“The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” (Psalm 23:1 NIV) It’s scribbled in the margin beside this familiar verse; “You are enough.” Last night, the Lord reinforced it in the quiet arms of prayer. (I specify quiet because sometimes prayer is a rowdy affair.)…
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“Turn in your old life for a Kingdom life.” (Matthew 3:11 MSG) The Message phrases scripture in words I can see. This text makes me think of a dry-cleaner’s shop: turn in your dirty clothes and pick up your clean ones. Dirty clothes usually arrive…
“And He will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.” (Isaiah 33:6 ESV) Life is pretty fluid, at least mine seems to be. Yet, Isaiah points out; God is the stability of…
“Endure hardship as discipline, God is treating you as His children.” (Hebrews 12:7 NIV) When I was about ten, I had a friend spend the night. This friend had a markedly different personality than me: she was bold, forthright and even a bit of a…
“Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered King Nuuchadnezzar, “Your threats mean nothing to us. If you throw us in the fire, the God we serve can rescue us fro your roaring fire and anything else you might cook up, O King.” (Daniel 3:16-17 MSG) A student…
“What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it’s deadwood, it goes into the fire.”(Matthew 3:10 MSG) The wild man from the desert was calling out the fake followers from Jerusalem. The Pharisees and Sadducees hadn’t come to the Jordan to…
“We’re on a pilgrimage to worship Him.” (Matthew 2:2 MSG) I know it’s not Christmas yet and I won’t even begin playing Christmas music until the day after thanksgiving but I was beginning again in the Gospels today and this verse caught my heart in…
“But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message. “Go wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. Then your skin will be restored, and you will be healed of your leprosy.” (2 Kings 5:10 NLT) Sometimes healing is a process and it…
“Think about what I am saying. The Lord will help you understand all these things.” (2 Timothy 2:7 NLT) You may have noticed, but I am a thinker by nature. When I was a very little girl, my father took me to the Detroit Art…
“I seriously considered inflicting my anger on them in force right there in Egypt. Then I thought better of it. I acted out of who I was, not by how I felt.” (Ezekiel 20:9 MSG) I first read this scripture in this translation a week…