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 fo

I recently read a book by Francis Frangipane called The Three Battlegrounds. The author discusses how “Satan has a legal access, given to him by God, to dwell in the domain of darkness” and this grants “the devil to traffic in any area of darkness, even the darkness that still exists in a Christian’s heart.” Many Christians don’t seem to realize that through disobedience to God’s Word, and by tolerating sin, we leave ourselves vulnerable to satanic assault and the potential

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

Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. Galatians 4:7 Recently at Prayer Group we talked of adoption and being adopted and heirs of Christ. In all of this I have been brought to tears and I have wept. I understand a little more now of God’s love. I still don’t fully understand and I don’t know His full heart but even the littlest glimpses are enough to change us from the inside out. The heartbreak that a person goes through, the

My husband Larry had an old bubble gum machine that he kept filled with jellybeans. He fixed the machine so that coins weren’t required. Anyone could turn the handle and the candy drops into eager hands. Our friends’ children learned that Larry was willing to share the jellybeans when they came to our house. One day, Emily, a vivacious four-year-old, came bouncing through the front door and announced, “Oh goody! I can have jellybeans.” “Emily, you wait for Larry to offer you