Seeking is all-encompassing. Seeking God means letting every lesser frivolity fall to second, third, or even last place.
Author: Anna
Jesus called us to love before He called us to preach and before He filled us with power.
Today, Mary’s story reminds me that gratitude is a critical element in the parenting but also in our own personal growth. We will never outgrow our need to be grateful.
I think again about Eden and how Adam and Eve walked in unbroken fellowship with God. Isn’t that the highest aim of Spirit empowerment? We hope to hear God’s heart and leading and possess the strength to follow Him unflinchingly. As Spirit-filled believers we experience Eden again by some small measure. Additionally, we carry a bit of Eden into every interaction, conversation, meeting and meal.
Dear Jesus cried out to His Father in acute honesty. Though His words feel accusatory, His actions spoke belief. Jesus was sure that His Father was still near enough to hear Him.
It takes 11,000 pounds of fuel per section to push a rocket off into space. To put it into perspective, that is two million times the rate at which fuel is burned in the average family car. I wonder, how much fuel does it take to push a child out into the world?
One day soon, God will again make a distinction between believers and unbelievers.
“Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?” (Job 37:16 NIV) I’ve spent the weekend in a friend’s home, therefore the view from my devotions has been different the last two mornings. Today, I entered my moments…
So often we get silence from God and we assume He’s left the premises. We interpret stillness as abandonment, when truly, He’s working behind the scenes. We must recall: abandonment is not a part of God’s nature.
So much of this year has been about learning to sit still in God’s company.