Category: Devotions

“I have been reading this book about marriages and at the words, we speak to our spouses..and it says that our words hold so much significance to the type of marriage we are going to have in our lives..Amen..because the studies showed that spouses speak the worst to their significant other..that married couples ramble on…

“For so many of us we feel that the Lord couldn’t use us..because we’re not gifted with singing..we’re not really gifted to get up in front of an audience and speak to them..were not called to be a teacher..or even a preacher for that case..so in and of ourselves we think the Lord isn’t really…

The story that I was reading last night before bed..really hit home and touched my heart tremendously..and it was a letter that I was reading that a mom had written to her grown son..Amen..and it said..If I could go back and spend that extra minute beside your bed as you tell me all your secrets…

“For some their waiting and their waiting and their waiting..but I can hear the Lord saying to us all..look up..lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh..Luke 21:28..for now is the time of harvest..not is the time to go forth and be the laborers in your vineyards..for now is the time to move and…

I pray that we never forget just what all the Lord has done for us in those moments of our lives where we feel as if we are or even have been forsaken..that somehow our prayers are not being answered the way that we think they should be..or that life is pretty much in a…

“I know so many people in their lives that continually say to me, Mandi, I have a lot of work to do before I can ever come to Jesus..and I say to them all..you don’t have to clean yourself up before you come to the Lord..Amen..because God is the one in whom cleans us up..we…

“This morning I went out to try and clear our sidewalks and the end of our driveway..but it was completely frozen..it had huge pieces of snow where it had been scraped and pushed over into our yard..so the shovel did not get it..I had to go back to the building and get a pick..I guess…

“This time of year it gets pretty easy to get our minds wondering and thinking about the year..about what we should’ve done..to what we shouldn’t have done..to the things we let go of..to the things we didn’t get accomplished..and we get pretty distracted and we get pretty depressed about it all..because if we don’t get…

“For the most part if we haven’t recognized it yet..or have failed to see that we are constantly being changed from glory to glory..Amen..for there is not a time I do not believe while we are here on this earth that any of us can say that we’ve made it..I mean that we are complete…

“So I’ve been reading in the book of 2 Kings and reading all about Naaman..he was the Captain..the King of Syria..very honorable..and very much known of a man of great strength..and victorious in all of his battles that he lead..but I am reading and of course we all know the story that Naaman was a…