My devotion this morning was on a very familiar story of Jesus walking on the water. The disciples were in the midst of a storm in the middle of the night when Jesus came walking on top of the waves coming to them. They all cried out with fear, maybe they were calling out to […]

How many times in a day do you say or hear the words, “I wish they would hurry up.” We live in a microwave world. We want everything at our finger tips and if we have to wait, then we will just go somewhere else. My morning devotion talked about being patient, and refusing to […]

My wife often tells me that I am asleep before my head hits the pillow at night. I jokingly tell her that I have a clear conscience so I can fall asleep quickly. The truth is the world is full of people who can not rest at night. They toss and turn all night thinking […]

I don’t know about you, but, the older I get, every morning there is another part of my body that doesn’t want to cooperate like previous years. It is easy for me to complain about each part that hurts, doesn’t want to bend right, or let’s me know that I over extended it the day […]

How often have you shared a situation in your life and someone responded by saying, “I’ll be praying for you.” That seems life an easy answer to your complex issues, but, it is one of the most powerful means of helping you. Prayer changes things, it even changes the mind of God. In Exodus, God […]

I think sometimes we talk so much about spiritual warfare that we leave the wrong impression on people. We do have an enemy and he is working against us daily to distract us from fulfilling the purpose God has for our life, but there is so much more. If all we faced were continuous battles […]

The biggest battles often comes first thing in the morning, often just as you are getting out of bed. Satan will begin to remind you of everything that went wrong yesterday as well as every failure you made. Satan goal is to keep you living in your yesterday and steal your today from you. Don’t […]

My devotion this morning said if I would put God first everyday that He would give me everything I need in life. That is quite a promise, but, it is also one of the hardest things for us to do. It a matter of putter God first in everything we do. Simple thing? Yes! Easy […]

You and I are capable of achieving certain things in life. I have met many talented people in life, people who could do many more things than I can do, but, I never met anyone who can do everything. I do believe the level of success we are capable of reaching is linked to the […]

I hear people everyday talking about how tired they are. You would think we are back in the old days when people got up before daylight and did manual labor until dark. People who are always talking about tired can’t imagine what previous generations did to provide for their family. So, how do we get […]

It is graduation time in Alabama. Colleges, high school, even kindergarten classes are graduation. I have heard students in college and high school talk about the stress of taking those final exam tests. Tests that prove that you are ready to step into the next level of life, profession, or school. Tests were first given […]

If you are like most of us, finding a gift that says how you feel toward you mother is hard to find. If you could find that gift, it would be too expensive to buy. It is just difficult to say thank you for all a mother does. A meal to eat, a trip to […]

Do you remember playing hide and seek as a child? You would hide in the same place that it took you the longest to find someone else. We thought if it worked for them, it would keep you hidden as well. Communities that are prone to disasters like tornadoes have built shelters where their residence […]

One thing that is missing in our society is loyalty and longevity. It seems as soon as one company trains a person to do a job they are leaving to make another nickle somewhere else. The same is true with homes today. Fifty percent of all marriages end up in divorce. There is no desire […]

We all know as parents, that when a child reaches school age we are no longer the greatest influence in their lives. Their influence comes from their peer group. It’s amazing how deeply we are swayed by those we are around every day. We find ourselves talking like them, having the same desires they have, […]

Nothing torments us more than some failure that we can not forget. My devotion this morning talked about Paul being in the shipwreck and ending up on the island of Malta. God had spared the entire crew through the shipwreck and now Paul was building a fire on the island to warm and no doubt […]

My devotion this morning was about a word we don’t hear much everyday. That word is “Prudence.” It means being a good stewards of what God has entrusted to us. The gifts God has blessed us with today requires prudence in order to be used effectively. Gifts such as our time, energy, strength, good health, […]

We live in a technical world where machines can do almost everything. It is scarey sometimes just to think how far we have come with the gadgets that we play with everyday. Everyone has a smart phone, a computer, or a device to help them make it through the day. We each use them for […]

We live in a world where we never have enough. We are always wanting more. I recently watched an insurance commercial where the clients was bragging about getting more. In one ad the client was a weight lifter and gained muscle with each more he received from the insurance company. The next commercial the client […]

We live in a get even world. If someone does us wrong, then we have the right to do them wrong. If someone lies about us, we lie about them. If someone hurts us, we try to find a way to hurt them. The devotion this morning instructs us to be kind to everyone, not […]

We live in a world where getting by is never enough. To prove we have made real progress and have been successful, we must have more than some one else has obtained. The truth is that a person can never obtain enough things and money to make them truly prosperous. Real prosperity requires so much […]