What glorifies and delights our Heavenly Father is not groveling in the misery that follows failure, but rather growing in faith response to His Mercy, and thus bearing fruit that will remain!

Imagine this: a family wedding feast happens and it finishes with you being made the surprise bride. We read of just such a story in Genesis 29. Big sister Leah watched and toasted and enjoyed the celebration that was supposed to mark the giving of her younger sister, Rachel, as...

Caleb believed God. He possessed a heart and a spirit that made him ready for action. He saw the Lord’s hand at work in what He did for the people of Israel. They had been delivered mightily, their oppressors plagued, plundered, and sunk. The chosen of God had been more...

There is unspeakable, immeasurable joy when we reckon ourselves dead to all that He isn't and alive unto all that He is, knowing that as He is so are we ... now!

“ Here and there, in clefts and basins, and on the hillsides, grade on grade, you observe a patch of corn, a clump of olives, a single palm.” “Even in the wilderness nature is not so stern as man.” Taken from Hepworth Dixon (“The Holy Land”) Metanoea, Metanoea  Metanoea! (Repent,...

The "how" of humility is simply to reckon on what the Lord Jesus Christ has already done for us and as us, and live by faith in His declaration of our death, burial, and resurrection with and in Him. "As He is, so are we [already] in this present, evil...

We Must know that God keeps us — but from what? Jude 1:24 teaches  “… to keep you from falling  …to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. Psalms tells us:: “The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.” “The Lord...

I have met many who have lost their appreciation for life. They’ve traded their ability to live freely, to love, and to laugh, for reactions, repressions, and denials. Some folks, hurt by love, have discarded love forever; it bears too much pain. Others, worn down by oppressive relationships, jobs or...

The Lord delights in our delight to do His Will, responding to His Love and not to fear of what might happen if we don't do what He asks! Therefore, although He has the right to demand the yielding of our lives to Him, He instead woos us into willingly,...

Svetlana Alliluyeva was born the daughter of former-Russian leader, Josef Stalin. Her story in “Life” magazine September 22, 1967 is titled, ” Her desperate effort to carve out a life of dignity in a world of spies and purges.” As she reminisces of her growing up days, the striking truth...