The Sanctuary of Hope Devotions

No Vacancy

No Vacancy There used to be no vacancy When zeal for God yet burned But entered in complacency Few hearts for God now yearn We fill our inner passages With much of worldly fare Along with evil’s images Grown harder now to care Before the smoldering wick shall fail God’s Spirit blows again To fan a flame that shall prevail And vanquish growing sin Pain shall be the instrument The Lord shall use to cut This last resort of implements For His people in their rut Many hearts His l

Words from Your Mouth...They are Weighty!

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can build or destroy. Read and Study - Psalm 50:23 Proverbs 18:21 – “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” What kind of fruit are you speaking? Have you wanted to retract some words before? Mark 11:22-24 – Speak to the mountain! “Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that wh

Saved by Grace Through Faith

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 A lot of the rebellion in our lives comes from the fact that we want to have control. We don’t like someone telling us what to do. It may have started as a child not wanting your parents to “boss” you around. Then it easily transferred to a work boss you didn’t like or the relationship that was quickly going south. In the world we have spent a great deal of time

Yucky-Poo

“Yucky-poo, yucky-poo, Jamall’s yucky-poo,” two-year-old Lacy announced to the other children. I had placed one-year-old Jamaal on the floor to change his dirty diaper when Lacy came over to look. Immediately the three other children, whom I baby-sat, also repeated the proclamation. The atmosphere of the room had changed from laughter and talk about the toys to describing the Jamaal’s condition. “All right everyone, he’s clean now, go back to your toys,” I encouraged. In thin

You are an Ambassador for Jesus Christ

In a letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul discusses the ministry of reconciliation, and he uses the term “ambassadors” for Jesus Christ. “All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were makin

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