Category: Devotions

So many of us, I believe, overanalyze situations. We overthink so much in our lives that we rarely accomplish anything. We have good intentions, but when we overthink, we end up doing nothing. Remember, faith without works is dead (James 2:14-26). Nothing gets done without taking action. Overthinking can lead us to miss out on…

Humbleness and gentleness are qualities in our lives that radiate the beauty of the Lord. When we humble ourselves and are gentle and kind, we show Jesus to others. We display His goodness and His love. When we are gentle souls, kind souls, and humble individuals, we become beautiful to the world around us. Amen.…

I pray that we never forget all the Lord has done for us, especially in moments when we feel forsaken, our prayers seem unanswered, or life is falling apart. Amen. I hope and pray we remember the goodness of the Lord, as Psalm 34:1-22 encourages us. When we look back over our lives, we can…

I always consider Paul in the word of God and how he had a thorn in his side. The Bible says he sought the Lord to remove it three times, but it wasn’t removed. When I think about that, and when I consider our lives and our burdens that seem to remain no matter how…

For the most part, some of us tend to wait around for the big things we can do when it comes to serving and helping others. We want to do grand things for them. Amen. We think the little we have won’t be enough or that they wouldn’t really want the little things we have…

“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…