It’s Melodic Monday! Today I want to share with you one of my favorite hymns: Great is Thy Faithfulness performed by Cece Winans. There are three reasons why I chose this song. First, God truly is amazing and so faithful no matter how we behave. Second, his mercies are indeed new every morning. “Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23, NIV)…
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13, NIV)God, indeed, sticthed us together in our mothers’ wombs but that is not the end of the story. God is calling us to be daily stiched with God’s grace. The first step is to surrender to God’s will. Because, as Martin Luther states it: “God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him”. ~Martin Luther…
Oh, how sweet the light of day,And how wonderful to live in the sunshine!Even if you live a long time, don’t take a single day for granted.Take delight in each light-filled hour,Remembering that there will also be many dark daysAnd that most of what comes your way is smoke. (Ecclesiastes 11:7-8, MSG) Summertime seems to be an on-going bliss in our household. Life is easy and worries are small. Thanks be to God! The hard winter is forgotten and the present…
It’s Melodic Monday! Today’s song is Unfailing Love by Chris Tomlin. I thought it is a perfect day to celebrate unfailing love and the Giver of unfailing love! Praise the Lord, baby! Listen & be blessed! You have my heartAnd I am Yours foreverYou are my strengthGod of grace and power And everything You hold in Your handStill You make time for meI can’t understandPraise You God of Earth and skyHow beautiful is Your unfailing loveUnfailing love And You never…
“God waits to be wanted.” (A.W.Tozer) Don’t hesitate! Run to God! Acknowledge your needs and wants to God! He waits to be wanted! He waits to cover you with his grace. He waits to listen to you. He waits to gently wrap you up in his abundant love. “God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is…
“What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the best thing in life, bringing joy, delight and contentment than anything else? Knowledge of God. Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord.”J.I. Packer Be still and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10, NIV) In order to…
It’s Melodic Monday! Today’s song is I Can Only Imagine by Mercy Me. We recently took a wonderful 2-week vacation but even though the time away was great the home-coming was so utterly sweet that it made me wonder what it will be like to get to heaven one day. I can only imagine. I can only imagine What it will be like When I walk By your side I can only imagine What my eyes will see When your…
You’ve been raised on the Message of the faith and have followed sound teaching. Now pass on this counsel to the followers of Jesus there, and you’ll be a good servant of Jesus. Stay clear of silly stories that get dressed up as religion. Exercise daily in God—no spiritual flabbiness, please! Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever. You can count on this. Take…
Why on earth would we need spiritual strength-training? The Merriam-Webster dictionary tells us that few definitions of strength are capacity for exertion or endurance, power to resist force, and power of resisting attack. These are all qualities needed in spiritual life! God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil…
It’s Melodic Monday! Today’s song is Held by Natalie Grant. This is a powerful song about loss and heartache and how we are not left alone on those heart-breaking life events. We have not been promised to be spared of hard things in life. But we have been promised to be held. Nathalie Grant’s Held portraits beautifully what it feels like being held by God: Two months is too little. They let him go. They had no sudden healing. To…
