Posts with the tag “struggle”

"You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today." - Genesis 50:20    Joseph’s story is a powerful reminder of how God can take our deepest hurts and transform them into something extraordinary. After being sold into slavery by his own brothers, Joseph found himself in a pit of despair.  It would have been easy for hi...  Read More

"Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you." - Jeremiah 32:17    As Christians, we often talk about God’s infinite power, marveling at the miracles and mighty acts described in the Bible. We acknowledge that He created the heavens and the earth, parted the Red Sea, raised the dead, and performed cou...  Read More

"For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland." - Isaiah 43:19   It's important to remember that your current circumstances are not permanent. With God, everything can change in an instant. We often think of change as a slow and gradual process, but with God, transformation ...  Read More

“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.’” - Genesis 2:15-17  Following God will require faith. Faith, as Hebrews 11:1 says, “is the assur...  Read More

“When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.” - Psalm 34:17-20  Do you ever feel too “dirty” to be in the presence of God? Maybe you have done ...  Read More

“Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12 Did you know that God fully knows you? That’s right. He knows everything about you. That is a big statement. It might seem o...  Read More

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.” - Proverbs 27:1   One day, Satan called his three highest-ranking demons to a meeting. He said, “I need a strategy to distract and disorient people away from God. I want people to get away from God. What strategy and tactic can I use?"  So the first demon came up and said, “What if we told everyone that the Bible isn’t real?”...  Read More

“But I will offer sacrifices to you with songs of praise, and I will fulfill all my vows. For my salvation comes from the Lord alone.” - Jonah 2:9   Jonah disobeyed God. He ran from God. As we continue studying his story, we read that he is on a boat when a storm comes. Once the crew realizes that the storm appeared because Jonah is running from God, they throw him overboard where he ends up in th...  Read More

“Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.” (Revelation 15:7-8)If you have read any of the devotions in this series on Revelatio...  Read More

“But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had seen and heard, just as they had been told” (Luke 2:19-20). God brings the story full circle. How many times do we go through seasons that seem never-ending? How many times do we find ourselves walking a road that we never intended to take? Perhaps...  Read More