“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord Almighty.”
Zechariah 4:6
There seems to be a natural human inclination to be a superman or superwoman. We love the idea of being...
“He knows the way that I take.”
Job 23:10
There are days when what we believe in our heads needs to inform what we feel in our hearts. This is especially true when we encounter times of t...
“Get behind me.”
Mark 8:33
Perfectly reasonable thoughts are sometimes the whispers of Satan. In this story, Jesus had just revealed to his disciples the difficult path that lay ahead, a ...
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
1 Peter 5:5
We all have had moments in our lives when, if we didn’t know any better, it would seem that God was against us. Maybe he ...
“I have labored to no purpose.”
Isaiah 49:4
It is common for God’s servants to feel their faithful service has been in vain. Our best intentions and efforts do not always bring the best resu...
“I say to myself, ‘The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.’”
Lamentations 3:24
Jeremiah walked faithfully with God. When others turned their back on God, Jeremiah embraced ...
“But You, O Sovereign Lord, deal with me for Your name’s sake. Out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.”
Psalm 109:21
Resentment is one of the ugliest emotions a Christian can experience...
“He went away very sad,”
— Matthew 19:22
Sometimes we ask questions to which we don’t want to hear the answers. Such was the case with this wealthy young man in Matthew 19. He was a man wh...
“We were not looking for praise from men.”
1 Thessalonians 2:6
Cravings strike us all from time to time. Common wisdom reports that pregnant ladies send their bewildered husbands out for p...
“My people have committed two sins;
they have forsaken me, the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns
that cannot hold water.”
— Jeremiah 2:13
The p...
Chapter 2 — Surrender
To place yourself into the Lord’s care and keeping may not always come easily to you. To yield to his will and wisdom is also often a test of faith, but this is exactly what Jes...
“… He restores my soul.”
— Psalm 23:3
It is a wonderful experience to have a restored soul; it is difficult to live with a soul that needs restoring. King David learned that one of the Lord’...
