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“For I Myself will help you,” declares the LORD.  Isaiah 41:14 NIV   How many times have you been lost because you missed the exit, turn-off, sign, or forgot to get directions in the first place?   Now, I know it is dated to think we use real paper maps anymore, but my GPS system has gotten me lost more than once, so because of that I like to have a general direction of where I am going, and I still like looking at a paper map now and then.   One such place was while we were

“No one can come to the Father who sent Me draws Him.”   John 6:44  NIV   How many of you were sent by your dad to do something?  Clean your room?  Pick up the backyard?  Go to school?  Find your best friend and ask forgiveness for an infraction which broke up the tight bond between you two?   Dads just send their children places – whether we agree it’s a good thing or not.  And a happy child is the obedient child.   Jesus was an obedient Son –   Although He was a Son, He lea

He rescues and He saves; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth.  He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.  Daniel 6:27  NIV   Have you ever been ‘fed to the wolves’ or thrown into a ‘den of lions?’  Maybe not literally, but definitely figuratively.   A meeting where it turned south and you suddenly became the meal of lies, betrayal and accusations?  Or, with a friendship that was going along good until it wasn’t?  Or staring down an MRI machi

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he...

Now the LORD had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah.  And Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.  Jonah 1:17...

So Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot moved his tents to a place near Sodom and settled among the cities of the plain.  Genesis...

Afraid yet filled with joy.  Matthew 28:8 (NIV)   Certain right actions are just plain scary to do.  Walking across the aisle in church...

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.  Psalm 119:105  (NIV)     It was dark, it was midnight, it was the jungle.  In a...

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.  Colossians 3:2 (NIV) When we are thankful, our minds are indeed set on things...

Yea, let none that wait on Thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. Psalm 25:3 KJV As a child, I was...

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 2 Timothy 1:6 (NIV) I...

Has he said, and will he not do it?  Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?  Numbers 23:19 ESV Promises can be a fickle thing.  In...

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you...

I cried out to the LORD in my great trouble, and He answered me. Jonah 2:2 NLT Jonah is a book so relatable as we can see ourselves in...

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...

The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.  Hosea 14:9  NIV What is it about...

Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).  John 19:17 (NIV) Jesus had been on...

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”  John 2:5  (NIV) As we are now in this new year, things may be different,...

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see these things that...

Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable –...