Deuteronomy 7:21
Have no dread of them, for the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a great and awesome God.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Sunday, March 25, 2018
I have an inordinately high opinion of my own strength. Nothing could be more counter-productive. I’m so relieved when I return to God and heed Him. He's mercifully there to show me that pushing the rock up the hill is not my job.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
In your distress, when all these things have happened to you in time to come, you will return to the Lord your God and heed him.
Because the Lord your God is a merciful God, he will neither abandon you nor destroy you; he will not forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them.
Friday, March 23, 2018
I cried aloud. He listened. He gave heed. He has not rejected my prayer. His steadfast love remains. Thank you God. Blessed be God.
Psalm 66:16-20
and I will tell what he has done for me.
I cried aloud to him,
and he was extolled with my tongue.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
But truly God has listened;
he has given heed to the words of my prayer.
Blessed be God,
because he has not rejected my prayer
or removed his steadfast love from me.
Monday, March 19, 2018
The most effective people are the ones who look to a power higher than themselves to find refuge. Striving on one's own is ultimately useless.
Psalm 61:1-3
Hear my cry, O God;
listen to my prayer.
From the end of the earth I call to you,
when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I;
for you are my refuge,
a strong tower against the enemy.
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Just when I need it most, a man of God writes a prayer just for me (and maybe you.)
Father
Herb Yost, CSC
Lord Jesus, there are times when we feel utterly powerless,
when despair and fear threaten to freeze our hearts. All we can do is cling
to you, bury ourselves in you, and hold really tight. Help us, please, to
trust in your loving and sustaining presence to brings us life. Amen.
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Saturday, March 17, 2018
Sorry, but sometimes there is just no where else to go. I’ve learned the hard way to go to God first. If it’s human help I need He always finds me just the right one.
Psalm 60:11
for human help is worthless.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
'This sucks, I'd rather go back to being a slave to my past.' Really? God’s people were short-sighted, stubborn, willful and ingrates. Me too. We humans are impossible, yet God provides for us and loves us anyway.
Numbers 21:5
And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”Monday, March 12, 2018
OK, this perfectly describes how I feel right now. I can't just fly away, but I CAN be at rest. I pray, I wait, and I know that God is forever faithful.
Psalm 55:4-6
My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
Sunday, March 11, 2018
After struggling and reaching a lifetime goal, I thought Wow! Here I am and it felt completely empty. It made me realize that what Moses says here is true. Success comes moment by moment when I turn my life over to God.
Numbers 14:41
But Moses said, “Why do you continue to transgress the command of the Lord? That will not succeed.Thursday, March 8, 2018
My heart is so heavy over problems in my original family. I don’t know what to do, but I do know to pray and to face it, and to ask for wisdom.
Psalm 51:6
You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
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