Category: Devotions

“For so many, they try to meet the expectations of others and what others expect from them. Others hold a huge magnifying glass over another’s life, looking for faults and looking for a better person they can be or think they should be. In doing so, people fall short of these expectations and end up…

“For the most part, we all think of correction as being a part of the process of only being a child. Amen. As adults, we think we are grown, so to speak. Amen. We think that we need no correction from anyone, and if someone does try to correct us, we get offended. We get…

“God will bless our mess. He does meet us right where we are in life. He is at work and always at work in our lives. Do we get it all right in life? No, not necessarily. We do mess up. We do fall down. We do make messes, and many of them to say…

I believe that if we all realized that nothing in life is perfect—Amen—neither our families, our marriages, our friendships, our jobs, nor our homes, nothing—it would make a difference. Life is sometimes a little messy and a little ugly, so to speak. We often try our best to put on a show for people, for…

“I don’t think we are supposed to daily worry and fret over life, our day, what’s ahead, what is going to be, or what hasn’t been. Somehow, we get caught up in the tomorrows of our day, into the past, into the what-ifs, and on and on we go. Somehow, we miss everything; we miss…

“I will never forget years ago, as I was reading a book, that one thing stood out to me: the man said if you want to preach, then preach to yourself. Amen. And I thought, yes, so true, because how many of you know that everyone wants to preach something to everyone else except themselves?…

“Kindness costs us nothing, yet its benefits reach beyond anything we could achieve on our own. It touches the hearts of those around us, demonstrating love and care, showing that we are different and friends of the Most High God. When we show kindness, we model after the Lord and His character, for He is…

“If Anthony, my son, ever faces a problem or difficulty in his life, he doesn’t hold onto it. He doesn’t continually talk about it. Even if it happened only moments before, he still lets it go. Amen. And I mean literally let it go. He’ll say, ‘Well, for one thing, it’s over. So why keep…

“So as I sit here this morning at my computer I can’t help but think about the dream I had the other night..and this beautiful lady came to me and she had long braided hair..and she comes to me and she whispers in my ear..do not put anything before the Lord..Amen..and then I look up…

“If you are a parent than your children are forever on your mind..continually..you are constantly thinking of ways to help them..encourage them..and even at times to watch them grow in their lives..all the while cheering and rooting them one..Amen..there isn’t anything you won’t do for that child..and your always there when they need you the…