In mid January nine years ago, right before bed I closed my eyes to pray and immediately I saw a snowstorm!
The snow was heavy and obscured my ability to see anything around me.
Though my ability to see what was around me was obscured and the air was cold I had a distinct sense of warmth and peace!
Jan 20 • 44 tweets • 6 min read
Man Inaugurates — God Sets Up!
The Word of God is clear that it is God who sets up worldly leaders!
Daniel 2:20-21
Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the Name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are His: And He changeth the times and the seasons: He removeth kings, and setteth up kings: He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.
Jan 19 • 48 tweets • 7 min read
Are You A Worrier — Worry Is Sin!
Worry and fear are things most all of us struggle with at times! For me personally they are things I’ve struggled with all my life! That’s why I often write about overcoming worry and fear!
Do you worry? Perhaps about what lies ahead in the world, or for you and your loved ones on a more personal level?
Jan 18 • 29 tweets • 4 min read
Self Evaluation!
Did you begin the race with enthusiasm and resolve, but have grown weary, and wayward along the path?
We must remain steadfast and vigilant, with our eyes on the finish line ahead, and the prize of eternal life with our Father in heaven!
Philippians 2:16
Holding forth the Word of Life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Jan 17 • 34 tweets • 5 min read
Why?
Have you ever asked the LORD why? Why am I alone? Why don’t I have a friend? Why didn’t you answer my prayer for a job, or a home, a situation to be resolved, or a loved one to come home? Why am I sick, why did my spouse leave me, and on and on!
We have all asked why, and if we’re honest we’ve asked many times throughout our lives!
Jan 16 • 29 tweets • 4 min read
Encouragement!
Some are gifted with the ability to encourage others, but encouragement is something we are all commanded to do! And the Word of God says that as we see the day of the LORD approaching it will be even more important!
In the passage below Paul uses the Word exhort! To exhort means to incite by argument or advice; or to urge strongly! In this passage we are to exhort one another to live holy lives and turn from sin!
Jan 15 • 42 tweets • 6 min read
Falling Away!
The Word of God tells us that we will know the day of Jesus return is coming when we see a great falling away!
The antichrist will be revealed and I believe those who fall away will follow him, believing he is the answer for all the world’s problems! We see it happening even now!
Jan 12 • 36 tweets • 5 min read
Acknowledge Him!
Do you need direction in your life — Acknowledge the LORD!
Proverbs 3:6
In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.
What does it mean to acknowledge someone?
Acknowledge: To recognize the rights, authority, or status of; to disclose knowledge of or agreement with; to express gratitude or obligation for; to take notice of; to make known the receipt of; to recognize as genuine or valid.
Jan 5 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
HOME!
We had a dear friend — Grannie, who would send email updates of special dates and events in the lives of her family and friends!
When a loved one who was a Christian would pass away, and on the anniversary of their passing, she would send their name and the date of their passing with this word all in capital letters — HOME!
Jan 4 • 41 tweets • 6 min read
Joseph’s Story — Our Story!
In the fall of 2013 as I was getting ready for the day, I tuned into a local Christian station!
They had a children's program on as they did on Saturday mornings! This particular program was an interview with Joseph from the Bible!
I came in on the end of the interview as Joseph was telling how God had given him a dream, and when he told the dream to his brothers they were angry and jealous and sold him into bondage!
Jan 3 • 37 tweets • 5 min read
Strategically Placed!
We are alive at this time for a specific reason! We are not here by happenstance or fate, but rather by the hand of God!
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jan 2 • 59 tweets • 8 min read
Which Path Are You On?
Does it feel like you are standing alone in speaking the truth?
Remember, you are never alone because the LORD is with you!
Joshua 1:9
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Jan 1 • 48 tweets • 7 min read
We Must Remember — We Must Forget!
Remembering what the LORD had done in the past was so important to Him that He had the Israelites set up stones! He wanted them to remember His past faithfulness, and to tell their children about it as well!
Jacob set up a stone to remember the promise the LORD made to give he and his seed the promised land, and to care for them wherever they went!
Dec 31, 2024 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
Are You Watching?
Where is your focus? There’s a saying that a person can be so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good! But is this a rebuke the LORD would give us, or the world and lukewarm church?
So many Christians are caught up in the world and have forgotten what Jesus said! Our eyes and our desires are not to be on the things of this world, but on Him!
If our eyes are on Him, we will be sensitive to see what He’s doing around us, and we will join Him in those things!
Dec 30, 2024 • 45 tweets • 6 min read
A Warning To The Righteous!
Just because a person has once walked with the LORD, the Word tells us they can turn back from their righteousness by walking in disobedience to Him!
We are told to warn those who say they are His about walking in unrighteousness, yet when we do often we are the ones who are condemned by others for doing so!
Dec 29, 2024 • 36 tweets • 5 min read
Be Thou My Vision!
Where do you find yourself today? Are you going through something in your personal life or is someone you love facing something that seems insurmountable?
What about concerns about what lies ahead? Do you worry about what we will face in these last days?
Do you worry that the deception and persecution we will face for standing with the LORD will be so great that you or your loved ones might not stand firm to the end, even until death if necessary?
Dec 28, 2024 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Bearing One Another’s Burdens!
We are told that in God’s family we are to bear one another’s burdens! We are to weep with those who weep, and rejoice with those who rejoice!
Galatians 6:2
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
The law of Christ is to love God and to love one another!
James 2:8
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.
Dec 27, 2024 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
This One Thing I do!
What lies behind us does not determine our path forward! Who we were certainly has an impact on our lives, but it doesn’t determine or define who we are to be or what we are to do in the future! His mercies are new every morning!
When Jeremiah thought about who he was, he felt discouraged, but the LORD reminded him of His mercy and gave him hope to press on!
Dec 24, 2024 • 42 tweets • 6 min read
His Plan Will Not Fail!
God’s plan — What a divine paradox! God is not a man that His plan will fail! What He has said will surely be fulfilled, and His purposes cannot be thwarted!
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?
Job 42:2
I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
Dec 23, 2024 • 44 tweets • 7 min read
A Christmas Prayer!
To my beloved family, my spouse, my children and grandchildren, my brothers and sisters, nephews, nieces, and cousins, my friends, and to my enemies, I write this Christmas prayer to each of you and everyone who reads these words!
I write from the depths of my heart! How I long for you to have a saving relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ — That you might know Him and His love, and experience His presence in your whole being — That you might inherit eternal life with Him in His presence!
Dec 22, 2024 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Giving!
We are in the season of giving! Why do we give? So many give expecting something in return, but God gave His Son Jesus Christ while we were alienated from Him by sin!
I wrote this message called “Give” two years ago! May it bless you today to give as He gave to you!
Give!
Do you give expecting something in return?
God gave His only begotten Son to us while we were yet sinners!
