"They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green". (Psalm 92:14 NIV) As the years go by faster and faster, we come to know how quickly time is going by. I know there are many from my "Baby Boom" generation that realize there are more years behind us than are ahead of us but that's still good news. As we grow older, our hunger and thirst for Christ gr...

"A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance." (Ecclesiastes 3:4) Grief and sorrow were no stranger to Jesus and grief and sorrow are no stranger to us as well. As Jesus leads us through the seasons of life, we will experience times of grief and sorrow especially in times of loss, especially loss of a loved one. Sorrow is something we cannot av...

" The Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully upon you and you will be changed into another person." (1 Samuel 10:6) Don't give up! Don't even think about it! Get it out of your mind! I am aware of the insane things that face you and the seemingly impossible demands that lay before us. Left to ourselves, we would surely jump over the wall. But we are not left to ourselves...

"When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble?" (Amos 3:6) In God's Word, trumpet blasts were used for a variety of reasons. Some were to celebrate, some were to call the people to assemble, and some were warnings and alarms. Can you here the alarm of today's trumpet blasts? I believe that all that is happening today hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and fires...

What are you waiting for? It was a time when the Philistines were coming against Israel and Saul was king. However, Saul was not in a good place he just came from giving an unlawful sacrifice by not waiting for Samuel, he had no swords or weapons to give to his depleted army, and he was just sitting under a pomegranate tree with 600 of his men all around him. Knowing the ...

"Because of who you are!" Daniel was a man of prayer like non other! In all the years he spent in captivity in Babylon and under three different kings he never stopped praying. Even when facing great persecution and life threatening situations, he always prayed. One day, Daniel was contemplating the 70 years of captivity due to Israel's sin and rejection of God's Word. E...

" Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I, send me!" Isaiah 6:8 Isaiah had an amazing encounter with God in which he saw the magnificent glory of God on the throne. The Lord was exalted and the train of His robe filled the temple. What a sight that must have been! But, when God's holiness met Isaiah's ...

God's Walls "The sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right and on their left." (Exodus 14:22) Just because you find yourself in a hard place does not necessarily mean that you missed God or have a lack of faith. Sometimes, according to His Divine plans, He leads us right between a rock and a hard ...

"Is there anything too difficult for the Lord?" (Gen. 18:14) Isn't it amazing that what is an obstacle to us is absolutely nothing before our Lord! When God promised a son to Abraham both he and Sarah, his wife, were well past the childbearing age. They were so old that when the angel promised a son Sarah laughed as if to say, "are you kidding?" She laughed because it was...

"If we do not give up" "And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not give up" (Galatians 6:9) There is never a good time to give up! But I know sometimes we feel like it when we do not see what we need to see, when we get tired or disappointed, when it looks impossible, when we listen to the nay-sayers that discourage us. But the...