As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Peter 4:10 My prayer for this fall holiday season is to bring to everyone’s attention (especially the children), how special they are to God and that they are appointed a special purpose from God. The Bible tells us to, grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,2 Peter 3:18. We are God’s special harvest. He made us specifically for

This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we

There is an old saying that you have to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything. God was very persistent in His Word about us standing. He said in 1 Samuel 12:16, Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. We don’t get to see great things from God just sitting around. 1 Chronicles 23:30, And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord. He wants us to get up with him. I try to thank him every morning for another d

During one day, the great artist Michelangelo went into the studio room of the artist Raphael and looked at one of his early drawings. Then, he took a piece of chalk and write the word, “Amplius”, which means, greater, bigger or larger, across the whole drawing. Michelangelo saw in an instant the sketch was too cramped, too narrow in its vision. He encouraged Raphael to think bigger, dream bigger, to have a larger goal or vision for his work. See things today from God’s persp

In Judges chapters 6-8, you will find a short history of a man named Gideon, or sometimes referred to as Jerubbaal. Gideon became a judge to Israel for 40 years. In the opening scene of chapter 6, Israel once again had fallen away from God. The result was the same of leaving their God, and they were over ran by the enemy. This time the enemy was the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples. These enemies were desert nomads that would raid the Israelites crops just at