needed for us to be reconciled to Himself in Christ. He fulfilled His will in Christ to forgive us, pay the penalty for our sins and grant us eternal life. There is still prophesy to be fulfilled about Christ. His first advent was to come to earth to reconciled us by fulfilling the law. His second advent is to complete the plan of redemption by bringing us believe

Good morning! We are nearing the advent season which is all about the prophesy of the Messiah. There were over 300 prophesies about Jesus in the Old Testament about His conception, birth, birthplace, life, ministry, death, burial and resurrection. He fulfilled them all. The odds of this happening are mathematically astronomical. If Jesus had just fulfilled 48 of these prophesies, the odds are 1 in 10 to the 157th power, meaning 1 with 157 zeroes after it called a quindecillio

Good morning! The Pharisees knew the letter, meaning the law inside and out. They had it memorized. But they couldn't see the one the law pointed to when He walked up to them and spoke. The letter didn't give life, only pronounced death. It made room only for covering sin, but never removing it or redeeming us. The letter is a mirror for us to see our sin and the need for a Savior. If you live only by the letter, your heart will grow hard and legalistic. You will miss Jesus i

Good morning! This verse starts out with something we cannot overlook. God is faithful. That's enough right there to make a verse on its own. The darkness of this world and the struggles of life can make you doubt that profound truth. But we must never forget God is faithful. We must also not neglect that we were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus the Christ. God has called us into a relationship with Himself through Christ. Even when we are not faithful, God never