Category: Devotions

For me, I am always truly unsettled in my mind, heart, and body when I am not doing what I need to do or being where I need to be in my life. When I fail and fall as we all do from time to time, for none of us are perfect human beings I…

“It seems that for many of us, we desire the gift of grace for ourselves when we fall or fail but when it comes to extending that same grace to others, we often hold back. It reminds me of the story in the Bible about the man who owed a great debt to a king.…

“Discipline is defined as the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior. It is of the utmost importance in gaining self-control. Amen! I am writing today about discipline because it is the gateway to victory. Through discipline, we can obtain victory over the things we desire to overcome in our…

One of my dearest and sweetest friends — I often tell her that she may be little, but she is incredibly strong and fierce. To look at her, you might think she is frail, but within her is the heart of a mighty warrior. Amen! It’s truly amazing how much strength she carries and how…

You know how we truly fail in our lives? In our witness, in our growth, in our everyday living with society and others, and even in our homes? I think it’s because we’re always trying to fix others. We always want to give an opinion, to pass judgment, and we rarely take time to consider…

“The thing about life is that we all have different opinions, ideas, and motives. From time to time, we say things, do things, make suggestions, give looks, speak out of turn, or talk before thinking things through—and often, the things we say or the ways we approach others are not helpful or even needful. Amen.…

This morning as I woke up, one of the smoke alarms in my house was peeping. I started trying to figure out where in the world the sound was coming from. Needless to say, I eventually found it—and, of course, it needed a battery change. Amen. But as I thought about that alarm, I couldn’t…

“I heard the best thing ever this morning—Amen!”It was a pastor preaching, and his words were simply this: “Never be jealous of what God does for someone else. What God has for you is for YOU, and He is never going to deliver your mail to someone else’s house.” Hallelujah! And I thought—oh my goodness—isn’t…

“The cycle of the blame game has been there since the very beginning. We can go all the way back to the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:12–19). Amen. Even today, in our own lives—whether we realize it or not—we often do the same thing. We begin to point fingers at everyone around us. Amen. We…