PROVERBS 12:25 – Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs him down, but an encouraging word brings him joy.” It has been said, “Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.” And if we looked around our neighborhoods, communities, workplaces, even our churches, there are a lot of people who are “suffocating” in all of life’s depressing things and need some “encouraging oxygen.” In…
PSALM 121 – I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your…
JOB 1:20-22-Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshipped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.”…
HOSEA 6:1-3 – Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. Let us know; let us press on to know…
2 TIMOTHY 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel.” The whole of the Christian life is summed up in the first three words of today’s scripture–Remember Jesus Christ. I know this sounds simple because it is, but it is also truly the whole of the Christian life. It is like the…
You have either heard it, read it, or even cried out, “I am at the end of my rope.” Now this is not a statement about bungee jumping. A standard dictionary defines the phrase as “a state in which one is not able to deal with a problem, difficult situation.”