Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. Ps 126:5 (NLT) What amazes me about this verse is that the people it speaks of who are grieving and depressed… Who were going through dark and hard times, a season marked with tears… Those people still planted....
That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Cor 12:10 (NLT) It's easy for us 2000 years later, to look at the life of Paul and think “he was...
As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. Hosea 6:3 (NIV) Have you ever been in a situation where a person treats you like you’re not there? It can be uncomfortable and degrading....
This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an...
What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you. – Gen 28:15 (NLT) The Lord said this directly to Jacob in a...
Hymn Series Day 10 – Be Thou My Vision This hymn that has greatly impacted me for as long as I can remember… It's a prayer and pledge all at once. It actually originated as an ancient Irish poem, written in the sixth century by Irish Monk and Bard Dallan...
Hymn Series Day 6 – Amazing Grace John's mother died in 1731 when he was 6 years old. He was left to the devices of an emotionally distant step Mother and a Father who was always at sea. After being mistreated at boarding school, he was taken onboard his fathers...
Hymn Series – Day 4 In a time and age where hymns and spiritual songs were really only scriptures literally picked up out of the bible and placed onto a melody line, Isaac Watts was a rebel and a songwriting revolutionary. In fact, he came from a line of rebels...
