The present age is the smartest people of all generations of mankind. It’s scary how smart man has become. There is hardly anything that you need to do that you can’t search out a tutorial to show you how to do it. The pursuit of knowledge is none ending. The one area of our lives […]

Have you ever felt like your prayers were not getting past the ceiling? Have you prayed and felt like God was not hearing anything you said? I can assure you we have all been in that same place and some of us will be in that place again. Satan wants to steal our confidence concerning […]

How many of your activities depend on someone else to motivate you to keep going. A trip to the gym is often ommited if the other partner can’t go. A morning walk is often skipped if our co-walker is not able to make it today. How many of our New Year’s resolutions have stopped because […]

All of us have people that we just try to avoid being around for various reasons. When we see them coming we try to find an alternate route to keep from having to deal with them. The one person we can not avoid seeing and being with daily is yourself. The one relationship we can […]

Just because you CAN doesn’t mean that you SHOULD. Looking at your temporary circumstances and making lasting decisions based on what you see can be disastrous for you. Your emotions and personal desires can cause you to make decisions based on what you see in front of you. So many people have faced devasting situations […]

If we are honest about our actions, most of us show kindness to those who are kind to us. It is not easy being kind to those who are disrespectful and critical of us. God teaches us to be kind to everyone. I read a story of an elderly man who ate breakfast at the […]

My devotion this morning was about Jesus clearing the temple, cursing the fig tree, and teaching the disciples how important their faith was going to be for them to walk where God had for them to walk. Life bombards us with many difficult times and happenings. Just when you think your life is going good, […]

Have your thoughts ever fought against the direction you desired in life? How often have you believed what someone else told you, only to find out later that it was not the truth? What you think does matter. When we pray for God to intervene in a situation, we have to believe what God says […]

One of the oldest tricks Satan pulls on us is the feel of needing to fit in with the crowd. We can become so fearful of people not liking us for what we stand for and what we believe that we put our faith into seclusion. Our desire for people to like us and be […]

Our student pastor, Brandon Tuck, said in a message last Sunday morning that scars are our testimony. They tell our past experiences in life. Most scars are not pleasant experiences, but, they show that the pain of the moment has been erased and a healing has taken place. Paul tells that all our experiences are […]

Have many times have you been in a conversation about a need and heard or said these words, “Well, we will just have to pray about it.” I am amazed at how long we will struggle in a situation before we talk to God and listen to what He has to say to us. Often […]

I have known people who lived each day believing God for the need in their life and I have known people who lived each day fearing the worse of the information they had received. The difference in the quality of life each of these groups of people lived is remarkable. Fear can literally hold you […]

My devotion this morning talks about God being able to meet our needs regardless of how unobtainable they may seem to us. Moses faced the call of God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. You know all the excuses that he used for not being qualified to be a leader. Moses was concerned about […]

In my profession in life I have the opportunity to visit many people with long term battles with health issues. I have found that one of the hardest daily battels for them is to overcome being depressed. It is hard to press on when each day seems to be the same or even harder to […]

I walked through the men’s section of a department store looking for a shirt. I looked at so many that I did not like and would not wear. I finally found one that suited me and my taste, so I purchased it. As I read my devotion this morning, I was reminded the efforts we […]

Have you ever talked with someone and they did not listen to a word you said? Their attention was somewhere else and did not pay hear a word you were saying. How often have you prayed and felt that your prayers were not getting through? I have said many times that I felt like my […]

None of us are born patient. From the first day of our existence, we have been impatient. We cried when things didn’t go our way. We cried when we were hungry or needed a diaper changed. We cried when we were sleepy, cutting teeth, had a stomach ache, or any other of the childhood illnesses. […]

We all have our daily routines. I get up about the same time each day. I have been drinking the same coffee for quite some time. I leave home each day at about the same time. If we are not careful, our routines become ruts and our devotion time becomes work instead of worship. A […]

All of us experience fear to some degree when we face the unknown. We also know that God can do exceedingly and abundantly more than we can think or ask. The important thing for us to remember is how to turn our fear into believing and trusting God. (Isaiah 41:10 Do not fear, for I […]

How do we respond when someone challenges the way we do things? Do we respond defensively and immediately look for things the other person is not perfect in? We all miss the mark sometimes and people will be quick to point that out. It’s how we respond to that criticism that is important. (Proverbs 15:5 […]

It doesn’t take nearly as much courage to start something as it does to see it to fruition. The starts has it’s beginning in excitement, anticipation, expectations, and desired goals to reach. The completion has it’s ending in dedication, determination, hard work, and faithfulness. When the emotional high of the start wears off, then the […]

Have you ever met a person who refused to let anything get them down? They were able to see the possibilities when there didn’t seem to be one? They refused to accept the report regardless of how bad or serious that it might be? That’s the kind of person God wants us to be. God […]

It is easy for us to get caught up in things we think we have accomplished in life. We often fail to give proper credit for our abilities, accomplishments, and successes. The fact is that everything you have in life, including your life, our families, our friends, our jobs, houses, automobiles, the ability to see, […]

We had the memorial service for a great lady in our church yesterday. During a family tribute given her, her grand-granddaughter recited the Psalm 23. Of all the verses and all the memories, testimonies, and expressions of love, the words of a young great-granddaugther said it all. (Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd, I […]