When We Get Ahead of God David again brought together all the able young men of Israel—thirty thousand. He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim […]
Category: Devotional
A Soft Heart
Leaning Hard into Who God is Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the gateway, as though to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and he died. Then David said to Joab and all the people with […]
The Joy of Discovering our God as “Abba Father”
God is Approachable and Longs for Us to Turn to Him At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and […]
The Embrace of our “Abba Father”
Discovering a New Side of God, My Father For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, […]
God is in Trade-in Business
Making Sense of “Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People” Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 The first draft of my latest devotional, Pain as a Starting Point, is currently being read by several different pastors […]
Finding Strength in God’s Sufficiency
The Need to Trust God for Strength to Face All Things As I cleaned my wedding ring this week, I thought about my thirty years of marriage. I once heard someone say that each marriage will experience a level of satisfaction that ranges on a scale from one to ten, with ten representing feelings of […]
Praying for the Gift of the Holy Spirit
A Personal Search for More of the Holy Spirit If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:13 Have you asked God to give you the indwelling presence of […]
Hungry for an Experience of God
Looking for a Greater Outpouring of God “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the […]
The Hardships or Goliaths in our Lives
God is all our circumstances, especially our hardships A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; on his legs […]