Leap
Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. Luke 6:23 Ok everyone! You are always asking for more time. Now you have it. A whole extra day in this year! What are you going to do with your extra time? Leap year is basically a way to keep the calendar in line with the Earth’s movement around the sun and we are so used to the extra day that we plod along as any other normal day. It can be a normal day but it can also be a joyous day. It
Going Out Fighting
I have heard that phrase all of my life. I used it a couple of times when cancer invaded my body. I told everyone at the end of life’s journey, I want to fight. I believe all of us are at that point. I feel the second coming of the Lord is very close and he knew we would be in a battle. He told us how to prepare. He said in Ephesians 6:13, take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day. He said to get a helmet, a shield and a swor
Mercy
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners? On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 9: 11-13 Mercy is defined by the Webster Dictionary as: compassion or forbearance shown especially to an offender or to one subject to one’s power; a
Legions of Angels
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. Hebrews 12:22-24 (NASB) I was reading my devotion passage from the Bible this mornin
My Bad Hair Day
When I crawled out of bed one cold winter morning, my hair was standing up and out in many unusual directions. I quickly brushed it, put a warm hat on my head, and went for a walk. My hair looked even worse when I took the stocking hat off after arriving back home. No amount of brushing would settle my hair down. It was definitely a bad hair day. The day’s agenda included church attendance and lunch with friends at a restaurant, so those unruly hair follicles needed a radical