Category: Devotions

“When you change the way you look at things the way you look at things change..Amen..somehow everything that happens in our lives is pretty much summed up into our thinking and the way we are choosing to think..Amen..for the way our minds go is the way we will choose to lead our lives..if we think…

“So this morning as I was cleaning and straightening up things in the truck just a bit..Benjamin just keeps staring at me..and when he does this he is trying to tell me something..and I knew he wasn’t hungry because I had already fed him..well he wouldn’t stop so I go and look and sure enough…

“The thing about a good deed and doing them is that we do them in thought of not receiving or getting something in return..we just do it because it is in our heart to do so..Amen..and we all give and do things for others at different times in our lives..but most of the time it…

“So what is a journey?..well, I looked up and the definition and it is this..an act of traveling from one place to another..Amen..and so this morning that is what I wanna talk about..I would like for us all to just think about our journey in life..and how are we doing on our journey..Amen..because for many…

“I heard a pastor say this..don’t merely put the giant to sleep..but make sure that you kill that giant..Amen..and I thought wow Jesus..isn’t that the truth..for so many of us myself included we merely put those so-called giants in our lives to sleep..never really to kill that thing..whatever that thing is..just to sleep..Amen..and I thought…

“Isn’t it something that when we are focused on the life or lives of others that somehow in the midst of that we lose sight of our problems that we may be facing or going through..Amen..and isn’t something at how when we do that we ourselves gain strength for our own journey that we’re on…

“I wonder if our hearts have gotten to that place as to where even if things don’t go our way..even if our bodies become sick..even if we are forsaken by loved ones..even if our money runs low..bills are due..we lose our job..our spouse leaves..even if our child turns away from all that is right..I wonder…

“So this past week I have thought about my sister Michele a lot..well AKA Shelly…Amen..but I always think about her..but some days are just a little more..so this morning Erik and I went in to get us some breakfast..and as we were walking in there..I look up and there was this bright yellow truck mural…

“I do know that when I was younger I had a huge problem of being a people pleaser..I mean if someone wasn’t happy with me or didn’t like me..I would go completely out of my way to make them like me..regardless if I was okay in the midst of it or not..I mean I could…

“Faith is always the key that unlocks the doors to every blessing..to every miracle..to every act of anything in our lives..Amen..for without faith the bible says it is impossible to please the Lord..Hebrews 11:6..faith is moving forward as they say when you don’t see the whole staircase..faith is moving forward when you don’t see the…