I'm seeking to follow my King, day by day ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was studying some verses about trial and temptation. I was reading about Peter's trial and how the enemy wanted to test his faith and destroy him. "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your ( Read more... )

The Lord has been very kind to me this past week. He's been opening my eyes to see how anxious and fearful my heart is. And He's been quieting my heart with His love and protection (Zephaniah 3:17 ( Read more... )

I haven't driven my car much recently. I ran some errands on Saturday, and this was the song that was playing. It was one of the last songs I was listening to on the evening before the virus began to impact my community.

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'Canvas' by Imogen Heap

Cuz I just cant / find the strength / to pull you up
And keep you tautPraise be to God who upholds us ( Read more... )

I have a memory from second grade. I was sitting in the classroom, which was a mobile home (because they were doing construction on the school building at the time). I was the only one in the room and I was drawing something. I drew with strong pencil marks - I pressed so hard that I kept breaking off the tip of the pencil. And when I drew the ( Read more... )

[On Passover]...none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. Exodus 12:22

It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD's anger. Zephaniah 2:3

And He said to them, "This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many." Mark 14:24

The great day of the LORD is near; it is near and hastens quickly. Zephaniah ( Read more... )

"I found trouble and sorrow ... I was brought low, and He saved me." Psalm 116:3,6 ( Read more... )

"My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord" Psalm 84:2aOn the slippery walk to work today, I felt very homesick. Throughout the morning hours as I woke up and drifted back to sleep, I replayed the scene in my head. How I miss him! I have a funny tendency to miss characters from books even though they've never been with me. I ( Read more... )

"Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust." Psalm 16:1

Tonight in Bible study, we studied Isaiah 36-37 - the account of how the LORD, the God of Israel, saved Jerusalem from the power of Assyria so that "all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD, You alone ( Read more... )