Seven Blessings for the New Year: Dominion
Let there be DOMINION in your life. May you saturate your area of influence with God’s creativity, revelation, counsel, power, love, and awe that can only be uniquely expressed by you. And you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Acts 1:8 […]
Seven Blessings for the New Year: Reproduction
Let there be REPRODUCTION in your life. May you continue to reproduce good fruit for God that multiplies into the tenth generation and beyond. Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall bear fruit in old age; they shall be fresh and flourishing […]
Seven Blessings for the New Year: Time
Let there be TIME in your life. May your days be well-balanced, productive, and steeped in thankfulness to the One who created your time. I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psalm 34:1 NKJV See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, […]
Seven Blessings for the New Year: Growth
Let there be GROWTH in your life. May your heart be a well-tended garden fertilized, watered, and seeded with His Word. Let it be a place where roots of bitterness and weeds of anger are eradicated by the flames of His Love. Let all bitterness…anger…be put away from you with malice. And be kind to […]
Seven Blessings for the New Year: Vision
Let there be VISION in your life. May you always look up and look beyond your circumstances to keep your eyes on God and His mission for you. Remember he has good plans for your future. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward […]
Seven Blessings for the New Year: Light
Be blessed with LIGHT in your life. May the path you walk this year be illuminated with God’s word and his presence to guide you to conquer impossible obstacles and boldly navigate dark valleys. Know that he walks with you and will never leave you. For You are my lamp, O LORD; The LORD shall […]
Little Things Play Big Roles
“Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.” Ellen Hopkins Last year I got a new laptop. In the space of time between the old one and the new, technology moved forward from USB plugs and ports to USB-C. When I located the adapter to bridge the gap between a USB thumb drive and […]
Time for a Heart Check-up
Be free from pride-filled opinions…Don’t allow self-promotion hide in your hearts, but in authentic humility put others first as more important than yourselves. (Philippians 2:3 TPT) Like an echocardiogram for the spiritual heart, Paul wants the Philippians to check for prideful opinions and self-promoting in theirs. With these two things in mind, it’s time for […]
Jordan & Egypt – Week 2: Visiting Egypt
This was not our first visit to Egypt. Way back in 1984, we toured the country but this time some new things were on the agenda. The tour started in the southern part of Egypt to visit the colossal statues at Abu Simbel. Hubby saw them; I didn’t. That morning two of our tour buddies […]
Ready for a Renovation
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 NIV Do you like those shows where a construction crew will do a major renovation on a rundown house? Week after week, the neglected house transforms into an […]