A Future And A Hope

Scripture For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come. ~Hebrews 13:14, NLT Quote “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” ~Viktor Frankl Everyone needs something to look forward to, we call this hope. Regret looks backward but hope always…

The Infinite Giver

Scripture  “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” Quote His love has no limit, His grace has no measure, His power no boundary known unto men, For out of His infinite riches in…

Hope Is Essential

Scripture Against all odds, when it looked hopeless, Abraham believed the promise and expected God to fulfill it. Romans 4:18, TPT Quote Everyone needs to look forward to something. ~Ya’akov I think everyone has hope; that it is innate.  It is essential to life itself, but only believers in Jesus have a living and lasting…

Hope Deferred

Scripture Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life. ~Proverbs 13:12, NLT Quote Where there is Jesus, there is hope. ~Source Unknown From time to time, while I am doing my daily bible reading, a verse will jump off the pages into my mind and heart. I don’t know…

Spiritual Formation

Scripture For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth. But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God’s gifts also groan within ourselves as we wait for God to make us His children…

Hard Hearts

Scripture Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah. ~Psalm 95:7-8, LSB Quote God is for us; He is with us and in the end we win, but in the present moment, we must be humble, live holy lives, cease to complain and be ready to suffer. ~John MacArthur…

Faith

Scripture  Now faith means putting our full confidence in the things we hope for, it means being certain of things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1, JB Phillips Quote Faith is the foundation, the root, the underlying substance of hope. If you have any hope, it comes from some faith in you. ~George MacDonald Hope, you…

A Time Will Come

Scripture “Nevertheless, the time will come when I will heal Jerusalem’s wounds and give it prosperity and true peace.” ~Jeremiah 33:6, NLT Quote “The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.” ~Martin Luther I have deep admiration for Jeremiah the…

I Want A Divorce

Scripture Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart; I am pure and free from sin”? ~Proverbs 20:9, NLT Quote A hungry dog had rather part with a T-bone steak than an unregenerate man part with his sin. ~Ray dis Comfort Solomon said,  Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins [Ecclesiastes…

Dead Hopes

Scripture But we had been hoping that He was to be the liberator of Israel. ~Luke 24:21, REB Quote When the LORD closes one door, He often opens another that leads to something much greater. ~Lloyd C. Douglas It was God who created us with the capacity to dream and dream we do. There is…