Don’t be your own god. But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their evil or stop burning incense to other gods. Jeremiah 44:5 The patience of God is incomprehensible. Again and again he warned His people through the prophet Jeremiah that He was about to bring disaster against them…
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A moment of stillness (88).
Don’t trust your heart. The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable—who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 The world tells us to trust our heart but the heart is a very unreliable guide. Up one day, down another- the heart is nothing but deceitful. In fact, this verse says that the heart is…
A wise heart (1).
Learning to number our days. Psalm 90:12 says, So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. As we are quickly approaching the end of one year and the start of another, I was inspired to write a short series that will help us to pause for a moment…
Don’t settle!
A call to run away from complacency. We like living a comfortable life. Some of us have had dramatic experiences that drew us so much closer to God than we could have ever been under normal circumstances. Others are content to live their lives undisturbed by the truths of the Bible. While there is a…
His will in all things.
Are you truly abandoned to God? We all love having experiences with God because they strengthen our faith and give us a fresh glimpse of His power. I have had many powerful encounters where God became real and alive to me and the whole world seemed to stop. But what happens when the world starts…
Simplicity.
The unimaginable worth of purity of heart. Have you ever read the Bible or a devotional and after closing it realized that you can’t remember anything of what you just read? I have, and it’s something that God has been directing my heart towards quite a bit lately. How is it that we have forgotten…